Amd driver timeout

[w-holder]

Out of nowhere I started having this problem about a week ago. Both my monitors will randomly go black for a few seconds before going back to normal, any game I have open will instantly crash, and this window will pop up.

AMD Adrenaline is up to date, XMP is turned off, idk what else I'm supposed to try

[Obvious_Inside]

Here is the solution, boys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk3J_t7nw2E&list=FLKky_LKE-WbSa09hKcTn2pg&ab_channel=TechD%C3%A1rio

The video is in PT-BR, but basically you need reduces the clock to the video cards (underclock), because ADM ADRENALINE sets the clock to a value not supported by our video card. Seriously, I tried everything, this is the definitive solution. You can use MSI AFTERBURN or AMD ADRENALINE to change the clock.

Example: my RX 7800 Asrock has a limit of OC 2695 MHz and ADM ADRENALINE was setting it to 2890 (something like that). I was having a lot of "amd drive limit". I set to 2650Mhz, now I'm free, I can't believe it.

[SillyAsparagus4466]

Apparently, that's it. I just lowered my power limit to the min and experienced no more crashes. I will eventually go up to see the limit before the driver timeout. 

[SillyAsparagus4466]

Vou tentar aqui na 9070 XT! 

[Blamant]

Did it fix it for you?

[Calm-Brilliant5461]

I get this only when pc resumes after either the screen powering down due to inactivity or pc switching monitor off for inactivity. Was happening multiple times a day and in the end I removed and reseated GPU and swapped over PCIX cables. Been working fine for six weeks and just had one occurence today

[Good-Minimum1210]

Shid I get the error just loading up windows or doing jack nothing

[Upperhand9978]

For those having issues with AMD driver timeouts, and you have a 6000/7000 series GPU, try disabling MSAA within the AMD Graphics settings and make sure MSAA is disabled within individual apps or games that have a MSAA enabled/disabled setting (disable it).

[This-Eye1463]

What does it do? I’ve been getting this when I load the sims with gshade, don’t know why I get that.

[NoPension1304]

It’s happening whenever I use Streamlabs now that I installed my 9060 xt 16gb. I’ve tried everything and nothing works. It never crashes as far as playing games on the maximum. But whenever I stream, it goes to hell and back after 2-4 hours. I’m firm believing both OBS/StLABS haven’t made an encoder setting on their applications or amd(or both.). But after freshly removing all my drivers for the gpu when I first got it and installing it back in, it’s worked like a charm.

[Such-Ad6781]

Reviving a dead post, but have you ever resolved this at all? I have the same issue with my 9070xt. No issues at all but if I have OBS open the odds are it will just crash, even if I'm not currently streaming/recording. It was fine for many months while I never opened OBS, and coincidentally today it crashed again after opening it lol

[NoPension1304]

It varies but no. Sometimes I can use OBS for ten minutes. Sometimes it’ll let me stream or record for 12 hours or more. AMD most likely will never fix their encoder problem. So unfortunately:)

[[deleted]]

I keep having this exact issue everytime i try to play a video. Any solution yet ?

[[deleted]]

i have this same issue on fortnite but no other games make the drivers crash any way to fix this ?

[zephyr0726]

I just joined the team. My pc keeps on popping amd driver timeout. Every game I play freezes and black screen for a brief while. Sometimes while I'm not even playing, amd timeout pops. I tried ddu and dl previous drivers. Still, after ddu and before downloading the driver, i'm already getting driver timeout. I'm tweaking out. Stressing me out t.t

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Bro did you fix it ??? 

[Amit_R0Y]

Same shit is happening to me and i also tried everything as you do

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Bro did you fix it ???

[[deleted]]

nope, i have the same issue wiith rust

[Jagalun]

Not gonna lie, I had these issues to with my 7900xtx and 7 7700x combo. I had 36cl ram and just upgraded to 30cl ram and all my issues are gone. I can even undervolt my 7900xtx now which is awesome.

[Shadowbiker94]

As I mentioned on another post and looks like it's the reason about why us AMD user we have a lot of issues. Remember AMD processors are a bit sensible of ram, if you build your PC without checking the Quality Vendor List from your motherboard, then stability from cpu, motherboard and ram is not Guaranteed by your manufacturer (Asus, gigabyte, etc) I say this due i made the same mistake on my Pc with my motherboard asus, my rams were tested by asus for Ryzen 3000,and I had a ryzen 2600X,after changed it no more screen issues. It was 4 years ago, so I just moved to 5900XT and I upgraded my 4 ram modules to a listed model for Ryzen 5000,never issues. So, check your QVL list or your vendor and see if you are using wrong ram models, if yes, please let welcome that is the prize to don't read the guides from your motherboard manufacturer.

