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The AMD Driver Thread

Sh4rkie said:
Don't say that, Shankly will had to come out and defend AMD...
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Ouch!
I can only report how my system is running. Everything working has it should here..

I don't defend AMD for the shake of it, if I have a problem I say so. They is couple things in the past I not been happy about AMD not everything is plain sailing in my book.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Individual game profiles regarding crossfire are not saving and not applying again. For example, I know games that if AFR mode is selected for their profile, when in game it should be really bright or really flickery. This is now not happening for those games when I go to test with AFR running on those games from the profiles, 2nd card not running as I can see a 300Mhz core clock on 2nd card. Crossfire is 100% screwed in this version, I still think it's down to the option that's missing in the crossfire section "Enable CrossfireX for applications that have no associated application profile"
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Gilbert89 said:
Just updated to Radeon Crimson 15.12 and AVG popped up with "General behavioral detection - c:\\Programdata\Launchurl.bat"" After a quick google noticed someone who also installed AMD drivers had this pop up, False positive perhaps?
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We're aware of an issue with settings not apply correctly. Look out for the next Crimson driver. :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Same for me, games are totally unplayable on the Crimsons.
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work around for me is to tell AB to set the core clock to the cards default speed.

a few times i haven't done this (as i forget to set this before hand) and played a game for a good few hours and can notice stuttering and this is in Diablo 3 so not a recent game at all.
 
Not sure Matt; but when I tried 16.1s with a few games crashes came back so I've had to roll back 15.11.1s without crimson........I might try at some point full win 10 install with 16.1s.

Some reason my 290 doesn't like them
 
AMDMatt said:
We're aware of an issue with settings not apply correctly. Look out for the next Crimson driver. :)
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It needs to hurry along then Matt my friend, I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the way things are running in the crimson's. Having to use a 3rd party program to lock my cores when gaming to stop them fluctuating, even when I'm nowhere near my set fps limit of 120fps, was the first thing to annoy me. The second is this issue with crossfire and individual profiles.
 
Silly question but how do I enable/disable xfire in Crimson?
Tried preferences - right/left click for the old catalist menu but nothing happens the catalist menu does not come up, even after installing the hotfix driver.

I can pull the plug on the 2nd gpu but plugging back in it is still disabled
 
@amd Matt, and everyone else.

When someone reports flickering on Freesync, with Catalyst 15.7 and later, especially Crimson 15.12/16.1 please check your DP cable.

Especially if you have XL2730Z the cable that came with the monitor is not DP1.2 but DP1.1 and you have the flickering because of the cable. Throw it away and buy a good DP1.2 compliant cable. (they are not expensive).

Why I say that. Cutting the story short, I received the refurbished replacement monitor last week from BenQ, straight away had bad vertical flickering experiencing (before it became worse), with my "initial" 2730Z.

However I couldn't test anything else with the 295X2 (has only mDP and a DVI) and when decided that I had to try the DVI and buy an mDP to DP cable, the scaller was gone and the monitor needed replacement.


However this time around I decided to try HDMI with the R9 Nano (flickering was there when received the monitor). With HDMI the screen was crystal clear, and no flickering. (Alas without Freesync)
So ordered a new DP cable which received today.

I put it on, and the screen is perfect, with Freesync on. If I put the cable that came with the BenQ monitor, it only works with Catalyst 15.6. Any other drivers and the screen is flickering badly, especially when Freesync is ON.
Same DP cable used on other non freesync monitor but generic, is fine, and has no issues both with Nvidia & AMD GPUs.

AMDMatt knows my complains about the various Catalyst drivers I have raised in here over the best part of 6 months, compared to the 15.6.

Apparently all issues were down to the cable supplied by BenQ, and possibly destroyed also the scaller needing a monitor replacement.

Matt, since you have access to more people than myself, and you have the time, have a look at it. It will save a lot of grievance to AMD who's not fault the flickering with the 2730Z especially, but to the cable supplied by the manufacturer.
 
Panos said:
@AMD Matt, and everyone else.

When someone reports flickering on Freesync, with Catalyst 15.7 and later, especially Crimson 15.12/16.1 please check your DP cable.

Especially if you have XL2730Z the cable that came with the monitor is not DP1.2 but DP1.1 and you have the flickering because of the cable. Throw it away and buy a good DP1.2 compliant cable. (they are not expensive).

Why I say that. Cutting the story short, I received the refurbished replacement monitor last week from BenQ, straight away had bad vertical flickering experiencing (before it became worse), with my "initial" 2730Z.

However I couldn't test anything else with the 295X2 (has only mDP and a DVI) and when decided that I had to try the DVI and buy an mDP to DP cable, the scaller was gone and the monitor needed replacement.


However this time around I decided to try HDMI with the R9 Nano (flickering was there when received the monitor). With HDMI the screen was crystal clear, and no flickering. (Alas without Freesync)
So ordered a new DP cable which received today.

