Haven’t had any more issues on 2nd day of playing either, and I had another game that was also impacted by this same problem that is running fine now as well.
Hopefully the next Pro drivers included whatever they did to fix this so I can use those instead.
I would think if there was still an issue someone would have had a crash by now.
I am going to update my drivers and be back here in a week if everything is still good.
Hi
I have this wierd setup
.- Mac Mini 2018 i7 64 GB RAM (bootcamp, Windows 10 fully updated)
.- eGPU Razer Chroma X
.- Sapphire RX 6800 Pulse (upgrading a Sapphire Readon Vega 64 Nitro+)
Actually trying to play Lost Ark and Hogwarts Legacy
With the Vega everything is OK with every driver.
With RX 6800… a nightmare. The best performace was acchieved with Pro driver 2022.Q4, whose driver is 22.5.1 recompiled oct. 25, 2022. The original 22.5.1 is apr. 28 2022.
But that 2022.Q4 driver is still unstable in my setup. Sometimes you could be playing 2 hours, then the PC is freezed and from that just enter Lost Ark, launch the character and exit. No matter the number of reboots, including reinstaling the driver. With that driver Hogwarts Legacy is just wonderfull.
With the new driver 23.2.1 it is difficult to make things work the first times, unengine superposition benchmark crahses from the beginning… but reinstaling the driver it finally works. From that moment Lost Ark works fine. No hungs, smooth, loading times reduced… perfect.
But Hogwarts Legacy gets a dramatical downgrade in performace. FPS drops to unacceptable in in-game movements (no figthing) and, which is worst, the quality of the render of your avatar is, by far, worst that the one done with the Vega! It seems that in 23.2.1 driver some brand new functions have been cut to make “old” games perform well with this card, sacrifying the new ones.
So, my piece of advice is to install this card if your setup is far beyond the specification requeriments for the new games, but if you are upgrading to RX 6800 to get raytracing properly in a 2018 PC don’t do it. In that case 23.2.1 driver seems the solution to Lost Ark problems, and the beggining of new ones for others.
I have been trying it hard for a week, but there is no way.
I will sen RX 6800 back.
just had hard freeze on windows 11 latest update with 23.2.1, the hope is lost
it worked fine on windows 10 21H2 tho, now do I rollback windows or drivers 
Weird, still hasn’t happened to me.
Did you try to DDU after the windows update?
I did clean windows 11 installation, DDU (I usually put GPU drivers on USB stick then install them first, then I plug internet, but this time I forgot so I had to DDU), checked prevent windows update from downloading, then installed clean 23.2.1. I will try for few more days to see how often it’s gonna happen
AMD changed the DirectX 11 code path for the 6000 series after 22.5.1… 22.Q3 and 22.Q4 are based on a driver after 22.5.1, so they will both hang in Lost Ark and a few other games.
Can’t really comment on Hogwarts, 23.2.1 is supposed to specifically improve performance in that game, but I don’t own it/haven’t played it.
I have taken the driver version from TRIXX. In 22Q4 it sais 2.5.1 with the new date.
May be TRIXX is buggy in the date.
I still have the same problems but its working with Full Screen and Radeon Chill. Its annoying when you do adventure Tome to Tab out but the Game do not freeze and you can play. I have win 10 and a 6600. Hope it helps.
I’ve read the whole topic, I’m “glad” that there are more people with the same problem lol.
I just haave an RX570 but i have the same behavior: any adrenaline version newer than 22.5.1 crashes my game, or gives random freezes. I hope AMD or Lost Ark gives us a fix someday in the near future…
Ryzen 5 5600G
32GB RAM
W10 22H2
Latest drivers 23.2.1 may or may not fix it. I am hoping if it works or anyone has any issues, they will post here.
only 1 hard freeze in 3 days, it’s looking much better than before where I had to restart PC 5 times per day, I am happy overall
edit: another day without problems, looking really good
im with the same issues after install w11, any news about this?
the hard freezing problem seems to be gone with latest 23.2.1 drivers @WallySans
if you don’t have latest drivers download DDU, uninstall old drivers and install the latest
Make sure to check the “Prevent windows from automatically install drivers” (or something like that, it’s the last option)… square in DDU options
I have this problem with gefroce now. Freeze happens so often it’s triggering.
can you tell more details? is it only in lost ark? what exactly happens? did you check event viewer? what are you other specs?
I have ultimate membership on geforce now and my game closes without any error or screen freeze like 5 times a day up to 15 times some other days.
from what I gathered people usually fixed the problem on NVIDIA cards with: updating bios, disabling XMP profile, changing video settings in game, disabling overlays, reinstalling the game/verifying files, and if nothing works switching to DirectX 9 should fix your problem.
It’s been months since this problem persists. I still get my PC locked after 2-3 hours