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The AMD Driver Thread

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borley said:
Think i wil lbe getting a 1080 i think crossfire and SLi issues still causing problems is a joke single card for me and Nvidia when i have always bought AMD!
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Yeah its rubbish, i got these 2x cards on release, and i doubt ive used Xfire for a fortnight, just got my 2nd card disabled, theres just too many problems with it.
 
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is anyone getting flickering issues when browsing on some sites?

when i login to my asus router the page flickers also some other sites. happens on IE and edge.

it's only started happening on 16.5.2.1 & 16.5.3 driver
 
gareth170 said:
is anyone getting flickering issues when browsing on some sites?

when i login to my asus router the page flickers also some other sites. happens on IE and edge.

it's only started happening on 16.5.2.1 & 16.5.3 driver
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I was having regular flickering/video corruptions and even lock ups (eg: when browsing/watching videos and playing a windowed game at the same time). The very latest drivers seem to have solved this...
 
I've given up with my AMD 290 over the past week, its a reference card which has ran pretty poorly since launch tbh but the amount of throttling its doing now and the micro stutter is horrendous! I've tried cleaning out the PC and improving the airflow but it still hits 94 C after like 5 minutes of gameplay and starts throttling :p

The final nail in the coffin for me is now the AMD drivers have made Windows 10 blow up, at least that is the only conclusion I can come up with. I updated to the latest version of Windows 10 and it was fine for a few days then it wouldn't boot, it would start loading Windows then just hang (black screen with none responsive keyboard/mouse). I tried everything from booting into safe mode, reseating the card, repairing startup etc but noting worked. The only way I could get into Windows 10 was to run via the onboard Intel chip which works fine, so after uninstalling the AMD drivers and using DDU I tried again and nope... still hung on startup.

The card works fine in the BIOS and on my Windows 7 partition (with the latest AMD drivers) during gaming etc so I think the card is fine. So I tried to format to a fresh install of Windows 10 and nope... it installs fine then as soon as it tries to boot into Windows for the first time it hangs which I'm guessing is just after the point it has installed the drivers.

I went back to the Intel GPU and bam, worked a treat! So I tried my older AMD card and nope.. crashes on boot so I'm guessing it has to be something to do with the AMD drviers?! Windows 10 seems fine, the GPU seems fine in other OS's, so I can only think of the Windows 10 AMD drivers herp-a-derping? But even after removing them I haven't had much luck!

The only thing I can think that is left to try is to reinstall Windows 10 again with no network connection attached while running on the Intel GPU, then making sure that auto install of drivers is killed from Windows 10 and manually installing some old arse drivers.

I think that is something I'll wait till the weekend for as I want to play Overwatch dammit! :p

Has anyone experienced anything similar?
 
maxilive said:
I've given up with my AMD 290 over the past week, its a reference card which has ran pretty poorly since launch tbh but the amount of throttling its doing now and the micro stutter is horrendous! I've tried cleaning out the PC and improving the airflow but it still hits 94 C after like 5 minutes of gameplay and starts throttling :p

The final nail in the coffin for me is now the AMD drivers have made Windows 10 blow up, at least that is the only conclusion I can come up with. I updated to the latest version of Windows 10 and it was fine for a few days then it wouldn't boot, it would start loading Windows then just hang (black screen with none responsive keyboard/mouse). I tried everything from booting into safe mode, reseating the card, repairing startup etc but noting worked. The only way I could get into Windows 10 was to run via the onboard Intel chip which works fine, so after uninstalling the AMD drivers and using DDU I tried again and nope... still hung on startup.

The card works fine in the BIOS and on my Windows 7 partition (with the latest AMD drivers) during gaming etc so I think the card is fine. So I tried to format to a fresh install of Windows 10 and nope... it installs fine then as soon as it tries to boot into Windows for the first time it hangs which I'm guessing is just after the point it has installed the drivers.

I went back to the Intel GPU and bam, worked a treat! So I tried my older AMD card and nope.. crashes on boot so I'm guessing it has to be something to do with the AMD drviers?! Windows 10 seems fine, the GPU seems fine in other OS's, so I can only think of the Windows 10 AMD drivers herp-a-derping? But even after removing them I haven't had much luck!

