The AMD Driver Thread

[LtMatt]

I got excited seeing a crossfire profile for fallout 4 but trying it unfortunately killed my excitement.
50fps in single card mode
30fps in crossfire
I guess it could be the fact I'm running it in borderless windowed mode but that's the only way to get 21:9 to work properly.

Can anyone else confirm if that profile is working for them?

CrossFire only works in fullscreen mode in DX9/10/11 games.

I take it that 15.11 is wrong in these details.

Corrected, cheers.

 

[LtMatt]

Adding a Known Issue to the 16.1.1 Hotfix driver release notes.

Known Issues
Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable AMD Crossfire™.

 

[LtMatt]

The only change is we pushed out a fix to correct the flickering that was caused by the Fallout 4 patch 1.3 which affected the new CrossFire profile.

 

[LtMatt]

Duplicate post, see below.

 

[LtMatt]

Could just be the wife's annual check of Matt's credit card statement!

Hate to spoil the speculation (always fun to read ) but I'm about to make a purchase that involves a hefty deposit.

What I don't understand is, where is this fallout 4 crossfire in the pre defined crossfire profiles??? It's not there. there is no fallout 4 crossfire profile, so is it invisible and why?

Not all CrossFire profiles are exposed in the pre-defined list Tony, some are embedded in the driver.

Matt, is there any need to turn off ULPS in windows 10 anymore? I just reinstalled and did a quick test run before i turned off ULPS and it was running fine, i then tested a few overclocks and pushed the cards but still no instability and they just seem to run fine now.

I dunno if anyone else is getting this, but i used to get instability issues when i forgot to disable it before.

I disable it for Fury X CrossFire because i can't adjust the voltage with it running, but if you don't adjust the voltage then it makes sense to leave it enabled. It's a clever power saving feature.

Matt, are you guys aware of the issue with overclocking? I used to have MSI Afterburner start at windows startup and apply my overclocks on windows startup which its done for as long as ive had my 290x.
However even since trying crimson out it started black screening me at windows start screen.

Only way to fix this was load into safe mode and un-install crimson. I later found that by disabling MSI afterburner from loading windows startup and disabling loading the overclock profile at windows startup while using crimson it would stop this issue of black screening from happening.

I don't use apply overclocking at startup as it creates a lot of problems.

I would recommend using the 2D/3D profiles featuring and saving your profile and auto applying it with that.

 

[LtMatt]

Come on Matt/Joe!

Were's the *nix Vulkan drivers.....

http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447613565426479/

I'll do some digging and get back to you.

I have used AMD for the last 8 years. I recently moved from my 5770 to a 7970. Decided to do a clean install of the drives. Used the tool to wipe all old drivers and installed the new crimson ones. What a mistake, the drivers installed but the dashboard was not working correct. All the options for settings were missing so tryied to go in to advanced settings to find out that they were also missing.

Long story short, I had to install the CCC manually so could change the screen size on desplay.

I have nothing but issues with the drivers, everytime I close down the media player I loose sound so have disable and enable it or reboot. When I play films via VLC or any software it freezes in the 1st 10 seconds and I get an error saying "Driver stopped responding and has now recovered" this happens every time I start to play films (any format) 7/8 times in 10mins viewing.

I have tried to go back to the old CCC via unistalling and wiping all the old drivers etc but the old software will also fail to install?

Any advice please?

Can you use System Restore or Device Manager roll back driver to regain functionality?

 

[LtMatt]

We hope to have a fix for the clock fluctuation soon. That should improve your experience dramatically Tony.

 

[LtMatt]

Won't hold me breath...

Sounds promising, thanks for the update Matt

It's a high priority issue, as soon as it's fixed we'll mention it in the release notes via the Resolved Issues. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

 

[LtMatt]

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Driver


Hello everyone,

Click here to download the driver.


Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 Highlights

• 
  AMD has partnered with Stardock in association with Oxide to bring gamers Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0 the first benchmark to release with DirectX® 12 benchmarking capabilities such as Asynchronous Compute, multi-GPU and multi-threaded command buffer Re-ordering. Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2 is optimized to support this exciting new release.

• The SteamVR Performance Test: we are pleased to report that our Radeon R9 390, Nano, and Fury series GPUs are all able to achieve ‘VR Recommended’ status, the highest achievable level of experience possible. In addition to that, our affinity multi-GPU feature is already showing significant performance uplift over a single GPU on Radeon cards in the aforementioned benchmark.

Performance and quality improvements for
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Ashes of the Singularity – Benchmark 2.0


Crossfire Profiles available for
Far Cry Primal
The Division
XCOM 2


For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers, please refer to the following support resources:

How-To Uninstall AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers from a Windows® Based System
How-To Install AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers on a Windows® Based System



