How many of you here are using an AMD GPUs?

How many of you here are using an AMD GPUs?
My old Nvidia card started to experience problems so I thought I'd try out AMD, bought a 6700XT and it's been nothing but trouble so far.

Every game, and I mean EVERY game has some sort of issues, some of them stutter constantly, some of them have random patches textures flashing invisible or black, some have random sound cutoffs, I've not yet experienced a single game that ran normally.
There's also massive problems with Windows, hovering over desktop icons lags the computer, moving chrome windows and tabs lags like crazy, saving images or opening zips is crazy slow.

I've done a complete DDU clean of both the old drivers and the new ones. I started with the latest Adrenalin drivers, less stutters and texture glitches but had a game crash at random. Went for a step older drivers, no crashes but the stutters and texture glitches are still there, possibly even more rampant.
Am I doing something wrong or is this really the AMD experience? Are the drivers just garbage or should I go for older versions?
First week in and I'm already missing having 1080ti

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Christ the Nvidia shills are getting desperate.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      shut up moron Black person, I just want to play my games, if you have a fix, present it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        post hwinfo64

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Why do you have XMP disabled
            Also MSI is probably the worst brand for AMD they use garbage heatsinks and I wouldn't be surprised if they had some BIOS frickery too like their mobos.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              When I bought my motherboard along with two 16gb RAM sticks, enabling an XMP profile would just not boot my PC at all. Haven't tried to enable them since.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I have a Polaris card, so I can't really help you. No issues since 2017 though, other than the fact I have to turn the main monitor off and on again when the computer wakes up from sleep.

                Update the BIOS and it'll work, probably. A friend of mine couldn't get past 2900MHz on his 1600; after the update, he was able to run XMP 3200MHz just fine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        install amd cpu chipset drivers

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I should already have those installed when I got the CPU

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you have freesync monitor go AMD, if you have gsync compatible go nvidia

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      there's no such things as gsync compatible monitors anymore
      unless you are paying a extreme amount of money for a computer monitor

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        almost all vrr monitors are "gsync compatible" its the gsync ultimate that requires the expensive module.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What games stutter only on amd cards lol? Nvidia cards have pre-compiled shaders or something?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The games that I've thus far played and have had issues with on the 6700XT have been Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Battleforge, Kartrider: Drift and Pathfinder: Kingmaker
      Grounded stutters, SoT stutters, Battleforge has texture glitches, Kartrider stutters, Pathfinder rarely stutters but has sound cutoffs.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i have both a 5700xt nitro and a 6750xt nitro on win10 and both have worked fine except for the black screen 5700xt issue which was fixed a while back and both had the "amd driver timeout" issue which i fixed by adjusting the power slider in win10 to max performance and i haven't had a driver timeout in over a year
    sound like you're having major issues, maybe try updating your bios as well since that takes like 2 minutes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bios updates can be very volatile and I don't think it's the end all be all fix. Full reinstall of the OS could work too but holy frick it'll be a massive hassle if I decide to go through with it.
      I need to try the latest Adrenalin drivers once more, if all else fails, bigger changes need to be done.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        bios updates are fairly pain free in the last decade or so - at most it'll just reset you to default settings like your cpu fan curve if you set one and your memory timings and stuff like that but that stuff only has to be set once and you're good to go - i did a bios update when elden ring hit pc and it eliminated the stuttering that was leftover from the first patch

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I agree with this anon, bios updates aren't that difficult anymore and if you have a newer mobo they can fix a lot of issues after time for hardware stuff starts to settle.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Works on my machine

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Every game, and I mean EVERY game has some sort of issues, some of them stutter constantly
    works on my machine
    >some of them have random patches textures flashing invisible or black
    works on my machine
    >some have random sound cutoffs
    works on my machine
    >There's also massive problems with Windows, hovering over desktop icons lags the computer
    works on my machine
    >moving chrome windows and tabs lags like crazy
    works on my machine
    >saving images or opening zips is crazy slow
    works on my machine

    sucks to be you lol

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't have a 6700XT but I'd suggest going to a tech forum and checking for 6700XT troubleshooting. Do you have a reference model or a third party one? You might want to find out when they last did a major branch release of the drivers and roll back to a version prior to that, one step back might not be enough.
    My last AMD card was a vega 64 and drivers for it were like fricking russian roulette on whether I'd get random crashing in DMC 5 which I got a free code for the game with the goddamn card of all things.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    7900 xtx
    i had mesa installed already
    i uninstalled nvidia-drivers and removed some nvidia X conf files
    that was it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      based linux chad

