If your GPU seems broken try this.

[AlienALX]

I won't lie, this has done my f*****g head in.

I bought a 6900XT Toxic edition. It worked for one day, then my PC started to crash, freeze and not display an image when booting Windows.

I had tried everything. Swap the RAM, down clock the RAM, reinstall Windows twice, etc. Nothing worked. It got to the point where I had completely and utterly undone the build. Like removed all of it, desperately trying to work it out. I had all but given up.

I thought the GPU was screwed. The weird thing was it overclocks very well, and I had 0 crashes in games. None. Nor benchmarks, no matter how torturous. I was pretty certain the GPU was OK, but I could not get to the bottom of it. I even removed the GPU from the vertical riser, thinking maybe it just didn't like it. The crashing persisted. It was random AF, and there was no logic to it. I heard that AMD GPUs sometimes crash when using Google Chrome due to hardware acceleration issues, but out of the 4 AMD GPUs I have had I have never once seen this issue. Not ever. I would get the very VERY odd random lockup when using Photoshop before (when I had the 6700XT in) but never anything repeatable.

Yesterday after almost being at the point of tears I found something. This. And it is NOT limited to AMD, it is a Windows problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/yvyqc7/disabling_multiplane_overlay_mpo_fixed_all/

In fact, it was actually Nvidia who released the fix for their own GPUs, but I figured anything was worth trying at this point.

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/ans...ady-driver-461.09-or-newer,-some-desktop-apps

Never heard of MPO? neither had I. However like I said by this stage I was desperate.

And it worked. I have been on the PC now for 14 hours straight without a single hitch, lockup or crash.

Unbelievable that in this day and age M$ are still finding ways to ruin computers.

 

[Dicehunter]

Yeah NVCleanstall from TechPowerUp has an option when doing a "debloat" of the driver to disable MPO in the options before you repackage the driver to avoid issues with it, Quite handy.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah NVCleanstall from TechPowerUp has an option when doing a "debloat" of the driver to disable MPO in the options before you repackage the driver to avoid issues with it, Quite handy.

Nice. I am so, so glad I worked it out. What a nightmare.

 

[trawetSluaP]

Not had this issue up until this point but handy to know just in case. Glad you got it sorted.

 

[AlienALX]

Spent all day on the PC yesterday, not one crash. Booted it up about 30 mins ago, booted straight in and no crashes.

 

[NeverBackDown]

If only Nvidia/AMD/MS all collaborated on software so we could avoid these types of issues.

 

[AlienALX]

If only Nvidia/AMD/MS all collaborated on software so we could avoid these types of issues.

I will be honest here, I nearly smashed it all up. I have never been so angry at a computer. I think every PC guy's worst nightmare is random intermittent issues that are not explainable. Like, I ran MEMTEST for hours, smashed it with AIDA, ran Cinebench for over an hour with Furmark and god knows what else. As soon as you closed them and moved the mouse whilst opening a browser? froze. Then when you clicked the mouse it would beep over the headphones.

I have seen that before, but not without corruption (was a dead Radeon 6970). But it was the lack of corruption and the fact it smashed through every benchmark without so much as a hiccup that was doing my head in.

I even updated the BIOS on the mobo. Like when I say I tried everything? I mean, everything.

F-ing thing.

 

[KingNosser]

I had the hardware acceleration issue in chrome idk why it was even turned on but that can cause major issues idk if I done anything to MPO at the time but well spotted i'll look into that, microsoft these days just want to move to a subscription model and i honestly think thats the only reason windows 12 is coming just so they can and faze out the older over time. We really need Steam OS for PC with full driver support built into it for any hardware and i'll admit i'd have a dual boot system to see if i could permanently switch as M$ are now just data harvesting sub scum in my eyes.

 

[Warchild]

Hardware acceleration in Chrome messes up HDR streaming terribly. If you watch netflix etc via your pc in HDR, you should turn it off.

 

[AlienALX]

Hardware acceleration in Chrome messes up HDR streaming terribly. If you watch netflix etc via your pc in HDR, you should turn it off.

Noted !

I never watch much on the PC though. The odd Youtube video after I have had a shower and am drying etc. It's just mostly web browsing, forums, photoshop and my CNC. Oh and games of course, but they were fine.

What threw me was that Edge crashed the PC the same way. So I had ruled out Chrome....

Edit. The update? it's fixed. Two entire days without so much as a burp.

 

[Excalabur50]

Read it.