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IIRC were some problems with the Linux drivers for Navi 1.0 that continued for about a year after launch. Supposedly those have been fixed.

My Vega 56 has been perfectly stable and trouble-free for years.



As a Navi 10 (5700 XT) owner, those problems still exist. It used to be that at least once a week while gaming the driver would crash with some undecipherable error message in dmesg, and because the card had the reset bug the only recourse was to reboot the machine entirely. 4 years later the only thing that's changed is that the crash shows up less frequently (I'd say once every 3 months).


Have you ruled out power supply issues and are you running at stock clocks (for CPU and RAM as well)?

Anyway, going from "at least once a week" to "once every 3 months" means that 90% of your crashes have been fixed.

> with some undecipherable error message in dmesg

What kind of message would you expect that would be more decipherable.


> Have you ruled out power supply issues and are you running at stock clocks (for CPU and RAM as well)?

Yes for both. No overclocking whatsoever.

> Anyway, going from "at least once a week" to "once every 3 months" means that 90% of your crashes have been fixed.

I don't think I'm supposed to be ok with a device I paid premium money for crashing once every three months with no explanation from the manufacturer. They could've fixed 99% for all I care, it's still absurd that it's even an issue in the first place.

> What kind of message would you expect that would be more decipherable.

One that would lead me to an actual solution or at least an explanation, not just year old threads of people reporting this exact issue with replies saying it was fixed in kernel version X, where X is different for each thread.


Are you using Debian or Ubuntu LTS? LTS distros with older kernels are a separate beast when it comes to hardware support.




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