I know I wrote on another post on this site that I had no real issues with my 7900 XTX so far but as I am trying more games I find more problems and I am wondering if it's normal since the card just got released or if it's the AMD drivers curse that everybody is talking about.
First problem was The Witcher 3 that is crashing all the time with DX12 (I guess everybody knows about this one). Then I saw some screen tearing in Deathloop despite having V-sync enabled. I also had some very bad luminosity flickering in MS Flight simulator that I fixed by disabling free-sync. Then I tried to play Horizon Zero Dawn but the game randomly crashes to the deskstop so often that it's almost unplayable. And the worst is with Ghostwire: tokyo. The game is not supposed to be hard to run (especially with RT off) and indeed it runs above 130 FPS most of the time but I often get huge FPS drops (goes down to 20-30 fps) especially when attacked by those flying ghosts that throw red light projectiles. And when it happens the GPU utilization drops as hell like to 40-50% (and my ryzen 5900x is still at 20% so not likely a CPU bottleneck).
I got more issues with the 7900 XTX in less than a month than I had with my RTX 2080 in 3 years. By the way, I used DDU in safe mode to clear the old drivers. I also updated my BIOS and the chipset drivers. My power supply is a Cosrair 1000W and I use two cables to connect the card (not the two connectors on a single cable). And I don't think it's a power issue since the card runs at full power on other games without any problems. My temperatures are also great. Never goes above 65C and the hotspot is always below 85C.
So now I am wondering whether I should wait for new AMD drivers or return the card and buy a 4080 instead. It's more expensive and I don't like its size and the new power connector but I really don't want to pass the next 3 years wondering if my games are going to work before buying them (a question I never had to ask myself with my 2080). I still have 16 days to return the card to Newegg
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
First problem was The Witcher 3 that is crashing all the time with DX12 (I guess everybody knows about this one). Then I saw some screen tearing in Deathloop despite having V-sync enabled. I also had some very bad luminosity flickering in MS Flight simulator that I fixed by disabling free-sync. Then I tried to play Horizon Zero Dawn but the game randomly crashes to the deskstop so often that it's almost unplayable. And the worst is with Ghostwire: tokyo. The game is not supposed to be hard to run (especially with RT off) and indeed it runs above 130 FPS most of the time but I often get huge FPS drops (goes down to 20-30 fps) especially when attacked by those flying ghosts that throw red light projectiles. And when it happens the GPU utilization drops as hell like to 40-50% (and my ryzen 5900x is still at 20% so not likely a CPU bottleneck).
I got more issues with the 7900 XTX in less than a month than I had with my RTX 2080 in 3 years. By the way, I used DDU in safe mode to clear the old drivers. I also updated my BIOS and the chipset drivers. My power supply is a Cosrair 1000W and I use two cables to connect the card (not the two connectors on a single cable). And I don't think it's a power issue since the card runs at full power on other games without any problems. My temperatures are also great. Never goes above 65C and the hotspot is always below 85C.
So now I am wondering whether I should wait for new AMD drivers or return the card and buy a 4080 instead. It's more expensive and I don't like its size and the new power connector but I really don't want to pass the next 3 years wondering if my games are going to work before buying them (a question I never had to ask myself with my 2080). I still have 16 days to return the card to Newegg
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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