Blizzard and AMD, please can you fix the constant Windowss 10 AMD driver crashes occurring on the Battle.net desktop client? It's been three months already...
I am one of quite a few gamers that has been experiencing consistent (at least once a day) AMD driver crashes which I have linked to conflicts with AMD's driver software and the Battle.net desktop client.What happens is that the computer will freeze, the screen will turn black, and then get a 'Display driver stopped responding and has recovered' error message pop up several times.If this occurs while playing WoW, it will glitch out the UI graphics, forcing me to reboot the game. If this occurs in any other game with the Battle.net desktop open in the background, the game freezes entirely. If this occurs on the desktop, everything will still function as normal after the crash.I have done lots of things in an attempt to resolve the issue including:Uninstalling and reinstalling the latest graphics drivers. I have even used software to remove old drivers. Despite having the latest drivers, this hasn't solved the issue.Doing repair installs of each Blizzard game, to no effect.Making registry edits to increase the GPU delay before it attempts to reboot. This has only prolonged the freezes before the device driver reboots.Disabling the Battle.net desktop client completely when I have a game open.Disabling all non-Windows startup processes through the Task Manager and MSInfo32.Chkdsk and Memory tests. No issues have come up.Disabling all non-essential startup processes, and disabling the desktop client while a game is running has seemingly resolved the issue.However, ever since I've re-enabled the Battle.net desktop client to run in the background, the crashes have continued. Due to the fact that the Battle.net desktop client has been running every time this crash has occurred, I can say with confidence that the Battle.net desktop client is the problem here.I am not the only one experiencing this issue. Far from it.Here is a thread dating back to April this year of loads of people experiencing crashes on AMD graphics cards. Almost everybody experiencing this issue is using Windows 10, and has an AMD graphics card. I even have the R9 270 X card, which is the most referenced GPU in that thread.Blizzard has made no response so far to the above thread, and although I have been in touch with their CS (which have been very helpful thus far), I still feel like there is significant evidence of this being a bug with the desktop client.