Why does my Vastarmor Radeon RX 9070 XT crash in Genshin Impact?

I was just exploring Teyvat when the game would suddenly vanish and dump me back to the desktop without any error code. The Vastarmor Radeon RX 9070 XT Super Alloy PRO was only using 6-8GB of VRAM, but it looked like the driver was hitting a TDR timeout during specific shader calls. I tried lowering the graphics settings, but the crash happened in the exact same spot every time, which made me really paranoid about the hardware. I used DDU in Safe Mode to scrub every trace of the old AMD drivers and installed a community-vetted stable version, then manually deleted 3.5GB of old shader cache. Checking Event Viewer, the frequent 4101 error codes finally disappeared, and I've played for 8 hours straight without a single hitch. The game took an extra 30 seconds to boot up the first time because it was recompiling everything, but it was worth the wait. Temps are stable at 62-68℃ with fans at 1300 RPM, and VRAM is at 58-63℃.
Category:Hardware Peripherals Last updated:April 4, 2026 3:10 PM