Finicky graphics drivers?

[RelyingEarth87]

Edit: I’m pretty sure it’s driver errors because when AC Origins kept crashing, the Radeon overlay would tell me it was a driver timeout. 
 

I recently got an RX 580 card to put in my system because I found a reasonable deal on it and in this market, that was hard enough. 

When I first installed it, it took a very long time to get any video output, but when I did, it worked fine. Then, I tried downloading drivers for it, and it wanted a fresh install which I thought, “Fine, that should be better anyway.” When it restarted to set the changes and erase the old drivers, I could no longer get any video outputs. 

I eventually switched PCIe slots and got it to work and ended up just needing to not do the fresh install and it was stable, however, after multiple crashes in games with a driver fail, I went through windows update which reverted to an old driver and made Radeon software not work and gameplay much more stuttery. I tried reinstalling the newer driver and now I’m having the original video output problem again. 

Can anyone help? I’m fairly sure if I can uninstall the drivers with the card out and then slot it back in and then immediately install the new driver that it should probably be fine again, though hopefully without crashes, but any help or other suggestions would be very helpful. And I know it’s something software related because I put it into a different system and everything was fine.

 

Specs: 

Core i9-10850k

ASRock z590 Pro4

32 gb Trident Z RGB DDR4

MSI RX 580 4 GB (Yes, I know it’s a huge GPU bottleneck, but I was planning on a 3070 and we all know how well that turned out)

850W PSU 80+ Gold

 

Windows 64 bit

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Ddu the drivers and reinstall.

[RelyingEarth87]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Ddu the drivers and reinstall.

Yeah. I was thinking this should help, but I’ll admit that I’m not 100% sure how to do that.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

11 minutes ago, RelyingEarth87 said:

Yeah. I was thinking this should help, but I’ll admit that I’m not 100% sure how to do that.

Download the amd drivers installer, then Download ddu from Here and then shut down and boot into safemode (here's how to do that). Then launch ddu, and select ame drivers. Then choose remove and restart.

Once you do that, run the driver installer and you should be good.

 

Though if it's a driver timeout, in my experience that's a clock issue, but try ddu first.

[RelyingEarth87]

3 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Download the amd drivers installer, then Download ddu from Here and then shut down and boot into safemode (here's how to do that). Then launch ddu, and select ame drivers. Then choose remove and restart.

Once you do that, run the driver installer and you should be good.

 

Though if it's a driver timeout, in my experience that's a clock issue, but try ddu first.

Thanks. I’ll try that when I get back home.

[RelyingEarth87]

1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Download the amd drivers installer, then Download ddu from Here and then shut down and boot into safemode (here's how to do that). Then launch ddu, and select ame drivers. Then choose remove and restart.

Once you do that, run the driver installer and you should be good.

 

Though if it's a driver timeout, in my experience that's a clock issue, but try ddu first.

We are back up and running. Thanks a lot. I also used the AMD auto-overclock feature since I figured that's what you mean by a clock issue. If not, I'll keep playing/benchmarking and hope I don't get crashed out again. Or if you have any ideas for how to work on the clock issue, that would be greatly appreciated.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, RelyingEarth87 said:

We are back up and running. Thanks a lot. I also used the AMD auto-overclock feature since I figured that's what you mean by a clock issue. If not, I'll keep playing/benchmarking and hope I don't get crashed out again. Or if you have any ideas for how to work on the clock issue, that would be greatly appreciated.

thats not what i meant. i get that when I pust it to far. id underclock

 

[RelyingEarth87]

15 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

thats not what i meant. i get that when I pust it to far. id underclock

 

Ah. Makes a little more sense. I had been playing AC Origins for a good half hour or more when it crashed the first time. Then after the driver change which was probably stupid in the first place, I got another hour or two out of it before I stopped, but it was miles less smooth and very jittery. Ran some benchmarks on the auto-overclock and will try longer game times to see if it keeps crashing before changing the OC again, but we should be stable at least. If it crashes again, I'll underclock a bit. Thanks for all your help!