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        7900 xtx
        i had mesa installed already
        i uninstalled nvidia-drivers and removed some nvidia X conf files
        that was it

        unironically this unless you play garbage games with anti cheat or live service there's almost no excuse to not be running linux with a amd card with nvidia you just don't have a choice
        but beyond that most likely it's a windows issue not even a amd issue which most likely means OP needs to reset his computer and update his bios

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I bought a used 6800XT off ebay and it works without issues except during a few key occasions
    >PC crashed (blackscreened) and VGA LED lit up on my mobo while playing Hitman 2
    >Same thing happened when playing Fortnight with all the RTX doodads turned on
    Otherwise it performs well with no problems. Aanyone have any clue why those aforementioned issues are happening though?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The crash+vga LED lighting up sounds like the card shut itself off - have you checked the thermals while playing?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not while playing those games, but I have and it runs pretty hot. I've seen the junction temperature go as high as 100 degrees without shutting off, and the general temp sometimes hits mid 80s.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It looks like the 6800XT does run hot and that it doesn't thermal throttle til 110C so that should be technically ok

          did you make sure to use the right psu setup

          This is good info too, if the card isn't getting enough power that could be why it's crashing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      did you make sure to use the right psu setup

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I did not. I feel pretty silly for not knowing that was a thing after PC gaming for all these years. Thank god for Ganker tech support

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        this seems to be contradictory

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it isn't you moron
          you read it wrong

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            considering this shit has worked fine for me in the past and the diagram shows one "cable" going to two "slots" yea its fine

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It's because most PSU's don't have 3 cables. So yeah that is fine if a GPU has 3 slots. Sure if you have a PSU with 3 or 4 cables plug them all into that. But that's not case with most of us.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                ok now explain why its ok in that case but not when using a single cable for a 2 "slot" card

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      did you OC? at least on nvidia cards a gpu can be rock solid and stable with the undervolt/oc settings until you turn on raytracing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I did a small undervolt and OC but didn't stick with it because my minFPS suffered, although I only ran one test so could be a fluke.
        I was not OC'd when my PC crashed though.
        I'm pretty sure the problem had to do with me running the card on one split PCIE cable as people have been mentioning

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Here's a little test I'd want you to do. If you have a spare SSD install the OS to that SSD and then boot from that. If the crashes and still continues like this, well you fixed nothing. But if it fixes your issues then you have to bite the bullet and just reinstall windows.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I thought of doing that, I currently have my OS installed to my old SSD which is only 250gb in size, thought of installing it onto my new 1tb SSD

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >How many of you here are using an AMD GPUs?
    Yes I do

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >should I go for older versions?
    I had the same issues as you and installed the previous driver version 22.5.1 and it fixed all my problems

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I first tried 22.11.2
      Now I'm on 22.11.1, so let's try 22.5.1 next

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah it fixed all my problems and I was confused. I made a thread about it because it didn't make any sense to me. also, if you have an ssd, is it nvme? and if so, the nvme ssd installed in the m.2 closet to your cpu?

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Full windows reinstall
    Use the latest WHQL drivers (disconnect internet so windows update doesn't auto install dogshit)
    Update bios
    Make sure you're not running 2 8-pins on one cable
    If that doesn't fix it, force PCIe 3.0, and check that rebar is disabled.

    And if that doesn't fix it, return it.

    It's not hard to troubleshoot. Any card you buy can have problems.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Make sure you're not running 2 8-pins on one cable

      wait, is this a bad thing?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The max rating for a single 8pin is 150 watts. Most cards today are 300+. Running 2 8-pins on a single cable is just stupid. It may work, but it also may give you trouble. Just don't do it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        From what I read many of these PSU cables can only carry 300 watts or little less. So if the GPU is using more than 300 watts it's not getting the power it needs with just one cable.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The max rating for a single 8pin is 150 watts. Most cards today are 300+. Running 2 8-pins on a single cable is just stupid. It may work, but it also may give you trouble. Just don't do it.

          damn my psu only came with dual pin

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            its fine, even my seasonic 850 comes with 2x pcie split. unless ure running 3090 ti or 4090, on 3x cards the third 8 pin is mostly for oc stability or offloading the pcie slot. on 2x you already have 300w+65w from the slot