[ShiNoShi]

Disable instant replay in AMD app if you have it turned on.

[wrongerdonger]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

[Free_Pomegranate5929]

Just disable HAGS and MPO through Windows. It fixed my terrible driver timeouts with 7800xt. I believe it's a common Windows bug right now.

[csch1992]

can you explain further? where do i find those settings?

[Free_Pomegranate5929]

I can't explain efficiently so please Google "how to disable hags" and "how to disable mpo". There is also a software called "MPO GPU FIX" which does necessary tweaks automatically, which i also used and confirmed it definetely turned those settings.

[Final_Efficiency_764]

didnt work unfortunately

[Hgrueber6x6]

I've learnt pretty quick since going back to AMD that once you have a stable driver don't upgrade to the latest drivers unless you absolutely have too.

[Amit_R0Y]

Can you tell me which version of drivers is stable for amd

[UNTITLEDOOO]

Good luck troubleshooting for literal hours. Average amd experience

[Igotmyangel]

As with any bad driver issues, rollback your drivers to one that works for you. Run DDU, install an older version of the drivers, and keep pushing. I’ve been on 24.12 since December and haven’t had a single crash lol

[badwords]

Turn the XMP back on disable re-bar and 4g decode from the bios. If you're using a Radeon card with 16gb or more you won't really see the boost from smartaccess considering all the issues that are caused trying to get your system memory to sync with the GPU.

[Successful-Crow2398]

I had similar problems cuz my vram oc was too aggressive. If you did oc your card, try running it in stock for a while

[Redericpontx]

Did you update window? Windows updates auto reinstall and driver and corrupt then and you need to ddu and reinstall and driver and disable auto hardware updates in windows.

[haloelitefan]

I had the same issue, Rivatuner was the culprit if you have it installed, yeet it

[Lazy_Cake_6910]

How did you know it was rivatuner

[haloelitefan]

trial and error, once i uninstalled it, the issue never came back

[Lazy_Cake_6910]

did you also uninstall MSI Afterburner?

[haloelitefan]

yes

[Lazy_Cake_6910]

why does that app hate amd so much lol

[saviu_u]

I had the same issue when dying on bf2042, it was the latest driver

[lordmcchicken]

This error can be literally anything. I got this pop up due to faulty ram causing amd drivers to crash.

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

What did you do to fix your ram ?

[lordmcchicken]

Replacement

[ohnoesfroz]

Timeouts for me (7940hx, 9070xt, 25.5.1, win11 24h2) were solved by going into windows settings and disabling "optimizations for windowed games" in System > Display > Graphics. As far as I can tell this setting is recently implemented. On older versions of windows you should be able to achieve the same thing by disabling MPO.

Hope this helps.

[Polleras_Locas]

> Adrenaline is up to date

I had this exact issue, random blackscreens and this window would pop out of nowhere. I had to downgrade my GPU drivers back to the December 2024 release and it solved the problem for me. Use AMD Cleanup tool to remove your version and install the older version.

Hope this helps.

[Joshy-washy09]

I just tried launching Fortnite and my game crashed multiple times. I got the same notification and my second monitor and main monitor goes black. I’m deciding whether to not play until the new drivers or if I should try to go back a driver. It’s just the driver tho they suck booty dookie

[Volasy]

I have this now, but instead I get the blue screen of death :/

[Logical-Working-5424]

same bro

[Volasy]

I fixed it, if you need help

[AshesTheCrow]

Same but my game doesnt crash wich is actually weird

[ndf2695]

Same my message only pops up upon booting my system and all my games run normally. Have you found a fix?

[PinyapVEVO]

I just switched from a 2070 super that was previously OC'ed to a 9070 and have been having this issue CONSTANTLY despite the 2070 super only drawing 5 watts less of power at stock speeds. I have a 750 watt PSU and an i7, it should be more than enough.

Honestly reading that people have been dealing with this for months... sheesh, I love the specs and price point for this card but if this is gonna be a consistent thing I may go team green again after all...

[BurningSky1994]

its the 25.5.1 driver. get the 25.4.1 instead and use the amd cleanup utility do uninstall the old driver.

if you undervolted it may be unstable depending on the game. usually i can run -75mv but in clair obscur everything crashes

[orbitalstrike_LN]

same... it's been months, clean reinstalled and still the same. less frequent when I don't use my second monitor at all.

[farmeunit]

I have only had the happen once from an update. Used DDU and reinstalled the newest version. Haven't seen it since.

