u/Shotay3

I had tons of issues with my 7900XTX lately. It wasn't clear as day, occassional crashes, driver timeouts, the usual that probably still will happen. But something was weird, crashes happened more often and many games, like Helldivers 2 suddenly started crashing randomly a lot as well.
(I know it has a thing to crash for many).

But 3 weeks ago, I even had my first crashes in my beloved simracing games, which is hella annoying to lose Driver and Safety Rank, due to a game crash.

I was tinkering with everything, driver settings, cleaned everything with DDU, again, and again... after this whole year already many times. There was even a clean windows installation in between, I turned my DDR overclock down, I tried basically everything.

Sometimes I thought it's a little more stable, but the occassional timeout still came after a while.

But some crashes tended to get worse, I was actually fearing my 7900XTX might be dying on me. Now it even started happening on desktop, very briefly, an occassional black screen. Just for a mere second.

First time was a little shock, second time started to piss me off, than once watching movies.

Well, after 2 weeks and 2 or 3 more, maybe once a day blackscreens I decided to buy 2 new displayport cables for 2 of my 3 monitors.

What shall I say?!

It might be a placebo, but not only could I play all games all day long. I kind of have a weird feeling that my old cable caused a very, very little bit more stutter? Like, some framedrops??

Everything almost feels smoother... like, to a very, very small degree.

So here is my reminder, check your Displayport cables, this one was a tad bit older by now, maybe 8 years or something. Seems like it was causing issues, and I mean, causing issues to basically make my system crash. Couldn't trust to keep it running when I had 3 driver timeouts in a row.

I really wonder, if all the problem solving, those hours of fixing were all wasted, just because one of my DP cables seemingly has an issue.