Adrenaline keeps forgeting tuning settings

[deiks]

Hi,

I’m having the issue with my Adrenaline Software with my RX 6900 XT card.

In my case the issue is that when I run some games, it’s gonna freeze it until the game crashes. In some cases it lasts too long that I have to force reboot via restart button because my PC becomes unresponsive.

In my games list there are CS:GO 2 (which is easy task for this card), and also Flight Simulator 2024 that I run in 2K with High details (demanding).

The error that I get when it crashes is:

For my setup, I always use Performance > Tuning and I set Max Frequency to 1825 (base clock), and I never go beyond that. It works fine, my GPU is not heating much, fans are pretty ok, I’m happy.

However, the issue is that for some reasons, Adrenaline can’t keep this setting active. Almost everytime when I restart PC, or randomly, it will switch back to “Default” profile. It’s very frustrating when I start the game, and if I forget to check active profile, it freezes. After restart, and setting proper frequency, it just works fine, and it’s all about active settings.

Also, I have tried with creating Game profiles for the games, but doesn’t help. Profiles are there but not activated automatically.

Any help?

Thanks.

[radosuaf]

Did you disable Fast Startup in Windows?

[deiks]

Hi @radosuaf

I’m not sure, I have to check when I get home.

Out of curiosity, how is that related?

Thanks.

[radosuaf]

It does not fully clean the system when closing,redtarting, just hibernates it and it causes issues with overclocking settings.

[betrayerofhope]

Did disabling Fast Startup help? My setup also wouldn’t hold the GPU Tuning settings, then one day I updated the driver and it did stick. Just started working for no obvious reason. I’m glad, but still sucks that we just have to hope for winning the driver lottery. Wasn’t listed as something the driver fixed, either.

[deiks]

@betrayerofhope

Did disabling Fast Startup help?

Nope. Still the same issue, equally annoying.

[HENRY0987]

I had a similar issue on my Radeon system. In my case, disabling Windows Fast Startup and performing a clean driver installation helped, but it’s also worth checking if another tuning utility is overriding Adrenalin’s settings. Exporting your tuning profile is a good backup while troubleshooting since this behavior has affected multiple driver versions.

[diansmith]

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@deiks

For my setup, I always use Performance > Tuning and I set Max Frequency to 1825 (base clock), and I never go beyond that. It works fine, my GPU is not heating much, fans are pretty ok, I’m happy.

However, the issue is that for some reasons, Adrenaline can’t keep this setting active. Almost everytime when I restart PC, or randomly, it will switch back to “Default” profile. It’s very frustrating when I start the game, and if I forget to check active profile, it freezes. After restart, and setting proper frequency, it just works fine, and it’s all about active settings.

Also, I have tried with creating Game profiles for the games, but doesn’t help. Profiles are there but not activated automatically.

Any help?

Thanks.

Try saving the tuning profile manually and disabling Fast Startup; Adrenalin can sometimes reset custom GPU settings after reboots or driver changes.

[aard]

I would treat the Adrenalin profile resetting and the crashes as potentially related, but I wouldn’t assume that the 1825 MHz setting is the only cause. An RX 6900 XT should not normally require a custom frequency just to run games reliably.

One thing I’d try first is a completely clean driver installation. AMD currently lists Adrenalin 26.8.1 (WHQL Recommended) for the RX 6900 XT, released August 20, 2026. If you’re on an older driver, update to that version and, if the problem persists, use AMD Cleanup Utility before reinstalling. AMD specifically provides the Cleanup Utility for removing previous Radeon software/drivers before a fresh installation.

After reinstalling, I’d leave the GPU at Default and test CS2 and Flight Simulator 2024 for a while. If it is stable at stock settings, then create a tuning profile and test your 1825 MHz configuration separately.

Also, Adrenalin’s behavior here is worth checking: AMD says global tuning changes are saved with Apply Changes, while individual game profiles can have their own tuning settings and can override the global configuration. Tuning profiles can also be exported/imported.

One important point: if Adrenalin itself resets tuning after a crash, that’s not necessarily the cause of the crash. AMD documents that when its GPU stress test fails and causes a crash/reboot, the software resets performance tuning to default. A driver timeout or GPU crash can therefore leave you looking at the Default profile after reboot even though the original problem occurred beforehand.

