Improving stability for Sapphire RX 7650 GRE in Tomb Raider?
Every time I entered a new ruin, the screen would just go black for three seconds, followed by the dreaded 'driver stopped responding' pop-up. After the third time, I was genuinely stressed. My hardware specs should be plenty for this, yet the stability was trash, making me suspect a deep API compatibility clash. I tried disabling Ray Tracing, but the crashes kept happening with a 15-20ms response lag—just a complete waste of time. I finally decided to use DDU to nuking every single registry remnant and installed a specific stable driver version, locking the core voltage at 1.08V. On the monitor, the GPU clock finally settled between 2300-2450 MHz with temps at 67°C - 72°C. Even after the reinstall, I had some minor stutters until I disabled 'Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling' in Windows; then, response time finally dropped below 8ms. VRAM usage is now steady at 7.1-7.6GB, and the fan curve kicks in at 60°C. The logic is finally closed and the input lag is gone, though the process was a total headache.
