The AMD Driver Thread

kration · 3 Apr 2016 at 17:53

Rezident said:
16.3.2 drivers - Artifacts in Hitman.

Going back to 16.3, which were fine.

I've gone back to 15.7.1 as the new Eyefinity setup is a real pain in the backside :mad:

Not sure how the drivers will cope with the Vive, but I'll just upgrade hen and see.

Confused Stu · 3 Apr 2016 at 21:05

kration said:
I've gone back to 15.7.1 as the new Eyefinity setup is a real pain in the backside

Not sure how the drivers will cope with the Vive, but I'll just upgrade hen and see.

Open Crimson, select Eyefinity, select Advanced Setup and the old CCC interfaces shows it's face. If you now right click the Taskbar icon for it and pin it to the Taskbar, next time you need it it's just a single click to get to it.

Not ideal, but works fine for me given that Crimson tells me it can't set up an Eyefinity group with my arrangement (3 screens on R9 290, 1 on the onboard Intel graphics).

kration · 3 Apr 2016 at 21:26

Confused Stu said:
Open Crimson, select Eyefinity, select Advanced Setup and the old CCC interfaces shows it's face. If you now right click the Taskbar icon for it and pin it to the Taskbar, next time you need it it's just a single click to get to it.

Not ideal, but works fine for me given that Crimson tells me it can't set up an Eyefinity group with my arrangement (3 screens on R9 290, 1 on the onboard Intel graphics).

I think we've had this conversation before

I can go through the set up for eyefinity 'easily' enough. It's the ability to disable/re-enable it that confuses me.

shankly1985 · 3 Apr 2016 at 21:42

kration said:
I think we've had this conversation before

I can go through the set up for eyefinity 'easily' enough. It's the ability to disable/re-enable it that confuses me.

Cant you now setup game profiles to use it or not? am sure you can

edit
Yes you can select game profile and under profile options you select Yes or No to use eyefinity

Bobmunkhouse · 4 Apr 2016 at 08:13

Bobmunkhouse said:
So is it worth jumping to these...I'm still on the 15:11 drivers after the first release of crimson crippled my card...I know they fixed that issue after 48 hours but scared me into not updating for a while....

P.S I use MSI AB to control Fan speed....

Well the AMD auto updater just popped up on my pc and told me off for not being up tool date so I clicked download\install....wish me luck!

shankly1985 · 4 Apr 2016 at 23:25

Drivers + Support AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1

Credit to AMD they seem to be on the ball getting release drivers out.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Highlights
Support for:
Quantum Break™
Upto 35% faster performance using Quantum Break™ on Radeon™ R9 Fury X than with Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2(1).
Oculus Rift™
HTC Vive™
Resolved Issues
Frame rate capping issues experienced in some DirectX®12 applications is resolved.
Hitman™ may experience flickering when played in DirectX® 11 mode using high game shadow settings.
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.
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.
Some DX9 applications cannot disable AMD Crossfire™ mode through Radeon™ Settings.
A small subset of AMD Radeon™ R9 380 users may be experiencing slower than expected fan speeds. A work around is to raise your fan speeds through AMD Overdrive in Radeon™ Settings manually to a desired amount.
HDMI Scaling options may not be available in Radeon™ Settings on some system configurations.

https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-ar...ware-Crimson-Edition-16.4.1.aspx?sf23707910=1

muziqaz · 4 Apr 2016 at 23:43

shankly1985 said:
Credit to AMD they seem to be on the ball getting release drivers out.

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Highlights
Support for:
Quantum Break™
Upto 35% faster performance using Quantum Break™ on Radeon™ R9 Fury X than with Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2(1).
Oculus Rift™
HTC Vive™
Resolved Issues
Frame rate capping issues experienced in some DirectX®12 applications is resolved.
Hitman™ may experience flickering when played in DirectX® 11 mode using high game shadow settings.
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.
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.
Some DX9 applications cannot disable AMD Crossfire™ mode through Radeon™ Settings.
A small subset of AMD Radeon™ R9 380 users may be experiencing slower than expected fan speeds. A work around is to raise your fan speeds through AMD Overdrive in Radeon™ Settings manually to a desired amount.
HDMI Scaling options may not be available in Radeon™ Settings on some system configurations.

https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-ar...ware-Crimson-Edition-16.4.1.aspx?sf23707910=1

