The AMD Driver Thread

LoadsaMoney · 29 Feb 2016 at 15:26

muziqaz said:
But there was no issues with pre crimson drivers. First reports came in when crimson got rushed to the public.

Yeah pre-Crimsons are fine, im still on the 15.9.1 BETAs as i can't update them due to the bouncing clocks, and the host of other issues the Crimsons have.

ED209 · 29 Feb 2016 at 15:48

LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah pre-Crimsons are fine, im still on the 15.9.1 BETAs as i can't update them due to the bouncing clocks, and the host of other issues the Crimsons have.

i may have to give these drivers ago.

core clock is annoying me now and was hoping it would have been fixed by now.

think the last set of drivers i tried was 15.11

muziqaz · 29 Feb 2016 at 16:46

nashathedog said:
Stalker series, I'm going to test more at some point.

yeah, stalker is always full of surprises

Great game, too bad Russians(was it?) developed it

LoadsaMoney · 29 Feb 2016 at 19:15

I like the idea of it being an option, if you want full performance, then you can have it, and if you want to game on your idle clocks, then you can have it, just don't force us to game on our idle clocks.

marc2003 · 1 Mar 2016 at 10:22

So I have a 380 coming in the post tomorrow and I won't be overclocking. The only current game I have is GTA V - everything else is pretty ancient. What drivers would you knowledgeable chaps recommend?

Confused Stu · 1 Mar 2016 at 10:36

I'd go with the latest (16.2) and see how you go. Some people (me included) are running them without issues where others in this thread have issues with the power saving features stopping the card running at full speed and causing issues. If you're fine with 16.2, great, if they cause you issues then try older drivers or 3rd party apps like Clockblocker to stop this issue until AMD fix it.

marc2003 · 1 Mar 2016 at 11:23

Good to see there are some people with no issues.

Thanks.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:10

16.2.1 Hotfix now available.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Highlights

Crossfire Profile available for
Far Cry Primal

Resolved Issues

A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
Fallout 4 - Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
Fallout 4 - Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
Fallout 4 - Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
Far Cry 4 - Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled
FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU's and AMD GPU's
Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a "Context Creation Error" message
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Lara Croft's hair may flicker in some locations if the Esc key is pressed
Rise of Tomb Raider™ - A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the "Geothermal Valley" mission
The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked
World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions

Known Issues

A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
Star Wars™: Battlefront - Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
XCOM 2 - Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled
Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption

http://www.amd.com/en-us/markets/game/downloads

thebennyboy · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:14

Good stuff. They really are putting a lot of effort into their drivers.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:17

this is much better. Crossfire profile for Fallout 4 was broke on launch of that driver, but they fixed it within 24 hours. 16.2 driver last week with The Division crossfire profile, and now today with Far Cry driver. Much better, although we have no idea how they actually perform yet, still good to see on time driver releases with crossfire profiles.

thebennyboy · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:21

Raja Koduri seems to be worth his weight in gold right now, really pushing forward their graphics division.

LtMatt · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:21

A minor update to Crimson 16.2 has been released, Crimson 16.2.1.

This is identical to 16.2 with the addition of a Far Cry Primal Crossfire Profile.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:22

11 minutes late grasshopper

LtMatt · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:29

TonyTurbo78 said:
11 minutes late grasshopper

thebennyboy · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:29

Hope my reported issue gets fixed. If i watch a twitch stream on my second monitor whilst playing a game on my first monitor i get frequent but random FPS drops in-game. League of Legends seems to be the worst affected by it.

hardkore · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:43

Has this hotfix sorted the black screen on boot yet? I don't use HDMI just dvi-d.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Mar 2016 at 21:44

AMDMatt said:

muziqaz · 1 Mar 2016 at 22:59

Nice

Thanks

BluD · 1 Mar 2016 at 23:13

I just edited my bios and increased the core voltage, it stops the black screens on boot ya get from third party overclocking programs. No more DDU every time i mess up an overclock

Might be worth a try for you Finners if ya still having problems with your 290. According to the guide i followed it voids your warranty though so its only worth trying on old cards.

shankly1985 · 1 Mar 2016 at 23:19

Nice AMD fast drivers just how I like it