Hey guys,

I'm posting this here to see if anyone has managed to find a bypass or fix for a texture streaming issue on older AMD GPUs.

I'm playing the AC4 resynced on an RX 590 (8GB VRAM). At launch, I get the popup warning about my display driver being outdated or incompatible. Once in the game, no matter what graphics preset or texture settings I choose (even if I set textures to High or Ultra in the menus or directly in the config files), the engine completely refuses to load high-res textures. Everything stays stuck on Low and looks super blurry.

Here is my full setup:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 590 (8GB VRAM, Polaris, max Feature Level 12_0. Driver: Adrenalin 23.19.25.01 / 31.0.21925.1001 (latest official legacy driver available for this card))

RAM: 16GB DDR4 3000MHz

Motherboard: MSI B450M GAMING PLUS

OS: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (25H2)

I've already spent hours trying to troubleshoot this. My drivers are up to date according to AMD's legacy support. I tried using DXVK with custom vendor/device IDs in dxvk.conf to trick the game into thinking I have an RTX 3080. The game launches fine with it, but textures stay on Low. I also manually edited the config file to force texture quality to 4 and set it to Read-Only so the engine can't overwrite it, but the game simply ignores the setting in real time. Switching resolutions back and forth to flush the VRAM cache didn't change anything either.

I know the RX 590 tops out at DirectX Feature Level 12_0, meaning it lacks native 12_1 and 12_2 features like hardware Sampler Feedback. Is the game engine hardcoded to fall back to Low textures on 12_0 hardware to avoid VRAM crashes?

If so, is there any known launch flag, registry tweak, mod, or custom DLL wrapper out there that can force the engine to stream Ultra textures on a 12_0 card with 8GB of VRAM?

Thanks a lot if anyone has an idea or a workaround for this!

I have a Lenovo p15v and every time I try to play bl4 I get the same error code “directx 12 is not supported on your system. try running without the -dx12 or -d3d12 command line argument.”

ive tried running the game with dx11 and the like but it refuses to work. Not super tech savvy but I’ve updated my drivers and windows but nothing is workin. any help would be greatly appreciate! Thank you!

(also wasnt sure what tag to add so lmk if I used the wrong one-)

I recently cloned my Windows 10 install from an old AMD PC to a new Intel PC (i3-10100F, ASUS PRIME H510M-E, GTX 1650, 16GB RAM) using a disk image (not a fresh install). Everything works perfectly except Fortnite, which now crashes every single time at the "Initializing" Easy Anti-Cheat screen, either freezing completely or throwing a CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT blue screen.

What I've already ruled out:

• Fully clean reinstall of Fortnite twice + manual EAC reinstall (via a install prod-fn shortcut trick i read on reddit)
• RAM: physically swapped back to old 8GB stick, ran Windows Memory Diagnostic. It came out with no errors, same crash either way
• GPU: clean NVIDIA driver install, no Device Manager errors
• Chipset/Intel drivers: fully installed and updated (was originally missing due to the AMD to Intel migration)
• BIOS updated from 2021 (v1017) to the latest 2026 version (v3002, includes Intel microcode update)
• Antivirus (Bitdefender) disabled + excluded Fortnite
• Hyper-V / Virtualization Platform / Memory Integrity disabled/not applicable. Claude told me to do this one i honestly dont know what it means
• CPU C-States/C1E disabled
• BlueScreenView on 4 dump files all point generically to, ntoskrnl.exe, no specific driver named
• I don't quite remember everything i did, it would be a very long list to adress everything i checked so feel free to ask! thanks a lot

I dont know what else to do damn it! It seems to me that i've done everything i could've done. I've ran out of ideas on what could've gone wrong. I think its time to asume my pc is alergic to fortnite. I dont even like the game that much i just want to rule out any problem my pc may have.

Anyways, due to the comunity rules i downloaded and ran User Benchmark and these were the results. Maybe it helps on the diagnosis, but i don't know how to read it. Im honestly tired of troubleshooting, i've been doing this for three days now.

Context and previous issues: Hi, when I received my new PC a few months ago, I immediately updated everything, including the BIOS to the latest version. This caused boot loops, which I eventually managed to fix by clearing the CMOS, booting with one RAM stick, and then reinstalling the second stick. I also tried enabling the EXPO profile to run the RAM at its rated speed of 6000 MHz, but that caused boot loops I couldn't recover from, so I stopped using EXPO.

