PC Drivers & Software

[dandarkdesigns]

Been happening the the past 2 months, playing wasteland 3 and Warhammer Vermintide 2 graphics medium-high on a AMD RX 580 at 60 fps no overclocking no nothing.

It did happened once before several months ago on Half Life Alyx, the computer went black and the video stop responding short after, computer stuck freeze so I had to restart. When the pc is on again the GPU drivers no longer work, the Folder permissions of anything amd have all their permissions broken to the point I have to run Icacls command to fix them (Just recently found that command and it was a god sent, the first time this happened I had to format the pc because the drivers didn't want to install).

Trying to install would usually give me something about web resources not working or something about the folder, fixing the permissions usually fixed that.

My actually question is.... is something broken in the drivers in these past few updates or is my GPU dying? I'd rather it be the update been the main income of 4 I can't really save for another card easily.

The card doesn't show any problem with things like clip studio nor blender which are my working programs so I don't really know what is the problem really it is just when it seems to be pushed. But Wasteland 3 I used to be able to play for several hours before, today it was like half a hour and it crashed. Vermintide one day I played for 2 hours no problem, the next I played 1 hour and it crashed. Alyx crashed lets say around the hour mark. But at the same time I've played games like Cyberpunk on Medium High graphics for most of the early year and had not a single problem, no crashes nothing, same with elden ring.

To be on the cautious side I've increase the fan speed, lower the energy output and the vram clock. Will also reduce the graphics to proper medium.

[MADZyren]

I would suspect memory issues or harddrive issues, some instability in general. EDIT: If you OC CPU or have PBO, disable it. Overclocking a CPU these days is useless anyway.

Would probably begin by disabling XMP/DOCP and see if it fixes the issue. Also something that can corrupt content of your storage is baseclock setting in BIOS. Set it to 100MHz manually (usually Auto and many mb brands keep it a bit over 100 so that their motherboard appears a bit faster in reviews and improves sales)

You could also check s.m.a.r.t data of your storage, but even if it doesn't report anything doesn't mean there couldn't be an issue with your HDD/SSD/M.2.

Then there is always BIOS. Most people never update it and while not common, it too can have bugs and cause all kinds of issues.

[dandarkdesigns]

But for only relatively demanding games? I don't really play much to begin with most of my time I spent drawing for commissions so if it's memory shouldn't it be a more general problem and be ocurring a lot more often?

[MADZyren]

You have a good point, but in the end, it isn't quite that simple.

The thing is, a driver should not affect itself, or a GPU driver to my understanding should not affect anything which could corrupt content in harddrive. Then again memory errors definitely can, so does CPU instability and problems with storage drives (or their connection to which chipset drivers and BIOS might affect). While not common these days, a virus could do that too and strangely yours is like the third case in short period of time at this board alone where driver installation becomes corrupted.