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The AMD Driver Thread
- Thread starter LtMatt
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So..Matt answer me on the official forums
"""We are investigating reports of display driver crashes resulting in black screens, or loss of signal to the monitor on R9 380 GPUs, apologies for any inconvenience caused. The temporary solution is to use Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta available here"""
Well then.....cool.
"""We are investigating reports of display driver crashes resulting in black screens, or loss of signal to the monitor on R9 380 GPUs, apologies for any inconvenience caused. The temporary solution is to use Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta available here"""
Well then.....cool.
Have you tried complete driver removal with DDU and then installing? Also remove MSI AB if you have it installed and then DDU. I had the same problem and DDU fixed it.
Yea I always use DDU when updating. I've uninstalled AB, giving trixx a whirl now and on the latest crimsons it's OK so far. I will see how it fairs up over the next few days.
Just have to remember to set clocks back to stock before shutdown. I forgot the first reboot and it was fine but I won't tempt fate.
Just have to remember to set clocks back to stock before shutdown. I forgot the first reboot and it was fine but I won't tempt fate.
Im still talking to sapphire support but they asked for a GPU-Z backup of my bios this morning so i sent it. Just waiting to see what happens.
I've managed to get 16.5.3 (i think) running now without black screen. I just have to use Trixx rather than AB but atleast i dont get black screen on start up anymore.
I do still get flickering on desktop until i apply more core voltage. Hopefully that new bios if i get it will fix that but for the time being i can live with it.
I've managed to get 16.5.3 (i think) running now without black screen. I just have to use Trixx rather than AB but atleast i dont get black screen on start up anymore.
I do still get flickering on desktop until i apply more core voltage. Hopefully that new bios if i get it will fix that but for the time being i can live with it.
Hmmm... I've started getting odd video crashes over the past week, typically when doing something like playing a game in one window, while watching a video (eg: youtube) in another. Ultimately, the display will get corrupted and I have to reboot.
Wondering if this is due to the recent driver update!?
Wondering if this is due to the recent driver update!?
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Reading various posts about driver issues, my Sapphire R9 295 x2 appears to be having issues with random freezing both in and out of game. I've done all basic checks, and also a complete rebuild of my rig, and am running Crimson 16.3.2.
Would I be better off trying Crimson 16.5.1 hotfix, or should I apply older 15.11 hotfix drivers?
Would I be better off trying Crimson 16.5.1 hotfix, or should I apply older 15.11 hotfix drivers?
Freezing? Screen just locks up with a scrambled mess, or solid colour?
It did give me a scrambled mess the first time round, but just on that one occasion. Since then it most commonly freezes, but there have been some black screens while loading games, and some reboots as well. I've seen blue screen error messages referencing atikmpag.sys and atikmdag.sys. I've done full driver deletes using the guru3d ddu app, and then reinstalled while also following a recommended process of copying over the above mentioned files into %windir%/system32/drivers. It seems very random, tbh. I'm struggling to pin it down to a single root cause. I've reseated the card as well.
And this started when?
BTW - I was having random video freezes, which were getting worse and worse (more frequent). Transpires it was the PSU. It's 12V rail was wandering all over the place.
However, having cleared that up, it does seem, that I'm not getting video corruptions/freezes while playing games/watching videos... which I didn't use to get. Hence me thinking driver update!?
I've never removed AB pretty sure you don't need to all you do is exit it and disable startup with windows uninstall old driver and use driver sweeper then run msi ab as usual not had a single issue
The scrambled mess was triggered when I installed Medal of Honor Pacific Assault. My system was just a nightmare from that moment on. I do remember one or two black screens historically prior to that, but they are so infrequent that I think they are just statistical outliers.
I managed to restore some stability by reinstalling windows (it was that bad), and then upgrading to windows 10 (probably didn't actually help, but why the hell not, eh?). Interestingly I then took the radical and frankly stupid step of installing Medal of Honor Airborne and it promptly b0rked my system again. I managed to rescue it by deleting gfx drivers then uninstalling the ageia physx driver.
I'm running on a Superflower 1200W platinum, so I doubt it's a power issue. I'll move the rails around anyway just to see if it helps.
So what do you reckon? Older or newer drivers? I'm instinctively leaning towards 15.11 drivers first.
These random freezes/corruptions just do my head in. Infact last night I got one, and it was a slower build up. Playing a game and watching a youtube video, and then suddendly every a second or so, a corruption would flicker across the entire width of the monitor screen about an inch down, showing some sort of corruption/problem. This ended up, a few tens of seconds later, with the entire machine frozen up...
TBH, given the amount of problems I've had with my AMD card over the past year+, I can't wait to jump ship to an NVidia 1070 or something...
TBH, given the amount of problems I've had with my AMD card over the past year+, I can't wait to jump ship to an NVidia 1070 or something...
Yeah I'm with you 100%. It's been fun having such a beast of a card to just crunch framerates, but when AMD cards just leave me on edge with their unpredictable nature. I never get that feeling with Nvidia, they just run without issue in my experience.
When I first got this card it wouldn't even run on the new Asus gaming mobo I bought to complement it. I had to swap it for a different model as that was a 'known issue'. What kind of madness is that, when your flagship ubercard just randomly refuses to run at all on high profile mainstream manufacturer mobos?
I'm running a 850W PSU.. It's not the lack of power, but the quality of it... In my case the 12V rail was fluctuating and getting worse, resulting in the system (video card) spazzing out.
Go into your BIOS and just watch the report of the 12V rail. Ensure it sits there at a nice static value, not moving by more than a tiny fraction of a volt. eg: If it changes by more than 0.25V I'd suggest things are potentally odd...
But with the current freezes, my nightmare is my video card freezes borks windows. Infact last night's freeze made windows do a disk check. I'm getting fed up by it!
Hence me looking at an NVidia 1070 ASAP most likely!
Yeah, I'll also be keeping an eye out for when the 1070s and 1080s come out. I'll check out the power levels. Thanks for the guidance.
Just happened to me again...
Booted up the PC...
Then loaded up Elite Dangerous in Windowed mode, and then clicked on a video to watch, and the moment it opened, bang! Entire display corrupted.
I pressed the power button and that was enough to tell my machine (otherwise working) to power down.
A-n-n-o-y-i-n-g-!
Booted up the PC...
Then loaded up Elite Dangerous in Windowed mode, and then clicked on a video to watch, and the moment it opened, bang! Entire display corrupted.
I pressed the power button and that was enough to tell my machine (otherwise working) to power down.
A-n-n-o-y-i-n-g-!