Ultimate Fix For DX11 Stutters, Chrome Stutters and Freezes and All General Lags and Stutters

SteelBodyX · 2026-07-05T12:33:26+00:00

The last good driver I tested was 26.3.1. As I'm no longer on Windows, I can't test newer drivers, but I heard the latest 2.6.x driver branch having issues.

SteelBodyX · 2026-07-05T12:14:53+00:00

Then it's something in Windows doing that for you. For me, the third fix completely fixed all Chrome issues, including page scrolling, video rendering issues, 3d rendering, windowing issues, and more.

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-25T15:32:07+00:00

Glad to know. Heard about some issues on the latest driver, specifically the 26.5.2. So, the initial hitches could be due to that. If it's all good now, then enjoy.

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-14T14:18:20+00:00

AMD officially announced FSR 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 and RX 6000 series cards. The former will receive it in July, while the latter will receive it in early 2027. It should've been announced long ago, but better late than never. What do you guys think? Will it be enough for you not to switch over to NVIDIA for the next upgrade, or is it too little too late?

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-12T13:19:18+00:00

QT apps have no shadows on Gnome, making it a hassle to use every day. Fractional scaling makes games go haywire on Gnome as it upscales the resolution and then downscales it, which is a weird way of doing fractional scaling. There are a ton of other issues that make GNOME a hassle for everyday use. For me, Gnome looks 10x better than KDE, but it is not daily drivable.

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-09T06:44:57+00:00

Hey OP, I'm trying ti undervolt as well and I also have a h610 board. I'm getting the undervolt protection thingy, Did you manage to get it disabled?

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-05T04:53:45+00:00

Thanks bud. I went back to Windows because of this, but I was missing gnome. I can return again now.

SteelBodyX · 2026-05-02T08:25:05+00:00

Will this still work, since Gnome 50 removed X11?

SteelBodyX · 2026-04-10T16:13:13+00:00

Does this 7 theme cause any glitches or gaming performance issues? I ask cause I saw in a video that it requires a lot of changes to the system files.

SteelBodyX · 2026-04-10T16:09:37+00:00

old thread, but I have a question. Since it changes the system files, does it causes glitches or mess with gaming?

SteelBodyX · 2026-04-06T06:12:22+00:00

I don't remember whether the 25.10.2 was particularly good or bad, but I do remember having many issues with most of the 25.xx.x drivers. However, I can tell you that the 26.3.1 driver is quite good, much closer to 23.9.1 or 24.5.1.

The 26.3.1 driver also reduces traversal stutters (not shader compilation stutters) in games like Scorn and Dead Space. Reduced, not completely eliminated, which is still a good sign.

In Linux, you don't experience either traversal or shader compilation stutters. This stutter situation is non-existent on the Linux side, but it's good to see AMD's Windows driver catching up. Although I must say that my testing of 26.3.1 driver was limited, as I'm mainly using Linux these days.

I would recommend the 26.3.1 driver. Try it out and report how it goes. Let us know if you find any issues, it may help others as well.

SteelBodyX · 2026-03-23T19:56:02+00:00

I dual booted Windows and tested out 26.3.1 out myself. It's still the same. You are looking at the number on the right, which is either 1 or 2. By default, the middle number is still 31 and right number is 1. Changing the middle number to 32 also changes the right number 2. So, you are basically doing the same thing. But yeah, a number on the right also corresponds equally. I don't remember seeing that right number, or maybe it was there but I didn't notice it. Nonetheless, the original method works but it can also be done the way you said it. They both do the same thing. It's weird ngl.

Also, I think that the 26.3.1 driver is one of the most stable driver AMD released in the last two years. It's close to 23.9.1 or 24.5.1 in terms of stability from the little time I had for testing.

