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The AMD Driver Thread

iviv said:

As per the above video, I'm getting some extreme flickering on my R9 290. This happens mostly on the desktop, but also to a lesser extend in web browsers (And not at all in games). Moving the mouse causes the issue mostly, though only on the main monitor, but even just opening the start menu with my keyboard causes it, though to a far lesser extent. It's a Powercolor 4Gb 290, stock clocks and never attempted overclocking.


I've got an Asus Freesync monitor on the left running 2560x1440 and a HannsG running 1920x1200 on the right. As you can see, only the main freesync monitor has the issue, it's had it for a while but over the last couple of days it's gotten far worse. Anyone know anything about this issue and if there's anything I can do to fix it? I'm running 16.9.1, though just got a popup that 16.9.2 is available so I'm going to try that, though since it's such a long standing issue, I don't hold much hope.
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I've got a R9 290 and i got this issue for a couple of months or so (i rolled back to an old driver cant rememeber which, but that resolved this). I've recently updated dated to the latest AMD driver for Forzon Horizon 3 and can confirm that this driver doesn't appear to do the flickering issue thank god.
 
danlightbulb said:
Guys quick one as I'm new to gpu drivers. To update to the latest 16.9.2 driver do I need to remove the 16.9.1 driver first or just download and install over the top?
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You'll get folks here telling to uninstal/clean and do a fresh install, but I'm one of the 99% of other people who just install ontop each time.
 
danlightbulb said:
Guys quick one as I'm new to gpu drivers. To update to the latest 16.9.2 driver do I need to remove the 16.9.1 driver first or just download and install over the top?
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I would always uninstall the old driver and reboot before installing a new driver. I have never had a problem with AMD drivers this way, whereas plenty of others claim to have had issues, perhaps this has been due to not removing the old drivers first? I would not want random .dlls hanging around my system causing potential conflicts, driver problems can ruin your whole day (I still have flashbacks to nvidia vista driver nightmares).

Either way AMD has always recommended uninstalling old drivers before installing the new so it is less risky. Perhaps conflicts are less common these days and if most do install over old drivers AMD presumably accommodate that but why take the risk?
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
All of them, but the ones i have tested so far are Twitter, Hyper for YouTube, Twitch Viewer, Unstream to name a few.

Also get no video playback on any sites in Microsoft Edge.

All this was working before updating to these drivers.
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Everything works as normal for me, on both desktops (7970 and Fury). I don't use Edge, but I just gave it a try and all is good. Have you tried doing a clean uninstall and reinstalling them?
 
shankly1985 said:
Nice to see AMD releasing drivers fast. Been ages now since they missed a AAA title.
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meh...in fairness Shanks, it's total fluff them saying "support for GOW, Forza Horizon 3, Mafia 3" or whatever.....what's that actually mean? I guarantee my Mafia 3 will perform no different on an older driver to this one. You don't need need a new driver each time a game gets released, might do a little test later on both versions to see exactly what this "support" means. It's BS, they also had a "support for Forza Horizon 3" game performs like **** no matter what driver you are on.

Now crossfire profile is a different matter, that would be proper "support for" ;)
 
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