Driver Timeouts/Crashes on 7900 XT

[wendell]

jsaux and ivanky are kinda crap

they test the cables to be borderline. I showed a diagram Ina. video. at least QC seems alllll over the place

if you disable free sync and if stabilizes that can also indicate jank cable

[Lirrachus]

Ah that’s a shame, I even checked to see if they were on the certification list.

Found the setting, which was set to ‘AMD Optimised’ and now disabled. I’ll keep an eye on it.

I assume the video you’re referencing is the ’ Flickering Issues With AMD GPUs?’ one? Really informative video, I’ll have to look at a pricier cable if possible.

[wendell]

try club3d or the ones we have on the store are almost as good

[Lirrachus]

Love the honesty lol

I’ve got a cable on order so I’ll keep an eye on the issue with Freesync disabled and if it stays stable, I’ll swap the cable over and enable once again.

[Lirrachus]

So after 3 days of having FreeSync disabled, I had a crash. The strangest thing though, when I went to check the AMD control panel, it showed the monitor as not supporting it at all:

Guess we’ll have to see how that cable affects things once it’s here

[akkowicz]

Uninstall all of the OC tools like afterburner etc., disable ULPS, disable all of the overlays (Discord, Steam, Adrenalin), disconnect one of the displays, down lock your RAM to like 4800MHz/5200MHz and check if the stability improves.

I’d also try running vulkan GPU memtester for an hour or two, Kombustor with artifact scanner and OCCT with error checking just to be sure. If nothing pops up, try to run memtest86 for at least one cycle.

[wendell]

if this is way way better than it was doing previously then it’s a pretty strong indicator cabling issue

[Lirrachus]

Got my thicc boi cable yesterday, so far so good with no crashes but I’ll have to monitor for a good couple of weeks to be certain.

Uninstall all of the OC tools like afterburner etc., disable ULPS, disable all of the overlays (Discord, Steam, Adrenalin), disconnect one of the displays, down lock your RAM to like 4800MHz/5200MHz and check if the stability improves.
I’d also try running vulkan GPU memtester for an hour or two, Kombustor with artifact scanner and OCCT with error checking just to be sure. If nothing pops up, try to run memtest86 for at least one cycle.

The only thing I haven’t done on this list is downclock RAM. If the cable ends up not being the solution I think that’s my next step.

[Kidragosu]

Setting my RAM back to default didn’t prevent mine from crashing

[Lirrachus]

I’ve been monitoring the system since the new cable and at first I had a couple of crashes, so I lowered the RAM to stock speeds and still had the same issue. While thinking of next steps, I’ve just been playing the game and haven’t had a crash in a week now, which is really annoying because is it still there? Is there something that’s changed to make this not happen for a while? Very annoying.

In the meantime, what do people use nowadays to test RAM? I used to use memtest86 but heard mixed things about it nowadays

[tk11]

Y-Cruncher is pretty good.

http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/

[Lirrachus]

Hmm I ran the Y-Cruncher stress test overnight with no failures at all. I can’t find any hardware faults at all, I’m wondering if this issue truly is software related. Time to start digging into game settings and find what might be causing this.

[TryTwiceMedia]

You never mentioned defaulting the UEFI config (EXPO off)

Have another drive you can pop in with a clean Winders install?
Don’t add the Asus armory stuff, just let Windows 11 pull down the drivers and updates.

Try to run your vidya and see if that fixes it.

We’ve seen many a “clean” install wander in with a single legacy incompatible program added out of habit cause crazy issues.

[Lirrachus]

That’s what I meant by lowering the RAM speeds, turning EXPO off and running at base speeds.

I already mentioned in my original post I’ve had this issue follow me through two drives, multiple installs of Windows and Linux. This isn’t a 5 year old install with tons of bloat, I wish it were that simple.

[tk11]

How does the card overclock? Any headroom, or do you immediately run into artifacts or instability?

[Lirrachus]

I don’t overclock the card at all, so can’t really say how it performs. If anything I’ll undervolt once the issue is sorted.

[Lirrachus]

I came across this post while doing some more troubleshooting: Solved: [solved] World of Warcraft driver issues - AMD Community

I was able to find the same error this person referenced:

I don’t know how this would translate over to my Linux crashes but can’t hurt to give this a try and see what happens