[SOLVED] Cyberpunk 2077 & AMD 6900XT

TK31

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Hi

I recently re-downloaded Cyberpunk to give it a shot on a 6900XT i recently purchased. So went along and maxed out all settings etc. turned on ray tracing etc. and it worked fine for about 5 minutes, then it froze and the AMD driver crashed, with the card giving off some horrible coil whine. I think the coil whine is unrelated, but after a crash from Cyberpunk, the GPU then stutters and crashes consistently in ANY game, from Fall Guys to FS2020. This constant GPU crash triggered by Cyberpunk is only resolved by restarting the PC.

I thought it was my undervolted/OC settings but even returning them to stock doesnt help in Cyberpunk, and how it basically screws up the drivers/GPU afterwards. I am on the optional 21.7.2 drivers but I dont experience this level of persistent instability in any other game except Cyberpunk.

Anyone else on AMD have similar problems?
 
Solution
i've seen multiple reports lately on here, Steam, & CDProjekt Red forums about RX 6000 users having issues with ray tracing on.
many reporting crashing and odd artifacts that are gone when disabling ray tracing.
could be a driver issue...