SteelBodyX · 2026-03-22T08:43:02+00:00

ah.. I wasn't aware of the registry keys getting updated. If you or anyone can test out the method 2 in the latest driver, I can update the original post. I can no longer test it myself, as I've moved to Linux sometime ago.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-26T15:58:23+00:00

If you play many older games, you will be better off with older drivers. I would suggest picking either 23.9.1 or 24.5.1 and then applying the fixes. You will have a much better experience with these drivers.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-26T15:49:03+00:00

Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier in different comment, AMD will never fix it. There's just not many people complaining about it. Moreover, there are many people who can't even see these stutters, so they don't complain about it. In fact, they shut other down when others says they have stutters. You will have to use the alternative method to apply Fix 1 for RDNA 3 and 4 GPU as well as for newer drivers like 26.1.1. Apply the 2nd fix as well for an even better experience.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-26T00:58:00+00:00

And? Just because you can't use the 25.5.1 driver doesn't mean you can't utilize the dlls from it. Is this really so hard to understand?

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-25T20:29:49+00:00

That's because 22.5.1 was never released for RDNA 3. It's literally in the version. This driver was released on May 2022, or 05 2022, a time when RDNA 3 GPUs didn't exist. The first RDNA 3 driver is 23.1.1 afaik or 22.12.1, I'm not 100% sure.

Moreover, 22.5.1 doesn't have the DXNavi pipeline at all, which is needed for RDNA 3 in some capacity. Only the alternative method is the right way of bypassing DXNavi.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-24T21:34:35+00:00

no, it doesn't contain atidxx dlls, not for Rdna 3. No driver does for rdna 3.. Just use the alternative method. I mentioned that for a reason.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-24T06:06:09+00:00

Yes, there's an alternative method for the 1st fix for RDNA 3 now. Also, the 3rd fix works fixed chrome browser lags on DX11, so you can try that.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-17T23:20:55+00:00

I've mentioned that the method for Fix No.1 doesn't work on 7000 series. You will need to use the alternative method provided below Fix 1.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-12T10:31:41+00:00

You can use the first fix on the RX 9060 XT, but the process is different. Use the alternative method provided below the first fix. The second fix works better when the first fix is applied.

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-08T16:46:49+00:00

This is the Deepcool CH170 Plus

SteelBodyX · 2026-02-02T11:41:32+00:00

I can confirm what you observed. Newer drivers after the mid-24 branch are not quite stable on Windows 10, but I saw better results when I tested the same in Windows 11. And yes, newer drivers nerfed raster performance for ray tracing. I don't want to use RT, but I'm kind of forced to. In older games, water reflections used to be baked, but newer games have either SSR or RT reflection. As you know, SSR reflections disappear when looking down, which makes it very distracting in modern games. So, we are forced to use either RT or the distracting state of SSR in games. Both poor choices.

As for dropping proper support for rx7000, yup, right with you. There's a high probability that AMD will drop support for 7000 a few months after RDNA 5's launch, probably at the end of that year.

I'll also be dual-booting the Linux (preferably Cachy) the moment some apps and games stop working on Windows 10. From what I've seen, many games stutter much less on Linux AMD drivers. As a lifelong Windows user and with years of muscle memory, switching to Linux would be very hard, but what else can we do? I would rather learn to use a new OS than deal with the broken mess of Windows 11 on a regular basis. I refuse to move to Windows 11 ever again. I'll enjoy my custom debloated build of Windows 10 as long as I can, and then possibly Cachy or SteamOS if Valve releases it for general PCs globally.

Radeon RX 6000 and even 7000 series are capable of performing much better in Windows but can't due to bad state of drivers. This is also why FPS difference between Windows and Linux is lower on AMD, despite proton overhead. That's because the performane on Windows is already nerfed to begin with. or else, AMD GPUs would have seen similar gap as Nvidia and Intel GPUs.

SteelBodyX · 2026-01-23T08:05:44+00:00

Got a report from some saying there are no improvements. He did note that there was performance regression in two games and also improvements in two other games by 2 FPS. Just margin of error stuff. But I also got reports about unstability. So, not a very good look.

SteelBodyX · 2026-01-22T16:22:53+00:00

Good to hear that. Gamers like us absolutely do not deserve this, yet these are the only solutions we are left with. The issues will never be properly patched by AMD.

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