Main problem: Now I try to reboot the PC as little as possible, because I sometimes get random boot loops after either a cold boot or a normal restart. However, whenever I restart because of a Windows 11 update, the boot loop comes back 100% of the time, and I have to repeat the whole procedure: clear the CMOS and boot with one RAM stick.

Am I doomed to retrain the memory after every Windows update until the end of time? Thank you for your help.

• Gigabyte B650M GAMING WIFI6E
• AMD Ryzen 5 8400F
• Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32 Go (2 x 16 Go) 6000 MHz CL36
• Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 Ti WINDFORCE MAX OC 16G

I spent 3 months trying to figure out why the xbox app on my pc wasnt working i tried reinstalls full pc wipes everything and i finally figured out one day that port master was blocking the connection between xbox and its game servers whether this is intended or not i wanted to let people know so that they dont run into the same thing just uninstall portmaster or allow microsoft game services through its filters

Around three weeks ago I cleaned my PC with an air compressor (like I usually do). The problems started after that. Whenever I play games like Hell Let Loose and when I am near explosions or just major fights my monitor suddenly turns black and my PC fans go full speed. It only stops when I do a hard reset. I've come across a similar post, however with mutch newer hardware. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/s/XPi3l0BDk6 )

I checked if the PCIe cable is connected well to the gpu, the system gets good airflow, it's old components but in a new case.

I did Furmark test and managed to recreate the problem. Whenever I turn the furry object on it does it. I've also run the Userbenchmark test.

I also want to mention that I moved my PC to another room, but I dont think that it would affect it. Or I hope it doesn't.

UserBenchmarks: Game 18%, Desk 76%, Work 15%

CPU: Intel Core i5-3550 - 71.5%

GPU: Nvidia GTX 1650 - 18.6%

SSD: Adata SU630 240GB - 80.4%

SSD: Crucial MX500 1TB - 62.9%

USB: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 16GB - 4.8%

RAM: Kingston 99U5402-052.A00LF 4x4GB - 57.8%

MBD: Lenovo 3212A3G

Furmark test

First person Turning in vehicle is buttery smooth but using the mouse to look around is jittery

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5080

I9-13900k

32GB DDR5

970 EVO M.2

Logitec G203 or G305 mouse and even a PS5 controller

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Some games like squad, garrys mod warthunder dont do this, games like BF6 and planetside 2 Do.

CPU: 55C, 20% utilization

GPU: 40C, 13% utilzation, 2745MHz

Vram: 48C, 24% utilization, 15001MHz

Tested this on Planetside and seems not to matter which monitor its on.

It looks sort of like screen tearing but not really. You can see the edges of objects jitter or stutter only ehen moving the mouse. But if im driving a vehicle and turn to make the same motion its perfect. Ive tried every combination of Vsync, frame caps and low latency modes to try and sort it out but genuinely have no idea whats going on.

PC:

Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX

Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller

Windows 11

Wired Ethernet (15m UGREEN Cat 8)

Problem:

Roblox freezes every few seconds.

During freeze:

- ping spikes massively

- recv traffic spikes

- after freeze everything catches up

Other games (Valorant etc.) work normally.

Already tried:

- new Ethernet cable

- router reset

- DNS reset

- driver reinstall

- disabling Energy Efficient Ethernet

- disabling Green Ethernet

- changing Receive Buffers

- changing Flow Control

Hi All : )

If you have a moment please see if you might be able to help me.

I launch **Halo Infinite** on Steam, and it runs amazingly at 4K and have been playing for a few days completrly fine.

However, sice yeterday. After about 1 minute of playing, the screen either completely freezes on a frame or drops to a <1 FPS slideshow.

**The game is still running in the background:**

* Audio works perfectly.
* My inputs still work (I can shoot, move around, and click through menus blindly with my controller).
* Only the video output freezes/stalls.

# What I’ve Already Tried (None worked):

* **Cleared Caches:** Deleted Halo's Proton prefix (`compatdata`), Steam shader cache, and NVIDIA Vulkan caches.
* **Proton Versions:** Tested proton experimental and Ge-Proton.
* **In-Game Settings:** Disabled High-Res Textures DLC, capped FPS at 120 and lowered texture settings.
* **System/Launch Tweaks:** Raised `vm.max_map_count`, added `dxvk.halveNvidiaHVVHeap = True` in `dxvk.conf`, and tested `VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hacks`.
* **OS Rollback:** Rolled back Bazzite using `rpm-ostree rollback`.

