PC Drivers & Software

[Austinmm65]

My graphics driver keeps timing out after not even an hour of playing some fortnite. I've tried updating the driver going to all default settings but none of it seems to work. This all started happening constantly today, before today it would only happen ever couple of days or so. It's almost to the point where I'm not able to really play the game because the driver will timeout in the middle of it.

[Deemon69]

Hello!

Disable data caching on disks (SSD or HDD), to do this:
1. Right-click the Start button, then select Disk Management.
2. Right-click the disk on which you want to disable disk caching, then click "Properties".
3. Go to the "Policies" tab.
4. Uncheck "Enable write caching" on the disk.
5. Click OK.

After this, the driver timeouts should disappear. In addition, the fps in games will increase slightly and the games will run smoother.

[Austinmm65]

Thank you! It seems to be working as of now only got to test it for about 30 minutes and no timeouts I'll update if there still is no timeouts after a few hours of gaming. I also did notice higher fps about 10-15 fps higher. Didn't realize there was more ways to optimize the pc to get better performance.

[Deemon69]

With the modern development of video cards and the size of their video memory, caching data on the disk is the heel of Achelous, which only interferes with the operation of the computer. Well, and I would like to say to AMD engineers that this is the main reason for video driver timeouts, black and other screens, etc.