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On 11/3/2023 at 9:11 PM, roktmanskip said:

I wasn't even in a game, just watching youtube in a web browser.

This has been going on better part of a year now with AMD drivers.  They never did fix the driver package from a year ago, instead in February of 2023 they completely re-released the driver package and the issue was finally fixed.  It looks like the version 23.10.2 WHQL is the latest version of the driver without this issue.  That version is from October, the one dated November introduces this issue:

..."Intermittent micro-stuttering may be experienced when running Chromium-based browsers on systems that pair a Radeon RX 7000 series GPU with a secondary display connected to an AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor."

 

This statement is 100% false and downplayed by AMD of what is going on.  This is more or less what they were saying in driver packages over a year ago.  What actually happens is the whole PC freezes and becomes unresponsive, thinking you crashed and locked up.  But sometimes if you let it sit for upwards of 10 minutes it'll recover, and you'll get the windows driver time out but has recovered pop up box.  A year ago, the fix was to switch to Firefox, or disable free sync.  I ditched AMD everything a year ago or better and my time spent messing with bad driver packages and checking for known issues in the release notes has gone down 100%.  

You could also try the restart of the GPU driver via windows shortcut next time this happens: Press Windows key + Ctrl + Shift + B.  When I was having this issue, you can tell if the system is hard locked or not by pressing NUMLOCK on the keyboard.  I could toggle it on and off, that's how I knew it wasn't actually locked up.

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