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The AMD Driver Thread

nashathedog said:
Probably because you don't play many different games,
Haven't you said before that you mainly play CS:GO and one or two others...

:rolleyes:
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I play a lot of games just csgo is/was my main game.

Right now too name some.
Battlefront, squad, rainbow six, resident evil 2 revelations, csgo and odd bf4 when helping out with friends work.
 
MDPlatts said:
You could always start whinging to Scott Wasson at TechReport - now he's going to work for AMD to work on the testing/drivers etc - http://techreport.com/blog/29390/into-a-new-era
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Very interesting. Lately I thought of him as having a small nvidia bias. Funny he is off to work for AMD now. Was it not him that did not get the fury X review sample? Lol

Will be interested to see if he continues featuring in the tr podcast. We could get some insights into things there perhaps.

Good luck to him in his new position.
 
As above ^^^^ he always seemed Nvidia bias to me, which in this case is not a bad thing, someone with a level of determination to find fault is an asset to AMD.
 
pete910 said:
Well they need to improve in numerous area's.

Case in point,

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/grid-autosport-releasing-for-steamos-linux-on-december-10th.6315

Another game without AMD support :o
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I haven't played it for a few months as I gave up on the AI which liked to target you with a nudge to your back end if you was leading and within a bend or two from the end of a race, It got beyond annoying but from what I remember it ran fine on my AMD graphics card (A 290x at the time).
 
nashathedog said:
I haven't played it for a few months as I gave up on the AI which liked to target you with a nudge to your back end if you was leading and within a bend or two from the end of a race, It got beyond annoying but from what I remember it ran fine on my AMD graphics card (A 290x at the time).
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On Linux? :confused:
 
shankly1985 said:
I play a lot of games just csgo is/was my main game.

Right now too name some.
Battlefront, squad, rainbow six, resident evil 2 revelations, csgo and odd bf4 when helping out with friends work.
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6 games there, One is ancient, At least 2 are AMD supported in development and RE Revelations 2 ran fine for me except the water bug on release and I imagine that was fixed long ago.

Luckily for you there's not a lot of opportunites for them to mess up there. Although I hear they do with Dice titles.

My point is your game base is very small and as an example I'm getting my core clocks staying between 300 and 500 on a certain old title while the majority of my other games run fine. Unless you play this title you won't know about or experience it. And even though it has always been fine up until recently I doubt AMD will even bother with it unless I'm lucky enough for the problem to be fixed within a fix for other games.


What is Squad by the way?
 
nashathedog said:
6 games there, One is ancient, At least 2 are AMD supported in development and RE Revelations 2 ran fine for me except the water bug on release and I imagine that was fixed long ago.

Luckily for you there's not a lot of opportunites for them to mess up there. Although I hear they do with Dice titles.

My point is your game base is very small and as an example I'm getting my core clocks staying between 300 and 500 on a certain old title while the majority of my other games run fine. Unless you play this title you won't know about or experience it. And even though it has always been fine up until recently I doubt AMD will even bother with it unless I'm lucky enough for the problem to be fixed within a fix for other games.


What is Squad by the way?
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Check my steam library lol mate they are just what am playing at this moment... Forgot batman AK just started.

My gaming selection is quite big that I find it hard fitting In most of them and I end up going back to some later on to finish. That nit even including what I own on origin and uplay.

Squad is in alpha atm and releasing on steam early access on 15th this month. It's from the guys behind project reality. It's going to be massive come next year.
 
Latest Afterburner is coming 5th onwards, so have to see if we can lock the clocks on the Furys with that via a profile.

I used to have to do do it on my 290X with it, as that was a clock bouncer.

May be able to do it now on TriXX.
 
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Running a single 290, 7850 and 4850 before that, I can't say that I have/had any serious issues with AMD. Sicne getting my 290, I have definitely had more problems though but this could be a combination of **** games or/and the rest of my pc giving up or/and windows has messed up somewhere....

Some games crash every now and then with a "blab blah blah has stopped responding" although I think this is more down to the game and poor stability i.e. batman.

There are times where my PC will completely lock up and blue screen, audio loop, red screen, although I can't say for sure if this is a GPU/driver fault or an error with windows or/and perhaps my CPU, MB, RAM, PSU.

