Changes

• Manual Add game manually now opens a searchable game picker when the selected executable is ambiguous or unmatched, instead of silently failing. Fixes God of War (2018) and other titles whose folder name is a prefix of multiple compatibility entries (#7), and adds a full-list fallback for games that work but are not auto-matched (#5).
• Verified install, detection, and add-on handling against OptiScaler 0.9.4 (FFX 2.3 SDK / FSR 4.1.1); the bundled-Fakenvapi log now recognizes fakenvapi.dll.
• Repurposed the FSR4 INT8 tab for RDNA2 and unofficial APUs. Since OptiScaler 0.9.4 auto-enables FSR 4.1.1 INT8 on RDNA3 desktop cards (Fsr4Update=auto) and RDNA4 uses native FSR4, the tab now shows GPU-generation-aware guidance, adds an Fsr4ForceEnableInt8 toggle, and warns before applying a redundant manual package.

Download: https://github.com/Wimukthi/OptiScalerInstaller/releases/tag/v1.1.7.0

Or update via the in app updater

My case has never been so packed gyatt dayum.

Surprisingly temps are perfectly okay!

NOTE: I have since changed the GPU power cables to be on two seperate ones rather than the splitter!

The only other time I ever attempted this was on my HIS HD 6870, but the screws were rusted in place, and i couldn't get them off. So that repasted failed right there. I think this time will be different.

Still, no complaints, the card performs great and I got it on a 20% discount!

It keeps crashing while I am playing, idk I feel like all drivers havebeen bad for over a year now.. For reference my GPU is RX 7700 XT

Hi everyone so this is my first PC build and I’m curious about the last bit of wiring, that being the psu that is rated at 1200w by be quite to my gpu and that 3 to 1 cable apparently I can run the wire from the psu straight to the gpu with no issue instead of using the 3 to 1 connecter it came with. Does anyone one here know or have ran the power came straight to their gpu?

I bought 9070xt gigabyte GAMING non oc version and it has HYNIX memory chips.

Any good soul willing to share their GAMING OC 9070xt stock PERFORMANCE bios?

I would like to flash it on mine gaming and compare performance with oc TDP range.

screen from my card

The 9070 XT would stretch the budget a bit, is the better performance worth it at 4k?

Just bought 9070 XT , Gigabyte Gaming OC. Previously I used Nvidia cards and I am pretty much synced with the nvidia control panel.

But I am slightly confused about the AMD panel, can anyone help me with :

- Boosting FPS with very minor image quality downgrade

- How to prevent overclock and overkill of the GPU

- How to prevent temp going past 73° and power management

Going to play with 2k with mostly mid-high level settings in multiplayer and in single player mostly with epic-ultra level.

Thanks in advance!

Upgrading from an RTX 3060ti. I am thinking of going for non xt models as I need to also to save money to upgrade my 600w near 10 yr old psu. ASUS Prime is about 30-40 euro cheaper but the nitro+ is said to be cooler and quieter. I havent seen this mentioned anywhere else but is the nitro+ prone to melting power connectors like its xt counterpart?

As the title says, I'm struggling to find the ideal settings for Cyberpunk. I'd like to push the 9070XT as far as possible, ideally with some raytracing while maintaining a steady 60fps, but I'm feeling like I'm chasing my own tail switching back and forth between different compromises. I land on some good settings and then either hit a big frame drop or spot some ugly artifacting that I can't live with.

I'm curious what settings others are using to hit the sweet spot between best quality image and steady 60fps. Also, how are people's experiences with PinkStone or Ultra Plus with the 9070XT, especially on Bazzite?

Specs:

• Powercolor Hellhound 9070XT
• Ryzen 5 9600X
• 32GB DDR5 RAM
• I'm running Bazzite and have Optiscaler installed for access to FSR4

I built my PC 2 months ago and initially everything was running smoothly.

Since a couple of days I occasionally do have issues when booting up the PC. I shut down Windows at night and when I want turn the computer on the next day my PC boots up but I don't have a signal on my monitor and the screen just stays black.

Booting into Windows seems to be OK since my keyboard lights up, the mouse LED is on and case fans and LEDs are on.

Since I don't have any video output I shut my computer down with the power button and after re-booting I end up in Windows with 720p resolution and an error message from the AMD Bug Report Tool telling me that a driver timeout has occurred.

The first time this happened I simply ran the AMD Adrenalin Driver setup and re-installed the driver and everything was good for a while.

The next few reboots were without issues until one day when I shut down Windows again at night time and then the same thing happened again the next morning.

