The AMD Driver Thread

Confused Stu · 11 Jul 2015 at 07:52

Martini1991 - saw a post in the Windows section a few weeks ago about blu-ray software (I use PowerDVD for my Win7 HTPC but I hate paying for every update). Leawo have now made their blu-ray playback software free, so it might be worth trying that.
http://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/

No idea if it supports W10 or 21:9 (although the page does list Win10 compatible), but as it's free you've got nothing to lose to try it if you haven't already.

hudson86 · 11 Jul 2015 at 08:10

Ferrari100 said:
No, just you.

Anyone else on Win10 build 10162, Bf4 alt tabbing crashes game every time . , 15.7, Crossfire 7970s. Grrrr

sgavan · 11 Jul 2015 at 08:35

15.7 in windows 10 creates horrible stutter in GTA 5 on my 7990.

passey89 · 11 Jul 2015 at 08:56

Is 15.7 better than the 1040 win 10 drivers?

This never ends well · 11 Jul 2015 at 09:11

neil473 said:
Anyone else on Win10 build 10162, Bf4 alt tabbing crashes game every time . , 15.7, Crossfire 7970s. Grrrr

are you using mantle

Minstadave · 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14

fs123 said:
try reverting to older drivers and see if problem goes away. Then try new drivers but don't use DDU, just install.

Tried both and neither worked, will try updating to Win 10.

slick rick · 11 Jul 2015 at 09:57

Hi guys,
I got a BSOD error this morning "system thread exception not handled (atikmdag-sys)" and the only thing that has changed on my PC is installing the new AMD driver. Does anyone know what might be going on? :confused:

Cheers.

gpuerrilla · 11 Jul 2015 at 10:05

slick rick said:
Hi guys,
I got a BSOD error this morning "system thread exception not handled (atikmdag-sys)" and the only thing that has changed on my PC is installing the new AMD driver. Does anyone know what might be going on?

Cheers.

Are you overclocking your card?

slick rick · 11 Jul 2015 at 10:08

Th0nt said:
Are you overclocking your card?

No mate, stock clocks.

passey89 · 11 Jul 2015 at 10:19

well installed 15.7 and now ark crashes on loading. time to uninstall i think

Dygaza · 11 Jul 2015 at 10:26

passey89 said:
well installed 15.7 and now ark crashes on loading. time to uninstall i think

Just curious. Do you have Gaming evolved -client installed?

I have some games that crash on start if I have it on. Worth checking it out if it's the cause.

humbug · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:21

Dygaza said:
Just curious. Do you have Gaming evolved -client installed?

I have some games that crash on start if I have it on. Worth checking it out if it's the cause.

This, i don't think its ever made a game of mine crash but i don't run the GE app anymore as it does black screen my computer if i run Cryengine.

shankly1985 · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:30

Last couple patches for Raptr been rock solid for me.. Not had a single game not record or crash..

I did used to get a conflict with MSI AB and CSGO though but since I disabled AB for CSGO I not had the problem since..

So just for an heads up if Raptr is crashing a game etc just make sure you not also running other OSD software, because it could very well clash with each other.

Minstadave · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:37

15.7 broke all 3D on my 8.1 install but having upgraded to 10 it's all fine and dandy.

Gregster · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:37

I have used Raptr to see what was what and apart from some failing to record, it was pretty stable.

shankly1985 · 11 Jul 2015 at 18:05

Gregster said:
I have used Raptr to see what was what and apart from some failing to record, it was pretty stable.

Out of interest what games failed?

MyBrainz · 11 Jul 2015 at 18:19

New F1 2015 benchmark.. Windows 7 - All Ultra settings @1080p except for AA option is TAA only. (SMAA or SMAA+TAA just makes it even more blurry)

min_fps="56.005264"
max_fps="93.646774"
avg_fps="88.083794"

min_fps_ms="17.855465"
max_fps_ms="10.678425"
avg_fps_ms="11.352826"

And here is the in-game High setting @1080p/TAA

min_fps="70.365349"
max_fps="101.274437"
avg_fps="88.699791"

min_fps_ms="14.211540"
max_fps_ms="9.874160"
avg_fps_ms="11.273984"

I did make some changes to the hardware settings file..

<postprocess motionBlur="false"
godRays="true"
depthOfField="false"
lensStreak="true"
lensFlare="true"
bloom="true"
rainBeads="true" />

This game is a mess right now, all textures in the distance look proper blurry when the car is moving until u stop and even then it isnt crisp at all for the textures in the distance, this bench was using 2969MB of VRAM with my 3GB card so i suspect some sort of BF4/Mantle effect going on here, its like they dumbed down the textures because they're using too much VRAM. No F1 game usually uses this much VRAM. And the endless random crashing is a pain in the ass, alt-tab = a resolution change to 1920x1200 every time for me.

Seems like Anisotropic Filtering doesnt work at all, so much blur everywhere i look.

There is so many complaints with this game around the internet, i read 75% of people are not happy with it.

Hoping for some hotfixes to mend this junk cuz right now im not happy with it at all, DayZ runs better than this title at the moment and thats saying something :eek:

Anybody running this game on an Nvidia card? I'd like to see if there is any difference in the image quality i'm getting on my AMD card.

slick rick · 11 Jul 2015 at 18:57

slick rick said:
Hi guys,
I got a BSOD error this morning "system thread exception not handled (atikmdag-sys)" and the only thing that has changed on my PC is installing the new AMD driver. Does anyone know what might be going on?

Cheers.

Well my PC hasn't BSOD again yet (touch wood!) but another thing I have noticed since updating to latest drivers is upon waking the machine from sleep, my screen stays black like its not detecting a video output from the PC.

I appear to be the only one having issues though so not sure what is going on TBH?

humbug · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:05

slick rick said:
Well my PC hasn't BSOD again yet (touch wood!) but another thing I have noticed since updating to latest drivers is upon waking the machine from sleep, my screen stays black like its not detecting a video output from the PC.

I appear to be the only one having issues though so not sure what is going on TBH?

No your not, or perhaps an unrelated issue but i have had that no signal black screen a few times, mainly in my Sand Box Editor but never in game so i though it might be a problem with that, and yet then one day it did it in World Of Warships.

And it wasn't that it was just black screening and freezing the PC, sometimes on starting the PC up again the Motherboard wouldn't recognise the GPU, error beeps and lights.

Its strange that it seemed to be totally random, it would go for days without issue and then one day it would do it over and over again.

As i say it only ever did it once in a game, since then i have swapped over the 6 and 8 pin power leads from the PSU, that was a few days ago and its not done it since.

I don't know if any of that is familiar to you? or probably something more serious at my end, i hope not, touch wood.

DavieJG · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:09

I have a 7990 on a 1400 monitor. I enable vsr but dont get the 1800 option for either windows or bf4.

Any ideas?