Hi All,
So the situation is that often after closing out (quitting) a game my computer will freeze and then the computer will restart itself. When actually running the games I have had no issue - solid and consistent performance.
Interestingly, it takes multiple seconds (possibly up to 10) to actually freeze. I've identified the 7900 XT (AMD reference card) as the culprit. When I turn-on Radeon Chill in adrenaline software to limit the framerate (set to 30FPS) and let the card gently cool down to like 65C before closing the game then the issue does not happen. I am running the card at stock/default setting and while gaming the worst-case temps I see are ~85C (Zero Dawn Horizon, God of War). I also play CS2 and limit the framerate to 170fps so that game never gets above 75C. BUT - I have had the exiting game freeze issue happen sometimes even from exiting CS2 without allowing for some "cool down" period. It's like the card can't cope with a quick drop in load/power when running->exiting most games. I did run the stress test in AMD Adrenalin for 5 minutes with no trouble at all when that test concluded.
I'm thinking about maybe downloading some video card benchmarking software and see if that would cause the freeze/crash seconds after finishing the benchmark tests.
Any thoughts? Is my card defective? Driver updates have never solved the problem and I also went back to a driver from like 6 months ago and that did not help.
System:
i5-13600K (undervolted quite a bit)
ASUS TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS
32GB DDR PC3200
Thanks!
