The AMD Driver Thread

shankly1985 · 7 May 2017 at 13:18

GoogalyMoogaly said:
OK, so I'm using 17.4.3 with a 290X.
If I enable Wattman and turn on Chill in Global I would expect it to appear as an option in the profiles for the compatible games, but it's not.
What am I doing wrong, any idea?

Dont know it works for me

Davanius · 7 May 2017 at 15:07

When removing the amd software in the control panel which should be the drivers, does the amd chipset driver get removed as well?

Phixsator · 7 May 2017 at 15:23

EDIT: Nvm.. PEBCAK!!

nashathedog · 7 May 2017 at 16:14

Nexus18 said:
Well for some reason, AMD seems to be crashing non stop today....

And this is on the holy grail of drivers, 16.11.5. Not a single thing has changed since yesterday so no idea why all of a sudden this is happening..... Guess it's time to do another driver reinstall....

Have you got this creator update people go on about?

Also am I right in presuming it's not yet on general release?

I tried to check if I have it yesterday and it seems not so maybe if you have that's the problem, after all it is meant to be messing with gaming software.

Nexus18 · 7 May 2017 at 16:15

nashathedog said:
Have you got this creator update people go on about?

Also am I right in presuming it's not yet on general release?

Nope, tried the creators update and had some issues so rolled back a while ago.

Even before the creators update, I have had this happen every now and then, very odd issue how it just starts to happen out of the blue.

shankly1985 · 7 May 2017 at 16:21

nashathedog said:
Have you got this creator update people go on about?

Also am I right in presuming it's not yet on general release?

I tried to check if I have it yesterday and it seems not so maybe if you have that's the problem, after all it is meant to be messing with gaming software.

Am using the creators update from Microsoft. The updated rolled out last month on the 5th for everyone I believe I auto updated mine couple days before release.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 May 2017 at 16:55

shankly1985 said:
Dont know it works for me

Not something I'm doing then. Must be something to do with the drivers I guess.
I'll just have to hope AMD fix it soon then.

Doesn't require a specific connection type or anything does it? Like DisplayPort?

shankly1985 · 7 May 2017 at 17:45

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Not something I'm doing then. Must be something to do with the drivers I guess.
I'll just have to hope AMD fix it soon then.

Doesn't require a specific connection type or anything does it? Like DisplayPort?

Not that I know, what game you trying to use chill on? We using same GPU am on the latest driver.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 May 2017 at 18:25

shankly1985 said:
Not that I know, what game you trying to use chill on? We using same GPU am on the latest driver.

I'm on 17.4.3.
I'm looking to enable it on Overwatch and Dota 2, but also tried CS:GO.

shankly1985 · 7 May 2017 at 18:34

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'm on 17.4.3.
I'm looking to enable it on Overwatch and Dota 2, but also tried CS:GO.

After you enable them in Wattman global you are going into the profile wattman again yes?

FredFlint · 7 May 2017 at 19:11

I keep getting: DirectX function "FindClosestMatchingMode" failed with E_Fail. If I delete BF1 pref data I can load the game but cannot set the res as the list is empty. Only way to fix this is to do a clean install of the GPU driver. Some games dont have pref files so they just crash.

Phixsator · 7 May 2017 at 20:47

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'm on 17.4.3.
I'm looking to enable it on Overwatch and Dota 2, but also tried CS:GO.

First you enable Chill in the global profile in wattman and when its enabled and you have pressed apply you go into the game specific profile in wattman and set the target fps numbers under the Chill option. Don't worry it have had me fooled as well.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 May 2017 at 20:58

shankly1985 said:
After you enable them in Wattman global you are going into the profile wattman again yes?

Phixsator said:
First you enable Chill in the global profile in wattman and when its enabled and you have pressed apply you go into the game specific profile in wattman and set the target fps numbers under the Chill option. Don't worry it have had me fooled as well.

This is what I'm trying to do, but when I go into game specific profile there's nothing to set, no Chill option no FPS option the last setting in there is temperature.

Phixsator · 8 May 2017 at 08:46

GoogalyMoogaly said:
This is what I'm trying to do, but when I go into game specific profile there's nothing to set, no Chill option no FPS option the last setting in there is temperature.

Im not sure if you have mentioned it but what GPU are you running?

shankly1985 · 8 May 2017 at 15:13

Phixsator said:
Im not sure if you have mentioned it but what GPU are you running?

He using 290x am using 290

prjwebb · 8 May 2017 at 19:43

GoogalyMoogaly said:
This is what I'm trying to do, but when I go into game specific profile there's nothing to set, no Chill option no FPS option the last setting in there is temperature.

Chill isn't available on every game atm.

Phixsator · 8 May 2017 at 20:38

shankly1985 said:
He using 290x am using 290

I actually have a 290 on hand i could test with.. problem is . . . to bother

it has a massive headsink installed which means i have to pull out my Xonar Essence STX card as well.

prjwebb said:
Chill isn't available on every game atm.

True but it is for Dota and CS:S which he have tried.

GoogalyMoogaly · 8 May 2017 at 20:51

I don't need to restart after turning Chill on do I? I can just go straight into the game profile right?

shankly1985 · 8 May 2017 at 23:07

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I don't need to restart after turning Chill on do I? I can just go straight into the game profile right?

No restart required

Phixsator · 9 May 2017 at 07:28

I just tossed the radeon settings and replaced it with the omega driver's Catalyst control center. Funny thing it loads just as fast as Radeon settings and I have my beloved colour and gamma/contrast/brightness options back not to mention its easier to navigate as there are no silly animations. So running 17.5.1 but with 14.12's control panel and its working great. The only option I am missing is Chill but I do not care about that.