The AMD Driver Thread

Puppetmaster · 8 Mar 2016 at 03:15

shankly1985 said:
What driver you using? If it's 15.11 that's old man 16.2.1 has profile for division

Im on the latest just meant I wasnt sure of performance generally (IE clock problems) because of just switching. Found out it was in borderless windowed which was why crossfire doesn't work.

Crossfire is working now but I would have expected close to 100% usage on both cards, where as I am getting 70 - 90% usually. Also crazy flicker

raven-uk-1 · 8 Mar 2016 at 03:25

AMDmatt you told us we would have crossfire support for "the division" would you like me to show you what crossfire does when playing this game ?

plrease tell me who i should shout at the most.... AMD or UBI

because you guys are all pushing 4k gaming... which is expensive to run... make a game that has crossfire so i can do a proprer 4k revirew rather than a flashing screen ffs

sorry i spend a lot on my pc rigs and its a total let down every time AMD

YB2ndBEST · 8 Mar 2016 at 04:38

I'm with you! Jumped in The Division and was highly disappointed that the claim of a xfire profile seems to have been a joke

"technically" it's "working" but I'm getting weird screen ghosting and performance is almost that of a single card.

NeilF · 8 Mar 2016 at 08:22

thebennyboy said:
Raptr seems to cause my card to throttle up randomly (Card was reaching 70C playing league of legends!!).

I know it was that as when i uninstalled it and restarted my PC, the game only made my GPU reach 40C at max.

Anyone else finding that Raptr makes their GPU get warmer than it should when playing a game that shouldn't be remotely taxing for the GPU.

Maybe it's the constant recording features?

When I used it I didn't have any problems... (even with constant recording).

That said I don't use it now, preferring instead Micro$ofts game recording feature...

nashathedog · 8 Mar 2016 at 08:46

Casterina said:
I heard there was some downclocking issues with Crimson however I just updated from latest Catalyst 15.11.1 beta to latest Crimson drivers, just want to confirm that I don't have that issue?

I was running GTA V to get the stats below and using Sapphire R9 290

I haven't been having problems with it either (not since the first Crimson update) although I did check FO4 yesterday and notice a very broken pattern with the gpu-z graph, It had a low of around 700, I think it might be due to the 60 fps limit of the game (I have not tweaked or modded it yet) but I do not get a consistent 60 anyway, It dips into the 50's a lot so it would be better if I could turn the power saving feature off. Whoever thought not having the option to turn it on and off was a good idea needs a kick in the goolies, Maybe they're taking advice from Microsoft now?

Geeman1979 · 8 Mar 2016 at 12:07

What's the most stable drivers to install for a 7 series AMD card.

The latest Crimson drivers or something earlier?

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2016 at 12:25

Geeman1979 said:
What's the most stable drivers to install for a 7 series AMD card.

The latest Crimson drivers or something earlier?

Most of the issues of core clock etc are from newer line up of GPUs 7 series am sure will be fine on latest crimson.

Blackjack Davy · 8 Mar 2016 at 12:29

Crimson worked fine with my single hd 7950

MyBrainz · 8 Mar 2016 at 12:34

Geeman1979 said:
What's the most stable drivers to install for a 7 series AMD card.

The latest Crimson drivers or something earlier?

Have used all Crimson drivers with 7950 here and currently on 16.2, no problems

Geeman1979 · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:16

There's a 16.2.1 hotfix driver available as an optional download. What's that one all about?

Casterina · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:37

I have a fan profile setup in MSI Afterburner however after installing the latest Crimson drivers, the fans doesn't spin up according to my fan profile and the max it spins is 30%, is this a bug?

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:41

Casterina said:
I have a fan profile setup in MSI Afterburner however after installing the latest Crimson drivers, the fans doesn't spin up according to my fan profile and the max it spins is 30%, is this a bug?

Have you setup fan in Overdrive on Crimson? sounds like it over riding MSI AB

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:41

Geeman1979 said:
There's a 16.2.1 hotfix driver available as an optional download. What's that one all about?

Its same driver has 16.2 but with Farcry primal added

Casterina · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:50

shankly1985 said:
Have you setup fan in Overdrive on Crimson? sounds like it over riding MSI AB

No, I haven't setup any fan profile in Crimson, all settings in OverDrive is at default.

shankly1985 · 8 Mar 2016 at 13:52

Casterina said:
No, I haven't setup any fan profile in Crimson, all settings in OverDrive is at default.

Try removing MSI AB and reinstalling it.. Seems the driver and AB is conflicting.

Casterina · 8 Mar 2016 at 14:09

shankly1985 said:
Try removing MSI AB and reinstalling it.. Seems the driver and AB is conflicting.

Tried it with no luck, the latest Catalyst driver is 15.11.1 beta? As I might revert back to it since it didn't have any problems with MSI Afterburner.

Confused Stu · 8 Mar 2016 at 14:40

Stupid question, does Afterburner show the fan curve in the Settings tabs, and does the main screen show "Auto" and "User Defined" both active? I remember my fans being stuck at 30% once a year or so ago, and found my User Defined was defaulting to de-activated. Activating it and a couple of restarts to check and it never went wrong again in my case - weird AB quirk!

Casterina · 8 Mar 2016 at 15:06

Confused Stu said:
Stupid question, does Afterburner show the fan curve in the Settings tabs, and does the main screen show "Auto" and "User Defined" both active? I remember my fans being stuck at 30% once a year or so ago, and found my User Defined was defaulting to de-activated. Activating it and a couple of restarts to check and it never went wrong again in my case - weird AB quirk!

Yes, in MSI Afterburner, it shows the fan curve in Settings and Auto and User Defined is both enabled.

stulid · 8 Mar 2016 at 19:05

Whats this play.tv crap? why has it decided to start recording my videos without asking me, why cant I turn this bloatware crap off while in game.

muziqaz · 8 Mar 2016 at 19:07

stulid said:
Whats this play.tv crap? why has it decided to start recording my videos without asking me, why cant I turn this bloatware crap off while in game.

It did ask you but probably you clicked X without reading their announcement window. It told you that Play TV is active, if you want to disable it, you can do that in options. I saw that page yesterday. disabled play.tv straight away.