RX 580/590 driver issue question for users still using that card

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AWT 12 hours ago

Hi.

I'm trying to help a friend whose RX590 has the same issue mine used to have (I no longer have that card), it's quite a common issue.
His card is randomly crashing - not often, but occasionally. It happens more frequently while (or shortly after) playing certain Ubisoft games (he mostly plays The Crew 2, but I experienced the same issue particularly often with AC Origins and other Ubisoft titles).
I managed to solve the problem by downgrading the drivers to version 20.12.1 (when I still had the card).
Since that driver version is extremely old now, does anyone who experienced the same issues on certain driver versions know of a much newer one (ideally a recent one) that doesn't have these issues?

Thanks in advance

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smallcat 12 hours ago

i had issues with AC Origins .Not sure whether it was the game or a storage issue(SSD quirk , not popular brand SATA) . After a long session of game play - 5 hours for instance , trying to quit the game froze the whole PC . Have never had such an issue with any other game . The GPU was NVidia. i finished the game .i like it but not willing to replay it ever .

Dusk of Oolacile 8 hours ago

Polaris has been abandoned eons ago, like AMD usually does. Your best bet is using Linux and the open source driver, which still has support.

Blaagh 5 hours ago

no driver in the world can help if the thermal paste is dry and the grills dirty. did he clean it up? undervolting the card would also help I guess

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AmaiAmai 5 hours ago

Originally posted by Dusk of Oolacile:
Polaris has been abandoned eons ago, like AMD usually does. Your best bet is using Linux and the open source driver, which still has support.

It's not abandoned, they can still send feedback and the driver will get patched. The thing is that the driver is not on a regular release window and the patch date will be ~6 months or so, if it is a CVE the driver may be patched far sooner than that.

The driver was patched recently for MH: Wilds and other games that came out this year.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/graphics/radeon-600-500-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-590.html

Anyway send feedback and someone will look at it. What unsupported means at AMD is not the same as Nvidia or anyone else, it just means that a driver update is not on the release schedule that the other ones are and you won't get drivers with per-game optimisation on game releases.

Edit: Driver version btw for Win 10/11 Latest Adrenalin 25.8.1 (WHQL Recommended) AUGUST 2025

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