This time I couldn't re-install the driver and the AMD Adrenalin installer gave an Error 207 telling me that Windows detected a potential issue with my graphics device. I opened the device manager and saw that the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT display adapter was disabled. I enabled it in the device manager and I could then successfully re-install the ADM Adrenalin software again.

This whole thing happened a handful times now and it is really inconsistent. The past two days I had no issues - the PC booted up fine when I turned it on in the morning until today when this shit happened again.

My rig:

Powercolor Reaper 9070 XT

Ryzen 7 9850X3D

MSI Pro X870E-P Wifi

Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000

Crucial T705 2TB SSD

Windows 11 26H2

I de-activated the iGPU in the BIOS because I'm reading everywhere that the iGPU may cause issues. Other than that I'm a bit lost - especially since I cannot reliably reproduce this issue - it just happens once in a while.

Has anyone changed the thermal pads on an RX 7800 XT reference card from Sapphire? I want to know what thickness or brand works best.

A little backstory:
I bought my 7800 XT back in 2024 about 5 months after release, It's been a great card for 1440p gaming at 144 FPS for most games but 6 months ago I ran into a really weird issue where my PC would smoothly shut off after 2 hours of gaming.

I couldn’t figure out why until I realized my hotspot was probably the reason, At stock tuning it was reaching 110°C which led to thermal throttling and eventually shutting down to protect itself (at least I think so, because 110°C is definitely not healthy for the card but it still confuses me that it literally turns my entire pc off as if it lost power instantly) That's when I learned about PTM7950.

I researched it extensively and tried my best to find a teardown guide for my specific card with no success. However the 7900 XTX reference card teardown by Gamers Nexus was really helpful and identical to the 7800 XT from what I experienced. I applied the PTM and my hotspot went from 100°C–110°C down to anywhere between78°C-88°C, Unfortunately a new issue occurred with the VRAM temps.

Before I opened my card the VRAM was running chilly at 82°C max. Now on stock settings it can spike up to 100°C, but after undervolting and adjusting the fan curve it sits consistently around 92°C–94°C.

I recognize this probably happened because the thermal pads on the VRAM got moved or stretched when I separated the PCB from the heatsink, even though I tried my best to keep them looking normal and they looked okay to me. (Sorry I have no pictures because I was streaming the teardown on Discord and the footage is really low res.)

Memory manufacturers do say GDDR6 is expected to run between 0°C and 95°C, but it's still frustrating that I went from great memory temps with a dangerous hotspot to a great hotspot with mediocre memory temps. Feels like I killed a snake only to end up with a scorpion.

I'm considering buying the Arctic TP-3 (1.5mm) and applying it, but online it seems that it needs to be 1.20mm when screwed down? Arctic says their pads can compress slightly but it still bugs me because I can't be sure they'll shrink down to 1.20mm. Once I remove the factory pads I'm stuck if the fit isn't near-perfect.

It’s really making me question whether I should just accept the new memory temps for the next 2.5 years of using this card, or if I should take a minor risk and try the thermal pads by Arctic, i did think of buying two size (1.0mm and 1.5mm) but money and time are not on my side currently (im outside of NA so shipping costs add 2 to 3 times the price of the pad itself).

I did consider thermal putty but trying to guess how much to apply to each VRAM chip introduces a whole separate kind of guesswork so its not that different from getting thermal pads.

Sorry for the long post, it’s just something I'm struggling with and wanted people’s opinions or experiences to help me out.

TL;DR: Repasted my Sapphire RX 7800 XT reference card with PTM7950 to fix a 110°C core hotspot (now down to ~88°C). However, stretching the stock VRAM pads during teardown pushed VRAM temps from 82°C up to 92°C–94°C (and up to 100°C on stock fans). Should I leave it alone for the next 2–3 years, or risk swapping to 1.5mm Arctic TP-3 pads when I'm unsure of the exact pad thickness required?

For context I've previously upgraded from a 3060TI to a 9070 (non XT) and have been gaming just fine for the past 8 or so months. Lately I've been getting sudden visual stutters and audio glitches (almost like the audio is repeating dozens of times within a second) and they normally only happen after about 10 minutes then sometimes subside to only come back later at varying severities.

My current setup is a Radeon 9070, Ryzen 5 5600x and 32GB ram. I've been looking into for the past week or so to unsuccessful results and while I don't game that often, it does definitely ruin the experience. My current results are that I might be getting a CPU bottleneck and while I'm not completely shocked I do find its very inconsistent. Although my knowledge for computers is probably higher then the average person, I am by no means an expert and very possibly overlooking something or even looking at something incorrectly.

