PC Drivers & Software

[NewLight]

Specs:

Monitors: AOCQ27g3xmp. (or something like that) FYI MONITOR IS HDR CAPABLE 

& random old monitor

MOBO: MSI B450m Bazooka 

CPU: 5700x3d

GPU: 9070xt Steel Legend

I can replicate this issue ANYTIME

TLDR: I’m almost positive HDR is broken on some of these GPUs or on these drivers.  

After experimenting between drivers 25.3.1 and 25.4.1, I’ve come to find out the 9070xt GPU works without drivers,  but as soon as I install drivers it does not work.  After booting into windows (NON-Safemode) the entire system freezes after 5 seconds without fail everytime.  I have to hold the power button on my PC at that point to get the system to shut off in order to reboot. 

(Kind of an) SOLUTION !!!! Turn off my main monitor AOCQ27g3xmp before boot,  and TADAH.  Things work perfectly.  I then turn it back on, make sure HDR will NEVER turn on, then I can use the monitor fine.  

I hoe this helped people!!!  If anyone has any better method to fix this as of right now let me know, otherwise, AMD, FIX THIS IN YOUR NEXT DRIVER UPDATE HOLY MOLY

BTW this rely is included on a thread regarding KNOWN ISSUES for amd driver 25.4.1, and on its own post for google search query purposes. 

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[mengelag]

Have you tried a driver-only install (not the whole adrenaline suite)? I know that's not ideal, but it will let you know if Adrenaline could be part of the problem.

[NewLight · Accepted solution]

TLDR: AMD adrenaline bricks your pc after enabling Freesync Color Accuracy on next start up.  Disable it to UN-brick your pc.  You need to connect to a single monitor without HDR to not not have it your pc brick itself immediately. 

I have not tried that, but I can confirm I figured out the issue!! Freesync HDR color correction (can’t remember the exact name of the setting) was the REAL issue.  After disabling that, HDR worked perfectly fine and I would no longer freeze on windows 11 start up.  I highly recommend the team at AMD get on this and disable the setting for now until they fix it…. I’m not at my computer at the moment, but for anybody with this same issue i believe the path is something like this,  Open AMD adrenaline> settings cog in top right> display> should show your displays,  click on whichever one has HDR and disable the Freesync Color Accuracy settings.  

This fixed it for me.  Thanks for checking in. 

[Indiarentalz]

Thanks for sharing your detailed experience! :rocket: It really sounds like HDR is causing a major conflict with the 9070XT on these drivers. Disabling HDR at boot is a smart workaround. Hopefully AMD addresses this properly in the next driver update. Meanwhile, users can also monitor the latest patches here:  Appreciate you posting this — will help a lot of people!