AMD Driver Timeout - Crashes Game

[Snow.yyy...]

Every time I play the game, it eventually crashes, AMD stating 'Driver Timeout' as the issue. Here is a list of things which crash/freeze the game:
-Launching the game
-Alt-Tabbing while launching the game
-Navigating the main menu
-Pausing the game
-Navigating the pause menu
-Selecting a save game
-Playing a save game
-Switching mods in the weapon wheel
-Alt-Tabbing in general
-Playing the game
-Nothing
-Closing the game

I have a good PC build that can run every game I've played at high settings with over 60 FPS, this one included. My older build with significantly weaker hardware could run this game at medium settings with over 60 FPS and no crashing.
My specs:
-AMD Radeon RX 5700XT 8 GB VRAM
-AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
-2x8 GB Corsair Vengence Memory 4000MHz
-2 TB SSD

I have recent drivers, and the game ran perfectly when I first launched it today. I believe this is an AMD GPU issue, because I never had any problems resembling this on my older NVidia GPU and AMD CPU.

So I ask, is there any way to fix this? Or am I doomed?

[Arokhantos]

Also disable Windows Driver Updates, rather then disconnecting internet especially on Windows 11, cos Microsoft installs a AMD Filter driver that AMD them self do not even install if Windows Driver Updates are disabled, and this filter driver is partially broken and to blame for wattman reseting on startup if fast startup is enabled.

[Makz]

I tried many things. I have latest updates on Win 10, system was installed about week ago, last drivers (manually installed). I assume it's something with the game or amd drivers themself.
Manage to resolved the issue by changing options "Texture Pool Size" to Medium and "Vertical Sync" to Adaptive. I believe crashes are caused by these options due to high usage of video memory, and lowering them should help avoid errors.
I played for 30 mins without any crashes. I had no time to play enough, so I will test it in near free time.
Got answer to related issue from topic in Doom (2016) here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/379720/discussions/0/3187992458094197267/

[Makz]

Nope. Still crashing... In most cases it happens on cutscenes. I have no such issues in other heavy games, it only appears in Doom Eternal(((

[Makz]

Removed AMD drivers by AMD Cleanup Utility and then installed old driver version 22.8.1 minimal install. And I played during 1.5 hours - no crashes so far. Thanks AMD for "great" new drivers which ruined game and mood to play it.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Makz:

Removed AMD drivers by AMD Cleanup Utility and then installed old driver version 22.8.1 minimal install. And I played during 1.5 hours - no crashes so far. Thanks AMD for "great" new drivers which ruined game and mood to play it.

If been on 8+ months driver issues my self to with least one big issue still not resolved, really important to always bug report your issues, but AMD often ignroes it despite ignoring the fact that their small market share often means only means smaller percentage report problems, which does not automaticly mean hardware failure, im sure you noticed already that on older drivers you are fine, eventually you gonna have problems on those to tho due to windows update, in such case maybe try Linux cos its often more stable

[kiiLLu]

have the same issue , game freeze screen randomly midgame, sound still there, but only thing to do is go task manager and close it, but no error no "no response" pop up,

only thing atm that work is going backward with AMD Driver to 22.11.2
but thats s**t because my othergames tells me my driver needs to be updated............ guess its an AMD Driver issue, also RDR2 has a graphic bug with the actual driver update with water splashing with horses... (can be fix by changing API to DX12)

[min3r95]

Originally posted by Makz:

Removed AMD drivers by AMD Cleanup Utility and then installed old driver version 22.8.1 minimal install. And I played during 1.5 hours - no crashes so far. Thanks AMD for "great" new drivers which ruined game and mood to play it.

The game itself could be the problem and not the driver,look like the latest updates are causing problems for a lot of people,like deleting save files and stuff
I might need to download the game to test it on my RX 6600,I have no problem whatsoever with this GPU since I got it

[Rose the Dark Gooner]

on the latest amd drivers for my 6700xt and just got back into the game just to have 2 lock ups after about 15min of normal gameplay. I noticed the game defaulted RT on so idk if thats causing an issue or what but I'll see if anything happens tomorrow.