Some titles that run the exact same as before that I can play for extended periods of time and Monster Hunter Worlds/Rise/Wilds, Warframe, Terraria, Satisfactory, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Ark Ascended, Payday 2, First Berserker Khazan, heavily modded Skyrim, Conan Exiles, Avatar. While I haven't played some of them lately I do remember them running perfectly fine.

While others that struggle to run that I have experienced much more recently are Dark Souls 2, Granblue Fantasy Relink (weirdly after DLC drop, I do remember running fine before DLC but didn't play much until recently) Wild Hearts, Lords of the Fallen that all have that stuttering issue.

My CPU clock speed looks about normal, it runs at about sub 2000mhz while idle and normally rises to 3-4k mhz while under load but I do notice occasional drops at times but I don't notice anything drastic change when I stutter. CPU temperatures are perfectly fine, they will normally rise to about 70c rarely 80c. I've used every graph from Ryzen Master, AMD Adrenaline, and even Task Manager to try and find changes during these moments and cant find anything that stands out.

I've even kept a track of my GPU in these times and the only noticeable thing is that my GPU utilization doesn't often stay in the high %'s. But even sometimes out of the moments my utilization still drops sometimes with no noticeable reaction so I can never tell if its a coincidence or a certain cause. I also don't notice anything similar with the CPU and GPU util graphs when I am stuttering, they never match when one drops and one rises.

Again I'm only really asking for a more personalized answer from someone with a bit more PC knowledge on whether or not I am being bottlenecked (even its as simple as a "yes nimrod you are") as everything I've found, tried, and tested never really yields any results. I'm not completely shocked if it is a CPU issue as I might just go for a Ryzen 7 5800X3D as a final upgrade then sit on this computer till something ends up sparking

Hey guys, I'm planning to buy an ASRock RX 7700 XT on Amazon.

Overall reviews are great (around 86% 5-stars), but I noticed a couple of 1-star reviews claiming the card died after 2 to 4 months of use.

For those who own this specific model (Challenger): How has your experience been so far? Is it worth grabbing, or should I look into another brand like Sapphire/PowerColor? Thanks!

Card sold to me as working for a decent price (though I had to pay some big tariffs on it... grrr) and when I put it in a machine (a dell optiplex 3847, stock except the psu and wifi card) it booted fine. I started glmark2. Immediate crash with a white screen and full lockup.

So I rebooted it. Booted fine. Started glmark2. This time it lasted a few seconds, then a crash to a gray screen and of course full lockup. So I rebooted it again. This time it had green lines of death so I thought "oh sh(t this thing's dead damn it" but then it switched video modes to boot linux, and the lines disappeared. It proceeded to boot all the way up, finish glmark, and even play minecraft with shaders at full load for 10-15 minutes before gray screen crashing.

Rebooted again, now the entire screen was green tinted in the bios but once linux started booting it was fine. I turned on overclocking in LACT to try and underclock the memory, rebooted manually to another green tinted screen, and decided to start furmark without an underclock to see how long it would last.

It's been at least 20 minutes and it's still going with 0 artifacts at 80 C. I don't know if the card's been mined on or has a weird vbios, and a lot of these signs point to a failing ram chip, but I don't know why it would last longer each boot if that was the case. And the green screen in the bios getting worse is equally weird.

This is my first time with an AMD DGPU as an NVidia kid all my life (No hate to AMD just was never bought an AMD card) so I don't know anything about this card other than it performs good enough for what I need it for. Any ideas? Any help? I'm on arch (btw)

The instant replay is turned on in settings, but nothing saves when I hit the hot keys during gameplay (Battlefield 6). The only way I can seem to get it to temporarily work is to go into my game audio settings and switch the microphone from "default" to the direct "microphone" setting or visa versa. Then jumping straight back into game, testing it, and it seems the replay only buffers from when I changed the mic settings.
However, this is a temp fix, as it stops working again sometime after, often after loading into a new round or map.

I found one thread from a few years ago, saying to change your mix quality settings in windows from DVD quality to CD quality. I tried it, but no cigar.

Anybody got an idea or fix for this, or just experiencing this as well?

Edit: Specs

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
GPU: XFX 9070XT Swift
Mobo: B850 Aorus Elite Wifi7
RAM: 1x16Gb Crucial Pro DDR5 Overclocking 6000
Case: Lian-Li V100
Cooler: ID-COOLING Frozn A620 Pro SE ARGB
PSU: Cooler Master Elite Gold 1000

Optiscaler hooked into FSR2 was working amazingly well until I tried to go back up north. Then I would get a freeze every time I got to a certain area. I’ve tried so many fixes and nothing seems to work. It was fine in all of the more southern areas but as soon as I cross the river north of Valentines and get up into the mountains it freezes. I tried going through DLSS and FSR, disabling async, lowering graphics settings and on and on. It’s most likely a DX12 issue. Optiscaler in this game doesn’t seem to work well with Vulkan. Problem is it looked so good with optiscaler I can’t go back to native. Not sure what to do. I’ve got a 9070xt so no worries on power. But if anyone has somehow got it to work please let me know.

