Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval View Post
I'm thinking perhaps older drivers will do the trick but then the performance of games will suffer. Weird issue that cannot be solved.
The whole performance of games thing really depends in my opinion and experience. My RX 480 got several drivers that improved some performance somewhere but while I don't even own most of the specifically optimized AAA titles anyway, I didn't really notice the general insreases much either. Mostly the fps are all over the place anyway and whether it dipd from 43 to 41 or down to 41 for a split second is hardly something you notice while you play the game. It looks good in statistics and it's good that they do it, but in my experience it barely ever feels like a game changer. If you want a game changer, buy a more powerful GPU.

Of course it's possible that the newest AAA titles are so terribly programmed/optimized that the drivers can make them "up to 30% faster", which can really refer to very specific and rare situations or to the average fps during a whole storyline, but I was rarely able to find out historically.

So if I had to choose between 1-2 fps less in a few games and having my computer crash all the time with potentially damaging effects to my hardware, I wouldn't really hesitate to go back to the older driver.