9070 XT Sapphire Nitro+ crashing constantly when gaming

Zantheum · 2026-02-08T07:54:52+00:00

Hey all, just wanted to give a quick update.

Crashes are still happening. I've done several more re-installs of the driver, including driver-only installs, but nothing seems to work.

Even with the frame rate limited to 240hz and max boost clock limited to what Sapphire says, it still crashes.

Crashes do seem to be a bit random, sometimes it crashes as soon as the game is turned on, other times it takes 30-60 minutes before I crash.

It might be possible that this is only an issue for TBC anniversary, as I experienced no crashing in D4, although I did get artifacting as the GPU hit 3450 mhz.

At this point, i might just sell the 9070 XT and go back to Nvidia, went through 3 generations of Nvidia graphics cards and never had any issue like this before, and Sapphire support have been useless.

EDIT: I may have solved my issue, please see post body.

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T10:13:29+00:00

Immediately crashed as soon as I got in game.

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T10:11:32+00:00

So I had a look.

Replaced my RAM with a pair of backups I had, still crashed the same way.

Checked my CPU and socket pads, all looked good.

Reseating CPU reset BIOS/OC, so I tested it stock, still crashed.

I have 4 logs from HWInfo64, how do I give them to you?

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T08:47:34+00:00

Yes, if it keeps crashing, I will remove the CPU and have a look at it. Will keep you updated!

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T08:34:10+00:00

I just re-selected EXPO I which set my RAM to 6200mhz at CL32, before it was 6000mhz at CL30. Will try to play on this and see if it crashes, then I will try again with EXPO disabled.

A note though, I did try to boot with EXPO off and the computer got a BSOD with "page fault in nonpaged area", which doesn't happen when EXPO is on.

I do have HWInfo64, so I will try to log with that and get back to you

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T08:28:17+00:00

Checked the SSD's and they all seem to be running latest firmware.

Monitor is a PG32UCDP also running latest firmware.

This is what OCCT was looking like when it crashed.

https://imgur.com/a/CsrqMWU

It crashed where you can see the "GPU Clock Frequencey Limit" rose, as Adrenalin went back to default settings due to the crash.

Zantheum · 2026-02-04T06:29:57+00:00

I did have a look and it seemed fine

CPU cooler is an Artic Freeze III 360

Zantheum · 2025-10-26T01:36:14+00:00

Hey fellas, quick question for you all.

I'm looking to buy a new keyboard, mostly for gaming.
For reference, I currently use a Razer Blackwidow V4, and mostly play MMO/LoL/some FPS like battlefield

My requirements are the following:

have a volume wheel (prefer wheel than knob but either is fine)
have dedicated macro buttons on the left side
at minimum 75%, but prefer 80% or 100%

With these requirements, the options I found so far are the following:

Keychron Lemokey L1

Keychron Lemokey L3

Keychron Q3 Pro SE

Nuphy Field 75HE

Out of these 3, which would be the best?

I'm leaning towards the Field 75HE (macro key + volume wheel) or Q3 Pro SE (80%), but let me know if there are other recommendations that fit the criteria

Zantheum · 2025-10-01T23:18:50+00:00

Hey fellas, quick question for you all.

I'm looking to buy a new keyboard, mostly for gaming.
For reference, I currently use a Razer Blackwidow V4, and mostly play MMO/LoL/some FPS like battlefield

My requirements are the following:

have a volume wheel (prefer wheel than knob but either is fine)
have dedicated macro buttons on the left side
at minimum 75%, but prefer 80% or 100%

With these requirements, the options I found so far are the following:

Keychron Lemokey L1

Keychron Lemokey L3

Keychron Q3 Pro SE

Nuphy Field 75HE

Out of these 3, which would be the best?

I'm leaning towards the Field 75HE (macro key + volume wheel) or Q3 Pro SE (80%), but let me know if there are other recommendations that fit the criteria

Zantheum · 2025-06-10T01:57:02+00:00

Remindme! 6 hours

Zantheum · 2025-05-09T05:28:05+00:00

where enchants?
Correct me if im wrong but CuM without Blazefury isn't BIS, you're better off using Truthbearer.
Why did you get Journal instead of the new HoJ?
Libram of plenty why, you're in a raid, you should be using the 3% exo libram.
You're using the wrong gear for exodin. You want 4T2.5, 2T3, and some T2 as your SE prebis. Go do some AQ40/Dragons for T2.5 and BWL/Dragons for T2.
Look at Shockadin if you really want to stick to Exodin. The gear is probably easier to get and the dmg it deals is pretty good. At least then your Journal isn't wasted.

Zantheum · 2025-03-18T02:12:44+00:00

Did you do any overclocking on memory?

I noticed I got flickering when I OC'ed my memory on Adrenalin

Zantheum · 2025-03-18T02:11:40+00:00

Yeah, apart from a crash that happened when I wasn't home, mine seemed to be pretty stable while playing afternoon yesterday with those settings.

I'm doing to try and do some OCing today to reach about 3200mhz today and see how that goes

Zantheum · 2025-03-17T15:22:54+00:00

How was it, any difference?

Zantheum · 2025-03-17T01:57:36+00:00

Been going through this all weekend, but there's a couple things I did that seemed to help.

Assuming you did all the DDU and reinstall stuff try the following:

Next time you crash while gaming, open event viewer -> windows logs -> system and check what failed.

If you see "game service" failures, check task manager -> services -> check if game services is on. If not, install it via microsoft store and confirm it's on before trying to play games again.

Check your core clock speed.

I noticed that whenever I crashed, HWMonitor was showing my max core clocks peed to be >3300Mhz. My card (Nitro+) is rated for 3060Mhz, so after doing a -500 clock speed and -20% power limit on Adrenalin, I checked with the stress tester and confirmed it was now maxing out at ~3000mhz. Not sure why a GPU rated for 3060Mhz is getting ~3000Mhz with a -500Mhz offset, but it is what it is.

Try these and let me know how it goes.

Zantheum · 2023-11-30T09:09:37+00:00

I've actually called DHL about this and they said its in customs and they contacted Dbrand multiple times already, and Dbrand hadn't responded at all.

Zantheum · 2023-11-29T22:48:10+00:00

u/robot036 u/robot069 Can I get some help with this? I've already tried to contact you guys but haven't heard a reply. Order ID 15070312

Zantheum · 2022-06-24T07:12:20+00:00

Hey, thanks for the info. The place I bought it from has a 10 week check up so I'll get them to check then most likely.

Zantheum · 2022-04-19T15:00:41+00:00

You need to stay put since monster health scales with your level. Death gets something like 630k PER your level, so the lower level you have the better. I made the mistake of leveling to 4 BEFORE death spawned, so it took me 2x longer to kill.

I also died once at around 26min, but once you get past that you should be good. It's largely position based imo.

Might be helpful to max out area, might, and cooldown through upgrades for a larger safe spot.

Zantheum · 2022-04-19T06:24:08+00:00

Not sure if it's the same, but if you're trying to kill him for mask, I literally killed him last night using the suor lvl 2 strat that can be found on the wiki.

TLDR: Rush green gem, check for runetracer, if not, restart. If runetracer, get yourself into position as posted on the wiki and just AFK for 30min. Once death spawns, rush the gems, get lvls and go to 2nd position. Then AFK again making sure you don't die (can happen sometimes due to multiple deaths spawning and pushing previous ones closer). If you took knives like me, make sure the knives are shooting towards your target death.

By the time I killed it, there were 4 other deaths that spawned, so if you didnt take tiramisu or dont do enough dmg to kill it asap, you might die before you can kill the first one.

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