Question:

Has anyone with an NVIDIA card on Bazzite / KDE Wayland found a fix for this specific video freezing bug in Halo Infinite? Is there a driver flag or launch command I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

When I try to play tlou part 1 on steam, a cmd window flashes for a split second and the game never launches, I troubleshooted the problem and could come up with no fixes. Lastly I checked the windows event viewer and this error is the problem:

Faulting application name: tlou-i.exe, version: 1.1.5.0, time stamp: 0x685bebe1

Faulting module name: tlou-i.exe, version: 1.1.5.0, time stamp: 0x685bebe1

Exception code: 0x80000003

Fault offset: 0x00000000011b44d0

Faulting process id: 0x31B8

After digging more a solution that I found was launching the game through a new windows profile, and the game ran perfectly over there with no errors, so hardware is not a problem, this has something to do with windows. Can someone help me out as I don't want to keep changing my profile just to play 1 game.

Hey everyone, I want to share a very rare, mind-boggling hardware experience

My PC was running perfectly fine 95% of the time. I could do heavy video editing, multitasking, and play almost any demanding AAA game with zero issues. Temperatures were icy cool.

However, there were exactly TWO games where my system completely choked: inZOI and Sword of Justice (逆水寒).

The moment I hit the login or loading screen of these two

The Insane Troubleshooting Journey:
Since the PC was shutting down completely, I naturally suspected software or

• Reinstalled Windows entirely: Did a clean install, but the issue remained.
• Checked Event Viewer: It showed absolutely nothing helpful—just the standard "Kernel-Power (Event ID 41)" error
• Swapped the PSU? Still reboots.
• Swapped the RAM? Still reboots.
• Swapped the Motherboard? Still reboots.
• Swapped the GPU? Still reboots.

At this point, I had literally replaced every single component in my PC and refreshed the entire OS, except for the CPU, which was a Ryzen 7 5700G. The issue just refused to go away.

The Plot Twist:
Before throwing my hands up, I decided to do one final crazy test. I pulled out my dedicated GPU entirely and plugged my monitor straight into the motherboard to run on the 5700G’s integrated graphics (iGPU).

Guess what? The PC NEVER rebooted again. It loaded into the login screens of both inZOI and Sword of Justice perfectly fine.

This left me incredibly confused. If the CPU was fine on iGPU, and my dedicated GPU was brand new, what was going on?

The Ultimate Fix:
I went out and bought a brand new Ryzen 7 5700X (kept everything else in the newly built system exactly the same). Put it in, booted up the PC, and fired up the two problematic games.

Boom. Fixed instantly. No reboots, no crashes. Both games now run flawlessly with the dedicated GPU.

The Diagnostic Conclusion:
It turns out my old Ryzen 7 5700G suffered from an extremely rare case of partial silicon degradation, specifically a faulty PCIe Lanes / I/O Die controller.

The CPU cores themselves were healthy (which is why it could edit videos and play other games), and the internal graphics bus was fine (which is why iGPU worked). However, modern heavy engines like Unreal Engine 5 (inZOI) trigger massive, sudden bursts of data and voltage spikes across the external PCIe lanes right at the login screen/shader compilation phase.

Because my CPU's PCIe controller was degraded, it couldn't handle that specific burst load from the dedicated GPU, lost stability for a split second, and triggered a hard hardware reset (auto-reboot). Because it happens at a hardware level instantly, Windows didn't even have time to register an error log in Event Viewer before the power cut.

It was an absolute nightmare to diagnose because "CPU failure" is usually an all-or-nothing thing, but this chip chose to be healthy for some tasks and broken for others.

Has anyone else ever encountered a CPU that was only "partially dead" like this? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Hello everyone,

I am experiencing a persistent and frustrating issue (

The game was running perfectly fine without any issues for a while. Then, it suddenly stopped working altogether and now throws a specific error code: 0x05.

(I will attach a screenshot of the error message to this post).

I have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this. Here is the complete list of everything I have already tried, with no success:

Permissions & Compatibility: Ran the game as Administrator and tried running it in Win7 Compatibility mode.

Security: Completely disabled my antivirus and Windows Defender/security systems.

System Updates: Updated all system drivers (GPU, etc.) and installed/updated all redistributable packages (Visual C++, DirectX).

Hardware/Inputs: Disabled and unplugged USB ports/devices to rule out any controller or input interference.

Save Files: Suspecting a corrupted save, I first renamed my save files, then deleted them entirely. I even downloaded save files from another website and placed them in the directory.

Game Versions: I re-downloaded the latest game update and applied it. When that didn't work, I downloaded completely newer versions/releases of the game, but the error persists.