[Makz]

Originally posted by Arokhantos™:

Originally posted by Makz:

Removed AMD drivers by AMD Cleanup Utility and then installed old driver version 22.8.1 minimal install. And I played during 1.5 hours - no crashes so far. Thanks AMD for "great" new drivers which ruined game and mood to play it.

If been on 8+ months driver issues my self to with least one big issue still not resolved, really important to always bug report your issues, but AMD often ignroes it despite ignoring the fact that their small market share often means only means smaller percentage report problems, which does not automaticly mean hardware failure, im sure you noticed already that on older drivers you are fine, eventually you gonna have problems on those to tho due to windows update, in such case maybe try Linux cos its often more stable

I sent report about this issue. Still I doubt they fix it in near future. I have Linux system in dualboot, but in most cases linux graphics is not so good as it is on win system, especially when uses proton.

[Makz]

Originally posted by min3r95:

Originally posted by Makz:

Removed AMD drivers by AMD Cleanup Utility and then installed old driver version 22.8.1 minimal install. And I played during 1.5 hours - no crashes so far. Thanks AMD for "great" new drivers which ruined game and mood to play it.

The game itself could be the problem and not the driver,look like the latest updates are causing problems for a lot of people,like deleting save files and stuff
I might need to download the game to test it on my RX 6600,I have no problem whatsoever with this GPU since I got it

I don't know what exactly, I just suspect its driver. Why game works on old one but on the new one? Also another notice with drivers and Doom Eternal... With new driver I can't activate HDR option (I have display with HDR), it says that display do not support HDR. Installed old driver and HDR activates without any error messages.

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Makz:

Originally posted by min3r95:

The game itself could be the problem and not the driver,look like the latest updates are causing problems for a lot of people,like deleting save files and stuff
I might need to download the game to test it on my RX 6600,I have no problem whatsoever with this GPU since I got it

I don't know what exactly, I just suspect its driver. Why game works on old one but on the new one? Also another notice with drivers and Doom Eternal... With new driver I can't activate HDR option (I have display with HDR), it says that display do not support HDR. Installed old driver and HDR activates without any error messages.

For me it bugs out but i can enable it, its because of recent fix for vulkan heck fullscreen borderless is supose to be borderles but always acted like fullscreen exclusive, right now tho if i startup game it says unsupported HDR but i can enable it again just for it to disable next on startup.

I reported a bug all the way up to 23.3.1 which doom eternal caused, when you closed Doom Eternal before disabling HDR it would cause 2 second blackscreens in some games with HDR enabled on desktop but it would be fixed by relaunching game and disabling HDR via in game options, probably cos of the way vulkan handled HDR which now got fixed, probably not cos it disables HDR on startup but cos its now back to how fullscreen and fullscreen borderless is supose to act.

Anyway HDR does work altho a bit problematic right now but it also supports autohdr now in vulkan games which it did not before, heck autohdr may look better then in game HDR if you do not know how to setup HDR in doom eternal cos its poorly calibrated on default.

[Xan]

Check your monitor refresh rate and in-game FPS.

If you're using AMD Free Sync, its possible your monitor supports a lower refresh rate than you set it to.

Example: I had constant driver crashes because my refresh rate was set to 144hz but my monitor only supports 120hz with Free sync/VSync

[Arokhantos]

Originally posted by Xan:

Check your monitor refresh rate and in-game FPS.

If you're using AMD Free Sync, its possible your monitor supports a lower refresh rate than you set it to.

Example: I had constant driver crashes because my refresh rate was set to 144hz but my monitor only supports 120hz with Free sync/VSync

Thats displayed in the radeon software and may change depending on colordepth at 10 bit color depthj 48 - 120 hz at 8 bit colordepth 48 - 144hz

AMD drivers are in bad state now cos AMD needed entire driver team to fix bug with their new 7900 series silicon.

[Makz]

It really annoying. Even if Doom can be fix by old drivers. I still have issues with other games, which caused system freezes (I was forced to power off PC because system is not responding). Now I think maybe it's not drivers, but hardware itself...

[Rose the Dark Gooner]

ok so I swapped out my 6700xt for my rx580 just to see if its some issue with newer cards. played for about 20mins before a total lock up. So its gotta be a driver issue I'll try reverting back to an older driver for both cards to see what happens.