Stopping crashes on Sapphire Pure Polar RX 9070 XT in R6 Siege
The random crashes were driving me insane, especially when the screen would just go black in the middle of a breach. The Sapphire Pure Polar RX 9070 XT core was hitting thermal limits under heavy load, causing I/O response times to skyrocket from 10ms to over 500ms. I tried the latest AMD Beta drivers, but that actually made it worse, giving me a couple of BSODs—a total failure. I decided to just roll back to the previous stable driver version and locked the PCIe link speed to Gen4 in the BIOS. Running an AIDA64 stress test, the read latency stopped swinging between 20-60ms and settled at a clean 8-12ms. I did lose some of the 'new' performance features from the Beta driver, but I managed to claw some back by manually tweaking the shader cache. Core temps are now steady at 65-72℃ with fans at 1500 RPM. The crashes are gone, and the mouse input finally feels connected to the game again.
