Posted June 11, 2025 Hi, i built my PC at the start of the year and it was going fine but a couple of months ago I started having my games crashing and the screen would go black for a couple seconds but the sound would still be activethe entire time, after the screen comes back I have the AMD crash toll saying I had the drivers timeout. The issue happens on some games with basically 100% consistency where for exemple on black ops 6 I cant do a single game of nuketown start to finish without crashing meanwhile other games I dont have this problem at all for exemple on dark souls I left it running for hours on end and no crashes. My pc has a 7800x3d, 7800xt and a 750W psu. I've tried everything from using both AMD utility tool and DDU to do a clean install of thr latest drivers aswell as trying older drivers, windows is fully updated, I tried undervolting, deactivating freesync and instant replay, tried going to regestry editor and seting TdrDelay to 10 value, my temperatures are normal... Tomorrow I will try updating my BIOS and completely wiping my SSD and re-installing windows which after that I don't know anything else to try. Anyone here had this problem and fixed it/is it just a bad GPU and should I try to get it replaced or does anyone have other possible solutions that I should try? This was my first PC that I built myself so I'm not that experienced with this specially software stuff, Thanks. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1614746-amd-driver-timeout-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 11, 2025 Just to note: When AMD SW says that there was a driver timeout, it does not mean the card is the issue. It means there was some kind of instability and the driver timed out "just in case" to revert things to default. Issue can still be unstable RAM or CPU for example. Check those as well. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1614746-amd-driver-timeout-issues/#findComment-16746458 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 11, 2025 Author 8 hours ago, WereCat said: Just to note: When AMD SW says that there was a driver timeout, it does not mean the card is the issue. It means there was some kind of instability and the driver timed out "just in case" to revert things to default. Issue can still be unstable RAM or CPU for example. Check those as well. And how would I go about testing and determining which of the three is causing the problem? Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1614746-amd-driver-timeout-issues/#findComment-16746628 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 11, 2025 1 hour ago, xmkx said: And how would I go about testing and determining which of the three is causing the problem? Some kind of memtest like memtest86 or RamTest by Karhu software. For CPU for example OCCT Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/1614746-amd-driver-timeout-issues/#findComment-16746666 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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