PC Drivers & Software

[elgeorge]

Hello, I own an 5700 xt nitro+ by sapphire and I encountered many problems, such as bsod, random reboots and crashes. After going back to the 20.4.2 drivers, changing the pci to 3, and reinstalling windows I see that I still have the problem.(It usually happens when playing demanding games, such as dirt rally 2, the witcher 3, hellblade).

I noticed that some users change the VBIOS. Is it helpful?

Because of that, I downloaded Trixx 7.3, which is the sapphire software, it shows the option between primary and secondary VBios. Mine is currently in primary.

Should I change it?

My build is:

gpu:5700 xt nitro+

cpu:ryzen 5 3600

ram:3200 mhz ram 8gb, x2

PSU:650W 

cooling:120 liquid cooling by cooler master

mboad: msi b450m pro vdh max

[black_zion]

Not unless the VBIOS is faulty, and they rarely are. The VBIOS is really primitive, only containing identification as well as a fan and P state table. On cards with two VBIOSs one is usually more aggressive (performance geared) and the other more balanced, so you can switch between them to see if you notice a difference, but crashing under a heavy load but not under a light one...I would suspect a PSU issue, especially if it happens under more artificial stress tests such as 3DMark or AIDA64 GPU stress.

[elgeorge]

I was researching and it is just the way you say, the primary one is a performance vbios and the other one is a quiet one.

I did the change to see how it goes and I still got one crash while playing the witcher 3 so I continued reading forums and I found many people reinstalling the 20.4.2 drivers without the adrenalin software, which I did. After that I had a long gaming sesh and no crashes happened, hopefully the issue is fixed by now. Also I did a fan curve with msi afterburner al limited the core clock to 1950.

Sorry if I mispelled or something, english is not my first language.