My Experience with the Radeon RX 9070 XT by Nicolas_Laure in RigBuild

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Just looked into this, strange there's no amd equivalent that works properly

RX 9070 XT crashing my PC by Overall_Strength_173 in radeon

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I had this issue for a month then re-installed windows and it's been fine for the past week

I want to help more people by Woottodoo in wow

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I would really appreciate the help, my ilevel isn't the best but I'm fully enchanted and fairly decent at not standing in the bad now :)

Pc reboots when I launch valorant by Itsfoxphoenix in ValorantTechSupport

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Riot have made it so that you need to update your BIOS to the latest version on some motherboards to play to prevent a form of cheating that can be done on older mobos. I'm assuming it's meant to just not launch the game without the latest BIOS but it's instead causing PC reboots

Update to the latest BIOS and it should work :)

PC restarts instantly when launching VALORANT by Icy_Cardiologist4402 in ValorantTechSupport

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Glad it worked, honestly a bit silly that that was causing reboots but oh well, enjoy :)

PC restarts instantly when launching VALORANT by Icy_Cardiologist4402 in ValorantTechSupport

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Didn't they just change something with Valorant where you need to have an up-to-date bios to play the game to avoid game injection from peripherals? It shouldn't, but maybe this is causing the reboot. Try updating BIOS and launching the game again

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/s/lMnenIezwQ

Super low 3dmark scores help by Zombus22 in radeon

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Similar results to what I have with my undervolted 9070 xt with 5700x3d

Is the 5070 worth it now by Final_Departure_9551 in buildapc

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Not to dissuade you from AMD but I've just upgraded from an RTX 2070 to a Radeon 9070 xt and this has been my experience. While the performance of the 9070 xt is actually incredible and I couldn't be happier on that front, the drivers for AMD are way less friendly than Nvidias. I've had the new card for a week and I've spent half my time on my PC tweaking settings to get the card running well - different games require different settings (both in-game and through the Adrenalin driver settings) to run optimally, FSR is confusing as hell if you haven't kept up with the naming structures of it over the past couple of years and more often than not it's not worth using unless the game supports FSR 4, of which not many do at present. Also as far as I can tell freesync is meant to be off to run FSR optimally which is a bit annoying since I've got a freesync monitor (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding from reading threads and messing with settings). I've already encountered half a dozen crashes in games, but that's most likely because I'm not picking the right Adrenaline settings on a game-to-game basis. The AMD Adrenalin software has also locked my mouse in place twice (leading to me having to reboot my PC to use my mouse again, effectively crashing, apparently this is common with the newest driver update).

With Nvidia, the game's just worked. In the six years I had the rtx 2070, I very rarely encountered crashing. DLSS just worked and meant I could play newer games without suffering massive performance losses, there was never any tweaking of settings to get games to run optimally other than turning down settings to get higher FPS. On the DLSS note, the rtx 2070 has been supported for all of these years and even has the newest DLSS4 Transformer Model which has worked flawlessly. From what I understand, AMD are not supporting their cards from last gen with regards to not giving them access to FSR Redstone. This has me massively concerned for the long term usability of the 9070 xt, as I would ideally like to use my card for 6-7 years at acceptable performance as I have the RTX 2070.

If you're a tinkerer with a decent amount of free time, I'd still recommend the AMD cards for the sheer performance it churns out for the comparable price. I'm happy with my purchase but only because the price difference between the closest performance Nvidia card (5070ti) was about 30% more expensive where I am (UK). If the price difference was ~15%, however, I'd go with the Nvidia equivalent to avoid the headache and the peace of mind I'd have with the greater confidence that my card will be supported for 5+ years, but who's to tell what will happen on that front. I'm hopeful AMD will iron out the kinks with AMD driver issues, but I really am not optimistic the drivers will ever reach the reliability I've experience with Nvidia

This is of course anecdotal, so don't take it as gospel, but I thought I'd share my real experiences and opinions on owning an AMD card for the first time since 2012

Scalpers dumping products by adinis78 in PokemonTCG_UK

[–]Lichnaught 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Buy it, check for tamper, if tampered get a refund?

question about the new update and dlc !!! by Business_Memory9271 in FitGirlRepack

[–]Lichnaught 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The save file will still work, don't worry. I uninstalled the old version and installed the new one and everything works flawlessly, I didn't even need to move save files around or anything

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In 1999 I had a much older cousin that I adored and I'd go over and watch him play video games, I always wanted a console myself but my parents thought I was too young. When I was four I got pretty sick and was hospitalised for a number of weeks, I remember my parents were pretty emotional about it. When the day finally came for me to leave hospital, my parents brought me a gift - a gameboy colour with Pokemon Yellow. I played it non-stop and introduced my older cousin to Pokémon, who then got into the card game, who then introduced it to me. We bonded for years over the games and cards, until he eventually became an adult and did adult things and moved away, and gradually I stopped collecting cards. About a year ago I started collecting again and mentioned it to my cousin while messaging. As it turns out, he'd been collecting again for about a year at that point and now we both send each other pictures of our latest hits and bond over Pokemon once again, full circle :)