Resolved Issues:
Far Cry 4 - Stuttering may be observed when launching the game with AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable either feature
World of Warcraft runs extremely slowly in quad crossfire at high resolutions
Fallout 4 - Screen tearing in systems with both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ enabled if game is left idle for a short period of time
Fallout 4 - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations with the v1.3 game update and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
Fallout 4 - Foliage/water may ripple/stutter when game is launched in High/Ultra settings mode
Fallout 4 - Thumbnails may flicker or disappear while scrolling the Perk levels page
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Flickering may be experienced at various game locations when the game is left idle in AMD Crossfire™ mode under Windows 7
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Lara Croft’s hair may flicker in some locations is the Esc key is pressed
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Game may intermittently crash or hang when launched with very high settings and AA is set to SMAA at 4K resolution
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - Corruption can be observed at some locations during gameplay
Rise of Tomb Raider™ - A TDR error may be observed with some AMD Radeon 300 Series products after launching the "Geothermal Valley" mission
A black screen/TDR error may be encountered when booting a when booting a system with Intel + AMD graphics and an HDMI monitor connected
Radeon Settings may sometimes fails to launch with a “Context Creation Error” message
FRTC options are displayed on some unsupported laptop configurations with Intel CPU’s and AMD GPU’s
Choppy gameplay may be experienced when both AMD Freesync™ and AMD Crossfire™ are both enabled
Display corruption may be observed after keeping system idle for some time
The AMD Overdrive™ memory clock slider does not show original clock values if memory speeds are overclocked



Known Issues:
Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption
A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
Star Wars™: Battlefront - Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
Cannot enable AMD Crossfire with some dual GPU AMD Radeon HD 59xx and HD 79xx series products
Fallout 4 - In game stutter may be experienced if the game is launched with AMD Crossfire enabled
XCOM 2 - Flickering textures may be experienced at various game locations
Rise of the Tomb Raider™ - The game may randomly crash on launch if Tessellation is enabled



AMD Issue Reporting Form:
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the AMD Issue Reporting Form.

 

[LtMatt]

Dammit Matt I just put on the 16.1.1 yesterday lol.

Also really wish they would get a fix for planetary annihilation cough cough.

Matt do you think AMD will fix drivers for Planetary Annihilation in Windows 10 on Fiji?

If you reported the issue and we can reproduce it internally, then yes we'll usually try to fix it.

If you can direct me to a thread where the issue is documented thoroughly that will help.

Any idea how that is working scaling / performance wise? any flickering / shadow issues?

I've not played the game, but I'm not aware of any unwanted side effects with this profile.

Pretty disgraceful TBH, how can is be a "high priority issue" and still not be fixed 4 month later . Somebody at AMD must have a very odd interpretation of "high priority"!

Against my better judgement I just bought a Fury X, posts like this make me question my purchase

It's out of my control unfortunately, but i do make sure the feedback i receive reaches the right people within AMD.

 

[LtMatt]

A minor update to Crimson 16.2 has been released, Crimson 16.2.1.

This is identical to 16.2 with the addition of a Far Cry Primal Crossfire Profile.

 

[LtMatt]

11 minutes late grasshopper

 

[LtMatt]

Matt see if ya can get them to add a voltage adjustment to it and we will be sorted for future cards.

That's never going to happen.

 

[LtMatt]

Thought this was funny

I love DDU btw

DDU is a more thorough tool, it removes some registry entries and folders that the AMD tool leaves behind. For example, saved game profiles.

As I'm part of the global customer care team at AMD, i recommend the user of either tool, depending on the severity of the issue.

 

[LtMatt]

I'll field this one.

The first version of the AMD Uninstall Tool, released years ago did remove USB drivers and such from Intel and AMD motherboards. The new version does not remove anything Intel.

The AMD Clean Uninstall Utility, which has been around since February 2015, removes driver/motherboard files and left over AMD folders. If you are using an AMD motherboard it will remove the Motherboard drivers (Sata, USB etc) as well. However all those drivers are included in the AMD Crimson driver so will be reinstalled as soon as you update.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt, any ETA for the Freesync drivers on Linux? I want to get rid windows for ever, and is the only thing that stops me.

I'll have to check again and get back to you, but last i heard i was not able to reveal any information about this.

 

[LtMatt]

OK I have this week decided to go to Freesync , got my Crimson drivers installed....but before I hookup my Freesync Monitor is there anything else I have to do please ?

thanx

Read my 'How To Enable FreeSync' document.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt, any update on a fixed Division crossfire profile?

When the profile was added and 16.2.1 was released, the issue did not exist. We're investigating, that's all i have for now Puppetmaster.

 

[LtMatt]

When the profile was added and 16.2.1 was released, the issue did not exist. We're investigating, that's all i have for now Puppetmaster.

That's the one, the lead Devwas promising a new driver today - maybe he's working on AMD time though.

Runs pretty good for me on a 290x @1440p but would be nice for crossfire to be working so I can turn up more settings

We'll fix it in our driver, or work with the developer on a game patch, to address whatever regression has caused this.

 

[LtMatt]

Has AMD managed to get a big title to have working crossfire recently at launch?

Witcher 3/Tomb Raider/The Division/Fallout 4 - all didn't have working Xfire at launch, although I think Fallout had a quick fix.

And then you get posts on Twitter teasing new drivers - will we actually see said driver today?

It's getting more than a little frustrating.

Yes - GTA V, Farcry Primal, XCOM and many more. That said, yes i concede that there are plenty that don't work out of the box and support gets added after release.

Regarding the titles you mentioned, they are all GameWorks titles so it does make things a littlemore complicated shall we say, I'm sure you understand.

We're going to fix The Division, but until we do it should work well on 1 GPU and Radeons are generally performing exceptionally in this game considering it's a GameWorks title.

Spoiler

Source
http://www.gamestar.de/hardware/praxis/technik-check/3269013/the_division_pc_technik.html