Ok So, post BIOS Update and Post changing to secondary profile.
Day 1 Update:
I have just played For 2hrs 30 minutes without a single crash to desktop or lockup. Super smooth game play.
I had one single period where I stuttered briefly and I got the error message "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occurred" (as mentioned previously above that I'd seen in my primary now corrupted profile).
Now, having searched this error on Reddit, I came across a reply from someone who advised custom tuning the card and not going with Auto tuning as he believes it auto OC's the card beyond the Max Boost Clock speed (when I checked, it was hitting over 3000Mhz) and causes the driver time out. I set a max clock speed of 2680Mhz and I didn't see that error again. I imagine this will be resolved 100% by a full OS reinstall (if not, I have a solution and I'll test how high I can set the Max clock speed that maintains stability).
I even enabled Eyefinity and Virtual Super Resolution and played for a few minutes at a resolution of 7680x2160 across both monitors (I have 2 x 32" 4K monitors) and maintained a solid 60fps. My monitors are 60hz so yeah... 60fps is my max (I may sell these and get two new ones with higher refresh rates at some point).
Previously when I tried that, it did not like it at all. Now, it's like I'm not even pushing the hardware. No aiming reticle due to monitor bezels sucked but I'm wouldn't play BF in this config normally anyway. I just wanted to test it.
So, for the first time in a long time, I've had an uninterrupted 99% problem free night. I will continue to test over 7 - 10 days.
I may not even need to do the MemTest if this remains stable. Here's hoping 🤞
Just some specs about my GPU..
Stock clock speed
The retail AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a GPU clock of 1929 MHz and a boost clock of 2498 MHz
Overclocked clock speed (I have the card mentioned below)
The Sapphire Nitro+ card can reach an average clock speed of 2832 MHz
So, I could probably go as high as 2832 and maintain stability (preventing the auto OC). I have no need to manually OC this card
I'll test some other games and video editing out over the next 10 days.
I'm glad to hear things are going well. I definitely recommend getting a high refresh rate monitor with FreeSync if you plan on playing a lot of video games.
OLED monitors are the best because they have the fastest pixel response time and no input lag penalty when HDR is enabled. LCD monitors with local dimming add a lot of input lag when HDR is enabled due to local dimming processing time.
Monitors Unboxed channel on YouTube has great monitor reviews.
Cool, once again, I really appreciate all of the recommendations you have made. It's really refreshing to ask for help, post ridiculously long posts of my own and actually get extremely helpful and non-judgemental replies. Especially in a day and age where so many people on the net don't need much of an opportunity to be unpleasant to others.
After all of the various diags, I am certainly leaning towards your suggestion that the 13th/14th gen CPU had issues, and this (🤞) has been rectified by the BIOS update.
I am however, still absolutely baffled as to why this would affect one single title but I'm done trying to understand that now and will just accept it as being what it is 😂
I'll post back after the weekend with just a progress update on stability and with a bit of luck, mark the conversation as resolved by the end of next week.
