9070XT Crashes/Driver Timeouts
Hi there!
I upgraded from an RTX 3080 to a 9070XT recently, and I've been having near-constant crashes in-game since.
I've already reinstalled windows and have tried several different driver versions. The issue seems to happen on *all* recent drivers, except for 25.9.2.
Games will freeze, crash and then I'll get a driver timeout error message.
This has happen in Final Fantasy XIV, Battlefield 6, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the browser, etc.
One time, the monitors just remained black and I had to reboot to get everything it work again. What was odd was that the screen reported an input signal of 91hz and 12 bits, while normally it's 360hz/30 bits.
Once again, the issues do not happen on driver version 25.9.2, but the goal can't be to forever stick to an older driver because any update will break it..
Is this a known issue? Are there any fixes? Did I just get a bad apple and should I RMA the card?
Thank you in advance :)
Posted Jan 31, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC