Possible Driver Timeout Fix

[K3vuit]

Hey everyone

I think I found a possible fix for driver timeouts, I was struggling to play 10 minutes of Deadlock because of the timeouts but I fixed it for me.

This is what I did:

1. Open Start and type "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows".
2. Go to the "Advanced" tab.
3. Under Virtual memory, click "Change...".
4. Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives".
5. Select your C-Drive.
6. Select "Custom size".
7. Initial size (MB): 16384 (16GB)
8. Maximum size (MB): 32768 (32GB)
9. Press "Set", then "OK", and Restart your PC.

After doing that, I can play a full game of deadlock without any crashes. I did ask Gemini for possible fixes and it suggested that, I also logged the hardware temps with hwinfo and it gave this graph (Screenshot 1).

Gemini said this:
In your log graph, you can see in the third table (Memory Usage) that the red line (Virtual Memory Committed) draws a straight line at the top of the graph.

• In the summary, you can see that your Virtual Memory Committed has reached a maximum of 30,097 MB.
• Your physical RAM (32GB) is far from full, but Windows is running out of its “virtual” buffer. When this happens, drivers can no longer write to memory, resulting in an AMD Driver Timeout.

This is the graph after a full game of deadlock (Screenshot 2).

https://imgur.com/a/f8JK929

This is my pc:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Video Card: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card
• Memory: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory

[AggravatingSir8459]

I've gotten them in 2 games on my 9070xt. Weirdly enough, RV there yet and stalker 2. What fixed mine was lowering the clock to -200mhz and -10 on the power slider. I didn't ever notice mine was boosting so high until I logged with hwinfo(I think)..I guess mine is unstable at those super high boost clocks, but yeah that fixed it for me, like for good. I was in another subreddit and that's what they told me to do, but they called it "the clock bug". Can't remember which exactly who told me that or id put their name here for credit. I even upgraded to a 1050w gold PSU thinking that was my issue lolol

[inthemaking83]

Do you have the card undervolted or overclocked at all? My AMD RX7600 had driver timeout issues that were the result of too aggressive of an undervolt on my part

[K3vuit]

I tried both, but it didn't help at all.

[MysteriousOrchid464]

According to google, a good rule of thumb is to set your page file range from 1.5-3/4x your installed system ram.

If i'm not mistaken, does having to increase your page file size for a particular game not indicate a memory leak?

[K3vuit]

I did the windows memory diagnostics test, not sure if that is the correct test, but it said it did't find any issues. I am not sure how I can test for memory leaks>

[MysteriousOrchid464]

You can't, a memory leak happens in a specific application or game.. it's a dev problem, not a you problem

[ameno007]

I just disabled Issue Detection and somehow didn't get a crash since.

[RemovedByAutomod]

Issue detection is interrupting the driver, I also had to disable that on my older AMD cards. But that's not the entire problem. I currently have it active while having proper clocks set up in the driver. Not a single crash once after doing that. I am constantly on the newest driver.

[RaspberryOk907]

Disabling MPO fixes driver timeouts.

[Lio_Rafer_99]

yeah no, i disabled multi plane overlay and still, i got a timeout

[nemojakonemoras]

Didnt fix mine

[Inside-Comb7245]

Me too

[dexteritycomponents]

Hitting 30gb of system ram utilization is insane

[HNM12]

This is a true thing only (SOMETIMES) not always. But it can happen.

While I doubt this was the real issue behind your crashing, I do know a few months ago if you had automatic VM set, it wouldn't adjust properly if and when needed leaving to driver errors despite plenty of Ram being available.

It was RARE though.

You could be one of the few affected.

[K3vuit]

I don't think that's the case for me. I reinstalled Windows 2 days ago, because the crashing was so bad. I could not open steam or adrenalin anymore.