If you have black screen crashes on AMD GPU

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-----Edit 1-----
Nvm, it worked for a whole day, multiple hours, but now somehow it keeps crashing again. At first within 5 minutes of loading save. Then I turned off v-sync, that seemed to help, but it still crashed after about an hour.

-----Edit 2-----
Potentially found a "ducttape"-fix, testing now.

-----Edit 3-----
Setting the game to 60 fps solves the crashes, but system should definitely be able to run at full 144 fps. Game needs fixing/optimization.

-----Original post-----
Thought I'd leave this here for anyone having the same problem, in the hope it saves them from hours of troubleshooting. I just spent a few hours going through the crashes FAQ trying to solve my issue. I had seemingly random full system crashes to black screen, requiring full reboot. Nothing from the FAQ fixed it for me. Setting frame limiter to the max of my monitor seemed to delay the crash somehow, but also didn't fix it.

In the end, what fixed it was going into AMD adrenalin software, then bannerlord's profile, and disabling, setting to "default", or setting to "use application's setting" for ALL OPTIONS. So nothing active from adrenalin's side.

I suspect tesselation was the culprit, but I'm not willing to mess around with it, as I get average 180 fps on 4K with ultra settings while the game looks awesome. Takes a few hours, but now I can finally enjoy the game!

[Urmel]

the problem with intel-cpu is (i dont know if you use a intel cpu in your stormorks-game), that they have good benchmark-results and that means good "test-results".

but if intel-cpu have heavy burden for more then 3 min, they will loose 30%+ performance, cawse the heat-wall slow them down to avoid dmg. even water-cooling cant avoid this.

intel need much more power and cooling to get nearly equal performence. a old gtx 1060 with only 3 gb v-ram is more then enough for bannerlord. but you should use the best of the best in CPU like a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D for bannerlord.

edit: a good 6 core can do the job for medium settings. but better is a 8+ core cpu.

[Betty's Honor guard]

Originally posted by Urmel:

the problem with intel-cpu is (i dont know if you use a intel cpu in your stormorks-game), that they have good benchmark-results and that means good "test-results".

but if intel-cpu have heavy burden for more then 3 min, they will loose 30%+ performance, cawse the heat-wall slow them down to avoid dmg. even water-cooling cant avoid this.

intel need much more power and cooling to get nearly equal performence. a old gtx 1060 with only 3 gb v-ram is more then enough for bannerlord. but you should use the best of the best in CPU like a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D for bannerlord.

edit: a good 6 core can do the job for medium settings. but better is a 8+ core cpu.

My CPU is indeed intel, but an i9 with twice the power of that 5800X, no OC, and 24 cores. When i got it, I also stress tested it extensively and for longer periods of time (running a few hours near max load), it rocks everything I can throw at it, and my cooling setup holds up brilliantly as well, so it's not that. This game doesn't even begin to come anywhere near bothering this chip. Same goes for my GPU. If anything in this game makes either overheat, it's a problem with how the game is managing resources, not the hardware.

GPU is also not factory OC, because I had actually OC'd my GPU myself by about 5.5% before the first crash, but left it disabled afterwards to exclude it as a factor. (All my testing with the OC process also tells me that it's not my hardware, I know what it can handle).

Looking at the different errors, I'd have to guess that it's something with how the game manages textures, as there is one error regarding compression that keeps repeating multiple times, but I am no game dev.

[Betty's Honor guard]

Ok, it's definitely stable at 60 fps, might try upping it to see how far I can go, but this needs fixing ASAP, especially since so many people have had this problem for a long time now.

[moyer4487]

Originally posted by GigaPintofHell:

and this is why you shouldnt buy AMD.....ever! :lunar2019coolpig:

i have not had any problems AMD. is there an issue? i am new to pc gaming. i played console until relatively recent. i am asking for future reference or if i start having an issue i have a idea where to start. but i have Ryzen 9 7950x i think and RTX 4080. and my system is liquid cooled and aircooled. rated for 1000 watts power. so far i have not had any issues running anything maxed out. i do notice CP2077 can make it warm up sometimes but not overheat

[76561198856165040]

Originally posted by moyer4487:

Originally posted by GigaPintofHell:

and this is why you shouldnt buy AMD.....ever! :lunar2019coolpig:

i have not had any problems AMD. is there an issue? i am new to pc gaming. i played console until relatively recent. i am asking for future reference or if i start having an issue i have a idea where to start. but i have Ryzen 9 7950x i think and RTX 4080. and my system is liquid cooled and aircooled. rated for 1000 watts power. so far i have not had any issues running anything maxed out. i do notice CP2077 can make it warm up sometimes but not overheat

The guys comment isn't something you should take too seriously. Don't worry. Plus OP has an AMD gpu while you have nvidia RTX 4080. If you ever have any problems. Just type in your specific issue to Google and refer to sites such as reddit, tomshardware and other forums with active information. Heck here's a reddit post about 4080 temps... https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1006wlo/what_is_the_safe_temperature_range_for_the_4080/
Just don't worry, if you have a concern because a "problem" (you) notice, look it up.

[ˢᵈˣ FatCat]

whoever says its the hardware is stupid, this blackscreen because of the driver/ adrenaline itself , i forgot where but somebody test adrenaline its always draw more vram than the card can handle, so the solution is undervolt or limit the vram and clock etc etc at the adrenaline
for me, blackscreen is rare but it is there, my last blackscreen was 8months ago
iam just make a peace witht that

[Betty's Honor guard]

Originally posted by moyer4487:

Originally posted by GigaPintofHell:

and this is why you shouldnt buy AMD.....ever! :lunar2019coolpig:

i have not had any problems AMD. is there an issue? i am new to pc gaming. i played console until relatively recent. i am asking for future reference or if i start having an issue i have a idea where to start. but i have Ryzen 9 7950x i think and RTX 4080. and my system is liquid cooled and aircooled. rated for 1000 watts power. so far i have not had any issues running anything maxed out. i do notice CP2077 can make it warm up sometimes but not overheat

It's like with anything nowadays, there will be extremists loudly proclaiming that there is only one way, their way.. Like Xbox vs Playstation, Liberal vs Democrat, etc., etc. Just need to do research on the specific component you have your eye on and if the price/performance/quality balance is right for you, nobody can say anything about it.

As I said to that poster, I'd personally rather keep 1000 bucks in my pocket and maybe spend some time troubleshooting, which actually also brings me some enjoyment if I'm honest. And again, it's like a handful of hours in a year, tops, so I'm not really convinced it's significantly more than with Nvidia GPU.

[Betty's Honor guard]

Originally posted by FatCat:

whoever says its the hardware is stupid, this blackscreen because of the driver/ adrenaline itself , i forgot where but somebody test adrenaline its always draw more vram than the card can handle, so the solution is undervolt or limit the vram and clock etc etc at the adrenaline
for me, blackscreen is rare but it is there, my last blackscreen was 8months ago
iam just make a peace witht that

I would very much like to know a source for this, if you can manage to dig it up.. :)