Right so this is a bit of an oddball this one. I'm getting artefacts on my Radeon R9 290 running it in Unix.

Now I know Unix is not officially supported but I heard about this guy who had an R9 290 with the same crap memory mine has and he had the same issue in Windows and the only fix was to clock the ram down. My card works in Windows fine.

Sadly there is no app in Unix to clock the ram down so I would have to take the card into Windows which shouldn't be an issue. However, I would need it to stay there so that means an edited bios.

Even though my card is listed to support the 290-290x bios flash doing so bricked the card. Thankfully I just threw the switch back to the original bios and all was well.

Is this a common issue on Radeons with poo memory? I know my card benches way lower than those with Hynix on.

So come on guys, lavish me with gifts. I need a good bios editor (GUI even better) to edit my bios.

Does clocking down the memory a tad help with the issue?

I don't know dude because it's not quite as simple as that.

In Unix there is no Afterburner, Precision ETC. I would need to forcibly do it via Windows and by editing the bios.

Edit. Here's a pic of the problem. Note that it kinda looks like Christmas, but when I close in on those objects they redraw and look perfect. It's only distant objects that do it.

Hmmm, have you tried using different drivers?

There is only one set of drivers dude.

Nobody else I know has this issue in Unix so I'm beginning to think it's the card.

I'm not very familiar with how many Unix drivers there are as I've never used Unix.

Do you know what memory the card has?

What specific version of Unix are you using?

What drivers are they? Link? Is it Unix or Linux daft question I know but some mix them up?