Dude, I was just gonna report this same thing now that I got some time to put into it....
I got crashes in Stalker on fireup!!!
Then I used DDU in safe mode, removed all drivers ( weirdly my mother board has a newer amd chipset driver for itself than the AMD web has, i think put the mother board to ALL default safe settings, removed all apps that do anything with it ( ryzen master, AI snatch ect ), installed 24.12 clean with a full reset....
Then rebooted and fired up Stalker 2 immediately crashed to desktop....
Fired it up again and it ran about 25 mins and crashed entire computer, so I'm think maybe it's not the driver maybe it's a system component.....
So I torture test the cpu in both single and multi thread for HOURS it barely gets to 65c ( 9700x with Thermaltake Assassin cooler twin 120mm fans and a fan removing its heat directly out the back) entirely completely stable in 2 different torture programs....
Then I torture the ram, same thing full stable....
So most of my games I'm playing and want to play ( Indiana Jones tomorrow ) ARE unreal games and every single one of them crashed within 45 mins from Jedi Survivor to Stalker 2...ALSO this driver IS slower than 24.10 which for me when it works is the fastest I've tried...and Stalker feels like it's running 30fps even if it reports 60...
I set custom fan curves and nothing else ( also tried default touching nothing) to keep it cool letting it sing at max fan speed no difference but gpu temperature was lower however still crashed...ive found ive had to move ALL my games to 1440p ( with ultra settings ), I tried up res and just native 1440p doesn't matter they ALL crash....
Fire up COD 6 and yeap it crashed....just for something different....
Space Marines runs much longer but then....
I fired up Helldivers 2, and it ran 3 hours straight NO problems except it runs slower I'm getting 48-55 fps 4k ultra where I used to get 65-80...with 12+ ms of frame time vs 7ms on 24.10.....
Once thing i noticed running the overlay with hell divers is it was clocking itself ( in default mode ONLY fan curve changed to more aggravating um i mean aggressive) MUCH lower than stock settings 2100-2250mgz...
So then I said power supply trying to give it all the benefit of the doubt so I drove the card at 15% over to force maximum watt consumption, all fans in case and cpu max, cpu tdp raised from 65 to 105 ( it was pulling 150 watts ), limited the card to the same 2250mhz helldivers STILL stable pulling maximum wattage on the system and nothing else...
So I lowered it all back to default but keeping case around 26c internally ( it has 8 case fans including 3 direct to gpu from underside air and 2 out tip to exhaust that heat )..
This driver is hella unstable on my system AND it removes ALL CPU monitoring and overlay metrics within Adrenalin...
I put 24.8 on and while it's slow it runs Unreal Games with more stability but have to force global settings but Space Marines 2 doesn't like it.....
It's just I don't know where to go from here, I have my grandson so the trip will be hard but I found a decent deal on a 4080 super however it's a 6hr round trip, I keep telling myself I spent longer than that testing unable to play my games yesterday and just when I thought a game worked it crashed.....
My other option is to go back to PS5 pro ( which i already own HD2 and SM2 along with fortnite ), send my card back and just leave the PC down till this all shakes out next year with the 50 series nvidia as well as the B780 Intel....I'm at the end with this card...
It's not the system I tested it, it's not the card it WILL run some games stable and which games are stable changes with which driver your using so that rules out hardware.....and I already know both tomorrow's Indiana Jones ( pre installed on my PC and an unreal 5 engine game ) is not gonna run right nor will the big Space Marine 2 update on Tuesday....
I don't get why people give a billion dollar company as pass or take up for em they could afford to hire 300 people just for these drivers if they wanted to....even if temporarily to finally catch it up...I actually like the software if it just worked....
