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I built/purchased this PC approximately one month ago and had been using it heavily without any issues. Prior to 6/2/26, I played a significant amount of Diablo IV, which is a fairly demanding game, and experienced no crashes, freezes, or stability problems. System Specifications GPU: ASRock AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Challenger Triple Fan 16GB GDDR6 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi (R2/USB4) RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 Storage: WD Black SN850X 2TB NVMe SSD PSU: Lian Li SP850 850W 80+ Platinum Fully Modular CPU Cooler: Corsair Nautilus 360 RS ARGB 360mm AIO OS: Windows 11 Around 6/2/26, I started playing Minecraft modpacks (primarily Cobbleverse) and began experiencing complete system freezes. The crashes have continued since then and appear to occur primarily while gaming. PC crash / AMD driver troubleshooting done so far BIOS / motherboard Updated BIOS on ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E. Disabled EXPO in BIOS for stability testing. Kept BIOS settings more stock/default while troubleshooting. AMD driver / GPU driver Used DDU multiple times for clean AMD driver installs. Installed AMD driver with internet/Wi-Fi disconnected. Tried at least one previous AMD driver version , not just the newest. Noticed Windows was automatically reinstalling/replacing a different AMD display driver. Turned off Windows automatic driver updates through: Group Policy: Do not include drivers with Windows Updates Device Installation Settings: No Registry command: ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate = 1 Rolled back the driver after Windows replaced it. Checked/used AMD Adrenalin after reinstall. Saw AMD Software break/mismatch after Windows replaced the driver. AMD software / GPU settings Turned off Enhanced Sync . Turned off AMD overlay features. Turned off Instant Replay / recording features. Reset AMD shader cache. Tried underclocking GPU. Set a custom GPU fan curve. Checked VRAM/GPU tuning settings in AMD Software. Windows / system repair Ran SFC /scannow . Ran DISM/system file repair steps. Restarted after Windows repairs. Checked Event Viewer. Checked for Kernel-Power / unexpected shutdown events. Noted there was no normal blue screen dump because it was freezing/hard crashing, not BSODing. Overlays / background apps Disabled Steam overlay . Disabled Discord overlay . Disabled AMD overlay . Disabled Xbox Game Bar . Turned off Windows captures/recording. Uninstalled Razer Cortex . Uninstalled unnecessary RGB/control apps like Armoury Crate . Currently using Discord in browser instead of the desktop app. Game-specific steps Repaired Overwatch/game files. Tested crashes while playing Overwatch. Previously had crashes mostly in Cobbleverse/Minecraft. Considered whether Cobbleverse/hosting/server RAM/modpack issues were involved. Reset shader cache before testing games again.
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