The AMD Driver Thread

Buckster · 7 Dec 2015 at 17:54

anyone else getting lots of CTD with Fallout 4 ?

sort of co-incidence with driver update - but could be something else on system

LoadsaMoney · 7 Dec 2015 at 22:34

I there a problem with the 15.9.1 BETAs and Dirt Rally ?

As im getting weird flashes while running the benchmark, just after the start line, i get a quick flash of a red tall starting post right in the middle of the screen, and when the cameras changing, inside, out, steering, bonnet etc..., i get a quick flash of weirdness, and when going past the digger by the logs, i get a quick flash of a grey screen, with what looks like the distance, checkpoint marker on the left, running through the middle, left to right.

Will be trying the Crimsons again tomorrow though.

jonjay · 8 Dec 2015 at 10:09

What a mess this is - nvidia fanboys must be ****ing themselves laughing. lol AMDMatt disappeared of face of the planet with all these issues.

TNA · 8 Dec 2015 at 10:46

jonjay said:
What a mess this is - nvidia fanboys must be ****ing themselves laughing. lol AMDMatt disappeared of face of the planet with all these issues.

No surprise there. Don't worry, as soon as AMD have something good to announce he will be back. lol

Sad, but it's the way AMD roll these days. It only makes me potentially picking up pascal when it comes out to be an easier choice

Sh4rkie · 8 Dec 2015 at 10:46

LoadsaMoney said:
I there a problem with the 15.9.1 BETAs and Dirt Rally ?

As im getting weird flashes while running the benchmark, just after the start line, i get a quick flash of a red tall starting post right in the middle of the screen, and when the cameras changing, inside, out, steering, bonnet etc..., i get a quick flash of weirdness, and when going past the digger by the logs, i get a quick flash of a grey screen, with what looks like the distance, checkpoint marker on the left, running through the middle, left to right.

Will be trying the Crimsons again tomorrow though.

It does 'flash' when the camera changes view, that's with all the drivers i've tried (15.10 currently) up to and inc Crimson.

I also find the DR benchmark is very sensitive to overclocking.

PapaLazaru · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:04

MyBrains said:
I never install over the top, been with AMD since 2008, i know what i'm doing.

I've always installed over the top. Been doing it since 2006 with no issues I know what I am doing.

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:07

Sh4rkie said:
It does 'flash' when the camera changes view, that's with all the drivers i've tried (15.10 currently) up to and inc Crimson.

I also find the DR benchmark is very sensitive to overclocking.

Right thanks, you'ld have thought it would have been fine with it being one of their Gaming Evolved games.

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:35

Is it worth popping the Crimson Hotfixes on, or do they still have major problems ?

nashathedog · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:41

Hotfixes?

Grey M@a · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:42

LoadsaMoney said:
Is it worth popping the Crimson Hotfixes on, or do they still have major problems ?

15.11.1 driver sorted my over heating issue with the fans spinning too low, however still sits at 1080mhz on the core all the time, power management is no longer working so never drops to 300-500 like it did when I first got the 390x

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 12:47

nashathedog said:
Hotfixes?

Yeah the ones that fixed the fan issue, 15.11.1s.

Grey M@a said:
15.11.1 driver sorted my over heating issue with the fans spinning too low, however still sits at 1080mhz on the core all the time, power management is no longer working so never drops to 300-500 like it did when I first got the 390x

Hmm, been reading about quite a lot of problems with them still, i might just hold off till another set arrives, thanks.

Confused Stu · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:06

For the record, I've had no issues with the Crimson driver so far (touch wood). I did find it more frustrating than the old CCC to set and unset Eyefinity as it doesn't give me an express option, but I've now solved that I've got it back to a couple of clicks to do.

Still plays all the games I'm currently playing as well as any other driver (and better than others for Just Cause 3), allows Afterburner to control my clocks and GPU fan speeds as I want, and allows Speedfan to read the GPU temps to control my case fans.

I do genuinely think that if you go looking for people with issues with anything, you'll find them because people only post threads on the internet when they have issues - understandably, you hardly ever see "I installed something and it worked fine" posts.

I'd say it's worth giving the 15.11.1 a shot and see if they play nicely with your setup or not.

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:30

Confused Stu said:
For the record, I've had no issues with the Crimson driver so far (touch wood). I did find it more frustrating than the old CCC to set and unset Eyefinity as it doesn't give me an express option, but I've now solved that I've got it back to a couple of clicks to do.

Still plays all the games I'm currently playing as well as any other driver (and better than others for Just Cause 3), allows Afterburner to control my clocks and GPU fan speeds as I want, and allows Speedfan to read the GPU temps to control my case fans.

I do genuinely think that if you go looking for people with issues with anything, you'll find them because people only post threads on the internet when they have issues - understandably, you hardly ever see "I installed something and it worked fine" posts. I'd say it's worth giving the 15.11.1 a shot and see if they play nicely with your setup or not.

Yeah i tried the originals, and the only problem i seemed to have with those was the clock bouncing, although i didn't have them on long enough to see if there were any other problems

Sh4rkie · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:15

LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah i tried the originals, and the only problem i seemed to have with those was the clock bouncing, although i didn't have them on long enough to see if there were any other problems

With the release of AB 4.2 i'm going to revisit using the latest Crimson release as the main issue i had was variable GPU clocks. Will be interesting to see if the STALKER series is fixed which was the main culprit together with FC4.

something daft already!! · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:22

The latest version of Display Driver Unistaller properly removes The Crimson tide and I was able to install 14.4 again and play Elite.

Blackjack Davy · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:34

fs123 said:
By ripple effect you mean like screen tearing? If so then maybe something to do with the gpu refresh rate not matching you monitor's 60Hz.
No idea how to check though since Crimson removed all the resolution/rate settings and you now have to use windows for that.

What? Thats nuts. Windows frequently has no idea what the correct resolution should be until its forced in CCC. If they've removed that its a major headache. Along with Hotkeys.

futang17 · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:35

i get screen tearing in 2d (web browsing) with my sapphire fury tri-x windows 10 with Crimson and Catalyst (reinstalled), display port @ 1080p. Windows 10 was a clean install in jul and used DDU for both Crimson and Catalyst installs. super annoying.

Casterina · 8 Dec 2015 at 19:40

I've clean install Windows 7 and I have the Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card, should I be using the latest Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta or Crimson drivers?

Bluecube · 8 Dec 2015 at 19:44

I'm using Crimson drivers with a 280x. I'm quite happy with them. No issues.

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2015 at 20:01

Casterina said:
I've clean install Windows 7 and I have the Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card, should I be using the latest Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta or Crimson drivers?

Yeah use the latest Crimson 15.11.1 BETAs.