Question AMD & Nvidia Graphics Driver Crashes

[h00tywh0]

I recently started having an issue where my graphics driver would hang and the game that I am playing will crash. It doesn't restart the PC and very very rarely will I need to force shut down and restart when the driver crashes.

I originally was using an AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XT (RX-79TMBABF9) and the driver crashes started happening somewhat regularly. Trying to play Ghost of Tsushima (other games crash also / Starfield and Cyberpunk are completely unplayable) I couldn't get through more than 10-15 minutes of gameplay before the driver would crash. I switched to an older Nvidia RTX 2070 and at first it appeared to be working and I was able to play without any issues, but recently the crashing has started happening again about 5 days later after installing the lower end GPU.

I have tried DDU and reinstall of drivers and used DDU between switching from the AMD GPU to the Nvidia GPU.

‍CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
AIO - Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 (ACFRE00136A)
Motherboard - ASUS Rog Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi II
GPU - AMD Radeon RX 7900XT (RX-79TMBABF9) / Nvidia RTX 2070 (GV-N2070WF3-8GC)
RAM - Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) C16 1.35B
SSD - Samsung 860 EVO 500GB / Western Digital 1TB WDS100T2B0A
PSU - CORSAIR RM750e 80+ Gold (750W)

I have tried disabling XMP, disabling ResizableBar, lowering power limits on the GPU, and various other things.

I thought it was the GPU originally when I installed the Nvidia model and the issues seemed to go away for a few days, but now my graphics drivers are crashing again and I am not sure what to do. When the crash occurs on the AMD card my screen will go black, audio continues to work, and then everything will reset and I will get an error popup that the graphics driver crashed. At this point I can normally just relaunch the game and it will work again until the driver crashes again. With the Nvidia card it is the exact same experience except the screen does not seem to go black and instead the game will hang/freeze. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Kona45primo]

try running your pcie at 3.0 in bios and see if that helps.

 

[h00tywh0]

try running your pcie at 3.0 in bios and see if that helps.

Tried that and still no change. Also tried going into the Adrenaline software and set the power limit to -5% and manually set the clock speeds to the correct ones from mfg. Not sure why, but adrenaline was defaulting it to like 2800 and mfg says max is 2400.

Tried and older version of the driver/adrenaline software also that was recommended by XFX. Same error still crashes.

 

[CountMike]

Tried that and still no change. Also tried going into the Adrenaline software and set the power limit to -5% and manually set the clock speeds to the correct ones from mfg. Not sure why, but adrenaline was defaulting it to like 2800 and mfg says max is 2400.

Tried and older version of the driver/adrenaline software also that was recommended by XFX. Same error still crashes.

How fresh. clean and stable are your windows and which are they.? Did you run system health checks? Are they up to date?
What about BIOS version?

 

[h00tywh0]

How fresh. clean and stable are your windows and which are they.? Did you run system health checks? Are they up to date?
What about BIOS version?

Windows reinstall was done within the past week, I ran system file checker, and also did DISM scans just to do them.

BIOS was updated to the most current BIOS version this week also.

I did find some mild success last night, but I had to kind of like kitchen sink it and do every single thing that has been recommended online all at the same time. I was able to play games for a couple hours without crashing which I have never been able to do, but that is only if I do everything on the list below.

Disable XMP
Disable Resizable BAR
Disable AMD FSR
Disable VSync
Downclock GPU Max Clock to 2200mhz
Reduce GPU Power limit by -5%
Reduce in-game graphics settings to Medium - High

I suppose great its working that is more progress than I have been able to make doing anything else, but also feels bad to only be able to run games on Medium-High graphics settings in 1080p with a 7900XT and my RAM can only run at 2133mhz.