The AMD Driver Thread

uksoldierboy · 31 Jul 2015 at 17:02

The frame pacing does indeed cause no end of issues, disabled and loads of the stutter and sluggishness in the menus have gone.

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2015 at 09:50

I remember a few mentioning about "flickering/shimmering" in gta 5, mostly on the grass, it seems like I have it as well

No MSAA, I have FXAA along with sweetfx and all the settings are on near max except grass, shadows and the advanced settings.

I thought it was only crossfire users and MSAA users having this problem :/

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Aug 2015 at 10:12

nope, ppl just like to moan about crossfire and automatically use it as the excuse for problems Nexus. Windows 10 will fix that for ya

and that does look ugly mate, that would annoy the hell out of me. What happens if you turn all the ingame FXAA/MSAA off and just inject FXAA/SMAA through Sweetfx? Have you made sure your CCC is all setup correctly as you've recently updated your AMD drivers to 15.7.1 I believe.

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2015 at 10:37

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT to you and your windows 10!

Yeah that combined with the texture pop in is really distracting now

Will try that FXAA/sweetfx thing later, you still need to link me your sweetfx config

Most of my CCC settings including the gaming settings are at default, only thing I change in CCC is: turn of all the video processing stuff

SpudMaster · 1 Aug 2015 at 10:41

Doogles said:
Nah completely stock already thought of that. If I could stop it from going to 2D clocks and force constant voltage I think that might fix it because if seems to me that it hates downclocking. Have tried overclocking it but the core isn't very decent 1030mhz is the max it'll do really for 100% stability.

Have you managed to fix your black screening issue. I picked up a 290x from the member market and yesterday it started black screening at boot up when the windows login screen would appear. Reboot pc and it boots up fine and runs perfect until the next time I turn the pc on from a cold boot.

Not tried the latest drivers yet. Just used 15.7 so far

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Aug 2015 at 10:57

Nexus18 said:
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT to you and your windows 10!

Yeah that combined with the texture pop in is really distracting now

Will try that FXAA/sweetfx thing later, you still need to link me your sweetfx config

Most of my CCC settings including the gaming settings are at default, only thing I change in CCC is: turn of all the video processing stuff

Ah yeah will do, out at moment though mate. Make sure you are overriding x16 AF in CCC mate.

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2015 at 11:07

No worries bud, not in any rush

Will do, when you get back, could you just post a screenshot of your AMD CCC gaming section as well please.

bloodkil · 1 Aug 2015 at 12:15

I have yet to try GTA V in W10, anyone tried 15.7.1 with it?

uksoldierboy · 1 Aug 2015 at 12:19

GTA V is kinda broken for me now

game starts just fine, no stutter and high fps in the 80s, then after about 10 mins the fps just tanks, loads of stutter, fps go to around 25 with both cards at 100% usage then more offen than not it'll crash.

LtMatt · 1 Aug 2015 at 13:04

uksoldierboy said:
GTA V is kinda broken for me now game starts just fine, no stutter and high fps in the 80s, then after about 10 mins the fps just tanks, loads of stutter, fps go to around 25 with both cards at 100% usage then more offen than not it'll crash.

Two cards runs pretty well for me, but there is always a little stutter when entering new areas when driving, really spoils it for me. I find that playing this game with one gpu and FreeSync enabled is the way to go for the best possible smoothness. I think it's just this game has pushed the API to the absolute limit.

Here's a trick you can try though. Start the game and get in a car, then press alt + enter to go into Windowed mode and then alt + enter to go back to full screen mode. Does that improve things? Seems to help smooth the game out a bit for me when using two gpu's.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Aug 2015 at 13:30

Nexus18 said:
No worries bud, not in any rush

Will do, when you get back, could you just post a screenshot of your AMD CCC gaming section as well please.

here you go Nexus mate. Wanted to ask you, in your afterburner, does it say you are using driver 15.7 like mine? its a bit weird as im using 15.7.1 but it doesnt show that

Images over 1,280 pixels wide should be placed in spoiler tags as I've done for you.

Cheers

Surveyor

AMDMatt said:
Two cards runs pretty well for me, but there is always a little stutter when entering new areas when driving, really spoils it for me. I find that playing this game with one gpu and FreeSync enabled is the way to go for the best possible smoothness. I think it's just this game has pushed the API to the absolute limit.

Here's a trick you can try though. Start the game and get in a car, then press alt + enter to go into Windowed mode and then alt + enter to go back to full screen mode. Does that improve things? Seems to help smooth the game out a bit for me when using two gpu's.

like i said in the trust message to you yesterday Matt, Alt+tabbing out or atl+enter is the only way I can get my cards and frames to boost to where they should be. When I first enter the game, I quite often get 9% usage on my cards and like 10fps lmao, a quick alt+tab or Alt+enter to flip between windowed and back to full screen, and the frames and gpu usage rockets back up to 120fps again. After that point, the game is so damn smooth on 15.7.1's and Windows 10

p5ychonaut · 1 Aug 2015 at 13:58

Using Windows 10 with Catalyst 15.7.1

Since upgrading yesterday I've noticed the following issues using 2x HD7850:

-VCE no longer works. The VCE version of OBS crashes when selecting the "Encoding" menu where you choose the encoding method. The Gaming Evolved client will not record any gameplay.

