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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I used to have lots of driver crashing and weirdness on my RX 580, but I've had mostly smooth sailing with my 6600 XT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

To be honest, I only get the driver crash at the absolute worst times now. After I did the switch to AMD from Intel and Nvidia, I did do a fresh windows install and have only had to reinstall the AMD graphics drivers about 4 times in the last couple of months. (While true, the last paragraph is not as bad as it sounds. Annoying, yes. End of the world, no.)

There is a pattern to the madness though. If I go from gaming to other GPU intensive apps used across different screens, it's probably going to hang the driver. Not fatally, but I reboot anyway when it happens.

AMD is on the right track though. I think I have been through three different GPU drivers versions since I built the system and it is slowly getting better. I get a driver crash about once a week instead of once a day now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's possible your gpu voltages are too high, aka unstable, even at stock. I was having similar problems with the 6800xt, although they were rare. Undervolted it with MorePowerTool, and haven't had any issues since.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have been thinking about that, actually. Adrenaline does have an undervolt option, so I'll give that a go first. If that doesn't work, I'll absolutely try More PowerTool.

TBH, higher voltages and clocks with the 7900XTX are only good for benchmarks and real world performance gains are not that noticable. (I could only get between 100-200 point gains on Kombustor) Undervolting is probably going to be good for the longevity of the card anyway.

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