I'm facing frequent driver timeouts and weird black flickering artifacts whenever I try to launch any game. Sometimes the game crashes right after the main menu, and other times it lasts for 2 to 15 minutes before crashing. Even lighter games like Roblox show glitches every few seconds. I've already tried a bunch of troubleshooting steps, including reseating the GPU, updating the BIOS to F34, setting PCIe Slot 1 to Gen 3, running a stress test with Furmark (where the GPU stayed stable), performing a clean driver install with DDU, and verifying/reinstalling my games. My setup includes Windows 11, an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, a Radeon RX 6700 XT, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM on a B650 AORUS Elite AX ICE motherboard. Honestly, I'm stuck here. I can't tell if this is a hardware issue with the GPU, VRAM instability, or something else in Windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
3 Answers
It sounds frustrating! One possibility could be unstable RAM. Have you tried disabling the Expo profiles in your BIOS? Sometimes that helps with performance issues like these.
This could be a sign of VRAM instability. Have you thought about using MSI Afterburner to tweak the memory speed? It could help stabilize things.
In case you're not sure how to adjust the memory speed in MSI Afterburner, just open the app, find the memory clock slider, and try reducing it slightly. That might do the trick!
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