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forcing an R9 290 to a clock speed...

I have now swapped my PCI-e cables for a different pair, will see how this gets on.

My afterburner settings are all just stock clocks with +50 power limit. I have also set it to "force constant voltage" in the compatibility properties.

Probably won't get chance to do any gaming till Monday so I'll have to report back then.
 
With my r9 290 I noticed that when my gpu went over 70c it would start to throttle down from my stock speed of 975mhz to what ever it wanted to in it's own crazy mind.

Just today installed the Alpenfohn Peter Universal with a few quiet fans and some inspiration from Uncle Petey's experience with that cooler.

My r9 290 has never gone below 975mhz at full load as of yet and it is silent.
 
DazQ87 said:
I have now swapped my PCI-e cables for a different pair, will see how this gets on.

My afterburner settings are all just stock clocks with +50 power limit. I have also set it to "force constant voltage" in the compatibility properties.

Probably won't get chance to do any gaming till Monday so I'll have to report back then.
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Keep us updated.
 
Right, after much experimentation I have managed to have several longer gaming sessions with no crashes. It basically came down to just setting profiles for different games in radeon pro (I have also changed my PCI-E cables around as well).

In low intensity games where I was having issues, DOTA2, X-com etc I am actually running an underclocked GPU profil, like 900MHz core and 1200 Memory. This is perfect as the games still run well in excess of 60FPS, and the temperatures are reduced significantly along with noise.

In higher intensity FPS games such as BF4/NS2 I am running my cards default clocks at 975MHz 1250Mem.

As long as I launch through radeon pro the clockspeeds get locked an the powerplay seems to work properly and I haven't had any issues.
 
What happens if you remove RadeonPro and MSI Overlay, Also if using RadeonPro make sure you disable Origin-In game the Overlay on Origin is known to conflict with RadeonPro.

So make sure you dont have MSI AB Overlay running at same time as RP and disable Origin in game.
 
In less demanding games, i.e. DOTA/Xcom If I don't use Radeon Pro and just leave say afterburner or GPU-z running, then it looks as if the clock speeds fluctuate all over the place from 400 - 600MHz (ish) this usually results in a crash of some sort pretty quickly. Either a black screen or a display driver stopped responding error.

Higher intensity games which can keep the GPU at 100% usage (tomb raider/BF4) I don't need to launch through radeon pro as the clock just goes to 975 and stays there according to afterburner. Never had a crash in either of these games

Natural selection 2 is an odd game, it's pretty shoddily optimized as it is and I have seen it crash a few times for no apparent reason, although launching it through Radeon Pro seems to fix this, which i guess comes down to the power limit actually working.
 
Just to provide a comparison for anybody who is curious, this picture shows what my GPU is up to on the DOTA menu without running through radeon Pro and when launched through radeon pro. The same pattern of clock fluctuations occur in game, I guess it just can't make it's mind up what speed it needs to run at.

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Notice how the clock is all over the place, as well as the memory, when left to it's own devices without radeon pro keeping it in check...

No wonder the dam thing was crashing the display drivers all the time.
 
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DazQ87 said:
Just to provide a comparison for anybody who is curious, this picture shows what my GPU is up to on the DOTA menu without running through radeon Pro and when launched through radeon pro. The same pattern of clock fluctuations occur in game, I guess it just can't make it's mind up what speed it needs to run at.

3TMSSdR.png

Notice how the clock is all over the place, as well as the memory, when left to it's own devices without radeon pro keeping it in check...

No wonder the dam thing was crashing the display drivers all the time.
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Something is not right here man. You shouldn't need RP to sort the GPU core and memory out.
I feel a program is conflicting somewhere.
 
LtMatt said:
Is the game not very demanding? Please use the links in my sig to report the driver issue to AMD. Then try my fix below.
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I have similar issue.Since i updated to 19.12.2 driver version(Radeon Settings) all games are crashing on loading screen and when i rollback to working driver i am getting huge fps drops on all games.In patch notes it says my hardware(rx560x with vega 8) supports that version.and my windows is uptodate too.
 
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