Despite doing all of this, the 0x05 error will not go away. Has anyone encountered this sudden crash with this specific error code? Any advanced technical advice would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

System Specifications:

• OS: Windows 11
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (Laptop)
• RAM: 16 GB

Dealing with this texture pop in. Tried increasing Pool Size in the Engine.ini file, deleted all my INI files and re-generated them, changed every setting I could think of, downloaded custom INIs from Nexus.

Intel core i7 14700KF

RTX 5070 OC 12GB

32GB RAM

2TB Nvme M.2 ssd

Recently had a problem with slow startups. Turned put my m.2 ssd was not connected completely/correctly. Issues with slow startups and loading fixed, but another problem arose.

Now none of my games will run. No kingdom 2 crowns, no gta V, nothing. It seems to be a fullscreen issue since running kingdom in windowed mode runs just fine. It uses the gpu and runs smoothly. As soon as i switch to fullscreen mode my screens (2 iiyama 1920x1080 60hz) start flickering heavily to black and back and within 2 to 3 seconds the game crashes. Sometimes even the second screen crashes and windows reverts back to only my main screen.

HAGS and window optimization in graphics options have resulted in fixing the problem exactly one time, after which the problems have persisted however i put these options.

Latest drivers have been installed, uninstalled with ddu in windows safe mode and reinstalled again to no avail.

Dozens of cold restarts were attempted but nothong seems to work. Any idea?

My game (elden ring) randomly starts crashing with a black screen and after it crashes once it non stop crashes after a few seconds after starting the game, if i restart my pc i can normally play for some time before it crashes again and the cycle repeats, i tried re installing my graphics drivers but it didnt help, i have a windows 10 could that be an issue? Is there a solution

Computer: Lenovo OS: Cachy OS. Game:Cs2

I tried restarting both the game and the PC but nothing, can anyone help me?

I tried stretch res for marvel rivals with cru and now my screen is black, I used low res start on recuperation mode and isn't working, any ideas?

So, RL/other games run fine for a little bit, but then after a few minutes or what feels like there's too much stress on my laptop, my frames drop below hell, and I get the disconnected warning, and/or a high latency warning, and I get ping high above 900. I tried recording my network stats but Snipping tool crashes when my frames give up on me. The benchmark should give specs. I have a Levovo Ideapad Flex 5i. I tried searching up this question and disabled OneDrive in task manager startup and set leisure power save on my Wi-Fi driver to low, but that didn't help. I have no idea what to do next.

User Benchmark (Tree trunk for gaming): Lenovo 82Y1 Performance Results - UserBenchmark

Hello everyone,

I'm noticing that while playing FC26 (Maybe it's because of the heat inside my house) but the cpu in the game moves between 81 and 85°C, I understand that it's a CPU bound title but I think that's very hot.

During the loading of the shaders it reaches 92°C.

I list the specifications of my pc.

Graphic settings:

3840x2160, all on ultra with RT on and limited to 240fps

Case : Antec C8

MB: Gigabyte Aorus Elite B850 ICE Wifi7

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3d

GPU: Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme OC RTX 5090 Waterforce

DRAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 (16x2) 6000mhz CL36

AIO: Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro RGB

Fans: 4x Arctic P14 Pro RGB SSD: Samsung NVMe 990 Pro 2Tb

PSU: Corsair RM1000X

Monitor: Asus Rog PG27UCDM

Keyboard: Trust GXT 871 Zora

Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero

Pad: Gamesir G7 Pro

Speakers: Edifier MR4

Air comes in passin through the Gpu AIO at maximum speed, fans are on the floor pullin the air in and the CPU AIO takes the hot air out

Please, I am not asking you for opinions on the game in question but simply a tip to better understand this overheating.

hey all, my dead by daylight stopped opening recently for no apparent reason. there was an update today which ive installed but i had the issue before today anyway. i originally thought it was an easy anti cheat issue but from what ill explain later i dont think it is anymore. to clarify on "stopped opening": when i click play from steam the easyanticheat loader does its thing and then dead by daylight starts like normal. it then loads up to the main menu where usually you would press space to play but rather than that it pops up with an error "steam offline. your status in steam is currently offline. all game functionality is unavailable under these circumstances. please make sure your internet connection and steam connection is active." I will now try to compile everything ive tried so far under this paragraph.

