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ASTA489
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago

AMD 9070XT Black Screen Crash

I have been playing for the past few weeks and have started running into near constant crashes. The frequency of these crashes is anywhere between every few minutes to few hours. It does not seem to correspond to any in game events though at one point I managed to get it to consistently happen when entering one area but it fixed itself there after about 10 crashes. 

The crashes are all screens turning off, the game sounds sometimes continuing (and I can tell I am interacting with the game due to controller vibrations), some times my GPU fans spin up to 100%. In all situations it is not recoverable and the system will eventually restart, sometimes instantly other times after a few minutes. 

Sometimes after restarting my graphics card is no longer detected causing multiple issues that need resolving step by step.

I have tried all troubleshooting I can online, my best solution is to DDU , reinstall drivers to force the shaders to fully recompile and then I can usually get around 30 minutes into the game before it fails again (though I suspect it might be placebo) . 

It is not temperature, or overclock as I have tried underclocking and keeping a temp log to no success. 

I have tested both a Linux install as well as windows and the error appears on both, and I have tested on a steamdeck and I can force the error to occur by changing the screen refresh rate while the game is running . 

 

I am currently installing my older GPU to see if I can run the game with that instead but there is clearly something broken either with my new 9070 XT or, I hope, with the game/drivers. I have not had issues like this with other games but DAV is the game I have played the longest with this card. 

 

Any help would be appreciated and if you have the same issue I would welcome a comment just so I can know that I am not alone and it is more likely to be the drivers or game and not a busted card! 

 

 

 

 

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    ASTA489
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    3 months ago

    Hi there, I don't currently have the same GPU installed as I am testing to see if I can replicate the issue with a different GPU (same 9070XT, different vendor). I do have a dxdiagOutput.xml from when I was testing with my actual GPU which I have turned into a txt to be able to attach it, all the information is the same though.

    That said, I do not expect the issue to be with Windows given that I have tested running the game in Linux as well and very quickly had the exact same crash.

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    ASTA489
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I tested with a different GPU (also an AMD 9070XT) and was not able to reproduce the issue so I concluded that the issue was the graphics card and returned it as defective. I have a new 9070XT (Sapphire Pure) and no longer have the issue.

    It is possible that the issue was caused by the power supply because there are some power draw differences between 9070XT vendor cards but I could not figure out a way to conclusively say it was one or the other and swapping to the sapphire pure that has a lower max power draw resolved the issue.

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