I just got a new computer last week with a AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB graphics card. Its been night and day from my laptop lol.
(As a side note:) I’ve been running into AMD Driver Timeout errors. While I’m not making this thread to solely focus on that, would love if someone who has experience that to comment. I’ve updated drivers (after DDU’ing the old ones), told windows to stop updating drivers, disabled hardware acceleration on Discord and Chrome, and now (which seems to be working the best) disabling Mulltiplane Overlay (MPO). It was weird to me, cause this issue was repeatable by alt-tabbing out of game / clicking back into the game. But apparently this is an issue others have experienced.
Anywho, the actual point of the thread - in casing down the rabbit hole of this AMD graphics card to solve the above, I’ve seen several people stating that for AMD + WoW, usually you want to disable raytracing and some shaders. Though, the only mention I can find of raytracing in game is with the shadows. Does anyone have suggestions for WoW using AMD’s RX 9070 XT?
Sounds like a DX12 Watchdog timeout on the surface, of course, I know nothing about the rest of the hardware the card is plugged into.
It’s a PCIE 5.0 card, it might not be “Auto Negotiating” the link speed peoperly. Lots of motherboards experience this. You could try locking down the link speed to 5.0 in bios.
This is also especially prevelant if you are using a GPU riser cable to mount the GPU vertical. Sometimes the quality is not so good, or its just not a properly rated cable for the link speed. SO your GPU will tell your hardware its 5.0, the motherboard will think its 5.0 but the cable can’t carry that signal. You get a random de-sync and DX12 sees this as an issue and it resets the DX12 stack, POOF WoW crash.
be warry of NVME drives being in the proper slot. It isn’t always the fancy slot with the chaunky heatsink closest to the CPU.
Pop open GPUZ which you an download free, look at where it says bus interface it should read PCIe x16 5.0 @ x16 X.X where the last 2 digits are your current link speed (the X.X). If your GPU isn’t doing anything it should read somehting like 1.1. When you hit the question mark, it will open a little window to start a render test, it should jump to 5.0.
Check your windows event viewer for any WHEA errors.
Again, I know nothing of what else you have this card pluged into, so its the best shot in the dark i can muster. Good Luck, more detail would help.
I’ll note - After disabling MPO, I’ve not had any issues with driver timeouts in the last 48 hours. Even with me trying to purposely do anything I can to cause them.