Nvidia is in the same boat for a lot of users also, I haven't seen as many AMD complaints lately.

Yep drivers are pretty bad on team red. They got better from what I tested with the 9070xt compared to rdna 2 - which is not a good milestone - but ultimately decided to sell it since my 5070ti offers superior experience

Originally posted by ¤☣wing☢zeяo☣¤™:

Nvidia is in the same boat for a lot of users also, I haven't seen as many AMD complaints lately.

Gameready drivers perhaps. Studio drivers are still light years ahead of what AMD offers and furthermore keep in mind that a distressing amount of users never reinstall windows and don't know what ddu is which exacerbates the situation

i roll with 24.7.1. for my 7900XTX. All later drivers are terrible, bringing issues all over.

I'd roll back to the last stable driver you can find for your card, and leave it. Every AMD driver after 7.1 has been terrible for me.

Never had a stability problem in Windows but have moved to Linux where it's also now faster too.

I can't help wondering if part of the issue (on both sides) is always running the up to date driver.
My practice has always been to only update when absolutely necessary not just because there's a new driver that boasts some amazing performance increase which doesn't actually prove to be the case. I've very rarely run into issues.

Originally posted by Skkooomer Lord:

Never had a stability problem in Windows but have moved to Linux where it's also now faster too.

A lot won't realise it has more to do with Windows and what they are doing on their PC versus the drivers themselves, which is why it works for some and not others.

No one knows what software they are running that interacts with bad engines like UE and no one is going to consider it.

Even software changing LED lights on a GPU can cause crashing with a driver change in some of these games with buggy hardware accelerated calls.

That an engine or game is that fragile is the fault of the developer IMO. A game should be able to run without a driver upgrade, the performance "should" increase after the driver is updated -- not that the game doesn't run full stop.

But PC gamers allow and let these game developers and publishers take them for a ride and find fault everywhere but where it belongs: the software maker.

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Originally posted by Skkooomer Lord:

Never had a stability problem in Windows but have moved to Linux where it's also now faster too.

A lot won't realise it has more to do with Windows and what they are doing on their PC versus the drivers themselves, which is why it works for some and not others.

No one knows what software they are running that interacts with bad engines like UE and no one is going to consider it.

Even software changing LED lights on a GPU can cause crashing with a driver change in some of these games with buggy hardware accelerated calls.

That an engine or game is that fragile is the fault of the developer IMO. A game should be able to run without a driver upgrade, the performance "should" increase after the driver is updated -- not that the game doesn't run full stop.

But PC gamers allow and let these game developers and publishers take them for a ride and find fault everywhere but where it belongs: the software maker.

I agree with your point about the software people are running, I always tend to run lean.

But when it comes to games just working they do. Can you actually name a game that doesn't run because you're not using the latest driver? The only thing I've ever seen is a popup message saying outdated driver, but the games run and still run fine.

I wonder if I’m lucky or others are so unlucky but I have no problems with stability. On every single game forum I see plenty of topics about games crashing. Any hardware combinations.

Without any knowledge people should at least be able to try different drivers or reinstall windows if needed (like after a dodgy app corrupted the system). Or know how to check temps.

I observed from multiple forums, usually the one have instability are from Custom GPU like Strix, i dont know others type, so i think stoopid vendors too trying to be tony stark but made the card is not stable

Tell me about it. They released a small hotfix for Polaris cards a couple days ago and weren't even bothered to fix The Last of Us II driver timeouts. The GPU released in 2017 and they already cut support in 2023.

Going NVIDIA next time. Or maybe Intel? There's no reason to buy AMD cards anymore anyway when for the same price i can get NVIDIA.

I tried deleting my shader cache and so far I haven't had issues with newest Nvidia drivers.

I've updated the driver for my RX 7900 XTX with the latest (25.6.1) and I'm not having any issue with it, same goes with just about all previous drivers.....

The RX 6900 XT in my 2nd rig is on 25.5.1 and I'm not having any issue with it either, though admittedly, I don't use it that much for gaming.

Can't say I've ever had problems with AMD drivers. But I'm never using "latest, greatest" cards, if that has any bearing. /shrug

Originally posted by HotB:

half your games will work with the new drivers and the other half youll have to roll back to your old ones, its pissing me off.

Sounds like Nvidia to me this time.
I'm on Resident Evil 4 forum and there are like few new topics a days about crashes due to new drivers. Expedition 33 also had a good number of such topics. Nvidia recently released a hotfix but not everybody is aware of it as it's not available via Nvidia app.

I am having issues with Infinity Nikki, but it is less of a driver issue than the latest patch being broken with Windows 11 updates.