The AMD Driver Thread

LoadsaMoney · 30 Jan 2015 at 19:29

Didn't AMD release Xfire profiles seperately from the drivers at one time, so there was no waiting for the next driver that contained them ? (can't really remember now as was that long ago), if so, and they are now only adding them into the drivers again, then they've gone backwards, as now you're back to waiting well over a month for them.

Paradiso · 30 Jan 2015 at 19:43

Crossfire/SLI seems a waste of money these days, big games are always coming out with no support ready. There's no excuse really, I'm sure they have access to the games way before the early press releases even go out.

Matson · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:15

I have to agree with that. So many of these new games I boot up and they don't work with crossfire and I end up just using a single card and by the time they fix it iv long completed the game and don't care anymore.
The second card just seems to be a paperweight these days unless your playing older games.

shankly1985 · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:24

Devrij said:
I'd settle for them fixing the DPC latency I'm getting with xfire, never mind xfire performance with games. I mean look at this

Did I tell you I sorted my issue out?? It was my 290 mate I had to send it back to OCUK who also find a problem and replaced it for me.

thecremeegg · 30 Jan 2015 at 21:53

I'm getting so much microstutter with my cards at the moment that it's almost unbearable

thebennyboy · 30 Jan 2015 at 21:58

humbug said:
That used to happen with my Tahiti LE, to stop it i set the Texture Quality to medium, that stopped it filling the buffer.

Isn't there a memory leak with the current Mantle driver? Pretty sure Matt or someone said that it is supposed to be fixed in the next BETA driver.

Devrij · 30 Jan 2015 at 22:32

shankly1985 said:
Did I tell you I sorted my issue out?? It was my 290 mate I had to send it back to OCUK who also find a problem and replaced it for me.

Ah interesting. But that was a single card right? My problems only appear in crossfire and with my second monitor enabled. If I disable my 2nd screen everything is perfect.

shankly1985 · 30 Jan 2015 at 22:37

Devrij said:
Ah interesting. But that was a single card right? My problems only appear in crossfire and with my second monitor enabled. If I disable my 2nd screen everything is perfect.

Nar only with Crossfire enabled.. Audio would stutter till in the end my PC would black screen with driver crash.. I knew it was hardware issue the min I changed the GPUs about and it started happening in Single GPU config..

What you getting DX high spikes is what I was getting..

Devrij · 30 Jan 2015 at 22:44

I might try swapping the cards around and see if it starts happening with xfire disabled

eyetrip · 31 Jan 2015 at 12:44

No crossfire profile for Elite?

Devrij · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:23

shankly1985 said:
Nar only with Crossfire enabled.. Audio would stutter till in the end my PC would black screen with driver crash.. I knew it was hardware issue the min I changed the GPUs about and it started happening in Single GPU config..

What you getting DX high spikes is what I was getting..

Tested after swapping the cards: single card is still fine, xfire is still a problem. Problem still disappears after disabling my second monitor.

Guess I might as well sell one of them. I could put the other in my htpc downstairs, and I hear 970s are going cheap

so I could SLI with the one I won.

Type_R · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:35

I must be one of the lucky ones, both my Sapphire 290 Tri-X OCs work stutter free in Xfire on all the games I play

Uncle Petey · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:42

Devrij said:
Tested after swapping the cards: single card is still fine, xfire is still a problem. Problem still disappears after disabling my second monitor.

Guess I might as well sell one of them. I could put the other in my htpc downstairs, and I hear 970s are going cheap so I could SLI with the one I won.

What connections are you using? Not that it should really matter tbh...
HDMI + DVI to HDMI here for my two screens and no issues fwiw.

Devrij · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:02

Yeah I was considering that myself. I'm using DP for my primary and hdmi to my secondary. That only has hdmi and analogue so I might borrow my gf's secondary to see if dvi changes anything. The thing is I'm not the only one having this exact same issue. There is a guy with 4 screens and if he has 3 in eyefinity and the fourth not, DPC goes through the roof. If he disables the fourth it is fine. 3 screens and no eyefinity, DPC through the roof. If he disables all but the gaming screen it's fine. Seems like a very specific issue to me.

Dempsey22 · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:08

My 290 is really really driving me mad now.

Fan is running ridiculously fast for no reason, everything is telling me its at 20% fan speed which is clearly isnt. Adjusting the fan speed or custom fan curve does nothing, fan still does its own thing :mad:

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:13

Dempsey22 said:
My 290 is really really driving me mad now.

Fan is running ridiculously fast for no reason, everything is telling me its at 20% fan speed which is clearly isnt. Adjusting the fan speed or custom fan curve does nothing, fan still does its own thing

That's bizarre Dempsey. I would suggest trying a fresh install and following these steps.

1. Follow the AMD guide to uninstall your drivers.
2. Once drivers are fully uninstalled and you've restarted your pc, please download the latest version of DDU.
3. Extract that in your downloads folder and run it. Allow it to set a system restore point and follow the prompts. Say yes and allow it to restart into safe mode.
4. Click clean AMD and then restart.
5. Download and install the latest version of 14.12 Omega drivers from the AMD website.
6. Restart your pc to complete the install

Does the fan kick into full speed again? Leave other programs like Afterburner disabled for now to rule those out.

Dempsey22 · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:21

AMDMatt said:
That's bizarre Dempsey. I would suggest trying a fresh install and following these steps.

1. Follow the AMD guide to uninstall your drivers.
2. Once drivers are fully uninstalled and you've restarted your pc, please download the latest version of DDU.
3. Extract that in your downloads folder and run it. Allow it to set a system restore point and follow the prompts. Say yes and allow it to restart into safe mode.
4. Click clean AMD and then restart.
5. Download and install the latest version of 14.12 Omega drivers from the AMD website.
6. Restart your pc to complete the install

Does the fan kick into full speed again? Leave other programs like Afterburner disabled for now to rule those out.

Just wondering before I do any of that , could it be an issue with the PCIE slot??

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:34

Dempsey22 said:
Just wondering before I do any of that , could it be an issue with the PCIE slot??

Honestly, I'm not sure. I think the issue is unlikely to be the graphics card if it plays games perfectly normally though. Trying a different PCI-E slot won't hurt i suppose.

Devrij · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:47

Update: tried a different DVI monitor and after a brief moment of hope realised I had enabled crossfire. Same problem sadly.

McShave · 31 Jan 2015 at 17:00

Matson said:
I have to agree with that. So many of these new games I boot up and they don't work with crossfire and I end up just using a single card and by the time they fix it iv long completed the game and don't care anymore.
The second card just seems to be a paperweight these days unless your playing older games.

That's just the way AMD work now. I feel like I'm in the same boat as you. Next card I plump for I'm just going to stick to the one.

Why am I using crossfire when I'm completing most games before I can even properly use it? Yes I know we can mostly use our own custom profiles mostly (thank god).

Surely someone at AMD must see this is madness to make their users wait for the next beta. How any one can stick to non beta is beyond me.

How long has it been since the last driver? Two months?