Anyone else have the problem where the AMD GPU drivers crash – alot – during gaming? So far it’s happened 3 times TONIGHT while playing BF6’s story missions. One of the crashes happened and it recovered to desktop with the error code saying that the GPU was removed. That’s a common failure state of the driver apparently where it will “disconnect” the GPU in order to reboot it. I’m not sure if it stops sending power or whatever but it’s an interesting way to handle the problem. The other 2 times caused a BSOD and reboot. And with the 128GB model takes some time as I think it might be doing a core dump to SSD.
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 25H2
Installed on 2025-10-09
OS build 26200.6899
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.253.0
AMD GPU Drivers: 25.9.1 (2025-08-25)
I have the BIOS set for a GPU / SYS memory split of 64/64.
Yeah, mine is crashing any time the graphics card is used at all, not just for gaming. It’s crashed 3 times while writing this because Firefox is hardware-accelerated. I know this is a pretty new chip, but I’d expect it to at least function and it’s pretty disappointing to see how unstable it is.
I’m using Bazzite, which is supposedly a supported OS and I’m fully up-to-date on the last firmware updates which I’d hoped would stabilize things a bit but if anything have made it worse.
I have a second drive that is Pop__OS and it’s fine there. It looks to me on my side to be a Windows Driver problem. The Linux kernel / AMDGPU drivers on the Linux side are working well over there at least. Not that I’ve pushed it very hard at all.
I have experienced no crashes on NixOS unstable with kernel 6.16 across hardware-accelerated productivity applications, high-fidelity AAA gaming, and low-poly indie games.
lol, no, I didn’t make major modifications and then come to the forum to complain they didn’t work. I took the computer out of the box, installed a supported OS, and watched the graphics pipeline crashloop. Maybe I just got a bad chip but I’m not sure that changes my opinion. Bad first impression either way.
If this is happening only in Windows but not in Linux I am not sure what it is. Maybe indeed a driver issue, but that should have been seen in all those reviews I wonder. Maybe some other Windows users know more?
Maybe it’s just me but this has always been my experience with AMD et al; be that CPU or GPU [graphx card]. More instability, crashes, etc. AMD has made so much progress in the over decade and a half I’ve stayed away from them and I thought I’d be okay taking a leap back in to the AMD pool. But here we are again.
Sheesh. The noisy PSU thread resulted in me making a Mainboard order, and will cancel either that or my Desktop order based on whether there is any PSU noise resolution before 128Gig units start shipping again. And now this and other threads in this community has me potentially canceling both the Mainboard and Desktop orders and just waiting this generation of APU out.
Generally, yes. AMD has had a history of bad GPU drivers. I had a similar problem on the AMD Radeon VII, the HBM2 equipped GPU that was the first GPU on the 7nm node. Great card, but man, it would crash a lot and the memory overheated so it would have bad values in it causing the polygons to render out of the viewport. Both a hardware and software issue on that one.
I had hoped that the GPU drivers would be fixed as it has been … 7 years.
Has anyone tried the 25.9.2 drivers? My 7800XT and 7800X3D was crashing like their was no tomorrow on 25.9.1 and shoving on 25.9.2 fixed it.
Also what are you playing? Because some games hate some AMD out of the box, and other just have server side issues that have more to do with your internet and their server.
It’s mostly been BF6, and that’s been mostly fixed with the beta drivers. However, it drives me nuts that we have to run beta drivers to make the system stable.
My crash baby was Doom Dark Ages - and I was surprised AMD did not roll new drivers for it. Every time a new game is crashing, I look for new drivers…because often there is fix. Also the pre-release drivers aren’t beta, so they store sable. But I get your point of having to run on drivers that aren’t the main release.
On linux now (Fedora)
But to start with i was running win11.
The drivers supplied from Framework worked pretty good. When i went and updated the drivers from the AMD website things became very unstable very quickly…
If you’re running windows i’d advise sticking with the Framework drivers for now…
Another firmware update, another decrease in usability. I have the exact same crashes I had before only now with 3.04 it takes ~5 minutes to boot to an unstable system. I cannot express how disappointed I am with this purchase and how much I wish I’d returned it immediately when I realized it wasn’t fit for purpose.