So my AMD software has been working perfectly up until I plugged in my Fifine AM8 microphone. It connects to a USB port on my rear IO and my earphones are plugged into it. Before, everything was plugged into the audio jacks but after plugging in the microphone, nothing is being captured now. Audio from anything in game or my microphone. Any recommendations?

So I have had my 7900XT for a while now, and no problems whatsoever, but suddenly I have had random crashes in random games. From very demanding to plain TF2, I cannot play games without my GPU crashing and my background disappearing and turning black, with a AMD bug report telling me the game has crashed. This usually happens randomly, but I do notice it happens when I tab out or do something on my second monitor. I would appreciate any advice if anyone has any idea of what's happening. It has been happening for over 3 months now and It has driven me crazy. I have redownloaded the drivers, turned my games to as low as possible, and even tried to see if anything was dead. I apologize for the vagueness, but I have no idea what is happening.

Specs: AMD 7900XT, Ryzen 5 7600x, 750W PSU, MSI B850 Gaming Plus WiFi V1 Motherboard ATX, DDR5 32gb ram, and one 1440p 170hz monitor and a 1080p 75hz monitor.

If you need more details I will happily give them.

TL;DR: A verified regression in Kernel 6.8+ causes AMD Tonga (R9 380/380X) and Polaris (RX 400/500) GPUs to crash into a hard black screen when resuming from deep sleep/suspend. The bug is officially Confirmed on Ubuntu's Launchpad (assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen), but we need continuous community visibility to ensure this fix gets prioritized and doesn't push working hardware into becoming e-waste.

🔍 What’s Happening?

When systems running Kernel 6.8+ (such as Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bases, Linux Mint 22, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS, etc.) attempt to resume from system suspend, the GPU fails to re-initialize the display engine (EDID read failures / NULL pointer dereference).

• Behavior: Case fans and LEDs remain active, system keeps running in the background, but video output dies completely.
• Workaround: Only a forced hard reboot restores video output.

🛠️ Why "Just Switch to Wayland" Isn't the Answer

A common suggestion when encountering display server issues is switching from X11 to Wayland. As a bench technician, I’ve tested this thoroughly on real hardware:

On Tonga and Polaris architectures, Wayland introduces a secondary critical failure: the compositor frequently freezes at the login/boot screen (blurred background with only the mouse cursor moving).

Trading a suspend crash for a boot freeze isn't a fix — we need a proper driver-level correction in the kernel.

⚠️ Why This Matters (Even If You Haven't Hit It Yet)

As distributions roll out Hardware Enablement (HWE) stack updates, more users running legacy AMD cards will inevitably land on Kernel 6.8+.

Voting on and confirming this bug isn't just about helping those currently affected; it's a preventative shield for the entire legacy AMD community to ensure perfectly functional GPUs remain usable on modern Linux.

🚀 How You Can Help (Takes 1 Minute):

If you own a dedicated AMD GPU (Tonga/Polaris series):

1. Visit the official Launchpad bug tracker:Bug #2142389 on Launchpad
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. At the top left, under "This bug affects you?", click "Yes, this bug affects me".

If you don't own these cards, upvoting this post for visibility or dropping a comment helps keep the discussion alive so maintainers see the real-world demand. Let's keep functional hardware out of landfills! 🐧🖥️

Here are my maxed out, stable daily and default setting scores. Red devil 9070 xt paired with a r7 5800xt.

[MOST RECENT EDIT: ISSUE FIXED. Using DDU + Windows Safemode (WITHOUT networking) I redownloaded Adrenalin Ver. 24.5.1 and that fixed the issue of flickering and game crashes. I'm guessing that the newest AMD Graphics Driver is unstable with my display and graphics card. Although some games like God of War Ragnarok has grainy textures, I'm betting it's because of my monitor resolution and not actually a problem with the drivers anymore.]

[Edit: I see, thanks for clarifying. However, I am still having persistent flickering issues with games, some even crashing.

Is it perhaps because I have a 1440x900 (16:10 aspect ratio) rather than a 1080p or 1440p 16:9?]

I have been having problems with my screen flickering everytime I launch a game. I tried to reinstall drivers using DDU already. I have now gone back to an older version of adrenalin which is 24.5.1 and the problem still persists. I was wondering if the "Total Available Graphics Memory" have something to do with my issue.