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Sapphire r9 290 tri-x, have driver issues been fixed.

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Does anyone know how stable drivers for the R9 290 are at the moment? I have one of these cards currently not fitted, I know a few months ago there was quite a lot of issues reported.

My main computer is used for software development and normally runs Quadro cards. I'm thinking of fitting a Sapphire R9 290 tri-x, but wondering how stable the card will be.
 
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JasonM said:
Does anyone know how stable drivers for the R9 290 are at the moment? I have one of these cards currently not fitted, I know a few months ago there was quite a lot of issues reported.

My main computer is used for software development and normally runs Quadro cards. I'm thinking of fitting a Sapphire R9 290 tri-x, but wondering how stable the card will be.
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Any particular issues?

Our 14.12 Omega drivers have been our most stable, bug free drivers ever.
 
I don't quite know what these "quite a lot of issues reported" were, where/what are they and where did you read about them? I have had a sapphire Tri-X R9 290 for about a year (got one shortly after they came out) and haven't had a single problem at all. Luckily the card also has no sag, compare that to the asus 770 I had before it lol... geforce experience crashed all the time, with control panel refusing to open and the card was basically sagging 40 degrees within a month, although it did overclock like an absolutely beast.

I am pretty sure my driver problems with the 770 were just one of the unlucky bunch, just like most people that report problems with AMD cards.
AFAIK there are no real problems, AMD's "bad drivers" have just been a meme for just about forever. Just like nvidia housefire's have also been a meme. Somehow the nvidia meme doesn't exist anymore though and AMD one does (I imagine ignorant nvidia users are a big part of this).

The only actual driver problem I know of is the corrupted cursor bug... which still exists after like 10 years..
 
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just fitted a Sapphire R9 290 tri-x. in my new build last week and so far no problems as of yet using the 14.12 driver
 
AMDMatt said:
Any particular issues?

Our 14.12 Omega drivers have been our most stable, bug free drivers ever.
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Thanks for everyone's response.

This was the situation, as mentioned my computer is really a software development rig using the Quadro cards. I don't really use the Quadro features but like the stability of the computer, it's a really stable computer.

Last year OCUK had an AMD day event, and I picked up an R9 290 at discount. I only really play 2 old games.

I installed the R9 290 but computer would randomly blue screen, it would never happen in a game, but at random times like watching a YouTube vid. This was not isolated as doing a Google many others had issues similar.

One of the fans has gone on my Quadro cards, and since I still have the R9 290 was going to re-try the card this coming weekend. Confused now to what the original issues were, as mentioned there were many other people on google with similar issues at the time.
 
Sounds like it could be related to an overclock and/or hardware acceleration within browsers - that's a common issue causing freezing/crashing!
 
snips86x said:
Sounds like it could be related to an overclock and/or hardware acceleration within browsers - that's a common issue causing freezing/crashing!
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It's not an overclock, my i7 4770k is only at 4.1.

I do agree it could have been hardware acceleration within browsers, this was my thinking when I had the issues last time.

I have found an old post from when I originally had issues.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18608790&highlight=R9+username_JasonM

With everyone's response here, i'm confident enough to try the card again this weekend.
 
JasonM said:
It's not an overclock, my i7 4770k is only at 4.1.

I do agree it could have been hardware acceleration within browsers, this was my thinking when I had the issues last time.

I have found an old post from when I originally had issues.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18608790&highlight=R9+username_JasonM

With everyone's response here, i'm confident enough to try the card again this weekend.
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4.10GHz on the 4770K IS overclocked, as stock 4770K is only 3.50GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.90GHz.

What PSU are you using by the way?

One thing you should note is that if you gone from a lower power-consumption card to a higher consumption one, you might need to increase the vcore voltage little higher than before, as the PSU is under more stress than the pass, and it might affect the output over the 12v rail.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
What PSU are you using by the way?

One thing you should note is that if you gone from a lower power-consumption card to a higher consumption one, you might need to increase the vcore voltage little higher than before, as the PSU is under more stress than the pass, and it might affect the output over the 12v rail.
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I'm using a Seasonic X650, I own a number of Seasonic X PSU's but this one happens to be my original from 2009. I can't see it being PSU however as it never happened under load.

One of the issues was computer occasionally never returning from monitor power saving if I recall.

You make a very good point about vcore voltages, also some cards can put more strain on the motherboards chip set.
 
JasonM said:
These 2 posts from other uses with R9 290's are exactly the issues and behavior I was having. Namely random blue screens, and crashes when watching you tube, never an issue with the card under load.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2107049/atikmdag-sys-bsod-amd-290.html

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1246823
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We fixed an issue in 14.12 Omega drivers which may have been an issue you were suffering from previously.

Playing online video in different browsers, with Hardware acceleration enabled causes a driver crash - Resolved In the Latest Catalyst Omega. :)
 
AMDMatt said:
We fixed an issue in 14.12 Omega drivers which may have been an issue you were suffering from previously.

Playing online video in different browsers, with Hardware acceleration enabled causes a driver crash - Resolved In the Latest Catalyst Omega. :)
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i do so much flash video, with like 4 different browsers lol
surprised i havent had it
i had some stuttering on a new pc but that was fixed by installing the chipset drivers which i guess i forgot to install

and bluescreens sounds more like bigger windows problems, not had stuff like that...i duno
 
I have a 290 tri-x with no issues. I did read about the bios in the 290 tri-x causing black screens though. But I believe if you use afterburner or trixx and add a bit more voltage and up the power limit it fixed it. Or you can request a new bios from sapphire
 
Mei said:
i do so much flash video, with like 4 different browsers lol
surprised i havent had it
i had some stuttering on a new pc but that was fixed by installing the chipset drivers which i guess i forgot to install

and bluescreens sounds more like bigger windows problems, not had stuff like that...i duno
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Agreed, bluescreens usually = a problem elsewhere than with the video card, but it's still possible.
 
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