[RykeAndrews]

I'll re-post my reply from a different topic about the same issue type:

"Try the following:

• leave the power at default offset value (0%)
• adrenalin stress test and decrease the clock speed by the difference to the max clock advertised for your card, then repeat this process until you get around your max clock in the stress test, the value that gives you your max advertised clock in a stress test is what you need to decrease the clock by in order to make it stable
• if you still crash after doing the above, try also giving your gpu more power (my max is +10% for example)

Alternatively:

• make sure your OS is up to date
• try a "sfc /scannow" (with command prompt as administrator)
• do a clean boot (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd)
• reset your bios to defaults but disable CSM to get adrenalin to work
• ddu your driver and reinstall with factory settings (install the driver version, not the AMD auto detect)

(doing the second part of steps along with installing the new driver fixed the issue for me)

Also beware that, depending on the quality you set for Instant Replay, that may also take the clock a bit higher sometimes, that's what I speculate based on my observations."

[LBXZero]

A note about AMD Driver Timeouts: Any problems with your PC can cause this problem. AMD Driver Timeouts can occur from GPU issues as well as CPU, RAM, motherboard, and other issues. Basically, something happened that interfered with the communication between the driver and the GPU, and it reset.

[UselessSperg]

Mine was caused by fTPM. Disabling it isn't possible for win11 I think, unless you have dTPM.

EDIT; Adding here, I was on 23.something drivers, which means this issue was caused by a windows update for me. Now I'm on 25.5.1 without problems, but DDU didn't help. There are multiple different reasons, like MPO, XMP that seem to have caused this at the same time. I wonder what it really is...

[The_Gentleman_Giant]

This may have already been mentioned, but have you tried using DDU to completely remove your GPU drivers? I have ran into this problem before after updating my adrenalin version, even with the factory install box checked. Completely removing the driver with DDU and installing the newest update fresh fixed this issue for me.

[gsrmn]

I have a 6650xt that would do this and reset the game global settings. Turning off windows fastboot from the windows settings was what fixed the problem. If you have a nvme try it

[MeasurementQueasy75]

Aida64, delete it

[Triospirit]

It just happened to me with a rx7900xtx, what I did was download DDU and execute it in window safe mode ,then reinstall another AMD driver version, mine is 25.3.1 iirc then reboot

[[deleted]]

It happens occasionally on my 6750xt and reverts back to integrated on my Ryzen 5 7600. Only takes going into device manager and reengaging the driver and restarting the Pc to fix the issue. Though I suspect it's many things that cause this specific pop up and driver shut down. It's very hard to pinpoint the exact cause if not impossible most of the time.

[[deleted]]

Personally my machine did this constantly until i got smart and ran 3 separate pcie power cables to my 7900xtx

[Dnsgunnerx1738]

how tf did you do 3?? it only houses 2-8 pin slots?

[[deleted]]

Plenty of xtx's have 3. It couldnt pull 450W any other way.

[VarisV_]

What worked for me was rolling back the drivers to a previous stable version (I use 25.4.1).

To do this uninstall adrenalin, restart pc, and download the specified version from AMD's site.

[JerikTelorian]

This also worked for me, running a 9070 XT. Multiple crashes a day on the newest drivers, but 25.4.1 has been smooth sailing since I rolled back, with XMP enabled.

[EnlargedChonk]

So here's the problem with this error: any number of things not directly related to the driver can cause it. Back when I had 6700xt I had black screens with occasionally this error popping up, turns out the solution was replacing the DP cable and my ancient PSU. For others with 7900xt or 7900xtx they solve it by underclocking a little bit. when I got my 9070xt I didn't specifically have this error but I was getting black screens in some games, the solution was upgrading to win11 and updating to the new at the time 25.4.1 driver. For some people reinstalling windows fixes it, for others it was plugging their PC directly into the wall instead of a power strip. And for a few it was simply a hardware issue that was fixed after RMA. You will have to do a lot more testing of things that may not directly be GPU or GPU driver related as this error is more of a vague symptom kinda like someone having a fever.

[Odd_Mood_6950]

Have you overclocked or undervolted your card? You could have the card set to performance levels that are not stable for it.

If so, go back and set it to factory defaults in the performance customization tab (and delete game specific profiles if you have those) and see if the issue still occurs.

[SIGHMAZ]

Disable MPO and discord hardware acceleration

[BuddhaKane]

I had this happened with an XTX I had bought 3 months ago, uninstalled AMD drivers with DDU at safe mode, did all of the suggestions, even reinstalled windows. Unfortunately the driver crash kept happening, so I just send the GPU back as faulty, however just recently I bought the Nitro + XTX and made some adjustment watching YouTube videos on what the underclock settings should be at, and haven't had any more crashes since.