I put it on, and the screen is perfect, with Freesync on. If I put the cable that came with the BenQ monitor, it only works with Catalyst 15.6. Any other drivers and the screen is flickering badly, especially when Freesync is ON.
Same DP cable used on other non freesync monitor but generic, is fine, and has no issues both with Nvidia & AMD GPUs.

AMDMatt knows my complains about the various Catalyst drivers I have raised in here over the best part of 6 months, compared to the 15.6.

Apparently all issues were down to the cable supplied by BenQ, and possibly destroyed also the scaller needing a monitor replacement.

Matt, since you have access to more people than myself, and you have the time, have a look at it. It will save a lot of grievance to AMD who's not fault the flickering with the 2730Z especially, but to the cable supplied by the manufacturer.
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Thanks Panos. If you spent some time searching through my posts @ OcuK or even the AMD forums, I'm forever telling people to use certified displayport 1.2 cables. There's a lot of junk DP cables floating round that often come with the display, i see situations like this every day in my job.

AMDMatt said:
I'll check.

How to Choose a DisplayPort Cable, and Not Get a Bad One!
Display Port 1.2 Certified Cables.

Filter the search at the top for Cables.
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AMDMatt said:
We recommend people use only cables that are on the Display Port 1.2 certified cable list. Is your cable on there?

I'm currently using one of these, Accell UltraAV B142C-007B DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 Cable with Latches (6.6 Feet / 2m) which is in the list. :)

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I see yours has a minidp connection on one end. Since getting my 295x2 i needed an adapter too, so i again went with an Accell B112B-001B 10 Inches UltraAV Mini Display Port/DisplayPort(f) Adapter - Black pictured below. This is also on the certified list. :)

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I don't have any of the issues you described, so this would be my first port of call. :)
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Panos said:
@AMD Matt, and everyone else.

When someone reports flickering on Freesync, with Catalyst 15.7 and later, especially Crimson 15.12/16.1 please check your DP cable.

Especially if you have XL2730Z the cable that came with the monitor is not DP1.2 but DP1.1 and you have the flickering because of the cable. Throw it away and buy a good DP1.2 compliant cable. (they are not expensive).

Why I say that. Cutting the story short, I received the refurbished replacement monitor last week from BenQ, straight away had bad vertical flickering experiencing (before it became worse), with my "initial" 2730Z.

However I couldn't test anything else with the 295X2 (has only mDP and a DVI) and when decided that I had to try the DVI and buy an mDP to DP cable, the scaller was gone and the monitor needed replacement.


However this time around I decided to try HDMI with the R9 Nano (flickering was there when received the monitor). With HDMI the screen was crystal clear, and no flickering. (Alas without Freesync)
So ordered a new DP cable which received today.

I put it on, and the screen is perfect, with Freesync on. If I put the cable that came with the BenQ monitor, it only works with Catalyst 15.6. Any other drivers and the screen is flickering badly, especially when Freesync is ON.
Same DP cable used on other non freesync monitor but generic, is fine, and has no issues both with Nvidia & AMD GPUs.

AMDMatt knows my complains about the various Catalyst drivers I have raised in here over the best part of 6 months, compared to the 15.6.

Apparently all issues were down to the cable supplied by BenQ, and possibly destroyed also the scaller needing a monitor replacement.

Matt, since you have access to more people than myself, and you have the time, have a look at it. It will save a lot of grievance to AMD who's not fault the flickering with the 2730Z especially, but to the cable supplied by the manufacturer.
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How can you tell the BenQ cable is 1.1 not 1.2? Why don't all owners have the same issue?

I can't seem to find any of the cheap cables. They're all around £10 for a 2m cable.
 
@AMDMatt, mate. Accept my apologies, however £470 monitor that is Freesync, you expect the cable been the correct one. Of course a lot of ROG Swifts were shipped with the same cable (Amphenol E326508 ) and people were complaining about flickering with Gsync, especially at Asus and EVGA forums there are many posts!!!!!

And indeed I bought the Accell UltraAV B142C-007B :) (I have the mDP to DP version of it lurking around also for future use).

@GoogalyMoogaly, read the small prints on the cable :) and find it's manufacturer spec sheet. Mine was an Amphenol E326508 DP, 6ft also. Others had Accell 6ft DP1.0 or DP1.1 models (varied) in the box.

Which is insane given the cost of the monitor and what was designed to do.





Same monitor same manufacturer.
 
I had no flicker with the supplied cable either. However, I did buy an accel certified one as well which was no different. They both work the same as each other, freesync and 144hz working fine with no flicker on each. Seems some Ppl have issues others don't. Just all hit and miss.
 
The print is ON the cable. No need to pull anything. Look behind your monitor and you will see make, model and rating :)

The information are printed every 8 inches or so
 
Panos said:
The print is ON the cable. No need to pull anything. Look behind your monitor and you will see make, model and rating :)

The information are printed every 8 inches or so
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My PC isn't in the middle of the room so it's hard to get behind it due to the wall that's in the way.

I've also got the cable tucked away so don't have 8 inches on show that I can just look at.

Trying to imagine your PC setup now where you have at least 8 inches of DP cable clearly visible and can easily get behind your monitor... :)
 
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