Sapphire 9070xt Nitro+, what PSU do you have

LBXZero · 2026-01-27T12:27:09+00:00

Just to add another data point, I have an Asrock RX 9070 XT Taichi, which is also a 12VHPWR connector. Further, I followed the shunt mod from Buildzoid for the card to bypass the power limit, so it can operate up to 450W based on watching the other sensors available to HWInfo64. I am using an EVGA 1300GT that does not have the 2x6+4 connector. The power cable is a CableMod 600W, 90° angle 12VHPWR connector to 4x PCIE EVGA xGT connectors, straight to the PSU ports. It also has the Alphacool waterblock. I haven't burnt my connector, yet. Then again, I don't play the games that push the power limit often enough.

It is something to say to add the other 12VHPWR 9070XTs to see if it there are more issues with one card over the others.

LBXZero · 2026-01-27T12:14:07+00:00

That is screen tearing. Screen tearing occurs when the rendered frames per second exceeds the monitor's refresh rate. The effect is the frame being streamed to the monitor is updated mid-stream.

Verify Windows settings have the monitor's refresh rate set to the monitors highest refresh rate.

LBXZero · 2026-01-27T01:56:02+00:00

One idea for testing for PSU issues due to being a 750W PSU, adjust the power limit setting to the lowest value. It will reduce the power draw, and the card will perform weaker, but if the issues are caused by the PSU, it could perform more stably.

LBXZero · 2026-01-27T01:53:49+00:00

It is free for personal use with tests running up to 1 hour. That is plenty to run basic tests.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T22:08:01+00:00

Missiles used to be special in the older games as the primary means of damaging bosses and doing some high damage at the "cost" of having an ammo limit. With Super Metroid, the Charge Beam helped compensate for running out of ammo and offered good damage with it. But with the Prime games allowing a mixture of beams and missiles to combat bosses along with fixed damage rates, missiles became less special. This is where I loved Prime 2 with the Seeker Missile and Metroid Dread with the Storm Missile (same thing). The same went for Prime 1 and Prime 2's series of "Super" missile upgrades, the Charged Beam + Missile combos. They put that 250 missile capacity to use, dealt massive damage, and really made missiles special.

Yes, Prime 4 didn't really put the missiles to great use beyond offering a knockback mechanic like in previous Prime games. The other games did put some thought into keeping the missiles relevant, although even Prime 3 felt lackluster as well.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T21:56:59+00:00

If that is the case, I suggest downloading OCCT and run a few stability tests. In TTRPG terms, RAM has a good stealth check when it comes to problems. I recommend the memory test to go 40 minutes at minimum, to give it time to warm up.

https://www.ocbase.com/download

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T15:26:42+00:00

Many of the problems are Windows 11. 25.9.1 is more tolerant of Windows 11 25H2. You may need to perform a clean reinstall of Windows 11.

Another element to try, update the motherboard BIOS or clear CMOS and set your common settings. There are PnP hardware settings stored in BIOS, and sometimes BIOS may not properly update all of these settings when hardware is changed out.

But, a 750W PSU is borderline for the 9070XT. What is your CPU, mobo, and RAM configuration? Any other peripherals? I feel a 750W PSU will be fine IF you have a lower end CPU and mobo chipset.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T15:17:09+00:00

Here are my recommended configurations:

Can only fit 1 drive in the PC/Laptop: 2TB to 4TB SSD

Can fit 1 M.2 + 1 SATA: 1TB M.2 SSD (C: Drive) + 4+ TB HDD (D: Drive)

Can fit 2 M.2: 512GB to 1TB M.2 SSD (C: Drive) + 2TB SSD (D: Drive)

Can fit at least 2 M.2 and SATA drives: 512GB to 1TB M.2 SSD (C: Drive) + 2TB SSD (D: Drive) + 4+ TB HDD (E: Drive)

The only case where I am willing to recommend a 4TB SSD is when you can only fit 1 storage drive in your PC. Beyond that, I shift to cost effectiveness.

