nope, did not touch anything, only BIOS mod I have is to switch off the on board Audio and use my M-Audio 2x2 deck...
and yes, the Shader compile and the rewards screen issue was indeed fixed with the last Adrenaline driver update.
yeah, been there done that... on or off it still crashes ! sometimes feels like it crashes more on certain cars, especially Porsches ! now I played 3 races with no issues with the Honda S2000, changed over to the 911 2018 RSR and it crashed 2x within seconds on getting on track ! grinds my...
had to register here to just reply and give my 2 cents, I have exactly the same issues, latest Adrenaline driver, latest FMS Patch and still unplayable, sometimes it just freezes after 1s of being loaded into a race sometimes after the race, most times it's during a race not later than 2 min...