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    Driver Timeouts on AMD 6900XT

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    32 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

    What driver version are you on? There was a long stretch of drivers that had broken hardware acceleration, and it would cause that exact issue (display cut to static). IIRC it has been fixed in 22.10.3, but haven't tested it so can't confirm.

     

    I personally just disabled hardware acceleration in everything I used (Chrome and Discord) and continued to use 22.9.2 and those issues went away, I've got enough cores that it didn't particularly matter if it was GPU accelerated or just on the CPU. Might try out 22.10.3 and see if it's better, but haven't had the chance yet.

    I'm currently on 21.30.23.04-211216a-376209C as it's not giving me too many issues. Anything newer and I immediately start running into timeouts again. I need hardware acceleration on as sites like HeroForge run like garbage without it. AMD said it's fixed the driver timeout issues however upon switching to the latest drivers for a time I ran into timeouts again so either AMD hasn't fixed it or there's something up with my specific setup which may be the case I know a few people with 6900XTs that don't have this issue.

    Driver Timeouts on AMD 6900XT

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    I'm at my wits end with this issue. I've been fighting with driver timeouts on my system for nearly a year now with seemingly none of the solutions I've implemented, save one; working. Figured I'd try asking here as a last resort. Timeouts love to occur not just when I'm in-game but when I'm using my web browser, especially if it's using hardware acceleration on sites like HeroForge or YouTube. Also can just happen out of the blue with no discernible reason why. I've heard that AMD cards had issues with Samsung G7 monitors and I tried a whole slew of fixes in relation to that, none of those worked so I don't think it's related to that. The only thing that has managed to abate the constant timeouts is dropping my Adrenalin Software Version to 2021.1116.1830.33299 and the Driver Version to 21.30.23.04-211216a-376209C. While this has worked, it's obviously not really a permanent solution, especially given the age of the drivers I'm using. If anyone has any ideas, tips or god-willing a solution by all means, lay it on me. Willing to try just about anything at this point. System specs are as follows:

    Cooler Master Cosmos II Super Tower chassis

    AMD RYZEN 9 5950X @ ~4.5Ghz

    Asus ROG Strix X570-E Mainboard

    Sapphire Toxic LE RX 6900XT

    EVGA NU Audio Sound Card

    G.SKILL Ripjaws V 32 GB CL16 DRAM Kit @3600MHz x2

    Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black CPU Tower Cooler

    Seasonic PRIME 1000w PSU

    Windows 10 Pro OS

    Samsung 860 Pro 512 GB SSD (OS Drive)

    Western Digital BLACK 10 TB HDD

    x2 Samsung 960 EVO 500 GB M.2 SSDs (RAID 0'd)

    Valve Index VR Headset

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    VMWare's new Licensing Fees Changes Focus on High Core-Count CPUs

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    So VMWare is supposedly targeting AMD's high-level server CPUs with their new licensing fees according to a Tom's Hardware article here. VMWare themselves have acknowledged the licensing changes in their news updates section although they've not mentioned AMD or any other company by name. Been seeing a lot of people theorizing that Intel tossed a lot of money at VMWare to do this seeing as how it seemingly doesn't touch Intel CPUs yet. Don't personally believe this to be the case but I've been proven wrong before. One way or another though, this is definitely going shake things up considering how widespread VMWare Workstation and it's parent company Dell is in the industry coupled with the shifting trends towards higher core counts. Interested in hearing other people's input on the matter though.

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