Anyone else experiencing AMD driver crashes with an undervolted GPU?

[wet socks]

Hey people,

title says it all, my driver keeps crashing when I have an undervolt configured, no matter how much of an undervolt it is.

I also had this happen in mh world, when I was using a Nvidia GPU and setting a framerate limit helped with that so I might tinker with that too tomorrow in wilds, but the difference here is that my crashes are driver crashes and not game crashes.

Rn I just want to know if anyone else is experiencing this or if someone is experiencing no crashes at all with an undervolted card from AMD (or Nvidia).

Will also further test things tomorrow with a stock card. Didn't have any crashes there without an undervolt, but it might have been just luck.

[MelvinSmiley]

Messaggio originale di Aldroen:

I think this post is a bit pointless.

"Game crashes when undervolted"

The answer:
Your card is getting pushed more now and your undervolt is unstable. Simple as that, if the game crashes without undervolt that is a different story, but if its caused by undervolt you just go unlucky in silicon lottery and nothing else.

Also undervolt can become unstable overtime as the card gets older with actual wear on silicon. Its not substantial but can happen to any device and I had this with a CPU where I could undervolt it for like 2-3 years with no issues and one day it just started bsod when under load. Had to bring it back to stock and it was fine afterwards.

My undervolt worked 1 year without any problems in all games. I tested it just recently again to be sure, Port Royale stress test with 20 loops (99.7%), OCCT gpu stress test for 1 hour. Cyberpunk 2077 with RT for 3 hours, no problems.

MHwilds is the only game that crashes with my pretty conservative uv settings.

I don't think that my undervolt is unstable because Capcom released this great game in a completely broken and unfinished state. There are many reports of Mhwilds crashing because of undervolt and overclock settings too.

[Aldroen]

Messaggio originale di MelvinSmiley:

My undervolt worked 1 year without any problems in all games. I tested it just recently again to be sure, Port Royale stress test with 20 loops (99.7%), OCCT gpu stress test for 1 hour. Cyberpunk 2077 with RT for 3 hours, no problems.

MHwilds is the only game that crashes with my pretty conservative uv settings.

I don't think that my undervolt is unstable because Capcom released this great game in a completely broken and unfinished state. There are many reports of Mhwilds crashing because of undervolt and overclock settings too.

Different games different loads, even stress tests dont test every aspect of your GPU all they usually do is make sure your card can withstand the necessary temps to stay stable.

Your GPU is compromised of multiple different functions and depending which one you are hitting you might either experience perfectly stability or crashes. Also modern GPUs have different profiles and clock themselves differently based on the type of workload being pushed on them. This was not the case as much with GPUs from 10 years ago or more where doing those type of stress test was viable of way of confirming stability.

My question is if you run it stock does it happen ? If yes its a game issue, if not its your GPU and simply bad luck.

I am on 7900xtx and its the first game that pushed it hard enough to start hitting 70C+ on it as in 99% of games my card stays in 60s even in stress test (Furmark and uningine superposition). Once again not a game issue my card simply does not clock itself as high in stress test as it does in MH Wilds.

[MelvinSmiley]

Messaggio originale di Aldroen:

Messaggio originale di MelvinSmiley:

My undervolt worked 1 year without any problems in all games. I tested it just recently again to be sure, Port Royale stress test with 20 loops (99.7%), OCCT gpu stress test for 1 hour. Cyberpunk 2077 with RT for 3 hours, no problems.

MHwilds is the only game that crashes with my pretty conservative uv settings.

I don't think that my undervolt is unstable because Capcom released this great game in a completely broken and unfinished state. There are many reports of Mhwilds crashing because of undervolt and overclock settings too.

Different games different loads, even stress tests dont test every aspect of your GPU all they usually do is make sure your card can withstand the necessary temps to stay stable.

Your GPU is compromised of multiple different functions and depending which one you are hitting you might either experience perfectly stability or crashes. Also modern GPUs have different profiles and clock themselves differently based on the type of workload being pushed on them. This was not the case as much with GPUs from 10 years ago or more where doing those type of stress test was viable of way of confirming stability.

My question is if you run it stock does it happen ? If yes its a game issue, if not its your GPU and simply bad luck.

It didn't happen with stock settings so far. But what is more likely? All stress tests are useless and my experience of using this uv profile for 1 year counts for nothing, it is just unstable. Or mhwilds is just a fundamentally broken game that crashes with uv settings according to many user reports for some strange reason.

[Aldroen]

Messaggio originale di MelvinSmiley:

It didn't happen with stock settings so far. But what is more likely? All stress tests are useless and my experience of using this uv profile for 1 year counts for nothing, my uv profile is unstable. Or mhwilds is just a fundamentally broken game that crashes with uv settings according to many user reports for some strange reason.

The problem is you do not understand PC hardware and should not be messing with voltages in any capacity as you will blame anything but yourself on it and your hardware. If you want to save your hardware or care about temps/power use power limits controls as those are design specifically to make things easier.

Will Capcom fix this ? NO. Can they optimise the game in a way that will put less load on your GPU that causes the specific crash ? Yes, but that does not change the fact your hardware is having issues under certain conditions with your undervolt and at some point a new game will come out and you will experience the same thing again.

People understanding of hardware is super outdated these days so I am not surprised there is so many posts about it. Things are not as simple as it used to be with undervolting and even overclocking.

[Vall-Senpai]

Monster hunter wilds is the only game that crashes on the title screen when i have my Undervolt settings applied on my MSI RTX 4070, as soon as i disable the UV the game never crashes. i've had the card undervolted since i bought it on release back in 2023 and played a lot of games since then without any issues, Wilds is the first game that has given me issues with it applied and that sucks this game is really fun but it has a rollercoaster of issues that need to be fixed.

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I'd recommend resetting voltage to default. Undervolting could potentially cause instability (same with overvolting). If you're undervolting for heat reasons, see if you can't tune the fans so they're always on. You may also want to try improving the airflow in your case if that's the scenario.

[Temuthril]

There's something weird with this game. It's the only game I get crashes in. Everything else works fine, including 100% CPU/GPU benchmarks.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

the hardest games to pass OC/UV arent the taxing ones, its those unoptimized pos. my gpu undervolt works until i went into bandai's gundam game just crashes lolol

and yeah thats also true on cpu, esp if you are doing heavy undervolts. running at 100% may be stable but sometimes at idle, you may get BSOD.

always test and test and more tests.