Hello! I am using an AMD RX 590 sapphire nitro+ gpu for about a year and a half now.(Bought the GPU in Jan. 2020)
As I am experiencing a random driver timeout while gaming (for instance, Destiny 2, Battlefield 1, GTFO, etc.) for a while now, I want to get some opinions from you.
This is my problem:
When I am playing any games on my pc, the game just freezes for about 30 seconds, even though the sound of the game remains in the background. After these 30 seconds have past, the screen goes black, turns back on and then a driver timeout window from AMD Software appears. If this happens, I need to whether restart my pc or just spam click the AMD Adrenalin Software icon until it works again, but these temporal workarounds don't fix this issue for the rest of the day or even the following days.
I had this issue since about April and my patience for a fix to this issue from AMD is wearing very thin now.
I have tried:
- Use DDU and reinstall Driver (didn't solve the problem)
- Bios, Driver, Windows update to the latest version (didn't solve)
- As I didn't know back then in May, that my GPU was the issue, I upgraded my CPU Ryzen 2600X --> Ryzen 5600X / Motherboard Asus TUF b450-plus gaming --> Asus ROG Strix B550-E Gaming. (Obviously didn't solve the problem)
- Cleaned the PC in case it's the temperature. However, the Temp of the GPU stayed the same (around 70°C) and problem is still not fixed
- I downloaded the Optional AMD Driver Version 21.10.1, which released recently. The release notes indicates, that the Driver Timeout should be fixed with the update. I had so much hope, that I'll finally be able to play normally again, instead of being scared of the random crash every few minutes and stress out. Unfortunately, Driver Timeout happens still for me.
- Undervolted(Underclocked) GPU (problem still there)
I thought about changing my GPU from AMD to Nvidia, but as you all know, the cost of all GPUs are tremendously high now...
Because of that, I want to ask you, if you've found any other solutions, if you had this problem in the past or heard about any, then please let me know. Ask me any question if you need to know more about something.
I hope to hear from you guys and thanks in advance for spending your time to read and comment on my thread. Have a nice day!
PC Spec:
CPU - Ryzen 5 5600X ; MB - Asus ROG Strix B550-E Gaming ; GPU - RX 590 ; RAM - 2x 8GB ; PSU - Be Quiet PurePower 11 600W