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The AMD Driver Thread

AMDMatt said:
Just wanted to thank everyone who provided me with bug reports for the Eyefinity - Vsync - Crossfire - Audio sound crackling issue, we've manage to recreate it internally and are now working on fixing it. Once it's been fixed, it will appear in the resolved issues section of the driver release notes.
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Would be awesome if we were also told what the problem was, if possible rather than only hearing it was fixed. I'm simply incredibly curious about such a particular problem. :)
 
Matt - I appreciate that your the middle man and this rant is not aimed at you. However as the messenger I would be grateful if you could feed this back to AMD.

With regards Project Cars, when my (many year) old nvidia 570 phantom can run it better at 1080p compared to my 290 tri-x Xfire then there is something seriously wrong.

Also how ironic that my ps4 (AMD GPU) will run it at 60 fps but with any eye candy my tri-x grind to a halt.

I really want drivers released sooner when new games come out and certainly feel for all those with Xfire (they have spent twice as much on AMD products!!!!) and don't have free sync, that is an epic fail.

Either way, something at AMD needs to change fast otherwise my AMD cards will be for sale and nvidia will be getting my £££.

/rant over (I feel I have the right to voice this opinion as I have spent over £400 on AMD products and the hardware is seriously suffering due to terrible driver support).
 
Couldn't have said it better myself.

AMD need to set the record straight if it is a straight forward lack of resources(money) or if they are all busy working on drivers for the new cards for release then the driver support will be better again.
 
Matt is clearly limited in what he's allowed to say on the forums.

Personally I think it's best that AMD Roy himself lets us ask him some questions on here, I feel that we need to point out where they're going wrong!
 
Need some help with an r9 290 powercolor pcs+, bought from the forums, is fully working. As im playing cs:go the game crashes to black screen, sometime recoverable by ctrl+alt+del other time i need to hold power button.

Long story short ive spent the best part of a day researching the issue and have done pretty much everything suggested to no avail, including...

tried different drivers
flashed motherboard bios to latest
flashed 290 to reference bios and also tried the latest for the pcs+
updated all other drivers on pc
set custom fan profile, down clocked memory and core and monitored temps including vram.
re installed cs:go (happens in other games too)
re installed steam
re installed windows fresh.

and so on, you get the idea, not too happy about this as i dont think its a hardware issue, i was running on a split 8+6 pin pcie but added a seperate 6 pin so its on two pcie cables, psu is a silverstone 750w gold. Need some help as i feel i have exhausted all my options now and might have to ask the guy for a refund. He said he had no problems with the card which i believe, i also came from an nvidia card but have run ddu multiple times in safe mode to clear drivers.

Thanks
 
im running it stock (g3258) but know i can overclock it to 4.4 with ease. i reset all the settings in my bios just to be sure and i have also flashed the bios to the latest version (msi z87i gaming ac)
 
What Windows are you running? Also even after using DDU you may need to go in and manually delete the AMD or Nvidia folders as I've noticed some of the later revisions don't do this anymore.

Also, might be worth re-installing the latest direct x. Sometimes that can get corrupt.


EDIT: Just for turds and giggles... bump up the voltage with Afterburner or Trixx (just something small like 20mv) and see if that helps.
 
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Will try upping the voltage manually as suggested, I do have it in on +25% in afterburner. As for the other things after using ddu, I have done a full fresh install of windows 8.1 64 and fresh drivers still the same thing.
 
danewesley said:
Will try upping the voltage manually as suggested, I do have it in on +25% in afterburner. As for the other things after using ddu, I have done a full fresh install of windows 8.1 64 and fresh drivers still the same thing.
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Driver stopped responding most of the time is a result of bad overclocking.
 
i understand except there is no overclock on anything, the card was stock clocks for a pcs+ and now i have flashed it to a reference 290 with much lower clocks, off the top of my head 970 core and 1250 memory. in work at the minute so will try some other stuff later today.
 
WoW the catalyst control center is lacking so many features compared to Nvidia.

Just picked up an 7950 to mess about with and I can't seem to find an option to make a custom resolution and refresh rate, is there any built in?

In older games like half life that use little GPU power with Vsync on I'm getting horrendous micro stutter, is this because of the clocks lowering in game, is there a fix?

I know Nvidia can force max clocks in games but I don't even need to that as I can play older games with Vsync on and suffer no stutter with lower clocks with an 780.

I can see why some people prefer Nvidia over AMD from a driver/software stand point.
 
Custom resolution and refresh rate is under display.
Force clocks disable ulps, vsync stutter nothing you can do about that sadly.. You can try remove it by reducing your frame rate one below refresh rate..

Sadly the only real Way of removing it is either don't use vsync or buy Freesync/Gsync.

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If by custom resolution like DSR on 7950 you need to install the leaked windows 10 driver from guru3D.
 
shankly1985 said:
Custom resolution and refresh rate is under display.
Force clocks disable ulps, vsync stutter nothing you can do about that sadly.. You can try remove it by reducing your frame rate one below refresh rate..

Sadly the only real Way of removing it is either don't use vsync or buy Freesync/Gsync.

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If by custom resolution like DSR on 7950 you need to install the leaked windows 10 driver from guru3D.
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Custom resolution not the same as DSR, and AMD don't have it.

Need to use a third party tool like custom resolution utility, but that not as nice as Nvidias implementation which make sit very easy to test overclocking a monitor.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
In older games like half life that use little GPU power with Vsync on I'm getting horrendous micro stutter, is this because of the clocks lowering in game, is there a fix?

I know Nvidia can force max clocks in games but I don't even need to that as I can play older games with Vsync on and suffer no stutter with lower clocks with an 780.
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If it's a boost edition it could be fluctuating clocks:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18509458
 
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