The AMD Driver Thread

[LtMatt]

leaving it late indeed.

US time Tony.

 

[LtMatt]

yeah i know mate, usually drops around 8pm our time doesn't it. That seems to be around the popular time anyway. Soooooo hope this has The Division crossfire fix, would love it if they've nailed it like they did the Fallout 4 crossfire hotfix a day after it was launched.

8PM if I'm lucky, 11-11:30PM if I'm not.

 

[LtMatt]

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3 Highlights


Hello everyone,

Click here to download the driver.


Crossfire Profiles available for

• Hitman™
• The Park

Performance and quality improvements for

• Hitman™
• Rise of the Tomb Raider™
• Gears of War Ultimate Edition(2)
• Up to 60% on AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1
• Up to 44% on AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series vs AMD Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1

• Power Efficiency Toggle: A new feature introduced in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab for select AMD Radeon™ 300 series and AMD Radeon™ Fury X available under “Global Options”. This allows the user to disable some power efficiency optimizations.

• Vulkan™ Support(1): Vulkan™ is the successor to OpenGL and a descendant of AMD’s Mantle. Vulkan™ is a powerful “low-overhead” graphics API that gives software developers deep control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeon™ GPUs and multi-core CPUs. More information on Vulkan™ can be found at https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/.

• Per-Game Display Scaling: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows per game Display Scaling to be set within the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab under “Profile Options”.

• Language Menu: A new feature introduced in Radeon™ Settings that allows the end user to select their preferred language from a drop down menu under the “Preferences -> Language” tab.

• Two Display Eyefinity: Two Display Eyefinity is now an available option under the Eyefinity tab in Radeon™ Settings.

• AMD Crossfire™ Status Indicator: A new feature in Radeon™ Settings that allows users to toggle an AMD Crossfire™ status indicator on their screen when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode.

• Updated Social Links: New Social links are now available for Radeon™ Settings home page and have also updated based on geographical region.

• AMD XConnect™ technology: This driver provides initial support for external GPU enclosures configured with Radeon™ R9 300 Series GPUs are now supported over Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) connections. AMD XConnect™ technology additionally provides plug’n’play support and an integrated management interface. Base system must have BIOS support for external GPUs (e.g. Razer Blade Stealth).

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:
Core clocks may not maintain sustained clock speeds resulting in choppy performance and or screen corruption (Fixed with new Power Efficiency feature toggled to off).
Gears of War Ultimate Edition - Random freezes may be experienced during gameplay
Ashes of the Singularity 2.0 Benchmark now supports DirectFlip.
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



Known Issues:
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"
Installing via command line may not work for some users. As a workaround please use the default GUI installer.
League of Legends may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Rift may experience a hang when playing with FRTC and V-Sync enabled. As a work around users are suggested to disable V-Sync.
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 may experience some flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Rise of the Tomb Raider may experience graphical corruption in some cinematics.
The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Star Wars Battlefront users may experience flicker in AMD Crossfire™ mode on battle and tutorial loading screens.
Star Wars Battlefront users may experience ground texture issues in certain locations on Survival Hoth missions.



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]

Nice update some interesting features thanks matt

Finally i can go to sleep.

We're still working on The Division, no further updates from my last post.

 

[LtMatt]

Tracking issues of the power efficiency option not working, but not seeing many so far Tony apart from your report.

 

[LtMatt]

I get the feeling that this is an issue with Crossfire and Freesync combo matt. I've seen plenty of ppl saying this new power saving feature is working much better, but these have all been on single card setups. Don't think I've seen one person so far saying anything about crossfire and this new driver and the clocks dropping yet.

Could be Tony, I'm keeping an open mind.

Unfortunately one of my Fury X cards died, so i can't test FreeSync CrossFire on my system. I'm not seeing any fluctuation with one Fury X and Freesync enabled.

 

[LtMatt]

yep i know that, thanks for the headsup though, just forgot to do it on that last one.



Here's something very interesting, turned off the frame limit in MSIAB, now did the same test as before. Better fps, solid core clocks, more steady gpus usage, no spikes etc. Interesting. Going to retest turning MSIAB frame limit back at 120fps.

Spoiler

And before

No need for MSI AB to lock FPS if you use FRTC. This could explain the issue and why i was unable to reproduce it. Limiting FPS artificially by third party software could trick the powerplay algorithm into lowering the core clock.

 

[LtMatt]

Well this is odd, but good.

I rebooted (as id only just popped the 16.3s on, so i was still on the mandatory restart you have to do after installing them), turned Xfire back on, set ABs frame limit back to 0, fired up GTA V, and this time, both cards cores locked to 1040MHz, didn't shift, so quit the game, set my frame limit back to 143 again in AB, and re-fired GTA V back up, and no change, both cards still locking @ max 1040MHz, so looks like my reboot has done something, as its all working fine here, both cards locking at max clocks in Xfire, with Power Efficiency OFF, and a frame limit set in AB.

Even tried Dying Light again, but this time with the Frame Pacing on, and both cards still locked at 1040MHz

EDIT: I am using FreeSync as well.

Always reboot first...

