Crashes from a Driver Timeout error

[Jetoilio]

I can't play for more than 30 seconds without the game crashing from this error. My drivers are up to date, and my computer should be more than capable of handling this game. Can someone tell me how to fix this, or at least what might be causing it?

[★REM★]

are you on Nvidia and 572.xx driver? revert back to 566.xx.
You can google it, majority of developers suggest to roll back because 572.xx tank frames, cause crashes and freezes.

Also provide computer specs, "more than capable" tells nothing at all.

[Jetoilio]

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics (16GB), 32 GB RAM.

[Shift]

It's a common AMD graphics driver issue that surfaces from time to time in Nvidia optimized games. I would recommend downgrading the driver version to a previous one - or update if a new one is available.

[Ayahuasca]

Originally posted by ★REM★:

are you on Nvidia and 572.xx driver? revert back to 566.xx.
You can google it, majority of developers suggest to roll back because 572.xx tank frames, cause crashes and freezes.

Also provide computer specs, "more than capable" tells nothing at all.

interesting aside from my 12 hours fighting with a windows issue in the end all my played hours are on a 572.xx driver and no crashing at all

[catch22atplay]

Originally posted by Ayahuasca:

Originally posted by ★REM★:

are you on Nvidia and 572.xx driver? revert back to 566.xx.
You can google it, majority of developers suggest to roll back because 572.xx tank frames, cause crashes and freezes.

Also provide computer specs, "more than capable" tells nothing at all.

interesting aside from my 12 hours fighting with a windows issue in the end all my played hours are on a 572.xx driver and no crashing at all

The 570+ drivers do cause issues and it's why devs are suggesting rolling back to 566.36. I don't have issues with them myself. Many people have issues more so with their monitor losing signal, black screens, white screen, etc. And multi monitor issues. We typically don't have gpu driver timeout but can have nvidia audio driver timeout if you use it. I'm not had that in many years now.

The gpu driver timeout has been an AMD gpu issue for many years now. You can disable ULPS Ultra Low Power State for multi gpu like a laptop for example. Some say it helps with single gpu but i have my doubts. Do it thru registry or even MSI Afterburner has an option to disable it. Options/general tab/ scroll down to AMD compatibility area/disable ULPS. Can also increase the graphics driver timeout thru the registry. There are a few other suggested tricks for AMD.

[EricHVela]

As pointed out, drivers matter, too.

Hardware is only part of the equation. Other software on a system can affect many things. Gotta keep on top of keeping the system clean: Removing bloatware, keeping M$ bloatware from installing with feature updates, no downloading of cute or supposedly-useful free apps from randos, no trainers, no kernel-level apps, no running as Admin all the time, no turning off the antimalware or firewall, no illegal or illegal-enabling software, etc.

(Also, mods have to override normal behavior.)

Someone else could have the exact same hardware configuration with zero issues or more issues. Someone else could have no problems with this game but have oodles of issues with a game that seems to cause nobody else any problems.

We can try to help, but every PC is its own foreign world to everyone else's.

[ni hao fine shyt]

Don’t know if OP fixed the issue yet or not, but here’s a fix.
For anyone using a RX 7800XT with the issue of a driver timeout when having RT on in Cyberpunk 2077, just roll back to an older driver.
I’ve personally tested the 24.12.1 driver would run Cyberpunk 2077 with RT on without crashing.
So if anyone seeing this and want to do it, just use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller), do a clean driver uninstall, and install the 24.12.1 driver for the RX 7800XT, you can find older driver for the 7800XT on AMD’s website
Note that you might need to turn off Windows’s auto driver update, because Windows may or may not auto update the GPU driver.
No idea when are they gonna fix this, because the latest 25.5.1 still doesn’t work.
Hope this helps.