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              One 8pin cable is rated for 150 watts. Just because you have 2 8pins on one end doesn't magically make the cable 300w.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                so each of the pins is 75w?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                12v rail is rated for 740w and wire gauge is appropriate for the given amperage, so dunno what ure on about

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, wtf. The instructions included with the PSU tells you to use the one cable with two 8-pins
        Ran 1080ti for 5 years without any issues

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I guess 1080ti doesn't need more than 150 watts

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            but a 6700XT does? I feel like 1080ti is more of a monster than this one, it was one hell of a card then and is still relevant in middle-end gaming

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              AMD cards are more finicky with power issues. When the 5700xt came out one of the problems were people running 2 8-pins on one cable.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's outdated advice that doesn't apply to modern cards.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Make sure you're not running 2 8-pins on one cable
      wait you mean I shouldn't have used that 8+8 to 12 converter cable that came with the card?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only issue I had with my 6650XT is that CoD2 was just a white screen in game unless I turned of anti-aliasing

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've only ever used Nvidia, my brother is a big AMD dude, but to me it seems like discount cards. In the end I don't know shit about hardware, so there's your normie opinion

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I had an issue where playing videos in Chrome would cause stutters and crashes but I switched to Firefox and have had no problems at all, and also it apparently got fixed in a driver update anyway, and also a particular game that is just broken unless you're using 22.5.1 or earlier drivers. More problems than I've had with Nvidia but it's a compromise since the price of the card is cheaper.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've wanted to get rid of chrome for so long but I've built up a massive video backlog on chrome that I need to start cracking down on
      It's a massive memory hog, even with 32gb of ram, I get that "whoops, ran out of memory" on pages.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why not just add them all to bookmarks? You can import bookmarks across different browsers.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Werks on my machine 😉

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    can confirm, capped the glitch here : https://youtu.be/ztLxCEThUIU

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have had the reference 6800 XT and the Sapphire Toxic 6950 XT and both gave me the same crash issue. Every single day they crashed, but at least it wasn't during playing. It was just when using Windows or browsing the internet. It was very annoying still.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    5600XT here, works on my machine

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >he bought amd

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >he bought nvidia
      >DUMP IT

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I roll an R9 Fury Nitro with mod drivers
    no issues, literally just werks

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Update bios and do a clean OS install. Install all drivers including chipset/motherboard drivers

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the only GPU that ever straight up died on me over 20 years of PC gaming was a AMD card, haven't bought another one since now inclusively use nvidia cards althuogh it's not exact on purpose I just keep finding really good deals on them just recently got a 3090 for 150 dollars brand new.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >recently got a 3090 for 150 dollars brand new
      give it back Jamal

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have a 6800 XT and i've only had 1 issue where I had to factory reset my drivers because battlefield 1 wouldn't recognise them

    I use version 22.5.1 which was the last stable version so I don't get the blackscreen issue either

    can you list some games have you had issues with?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      here

      The games that I've thus far played and have had issues with on the 6700xt have been Grounded, Sea of Thieves, Battleforge, Kartrider: Drift and Pathfinder: Kingmaker
      Grounded stutters, SoT stutters, Battleforge has texture glitches, Kartrider stutters, Pathfinder rarely stutters but has sound cutoffs.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    RX480
    Never had an issue except when using two monitors sometimes the night mode would glitch out and revert to normal mode.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DDU again and install MINIMAL drivers when you do, and if that doesn't help go down to drivers only. They're options in the driver installer where full drivers are the default (and bloated to frick). Also make sure to disable windows automatically downloading drivers for your GPU, this just goes in general.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    6800 XT
    no problem on my linux computer with open source drivers

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2nd hand Sapphire 6700XT and had no issues on Windows or Linux. Maybe you just picked up a shit version of the card.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just got a 6950xt and wanted to try out metro exodus enhanced. Why are there these green-yellow glittery dots in the distance of water reflections when I turn “reflections” to raytraced? Is it just a bug of the game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      try a previous version of your driver

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    got an rx 6600 for a year now and it's almost all smiles. the gpu somehow prevents the entire pc from POSTing randomly if my specific MSI monitor is plugged in when powering on. ridiculous and annoying bug, but it's worked great outside of that. undervolting your card is highly recommended for extra performance and lower noise.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've used AMD for years, I only recently got an nVidia as I needed it for AI/CUDA work for university. Can't say I have really had a problem with either one. AMD has always worked fine for me.

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