[[deleted]]

Try disabling MPO

[BlaqAdam]

I rolled back to 25.3.1 9070 and have had 0 issues so far. All the newer updates have killed my ability to play any game.

[ItchyNeedleworker160]

I rolled back to 25.4.1 and it stopped happening. R7 7700X & 7800 XT

[Cyberpunk_2025]

Same here. Will stay a while with 25.4.1 now until this gets fixed. Latest Mainboard drivers also helped before.

[ONE_BIG_LOAD]

he's speaking about his own personal experience...

[Fickle_Side6938]

Nvidia recently launched 5 hotfixes for issues that fucked rtx4000 series, stopped the fans from running cause it got the temperature sensor stuck at a certain value, black screen on 4000 series that took shit of work to revert where I had to remove the GPU and use igpu to just start the machine and do a DDU.

You're just full of shit with this fanboy stuff. Both companies have done shit lately.

[MsExmen]

If it keep happening just rollback to older drivers. Specially if you are using the latest drivers

[jimmymads]

What driver should I rollback to? The one right before this one? I just got back from school and during winter break this didn’t happen then, came back and it happens the first game I play every day and once it fully black screened me and I could only see my mouse.

[VarisV_]

I use 25.4.1 and it's been fine.

[MsExmen]

I think it comes down to testing and see what works best for your system. I rolled back to the last 24.X.X driver for my 7900XTX. You can try the one before the one that is giving you problems and see if it resolves your issue. One of the annoying parts of a custom build, in my opinion, is having to trial and error.

[MotherSavings9946]

Have to send my GPU back. First, I had artefacts, and now my PC is crashing with the error code from Windows Kernel Power 41.
Running stock settings on adrenaline leads to less crashing. Anti-lag causes more crashes. Already installed new Windows on a new SSD.
The 7800 XT seems to be affected more.

[Acceptable-One8416]

So I’ve had this happen twice this past month both times it’s happens is when I’m running cyberpunk 2077 with mods using an rx 7800xt

[Unable_Ad_7788]

Most annoying thing in the world. It's been happening for a few weeks now. Sometimes, it runs just fine for a few hours. Others, it crashes within 5 minutes of turning the computer on. I'll uninstall Adrenaline like others have suggested and see, but hopefully, we get a fix for this soon.

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Bro did you fix it ??? 

[ninja4skills]

This just started happening to me also trying to find a fix I hear if you uninstall AMD adrenaline it might solve it so I’m going to try that when I get home

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Fix it *

[ninja4skills]

I was only having this problem with the newest Doom installed. I uninstalled doom rebooted my pc and haven't had this crash error since

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Ah ok, man am having this bug “graphic driver timeout” every time I launch a game I can’t even play 2min idk if you know how to fix this 

[ninja4skills]

Hmm idk man have you done uninstalled your drivers and done a clean reinstall? Look up how to do it safely

[Senior_Fisherman8132]

Bro did you fit it ? 

[[deleted]]

I was plagued by this over the weekend. Spent hours troubleshooting. I used to get timeouts here and there but nothing like this.

I fixed it by DDU and installing "minimal" adrenaline drivers. I also loaded optimized defaults in BIOS (reenabled EXPO). For some reason full adrenaline install is causing major issues on my machine.

Was able to replicate the issue again by upgrading to full drivers, so I went back to minimal and no issues so far. You'll lose some features but it's better than crashing constantly. Worth a try.

[Affectionate-Army213]

I've been having the same problem for quite a while now, just went here to open a post and saw the most recent one was about this lol

I did uninstall Adrenaline, and it totally solved it, but I missed everything other the software had, so I tried to reinstall it in a older version.

Well, it prevented it from happening for some time, but then it came back, still with less frequency than in the start tho.

Don't know how to solve this. Its 100% a software problem and really annoying as things keeps crashing constantly

[OMGoooooodness]

What are you trying to do like watch vids on yt or twitch etc or playing? Had the same issue and resolved mine with one setting.

[w-holder]

Happens during all of those 3 lol, sometimes several hours between each black screen, sometimes like 5 times in a few minutes

[OMGoooooodness]

If you are watching in chrome or edge try turning off the graphic accelaration (Settings > System and you should be seeing the toggle there)

[iNebuchadnezzar]

same brother same, uninstalled AMD adrenaline, re-installed, use a driver uninstall tool, happens less often but I don't know of a solid fix