AMD has fastened a nasty bug in Home windows 11 (and 10) which causes all kinds of unpredictable points, together with the dreaded Blue Display of Dying (BSOD), with the remedy coming as a part of its newest graphics driver.

That might be the Adrenalin model 23.3.1 driver, which as AMD notes (opens in new tab) resolves a bug that triggers “intermittent driver timeout, system freeze or BSOD” with “choose shows.”

The repair, nevertheless, is only for RDNA Three GPUs in the meanwhile (the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT). As Neowin (opens in new tab) factors out, this situation additionally impacts previous-gen AMD graphics playing cards (just like the RX 6000 vary), and since solely RX 7000 playing cards are talked about within the driver launch notes, presumably the repair for older GPUs remains to be to come back.

In the meantime, there’s a workaround of kinds for many who are nonetheless encountering this bug. In principle, the issue lies within the Multi-plane Overlay (MPO), which is a part of the Home windows Show Driver Module (v1.3), and Neowin explains that the problem has been round since January 2023.

The rationale for that sturdy suspicion is that in the event you flip off MPO – sadly that requires  a Registry tweak, which isn’t for the faint-hearted – the issue seems to resolve itself (at the least in some reported circumstances).

Evaluation: MPO wants some severe consideration?

One factor to notice is that whereas this bug sounds significantly nasty – and it actually will be, given the listed results – at the least the worst manifestations, specifically these full lock-ups and BSODs, are comparatively uncommon. (Timeouts are extra seemingly, that are irritating, however not almost as a lot of a blow).

Though in fact, you don’t need any probability of a tough crash occurring in a great world. Since Home windows 10, the likes of system freezes or blue screens have change into a lot rarer (fortunately). Gone are the times when full-blown crash and burns have been a comparatively widespread expertise for Home windows customers.

As to when AMD will clean issues over for many who don’t personal a cutting-edge RDNA Three graphics card, time will inform. Hopefully people in that boat received’t have lengthy to attend, because the workaround will not be actually appropriate for many who aren’t assured sufficient with PCs to move into the Registry and do some tinkering. (A flawed step within the Registry can result in very unhealthy issues occurring along with your PC, so at all times bear that in thoughts).

On a broader degree, MPO – a characteristic designed to take some load off the GPU and CPU – has skilled a fairly rocky time of issues, and been labeled as the reason for a great many different bugs and display-related oddities. It looks like part of Home windows that wants an overhaul, in brief, or we may discover more odd bugs just like the one AMD has (partially) stamped out manifesting themselves down the road.

As a ultimate word, in case you are updating to AMD’s driver model 23.3.1, be very cautious within the course of, as in sure circumstances, a uncommon however really dire downside can come up on set up – specifically your PC getting bricked.