But performance on the whole has been superb and I am super sensitive to stutter etc. I usually have to do various things first i.e. try borderless windowed mode first or/and lock FPS to 59 and then use in game vsync to have a smooth and screen tear free experience.

TNA said:
I never said they were, this is why I do not prefer one company much over the other. They if anything are worse, they try and gimp old cards and hope it goes unnoticed. This is worse than going silent like AMD do.

That said, I do not understand how people say, I am going Nvidia and never coming back because of having crossfire issues. Makes no sense in my books. How about just get rid of crossfire (the problem) and stick to single gpu and you won't have issues anymore? What does changing to Nvidia have anything to do with it? o.O

If you go Nvidia you can look forward to getting gimped at every opportunity. Unless the whole lot of people make noise about the said issue, it won't get fixed.

This is the issue, no clear winner really for me. I just go for which offers me best price for performance and that is that. Has worked fine for me for years :)
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My post wasn't really aimed to you but more to spikeot :p
 
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Nexus18 said:
There are times where my PC will completely lock up and blue screen, audio loop, red screen, although I can't say for sure if this is a GPU/driver fault or an error with windows or/and perhaps my CPU, MB, RAM.
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Yes, any of those.

Some time ago I had spurious random BSOD's from within Windows, and in games these generally manifested as a red screen + lock up. Initially suspected AMD driver and/or CPU overclock issues, but nothing I did (such as removing the overclock) solved the problem.

Eventually I ran my crash dumps through BlueScreenViewer (should've done that sooner) and googling the name of where it crashed it turned out to be the Killer NIC drivers for my on-board LAN. Tried various versions and Killer or MSI supplied drivers with and without tools, couldn't get them stable. In the end I fixed it by adding an Intel NIC to the system and using that instead.

An unstable OC would be my prime suspect for your problem though. A RAM test is probably also worthwhile.
 
For anyone interested i've just done some runs in The witcher 3 Novigrad using gpu Z log with crimson and ccc

15.11.1 CCC gpu-z log - maxed out no HW in 1080P and 4K@30hz

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0NdAjvcJBsFQnJWb0ZXUVFOMHc/

Crimson gpu-z log - maxed out no HW in 1080P and 4K@30hz

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0NdAjvcJBsFTW1rV2JaeXFEOUU/

With the CCC drivers in 1080p I had a couple of slow downs to 45fps for 1 sec, in 4K i had a solid 30fps no slowdowns

With the crimson drivers, in 1080p I had a lot of slowdowns to 30fps, in 4k i rarely hit 30fps, stayed in between 22 and 25 fps
 
Shiari said:
Yes, any of those.

Some time ago I had spurious random BSOD's from within Windows, and in games these generally manifested as a red screen + lock up. Initially suspected AMD driver and/or CPU overclock issues, but nothing I did (such as removing the overclock) solved the problem.

Eventually I ran my crash dumps through BlueScreenViewer (should've done that sooner) and googling the name of where it crashed it turned out to be the Killer NIC drivers for my on-board LAN. Tried various versions and Killer or MSI supplied drivers with and without tools, couldn't get them stable. In the end I fixed it by adding an Intel NIC to the system and using that instead.

An unstable OC would be my prime suspect for your problem though. A RAM test is probably also worthwhile.
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I have tried pretty much everything I can think of; memtest, reset bios to stock, different gpu drivers, disabling onboard lan amongst other things I don't need etc.

Getting a new SSD soon so will be doing a fresh install of windows 10 and hoping that it fixes whatever is causing the problems.

Will check out that bluescreenviewer tool though. IIRC for the blue/red screens, audio loop crashes, in event viewer, the error message is usually kernel power 41
 
Nexus18 said:
I have tried pretty much everything I can think of; memtest, reset bios to stock, different gpu drivers, disabling onboard lan amongst other things I don't need etc.

Getting a new SSD soon so will be doing a fresh install of windows 10 and hoping that it fixes whatever is causing the problems.

Will check out that bluescreenviewer tool though. IIRC for the blue/red screens, audio loop crashes, in event viewer, the error message is usually kernel power 41
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Kernel power 41 just means the system lost power. Flick the switch at back of pc for example will show this error.
 
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