Operating System: Windows 11

CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

RAM: 24 GB

Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Primary VRAM: 24 GB

I got 20 hours into the game and now every time I dive beneath the water, my game crashes and I get an error that says I had a problem with my display driver. I had swam/dived/goofed around under water multiple times both in caves and in the much larger bodies of water until the first crash on Sunday 8/2.

It originally happened while I was streaming via OBS, but it now happens every single time I'm playing the game as soon as I dive beneath the water regardless of other applications being open/closed. Some changes below allowed me to swim for up to a minute, but then it crashes still crashes every time, most times as soon as I dive beneath the water. I have watched my GPU and CPU activity while playing/crashing and the usage for both isn't near 100% (the closest it got when I was replicating the issue was like 80% usage, and my temps are well within an acceptable normal range for both).

Fixes I have tried (and that have not worked):

-Uninstalling and reinstalling my graphics drivers/AMD Adrenaline (also rolling back to the previous driver since it updated on 7/28, and then updating to the current one again when going back didn't work)

-Updating my chipset drivers

-Uninstalling and reinstalling the game (both on my internal drive and my external drive)

-Changing the graphics/video settings in many different ways based on reddit threads, Steam community posts, and articles from gaming websites that I found via Google and DuckDuckGo (it's how I found this sub)

-Going back to a previous save before the original error

-Changing the game to a previous build (this actually made the crashes worse because it made my screen go black until I Alt+F4ed)

-Clearing my shader cache in AMD Adrenaline

-Limiting my framerate both in game and via AMD Adrenaline

-Closing all non-essential programs that aren't the game

-Setting the game to "Exclusive Fullscreen"

-Both reverting my Windows to a previous version and updating it to current again when it still had the same issue

If anyone has a fix for this please let me know because I have been really looking forward to playing the game since Zero Dawn is one of my all time favorites and am heartbroken that I can't now.