AMD Adrenalin forcing me to use its fan control and OC problems

[mystic sand]

No matter how many times i disable fan control in Adrenalin, it forces it to be enabled. Since OC/undervolting is in the same tab it also resets all my settings.

I want to keep Adrenalin installed because of FSR4 or AFMF, but I think i will soon uninstall it completely if this problem is not resolved.

People have been talking about this for years and it's not fixed.

edit: also drivers tend to "time out" while playing.

CPU: 7800x3d
GPU: 9070xt

[sturdy knoll]

If it's resetting then you have system instability, the reset occurs due to windows reporting a fault and adrenaline is explicitly designed to check for those faults and reset if one is detected, so it's windows reporting the issue and adrenaline doing what it's designed to do in the event.

This is typically caused by memory in most cases, physical ram having exceptionally high failure rates (ddr5) compared to previous gens, with that added issue that people are setting "expo/xmp" settings and believing that everything is 100% stable when it isn't.

Check your event viewer and see if there are any report kernel 41 errors (power failure/incomplete shutdowns). if ANYTHING triggers a "critical" event, (41 being included), this will also trigger a reset.

If you're seeing anything listed there, then you have an overall system problem. Timeouts predominantly are caused by this instability, it's not a driver fault, it's doing what it's intended to do, and the symptom is a classic example of there being a problem, therefore it's entirely up to you to narrow down EXACTLY what's causing it to rectify what's causing your critical event (often hardware failure or issue, like i said, predominantly physical ram being the issue, but it could be literally anything, even down to the motherboard being the cause).

[mystic sand]

I have no critical events in my event viewer. Even if I'm not doing the OC/Undervolt Adrenalin enables fan settings which i don't want, since i prefer FanControl

[sturdy knoll]

you should NOT have 3rd party programs installed that directly control fans...

[mystic sand]

elaborate

and to clarify, the drivers never timed out with oc/undervolt (it was just disabling itself after reboot or a while), it happens rarely especially in forza horizon 5 or lately happened once in kcd1

[torpid flume]

disable your memory OC and other potential tuning changes you may have applied, see if it continues.

[sturdy knoll]

disable fast startup in the power options of windows.

One should not be using things like afterburner or 3rd party fan control software that directly interferes with the adrenaline software, stuff like that is often caused by that, it's a predominant issue.

[mystic sand]

so fancontrol could disable my oc?

[torpid flume]

due to it interfering with the AMD Software, yeah

[mystic sand]

i could check that, but it happens so rarely

[mystic sand]

i just checked now, I dont control gpu fans anymore with 3rd party software, and it still resets

i disabled gpu fan since it was bugging

[torpid flume]

yep, uninstall it

[mystic sand]

i use it for case fans and aio

[torpid flume]

same goes for Gigabyte Control Center, Asus Armoury Crate and alike.

[mystic sand]

dont have those

[torpid flume]

you can set them in BIOS or other software, depending on the brand and how you connected them.

if they're normal PWM ones, use BIOS

[mystic sand]

but why would i use OTHER software?

it's still software right

if i don't control gpu fans anymore via 3rd party software, then why is it resetting the settings in adrenalin

[torpid flume]

because Adrenaline controls your GPU fans

they fight over control, and the exact thing you describe happens.

[mystic sand]

i dont use any soft for gpu

[torpid flume]

did u uninstall fancontrol by now?

[mystic sand]

No, i use it for other fans

the sensor is disabled there

I remembered now that I did my gpu fan settings in bios

went into adrenalin and Disabled fan settings there

and yet they still are turning on

on a flat 30%

[torpid flume]

wym

you need to be more specific

[mystic sand]

alright, then what do you want me to elaborate on

please ping/reply me because im not getting notifications

[torpid flume]

the exact behaviour you want and settings currently applied

[mystic sand]

behavior i want: bios gpu fan set, adrenalin gpu fan disabled

actual behavior: adrenalin gpu fans enables by itself at flat 30% curve and overriding my bios settings

or gpu fan randomly going full blast

[torpid flume]

you cant set GPU fans in BIOS.

[torpid flume]

either leave fans as they are configured out of the box, or control them via Adrenaline.

[mystic sand]

okay sorry i remembered wrong

either way when i once tried setting fan curve in adrenalin it still reset to 30% flat curve

[torpid flume]

uninstall fan control

[mystic sand]

fan control doesnt control my gpu fans.

[torpid flume]

it can still cause issues. try it.

[mystic sand]

Mate, the sensor there is completely disabled and not recognized

[torpid flume]

ok

[mystic sand]

but to the point, my oc with fan curves in adrenalin are disabling itself even if the oc is like 1% or whatever

even without oc, fan curves are resetting