Re: Game freezing and crashing after recent AMD driver update

So I followed your advice to the point of reverting my overclock settings and I've found what I believe is the issue. I use GPUTweak to overclock my card a little. The driver update caused the GPU native software to apply its own overclock settings on top of GPUTweak's settings, but only when the game was open. It took using a GPU monitoring overlay for me to notice what was happening.

To clarify with some numbers.

Base GPU clock speed when gaming is 1300MHz. I set GPUTweak to overclock this to 1323MHz (+23MHz). But after the update the GPU software (Radeon Software) was also adding +23MHz, but only while the game was open so I didn't notice this when looking through the GPU settings. This brought the total clock speed to 1346MHz, which is an unstable setting and I know for a fact does cause screen freezing on my PC.

Played for a couple of hours after fixing these settings and no crash so far, so I strongly suspect this was the problem. While I may seem quite calm in the wording of this message, please be assured that I am in fact quite livid at such an inane problem to be caused by a driver update, hence my long message as a means to vent my anger. Thank you for your help, the step by step led me to the problem.