The only thing I can think that is left to try is to reinstall Windows 10 again with no network connection attached while running on the Intel GPU, then making sure that auto install of drivers is killed from Windows 10 and manually installing some old arse drivers.

I think that is something I'll wait till the weekend for as I want to play Overwatch dammit! :p

Has anyone experienced anything similar?
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Well cannot say i have experience the same myself. Ive been running with a 5850 for over a week now and since yesterday been running with a 290 gaming g4 from MSI and so fare everything has worked flawlessly with the only exception being that trying to do custom resolutions has been a pain.
 
Have been on windows 10 from launch with my 290 and have had no problems. Currently running 15.5.2 . I am not sure what your problem is but I doubt it's the driver itself. A reinstall of windows 10 may be a good idea.
 
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Only other thing I had recently was video issues/lockups/problems, and it turned out to be the PSU. It's 12V rail was dropping dramatically and was just unstable... I could sit there in the BIOS (or Windows application) and see the 12V value changing a lot, and dopping, at times by around 1V!!!
 
Not experienced any stability issues yet with Windows 10 64bit and AMD drivers (my AMD GPU systems are running 290 crossfired, a 285, and three running 5770's).

Maxilive - Are you on the latest BIOS for your motherboard? Tried running everything (even CPU & RAM) at stock if overclocked? Just wondering what else could be causing issues in Win10 that don't happen in Win7 other than a generic problem with AMD drivers that other people aren't experiencing. :(
 
NeilFawcett said:
Only other thing I had recently was video issues/lockups/problems, and it turned out to be the PSU. It's 12V rail was dropping dramatically and was just unstable... I could sit there in the BIOS (or Windows application) and see the 12V value changing a lot, and dopping, at times by around 1V!!!
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Hmm it could be that but its a fairly new PSU! The Card has been running fine on Windows 7 though which is the only odd part so I'm not sure why Windows 10 has suddenly become a faff.

I've been running the insider builds for months without too many issues it has only been over the weekend since the latest (slow ring) insider build, I've tried a different build but its a no-go.

I'm going to try another fresh install of Windows 10 with the Intel GPU and then install the old AMD drivers manually and force Windows 10 to not update the drivers automatically.
 
maxilive said:
Hmm it could be that but its a fairly new PSU! The Card has been running fine on Windows 7 though which is the only odd part so I'm not sure why Windows 10 has suddenly become a faff.

I've been running the insider builds for months without too many issues it has only been over the weekend since the latest (slow ring) insider build, I've tried a different build but its a no-go.

I'm going to try another fresh install of Windows 10 with the Intel GPU and then install the old AMD drivers manually and force Windows 10 to not update the drivers automatically.
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Wonder whether it's something to do with being on the insider ring not playing nicely with the AMD drivers? I'm on the normal/retail Windows 10 build.
 
Confused Stu said:
Wonder whether it's something to do with being on the insider ring not playing nicely with the AMD drivers? I'm on the normal/retail Windows 10 build.
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It could be, I've tried 3 different insider builds now and all have had the same issue. Also not much has popped up via Google, I would have thought there would be a fair few forum posts if it was widespread.
 
Installed the latest driver with hotfix 16.5.3 earlier, and i noticed on monitoring my fans the speed would drop to 20 rpm every few seconds, only for a brief second, and back up again.

Tried to manually up the fans to 40%, then it would drop down to 40 rpm and back up again.

Gone back to the WHQL's for now, i had read about fanspeed issues in previous drivers, so i'm not taking the chance lol.

It is possible that it's something i've done, but after going back to the whql's all is fine again.
 
Guys, when you upgrade the AMD drivers expecially from the last beta, do a clean installation and remove Trixx & MSI AB also BEFORE installing the new drivers.

Also use CCLeaner to clear the registry. A lot is left behind in registry related to 16.5.2.x betas. (hence they are beta).

Using 16.5.3 and they are fine, while 16.5.2.x had black screens on WOT & WoWs (ONLY rest of games were fine).
 
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