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The AMD Driver Thread

hardjack79 said:
Shankly you absolute gem.

Twitch, youtube, and even ******* facebook have been making my PC turn into a leafblower for the last 2 years. I've googled it and found nothing, and then you come along, like a bloody white knight, with the solution.

Legend.
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Now your CPU does the rendering while browsing, and the UVD component inside your 7950 takes early retirement. :(

Panos said:
The Nano is missing button to turn off power efficiency (16.8.1).

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Any other clue to resolve the flickering issue other than go and buy a 1080 or a Titan?
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The Nano should never of had this feature, as it didn't have any power saving optimisations like the other Fury and 3xx range. If it did show up as an option, it was a bug.

If you can reproduce it with a certain driver, let me know and provide a screenshot please.

shankly1985 said:
Disable hardware acceleration in the browser you using?
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agw_01 said:
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Last 10 minutes of this GPUTemp graph are watching a Youtube clip

shankly1985, I did think about that, but nothing has changed on my machine apart from these drivers... so basically, why should I? Is it good practice to do this as a normal 'tweak'?

Sorry, very new to this thread... I see people on 16.7/16.8 with problems. Is there a known good driver version I should try to install? Like I said, first time I've ever had any problems so I didn't think twice about upgrading.

It's a 7970 btw.
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I wouldn't recommend it unless hardware acceleration is causing issues when watching video. Disabling it will force videos to render on your CPU and that usually means more dropped frames while watching videos. When you watch via with hardware acceleration enabled (GPU) you should get less dropped frames. You can test this yourself by right clicking a YouTube video and selecting Stats For Nerds while watching video on YouTube.
 
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AMDMatt said:
The Nano should never of had this feature, as it didn't have any power saving optimisations like the other Fury and 3xx range. If it did show up as an option, it was a bug.

If you can reproduce it with a certain driver, let me know and provide a screenshot please.
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No worries, ain't going to spend few hours trying to find the driver. It was one of the "good" ones around 16.3-16.4-16.5 when there was no flickering with Freesync.

After tomorrow the Nano going to be my backup card either way.
 
AMDMatt said:
Now your CPU does the rendering while browsing, and the UVD component inside your 7950 takes early retirement. :(
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Yep, but it is working around what I guess is a bug in the driver that boosts the clockspeed of my 7950 from 300 MHz to 500 MHz under essentially zero load (e.g. facebook).

I think it was PSU fan noise rather than 7950 noise, but either way this change solves it. Less efficient in terms of rendering, but more efficient in power.
 
hardjack79 said:
Yep, but it is working around what I guess is a bug in the driver that boosts the clockspeed of my 7950 from 300 MHz to 500 MHz under essentially zero load (e.g. facebook).

I think it was PSU fan noise rather than 7950 noise, but either way this change solves it. Less efficient in terms of rendering, but more efficient in power.
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It's not a bug, it's the GPU acceleration working when you open a browser.
 
JustEner said:
I have the same problem with same videocard.
Besides that even the smallest OC is unstable...
I downgrade back to 16.7.2. It was the last proper driver for me.
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On top of the inability to stop it running at 100%, I'm also occasionally getting it whitescreening on desktop. Possibly due to it running 100% all the time.
 
EdwardTobia said:
I'm also having issues with 16.8.1 and my Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX 480 8GB.

GPU loads keep sticking at 100% even when doing nothing causing high temperatures and have had a driver crash when playing GTA5. Standard GPU clocks.

Seems that a reboot can sometimes temporarily fix it, however this has happened on 3 occasions now so seems there's definitely a bug.
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Are you sure it's not some bitcoin miner running the background? Check you processes for something suspicious.

My 390 runs fine with the latest drivers for reference.
 
fs123 said:
Are you sure it's not some bitcoin miner running the background? Check you processes for something suspicious.

My 390 runs fine with the latest drivers for reference.
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Definitely nothing suspicious running in the background and I didn't have this issue with the older drivers, now I have reverted back to using older drivers the issue has not cropped up.

Not sure if its solely linked to the RX 480 as I noticed that quite a few people complaining about the same issue seem to be running an RX 480...

Anyone out there having the same issue and NOT running an RX 480?
 
Google chrome + YouTube seems to white/green/red/black screen my 480 now (about once a day). Can still hear it playing but no body is home on the GPU front. Hardware acceleration is off, still on 16.7.2 drivers at the moment.

Any ideas? Bad overclock?
 
EdwardTobia said:
Definitely nothing suspicious running in the background and I didn't have this issue with the older drivers, now I have reverted back to using older drivers the issue has not cropped up.

Not sure if its solely linked to the RX 480 as I noticed that quite a few people complaining about the same issue seem to be running an RX 480...

Anyone out there having the same issue and NOT running an RX 480?
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We are investigating reports about that issue, think it could be related to Steam somehow.

hardjack79 said:
I'll turn it back on when my RX 480 arrives, as I expect that to draw a fraction of the power of the 7950 under such small loads. :)
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Yep should do. If you are worried about that sort of thing enable compatibility mode and power efficiency in Radeon Settings.
 
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