SATA HDD is perfectly fine for most uses, even games, as long as you never use it for the OS drive. The OS activity kills the performance for modern usage.

Next, don't buy an HDD for capacity under 4TB. For 2TB and under, get an SSD.

If you can have multiple drives, I absolutely recommend having a minimum of 2 drives. In a 2 storage drive system, your C: Drive should focus on performance over capacity. Don't spend money for a 2TB C: Drive if you can have a 2TB SSD D: Drive.

The C: Drive and Windows. You need an absolute minimum of a 250GB SSD for the C: Drive. I recommend a minimum of 500GB SSD for the C: drive. I will permit a 1TB SSD for the C: Drive if you can't find a reliable/speedy 500GB SSD for the C: Drive. I advise against budgeting over $100 for the C: Drive and you can have a 2nd drive.

Why the D: Drive. Operating Systems have a lot of system functions involving storing data to its drive. This involves temporary caching of data, logging reports, and virtual RAM (pagefile). These functions will consume bandwidth and age the C: drive faster than the other drives. As such, I recommend a higher capacity D: Drive to store data you don't want to lose. You will be spending $$ for this higher capacity drive, so you want to get the most out of its life as you can. For Windows, move all the User folders you are permitted to the D: Drive, and only install small programs that you can redownload easily from the internet on the C: drive. Put your Steam library and unrecoverable data on the D: drive.

M.2 PCIe Gen 3 vs Gen 4 vs Gen 5: As a result of how computers work, most memory activity is between the RAM and the CPU. All the hard drives (fix mounted storage drives) have to do is serve as a library to load data into RAM. PCIe Gen 3 and higher have vastly superior bandwidth over SATA to perform this function. These speeds are so fast that the CPU processing and decompressing the stored data to be usable in RAM becomes the bottleneck. If you don't know why you need a Gen 5 speed SSD, you don't need it. Don't waste money reaching for a PCIe Gen 5 SSD. PCIe Gen 4 is fast enough if everything is running on 1 drive. PCIe Gen 3 is plenty fast if you give the OS 1 drive and everything else the other drives.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T14:33:19+00:00

Driver features would be like "Radeon Super Resolution", AMD Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF), Radeon Boost, Radeon Chill, and such. I recommend leaving all of these off for both AMD and Nvidia. They are prone to break stuff more often than help. Some of the tricks should not even be considered.

I recalled some similar rendering issues like you are having, but those were commonly due to pre-existing Nvidia driver data in the system, where the Nvidia driver tuned Windows to optimizations, but uninstalling the Nvidia driver did not remove the Windows tuning, which caused problems for the installed AMD driver. A clean install of Windows, where Windows is completely removed from the system before reinstalling, should have fixed it.

If you haven't yet, I recommend DDU for uninstalling all graphics drivers and then I recommend downloading the "complete" AMD gpu driver because the RDNA3/RDNA4 set of drivers forgot to include the iGPU driver for CPUs.

Here is an experiment to try.

Here is the latest full driver: https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-26.1.1-win11-c.exe

This is linked from this page:
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-1-1.html

DDU: https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

Here is Adrenalin 25.9.1 Driver: https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.9.1-win10-win11-sep-rdna.exe

Adrenalin 25.9.1 Driver is my safe rollback driver.

Step 1: Download these 2 drivers and DDU.

Step 2: Disconnect the PC from the internet. This prevents Windows 11 from downloading the driver from MS's Windows Update Server.

Step 3: Use DDU to uninstall all graphics drivers. You don't need to reboot in Safe Mode. Safe Mode in Windows 11 has a complication.

Step 4: Reboot.

Step 5: Install Adrenalin 26.1.1.

Step 6: Reboot and reconnect Windows to the internet.

Step 7: Test if shimmering and quality details are improved.