-Skype in Windows 10 wakes the second GPU from its low power idle state for some reason

-While the DX12 API overhead test works in 3D Mark, attempting to use the D3D12 renderer on Unreal Engine 4 4.9 Preview crashes the display driver. I realise this is early days in terms of DX12 support though, so no biggie.

Other than the above everything is stable with no other problems.

humbug · 1 Aug 2015 at 14:30

p5ychonaut said:
Using Windows 10 with Catalyst 15.7.1

Since upgrading yesterday I've noticed the following issues using 2x HD7850:

-VCE no longer works. The VCE version of OBS crashes when selecting the "Encoding" menu where you choose the encoding method. The Gaming Evolved client will not record any gameplay.

-Skype in Windows 10 wakes the second GPU from its low power idle state for some reason

-While the DX12 API overhead test works in 3D Mark, attempting to use the D3D12 renderer on Unreal Engine 4 4.9 Preview crashes the display driver. I realise this is early days in terms of DX12 support though, so no biggie.

Other than the above everything is stable with no other problems.

4.9 is in Alpha preview, you're supposed to report bugs here too

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?78220-Unreal-Engine-4-9-Preview

thebennyboy · 1 Aug 2015 at 14:32

Any idea why VCE isn't working on Win10, Matt? Using 15.7.1.

LtMatt · 1 Aug 2015 at 15:02

TonyTurbo78 said:
like i said in the trust message to you yesterday Matt, Alt+tabbing out or atl+enter is the only way I can get my cards and frames to boost to where they should be. When I first enter the game, I quite often get 9% usage on my cards and like 10fps lmao, a quick alt+tab or Alt+enter to flip between windowed and back to full screen, and the frames and gpu usage rockets back up to 120fps again. After that point, the game is so damn smooth on 15.7.1's and Windows 10

I'd say it's a driver issue, but the same trick applies to the competition as well.

Have to see if a future game patch from Rockstar fixes it.

p5ychonaut said:
Using Windows 10 with Catalyst 15.7.1

Since upgrading yesterday I've noticed the following issues using 2x HD7850:

-VCE no longer works. The VCE version of OBS crashes when selecting the "Encoding" menu where you choose the encoding method. The Gaming Evolved client will not record any gameplay.

-Skype in Windows 10 wakes the second GPU from its low power idle state for some reason

-While the DX12 API overhead test works in 3D Mark, attempting to use the D3D12 renderer on Unreal Engine 4 4.9 Preview crashes the display driver. I realise this is early days in terms of DX12 support though, so no biggie.

Other than the above everything is stable with no other problems.

thebennyboy said:
Any idea why VCE isn't working on Win10, Matt? Using 15.7.1.

VCE works fine as you can still record and stream gameplay with Raptr, Mirillis Action, PlaysTv etc. However Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT) has been removed from 15.7 and all future drivers as the software is end of life.

If you need it for OBS then you can pull the AVT installer from 14.12 WHQL or even 15.6 Beta and install it that way. Download 14.12 from www.amd.com/drivers (look for the older driver section near the 15.7.1 download link) start the extraction process for 14.12 and check your C:AMD>14.12 folder. It should be in there somewhere.

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2015 at 16:53

Tried turning;

sweetfx off
FXAA in game off
changing from borderless to fullscreen
using 16x in CCC instead

But still getting that shimmering/flickering effect

uksoldierboy · 1 Aug 2015 at 17:56

AMDMatt said:
Two cards runs pretty well for me, but there is always a little stutter when entering new areas when driving, really spoils it for me. I find that playing this game with one gpu and FreeSync enabled is the way to go for the best possible smoothness. I think it's just this game has pushed the API to the absolute limit.

Here's a trick you can try though. Start the game and get in a car, then press alt + enter to go into Windowed mode and then alt + enter to go back to full screen mode. Does that improve things? Seems to help smooth the game out a bit for me when using two gpu's.

Tried it bud, when this huge stutter happens, the fps drop to 20s and just stay there, no amount of alt tabbing, swtiching from windowed to fullscreen etc fixes it.

Ian Evey · 1 Aug 2015 at 18:41

uksoldierboy said:
Tried it bud, when this huge stutter happens, the fps drop to 20s and just stay there, no amount of alt tabbing, swtiching from windowed to fullscreen etc fixes it.

When it does it how much vram and system ram is the game using?

uksoldierboy · 1 Aug 2015 at 19:38

Vram is about 3100mb, plenty left, not checked system ram, but can't imagine it using over 16gb.

It's only started doing it today, game can run fine for an hour or 5 mins, timing of it is random.

i've uninstalled the game now and going to do a fresh reinstall of it as i had it on a different drive before moving over to windows 10.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Aug 2015 at 22:37

guys, getting this issue on GTA V running on Windows 10. Using Crossfire 390's and 15.7.1 driver. I thought it might have been an issue with Sweetfx I was running, but deleted all the files and ran as normal, but error was still happening after 10-20 minutes of gaming. Another thing I noticed, at times the screen would flicker like crazy, but alt+enter to go windowed then alt+enter again to go back to full screen would fix it.

Anyway, here's the error, what you think? driver issue? seems I'm not the only one, 2k plus other ppl with the same issue. http://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/611703709830303956/