Glad to hear it's sorted for you. Tony might want to try:

1. Fresh Windows Install
2. Fully Update Windows
3. Install Crimson 16.3
4. Restart p)
5. Disable Power Efficieny
6. Install MSI AB + GTA V
7. Apply Overlay Settings Only To MSI AB (no fps cap or other tweaks with any third party software)
8. Test

 

[LtMatt]

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2 Driver

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2 Driver





Hello everyone,

Click here to download the driver.



Support for
Oculus Rift™ SDK v1.3
AMD Radeon™ Pro Duo

Updated Crossfire Profiles available for
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture™
Hitman™ in DirectX®11



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:
Counter-Strike™: Global Offensive fails to stretch on non-native display aspect ratios. As part of the new Display Scaling per game feature, users can set “GPU Scaling” to “On” and “Scaling Mode” to “Full Panel” in the Display options tab in Radeon™ Settings as well as setting “Display Scaling” to “Full Panel” in their CSGO gaming profile under the “Gaming, Profile Options” tabs for this to take effect.
AMD Radeon™ Fury Series may experience corruption on desktop when system is idle for an extended period of time.
FFXIV can experience black screen or experience an application hang.
XCOM2™ may experience minor stutter while the camera is panning around a scene.
Radeon™ Settings check for software update may not display the latest available driver.



Known Issues:
A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
Need For Speed™ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around users can disable the profile through the Radeon™ Settings game manager.
The Division™ may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Power efficiency toggle in Radeon™ Settings is showing up for some unsupported products.
DOTA2™ may experience game menu flickering when entering full screen mode with AMD Crossfire™ enabled.
League of Legends® may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
XCOM2™ users may experience an application crash when using AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around please disable AMD Crossfire™ for the games profile in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab.
Hitman™ may experience flickering when played in DirectX™ 11 mode. As a work around users are recommended to set the game to DirectX™ 12 mode in the games launcher.



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]

I'm running a 6450 in this PC.

The AMD websites says the latest drivers for my card are the Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Beta which I am running.

Except I have a pop up on screen from the AMD drivers telling me there is an update.

Not according to the website there isn't.

Yeah, that's a misdemeanour, ignore it.

 

[LtMatt]

I've read AMDMatt says not to use it,

Do i? I'm using it and these are my 24/7 clocks.

Spoiler

 

[LtMatt]

Hi! Can i have some private request? Find me pls at guru3d @siriq! Thx!

What's up?

 

[LtMatt]

Hmmm... I've started getting odd video crashes over the past week, typically when doing something like playing a game in one window, while watching a video (eg: youtube) in another. Ultimately, the display will get corrupted and I have to reboot.

Wondering if this is due to the recent driver update!?

Try disabling hardware acceleration in the browser.

 

[LtMatt]

@AMDMatt

Hey do u know if there isnt gona be any driver profile or optimization made for the DayZ Standalone game now that DX11 has been implemented into the game? Framerates are really good now but there is some stuttering now and again, can this be sorted at driver level? Lead Producer Brian Hicks said he was going to be working with AMD and Nvidia now its DX11.

Any news on this please mate?

No news but yeah we'll be working with them.

Bashing one out and updating his twitter followers on how many he lost that week!

I think he has got a house but still benching etc, I'm sure he will pop his head in some time soon.

Fllwers is an automated tweet.

 

[LtMatt]

It seems that in Doom Hawaii and Grenada are broken at the moment giving lower performance than a 380x and 960.
I'm sure it's being worked on though.
Put a ticket in about it (It can't hurt for them to see more fix requests).

We hope to have a fix soon for the lower than expected performance on some GPUs.

It runs very well on the Fury X at 4K.

 

[LtMatt]

Thanks for the response. Do you know if this fix will include stopping the game from crashing?

In additional to the terrible performance, I had to launch Doom many times before I can get past the intro screens. Once I'm ingame, I crash to desktop within 5 minutes usually.

Not sure.

Tbh they need to do it quick as with a launch of cards coming from both sides this is very poor timing on a AAA game. Can you answer how Vulkan performs or is that classified.

We had our Doom driver out before the game released and we'll have a fix out for this soon.

I can't talk about Vulkan performance.

 

[LtMatt]

The power efficiency is Fury only.

Power Efficiency is applicable to Fury X, Fury, R9 390X, 390, 380X, 380 and 360.

2xx and 7xxx series GPUs did not have those power optimisations.

 

[LtMatt]

Ahh 3s as well, you learn something new everyday

All 3s apart from the 370.

 

[LtMatt]

@Matt could do with help here. Diabled XF just incase, and ran on the 295x, and once again 60 seconds in give or take, throttling YET temps aren't going above 64C... I've ran out of ideas...

AMD are sending me a 295x2, but i don't' have one on hand to test with. It should arrive early next week so I'll let you know what i find out.

Have you tried using Clock Blocker in the meantime?

 

[LtMatt]

Ok cool. Yep used clockblocked, still throttles down. I've disabled and re enabled XF, no change. Like I say temps mid 60's, so nothing to worry about there. Weird... yet runs like a weapon for a minute or two... then it all goes pear shaped and as soon as the throttling starts, the gameplay and fps just drop to unplayable.

What is the core clock/memory dropping to?