I’d therefore test in this order:

1. Clean-install the current AMD driver.
2. Run everything at stock/default tuning.
3. Disable other tuning/overlays temporarily, including Enhanced Sync if enabled.
4. Test the games.
5. If stock is stable, load your 1825 MHz profile and test again.
6. If 1825 MHz consistently causes the freezes, then the frequency/voltage/power configuration needs further tuning rather than trying to force Adrenalin to retain it.

Also check Windows Event Viewer for Display driver/amdwddmg errors around the exact time of the freeze. That will help distinguish a driver timeout from a broader hardware/power/temperature problem.

If the PC becomes completely unresponsive even at stock settings after a clean driver installation, I’d stop focusing on Adrenalin profiles and start checking the GPU power connections, PSU, GPU temperatures/hotspot, VRAM stability, and system RAM.

[Danny-514]

I’ve had a similar thing where Adrenalin shows the tuning profile as active, but the actual GPU clock doesn’t always follow the saved limit after a reboot.

Have you checked the real GPU clock while the game is running? I’m wondering if the 1825 MHz setting is actually being applied, or if Adrenalin is just showing the profile while the GPU is still running at default settings.

Could be worth checking, especially since the freezes seem to happen when the profile gets reset.

[HENRY0987]

This lines up with what aard mentioned — Adrenalin resetting tuning to Default after a driver timeout or GPU stress-test failure is documented behavior, so the crash likely comes first and the profile reset is just the aftermath, not the root cause. Worth also checking Danny-514’s point: confirm the actual GPU clock during gameplay (via HWiNFO or similar) rather than trusting the Adrenalin UI’s “active profile” label, since a saved profile not being applied at all would look identical to a silent reset. A clean driver install plus testing stock first, then reintroducing the 1825 MHz profile separately, is the right isolation approach before assuming it’s a voltage/power tuning issue. On the lighter software side, I keep a small undertale pt-br download android sem gamepad reference page myself, and even that kind of lightweight app benefits from stable, predictable settings persistence the same way GPU tuning should.

[Danny-514]

Could the issue be that Adrenalin is correctly showing the saved tuning profile as active, while the actual GPU clock limit is not being applied after a reboot or profile reset?

Can the actual GPU clock be monitored while the game is running with GPU-Z, HWiNFO, or the Adrenalin performance overlay to confirm whether the GPU is really staying around the configured 1825 MHz limit, rather than simply displaying 1825 MHz as the saved profile value?

Does the GPU clock immediately return to the default behavior after a reboot, crash, driver restart, or system sleep/wake, even though Adrenalin still shows the custom profile as active?

Could the freezes be related to the tuning profile being partially reset or the driver failing to reapply the voltage/frequency settings, rather than the 1825 MHz value itself being unstable?

Would completely removing the tuning profile, rebooting, confirming stock clocks under load, and then recreating the profile from scratch help determine whether the problem is caused by a corrupted or incorrectly restored Adrenalin profile?

It would also be useful to compare the requested clock, actual sustained clock, voltage, power limit, GPU temperature, hotspot temperature, and utilization immediately before and during a freeze. That should help distinguish between the profile not being applied, the GPU ignoring the configured limit, thermal/power throttling, or an actual driver instability.

If the actual GPU clock remains at the expected limit while the freezes occur, that would point toward a different cause; if it suddenly jumps back to the default boost range despite Adrenalin showing the custom profile, the profile/driver reset becomes much more relevant.

[BestNoob]

1. You do not really need OC and Tuning for ur hardware at actual state ists till powerful enough.
2. What do u mean with “CLEAN” driver Installation ? Have u used DDU - Display Driver Uninstaller ?
3. Not only Adrenaline/GPU is important, check your whole system for updates Chipset, Firmware, BIOS, Windows
4. Freezing with OC settings mostly means you have set some settings that do not fit ur system.
   For CS2 and other FPS Shooter go 4 uncapped FPS, disable freesny, and disable all the not needed stuff you DO NOT NEED Gsync, Vsync, Boost or FSR

U can use my start parameters for CS2 it holds ur CPU at the limits while gaming (no FPS drops micro stutter)

-tickrate 128 -nojoy -freq 240 -softparticlesdefaultoff -exec autoexec.cfg +fps_max 0 -forcenovsync +r_drawparticles 0 -limitvsconst +engine_low_latency_sleep_after_client_tick 1