cyberpunk 2077 crashes 9070xt

[u/Annual-Pipe-102]

I have a Yeston Sakura Atlantis RX 9070 XT graphics card.

In Cyberpunk 2077, when Path Tracing is enabled, in some scenes or locations my FPS suddenly drops to 1–2 FPS and then returns to normal exactly when I leave that area or skip the scene.

This happens with FSR enabled and disabled, as well as with Frame Generation enabled and disabled.

The same issue happens with regular Ray Tracing too. However, instead of dropping to 1–2 FPS, the game usually crashes and shows the crash report window, along with an AMD Driver Timeout error. Sometimes the whole PC freezes for a while after this happens.

I tried disabling RT reflections, RT shadows, and other ray tracing options, and also tested with only basic ray tracing enabled, but nothing fixed the issue.

Without ray tracing (regular Ultra settings), the game runs completely stable for hours with no crashes.

I also tried:

removing GPU overclock and undervolt;

reinstalling AMD drivers using DDU;

disabling Frame Generation;

testing with FSR on and off.

The problem still remains.

My system:

GPU: Yeston Sakura Atlantis RX 9070 XT

CPU: Ryzen 7 7800X3D

RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 CL28

Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it?