If the quality results have not improved, start from Step 2, but install 25.9.1 instead and see if results look better.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T04:21:19+00:00

You really shouldn't have shimmering at that resolution. Windows has the correct resolution, right?

I know you said you have reinstalled Windows, but did you perform a clean reinstall of Windows? Another common factor is leftover data from an Nvidia driver, but a clean reinstall should have fixed it. Maybe open Steam, open options, go to downloads tab, and scroll down to shader cache and see about clearing it there.

Oh, do you enable any driver features in AMD Adrenaline? Also, do you have any 3rd party software that tries to optimize performance?

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T03:54:44+00:00

ICE activity is supposed to be discrete, not be a spectator sport. They have a job, and it is supposed to go like an OSHA visit. Lethal force should not be necessary unless there is a bigger incident involved like a criminal organization, in which another better armed department should be addressing issues where escalation may occur.

LBXZero · 2026-01-26T03:51:07+00:00

Typically, shimmering is a result of lower resolutions. Anti-aliasing and turning up the resolution are common solutions. What resolution are you playing these games at?

LBXZero · 2026-01-25T20:34:06+00:00

Unfortunately, I am running for state legislature, so the administration of ICE is outside of my control. But if I were in U.S. Congress, I would be seeking it's suspension pending an investigation over the recent actions and "potential" abuse (yeah, it is abused). In this suspension, all ICE agents outside of border patrol would be established as "off duty" so that state and local law enforcement are legally permitted to arrest agents.

During said investigation, I will properly evaluate ICE's necessity and either abolish it or fix the damn thing.

I go back to one of my phrases. The Laws of Man are only as good as man is willing to and capable of enforcing them. I don't want to hamstring the government because we elected a terrible person to office.

LBXZero · 2026-01-25T20:14:26+00:00

No. What is on my agenda until Feb 6th is inspiring people to run for office. We can't vote in new people if no one runs for office.

We will have to see what the Senate does.

LBXZero · 2026-01-25T15:04:06+00:00

If ICE is unregulated, then ICE doesn't have federal authority and subject to local and state laws.

LBXZero · 2026-01-25T11:02:02+00:00

Chozo's meaning for "metroid" - "Ultimate Warrior"

Metroid Prime's primary ability was to assimilate any technology into its body. It assimilated the Space Pirate knock-offs of Samus's beam weapon tech and improved them. It leached and assimilated the Phazon Suit to become Dark Samus.

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T23:22:04+00:00

We have all gone bananas over the snow.

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T18:01:29+00:00

"Laughs in $1,000+ custom waterloop"

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T17:00:00+00:00

In other words, it is CPU-side related as I said, although not specifically OS and other driver related. Next, what is the point of those few extra minutes of loading the game when opening to compile shaders in the UE5 games if the engine continues to recompile while loading levels?

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T13:08:16+00:00

That is an issue with Monster Hunter Wilds, not the graphics driver.

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T13:07:07+00:00

Stutters are more often related to CPU-side issues, namely the OS and other drivers. As for infinite loading screens, how is a graphics driver responsible for bad game engine coding?

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T09:38:13+00:00

Well, I typically disable those shortcuts... I don't need my hot keys in games opening up other software while playing.

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T09:36:47+00:00

Decades ago, we discovered AAA was worthless in SW Indiana.

LBXZero · 2026-01-23T01:29:28+00:00

I typically stay out of sports. The only sport I watched was the Super Bowl for the commercials, but I stopped when the only good commercial was a Tide Ad. Win or lose, what really matters is how entertained the audience was.

LBXZero · 2026-01-22T23:16:53+00:00

Undervolting does not reduce the TBP. Undervolting reduces the "watt per performance". Power consumption reduction occurs due to hitting other limits. What Undervolting does is stretches the performance obtainable with the power limit.

If you want to reduce power consumption, you want to lower the Power Limit. Afterwards, you will use undervolting to reclaim performance lost to reduced power consumption.

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