things ive tried already:
I've already restarted my PC and fully restarted Steam through Task Manager, verified the integrity of the game files multiple times, repaired and reinstalled Easy Anti-Cheat (including doing a factory reset and manually reinstalling the EOS service), cleared Steam's download cache, tried launching the game with high priority, and completely disabled ReShade by renaming the dxgi.dll and related files. My internet connection is working fine, Steam is definitely online (not in Offline Mode and no VPN is active), and Easy Anti-Cheat now loads to 100% without errors. The Steam Overlay also doesn't work in Dead by Daylight (Shift+Tab does nothing), and the game reaches the main menu before showing the "Steam Offline" message. After reinstalling EAC, the error briefly changed to "Easy Anti-Cheat not installed," but reinstalling the service fixed that and it went straight back to the original "Steam Offline" error. I also noticed there doesn't appear to be a steam_api64.dll in the game's Win64 folder, although I'm not sure if that's normal for the current version.

if anyone could offer any assistance it would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I have a very strange visual bug happening sometimes with my mouse cursor. The last time it happened I quickly did a screen record only to find that the video does not show the bug happening.

The first couple times it happened was when I simply dragged a new edge window to my other monitor. The screen flickered a couple times and then the cursor bugged. I thought it was a bug relating to edge? So I swapped back to firefox and it did not happened again until today.

This time around I simply had firefox open, and then i launched curseforge (minecraft launcher) from the start menu.

I recently upgraded from a 3060 12GB to a 5070, which is when it started happening.

Drivers for the 3060 were removed using DDU and have since been updated on release for the 5070 using the NVIDIA app.

I tried to look up whats happening, but I'm not even sure how to describe the bug other than visual artifacting / bugging. The cursor is not accurate to its location on screen, the cursor does not show the correct visual for the type of action (text cursor over text, action (hand) cursor over actionables, default over nothing - its all wrong).

I have tried different ports on the GPU.

Setup:
1x 1440 Monitor
1x 4K TV
PNY 5070
i5-12400k
B660M DS3H DDR4

Here is what I had today: [https://imgur.com/a/TDiY27Z\](https://imgur.com/a/TDiY27Z)

Is this something I might be able to find in the event viewer? I can only imagine it is a hardware issue as it started after the GPU swap.

Any advice or insight would be appreciated. Thanks

Was just browsing on Firefox when it randomly stopped moving my cursor and the windows key or anything Wasn't responding, I pressed the reset button on my computer to get it working again but after that happened, the resolution and refresh rate got reset to 1080p60hz (my monitor is 4k165hz), i was able to change it back to 4k but now its locked out and i still can't change the Hz, not even an option I can pick is showing.

It doesn't recognise that the Monitor supports HDR or VRR despite it very much being able to do them.

It seems to have also uninstalled the AMD drivers as well (says "Microsoft Basic Render Driver" now) and it prompts me with a Update required and Download & Install, which installs it and then shows the same prompt again as if it didnt just do it.

What I find most strange is that it only recognises my CPU integrated graphics, but not my dedicated GPU despite the HDMI cable being connected directly to it.

I really not sure what's going on, maybe something I did wrong when I built it 2 months ago (first time build) but i feel that would have happened much much sooner than 2 months later.

Any help to figure this out would be appreciated 👏

Edit: my specs are-

Ryzen 7 9700x

9070xt

32gb 5600MT/s

2TB micron p510

Asrock B850M Pro RS

Edit 2: I've fixed it, all I had to do was uninstall the AMD App, restart the pc, reinstall the AMD app and install the drivers again.

For years I've played vrchat on win11 but i havent been able to use my setup recently due to needing a better usb controller. (PSVR2+ Venti face tracker+ rift CV1/w oculus touch link for the controllers)

i got super excited after i got the money to afford a better motherboard, sadly my dual gpu setup wont work without forcing the driver to not update so thats out of the picture until i get a 4050 or 3050.

But weirdly enough, i think all my temps are good, but 15 minutes after i play any game now, the pc freezes and shuts itself off. I know the processor is burnt on the bottom and am wondering if i could possibly even out thermal paste under the processor to help with some of that heat? (All air cooled) i can still return the motherboard so i need replies asap

Yes I've tried undervolting

I5-14600k (i get it blah blah blah instability, even chatgpt know this)

Ddr5-6000(5600 no xmp)

4070TI-SUPER OC EAGLE (tried running a 1050 as a physX accelerator)

Startech 4x usb 3.0 to pcie x4

Z790 gaming wifi7 (b760m DS3H AX was the board that was fine playing games but bluescreans with VR, first z-90 board ive ever had. I am used to playing with low power dell machines. )