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The AMD Driver Thread

Rezident said:
What's the story with the latest beta drivers? I have always used official Cat's since i had nightmare problems with betas (admittedly they were nvidia drivers years ago). But I got a Fury and people were recommending the latest betas but they are not good enough. Crashes in BF4 and even visual anomalies when just web browsing. back on CAT's now but what's the story with betas, are they just unreliable?
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Never had any issues with Betas tbh They really isn't any difference between a Beta driver and WHQL driver. All it means is Microsoft passed the driver..
Problems can and have in the past happened with WHQL driver..
 
Only thing I have noticed with the latest drivers is that the R9 390X would sit around 400mhz clock speed if I was just on the desktop or browsing the net and then bump up to 1050-1100mhz if watching video/playing games. Now the card seems to be running at 1050mhz at desktop and then bump up with video and games, doesn't seem to go into a low power state anymore.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
BETAs in general or the latest ones?

The only issues I can recall having with AMD's BETA's were a while back when there were issues with the Windows prompting to accept the cirtificate for some reason meaning it wasn't accepted and didn't get installed correctly. AMD released a hotfix pretty quickly that sorted the issue though.
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The latest betas.
 
Rezident said:
What's the story with the latest beta drivers? I have always used official Cat's since i had nightmare problems with betas (admittedly they were nvidia drivers years ago). But I got a Fury and people were recommending the latest betas but they are not good enough. Crashes in BF4 and even visual anomalies when just web browsing. back on CAT's now but what's the story with betas, are they just unreliable?
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Strange, I'm having no problems with my Fury and the 15.11.1 beta's

I use Google chrome. Haven't played BF4 for months but haven't had problems overall with what I am playing. A few issues with Fallout 4 but that's to be expected as it's a new Bethesda title on the same old engine (near enough).

Running older titles and run of the mill computing tends to be trouble free.
 
Dygaza said:
People keep telling horror stories about betas. Seriously try them yourself, since some people can have problems and then others don't have any problems with them. For example I haven't had any kind of corruption and problems with few latests drivers.

Stability differences between beta and WHQL drivers are nothing but a myth.
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Yeah that’s the whole problem, I did try them and there are weird graphical anomalies when you’re using firefox and even older games like bf4 crash. Official Cat’s have been perfect and totally rock solid for the last few years. I actually saw the ‘display driver has crashed’ error message for the first time in years yesterday and it was only because I had tried beta drivers. Maybe I’ve just been spectacularly unlucky with betas or because I’m still on an ancient cpu and I only rarely use betas, but every time I do there are obvious issues.

Just wondering, are betas supposed to offer better performance, say in new games?
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Will they be older than the 15.11.1 Betas though ?, as if they are WHQL'd, they'll have been sitting at MS waiting to get it, before those were released.
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I think New CCC will will have 2 packages. WHQL'd drivers and latest beta. Same as with current CCC. Usually driver changes, but CCC remains the same version. Only when some xfire profiles come in or some other changes to CCC are required, you get CCC update with new beta ;)
 
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