Hey but it is still flickering in Division

Thus AMD is failing miserably

shankly1985 · 5 Apr 2016 at 00:00

muziqaz said:
Hey but it is still flickering in Division Thus AMD or Ubisoft is failing miserably

Fixed

muziqaz · 5 Apr 2016 at 00:19

shankly1985 said:
Fixed

I was just joking, as we know that Ubisoft can't sort it out, not AMD

shankly1985 · 5 Apr 2016 at 02:35

muziqaz said:
I was just joking, as we know that Ubisoft can't sort it out, not AMD

Truth be told we just not sure.. With all these driver releasing it sure does point the finger right at Ubisoft tbh
And this is Ubi after all known for issues with games. I dont just defend AMD for the sake of it, might seem like that sometimes

but some us on here need to look at the bigger picture at times.

AMD is no way perfect, and it would be nice to hear an official statement why Crossfire is glitching in the Division.

YB2ndBEST · 5 Apr 2016 at 02:37

Yes, they could at least up date us on what's going on with it.

muziqaz · 5 Apr 2016 at 06:40

Nvidia has similar issues with sli in that game.

TonyTurbo78 · 5 Apr 2016 at 08:10

Sli doesn't flicker though does it? I've friends that are on 970 sli that can play it with no flicker, it just has very poor scaling.

Captain_Bosh · 5 Apr 2016 at 08:14

shankly1985 said:
Truth be told we just not sure.. With all these driver releasing it sure does point the finger right at Ubisoft tbh
And this is Ubi after all known for issues with games. I dont just defend AMD for the sake of it, might seem like that sometimes but some us on here need to look at the bigger picture at times.

AMD is no way perfect, and it would be nice to hear an official statement why Crossfire is glitching in the Division.

In my experience Crossfire is always broken on day 1 for every Ubisoft game released so I just don't pre order them any more as they are not worth the hassle.

Eventually they get fixed so its worth saving a bit of cash and waiting for the price to drop.

JediFragger · 5 Apr 2016 at 09:38

TonyTurbo78 said:
Sli doesn't flicker though does it? I've friends that are on 970 sli that can play it with no flicker, it just has very poor scaling.

Nope, no flickering whatsoever and I'm getting 95-99% scaling at present so very happy

jimbob339 · 5 Apr 2016 at 15:15

They fixed the profiles ?, xfire not disabling when disabled is selected ?

Final8y · 5 Apr 2016 at 15:16

Yakk said:
Yakk said:

Surprise release for me, I'll try them out!

Both The Division & War Thunder seem to use a gameworks technique AMD can't seem to sort out for Crossfire. Again both The Division & War Thunder worked GREAT in Crossfire before Gameworks was added, guess nvidia figured out a way to screw AMD good. I wouldn't expect Crossfire support for either game anytime soon.

Click to expand...

https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-radeon-software-crimson-edition-16-4-1.1896185/

BluD · 5 Apr 2016 at 15:23

Ah i just read them known issues, and noticed the lack of scaling adjustment on some systems, i thought i was going mad when i couldnt find it the other day. I thought surely they wouldnt remove it so where on earth has it gone, i guess i should have read the driver notes before scouring the net for ages trying to find out where it had gone.

N19h7m4r3 · 5 Apr 2016 at 15:37

Final8y said:
https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-radeon-software-crimson-edition-16-4-1.1896185/

That makes no sense since The Division had gameworks features since the very first beta went live, and Xfire didn't even work at that time. They added Xfire support for it later, and no new gameworks features were added at that time.

Also when has AMD had issues with HBAO+ or PCSS Shadows affecting Xfire specifically? Besides Gears of War, I don't recall HBAO+ being an issue for a long time now.

Especially since GTA V uses both of the same GW features as The Division and didn't have the same flickering issue.

Final8y · 5 Apr 2016 at 15:49

N19h7m4r3 said:
That makes no sense since The Division had gameworks features since the very first beta went live, and Xfire didn't even work at that time. They added Xfire support for it later, and no new gameworks features were added at that time.

Also when has AMD had issues with HBAO+ or PCSS Shadows affecting Xfire specifically? Besides Gears of War, I don't recall HBAO+ being an issue for a long time now.

Especially since GTA V uses both of the same GW features as The Division and didn't have the same flickering issue.

That All depends if there is more than one render/code path being used in each case.