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The AMD Driver Thread
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Quick question. I've had RTSS installed for a while now (for capping frames), how do you get all the realtime info (cpu load etc) displayed with it. I've never actually used it for that. I gather you need hwinfo and that's it? Then what?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Soldato
You need to install MSI Afterburner, go to monitoring section in the settings section. There you can select what you'd like to see in the OSD by highlighting each option and clicking the box at the bottom that says show in onscreen display....or something along those lines.
You can use HWinfo or afterburner, I prefer afterburner's layout but HWinfo has more sensors to display. You have to go to settings in HWinfo but beyond that I've forgotten.
And ANOTHER blue screen video freeze (that's two in less than two hours)! Both since updating to 16.12.1
Somewhere I read someone recommended reverting to the "Catalyst" drivers instead of "Crimson" because they were getting video hangs? Does this make sense to anyone?
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Seeing as the last catalyst driver was released over a year ago no none at all
Oh!
The interesting thing was, my existing driver was reported as 16.40 (or 16.140) when asking should it update to the later 16.12.1 ones?!
Rolled back to 16.7.3 and it's perfect.
Problems I was having is my 290 core clock fluctuates all over the plaec when gaming, playing Shogun 2 yesterday and the clock was dropping to 300mhz at some points causing stuttering so I use gpu tweak to force max clocks, gpu tweak refused to work with the relive drivers and I had two system lock ups.
16.7.3 and gpu tweak from asus is perfect, have a keyboard shortcut for max clocks and desktop clocks.
Problems I was having is my 290 core clock fluctuates all over the plaec when gaming, playing Shogun 2 yesterday and the clock was dropping to 300mhz at some points causing stuttering so I use gpu tweak to force max clocks, gpu tweak refused to work with the relive drivers and I had two system lock ups.
16.7.3 and gpu tweak from asus is perfect, have a keyboard shortcut for max clocks and desktop clocks.
Associate
That is weird.... when you say asking should it update do you mean the driver is giving you a notification?
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The issue with clock fluctuation does seem to be quite a common one across a lot of different driver versions. Fairly sure everyone knows not to bother with power efficiency , and installing latest drivers with other oc tools installed seems to be a no no but I wonder why it keeps coming up as an issue
Giz
If there's new drivers I get a notification at Windows start up...
I've been having one appearing for weeks, and waited. Yesterday I decided to go ahead and install it which seems to take you into the AMD Catalyst software to download/update etc.
Not I did that yesterday afternoon, and then later my machine started getting video lock ups/freezes. Connected? Coincidence? I was in Empyrion at a new very video entensive area and I could see my GPU was spiking up and down, up and down hitting 100%... It wasn't a smooth usage, but noticable spikes to 100% and back down to 80% in a second or two...
When I was previously having video freezes I downclocked by GPU and memory and I've been running rock solid for months... But yesterday it's back again
(Even with these downclocks!)I'm wondering if quite simply the GPU is over heating under specific situations in specific games!? In MSI afterburner I might set the fan to a constant 75% (rather than auto), keep a downclock of the GPU and memory, and up the power by 5% to ensure there's enough current going into it...
There's been loads of people talking about 7870 video freezes over the years... And temp comes up from times to time... Maybe it's just a poor card!?
TBH I can't wait to get rid of this damn card... Roll on NVidia 1070 price drops!
QUESTION: Can you set the overclock (or underclock) and fan speed performance all in the AMD software now? I wonder if may quite simply my fan isn't running as high as it needs to, to keep the card cool enough, and it's overheating. If I can do this underclock and fan speed increase in the official software rather than MSI afterburner that would seem to make sense!?
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How old was your previous driver?
What temp is your card running at?
Its probably quite an old card if its a 7870 do you keep it clean?
With a 7870 I think you are best using afterburner for clocking and fan control as I think you are still stuck with overdrive within the drivers
Giz
What temp is your card running at?
Its probably quite an old card if its a 7870 do you keep it clean?
With a 7870 I think you are best using afterburner for clocking and fan control as I think you are still stuck with overdrive within the drivers
Giz
The old drivers were probably 3-4 months old?
I'll keep an eye on temps now I've noticed a problem!
My case/card are clean. I even put a dust cover over the PC while it's not in use!
I'm wondering if the new drivers are causing an over heat? Maybe messing up the fan control? Or maybe meaning at intensive moments (100% CPU usage) doing something slightly differently so as to cause an overheat? Empyrion where I got the new crashes yesterday was working VERY hard in the new area I was in!
I had set an underclock in MSI Afterburner months ago, which seemed to stop all the video lock ups I was having in Elite Dangerous... I see now you can do similar settings (& fan control) in the AMD software? So I'll do an underclock in there (GPU and memory) and set up proactive fan speed. eg: max temp of 65 degrees etc... I'll keep an eye on temp and fan speed then!
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Thats pretty old - did you choose the clean install option when you updated and did you close afterburner whilst you did it?
Drivers might have reset your fan profile and if you are running an old version of afterburner you probably need to update that as well.
65 degrees is very low your fans are going to have to work hard to keep that temp
Giz
Drivers might have reset your fan profile and if you are running an old version of afterburner you probably need to update that as well.
65 degrees is very low your fans are going to have to work hard to keep that temp
Giz
There was no "clean install" option offered. Simply the AMD software offered to upgrade to 16.12.1, so that's what I did.
I never close Afterburner when upgrading...? I don't see this as being an install problem as things are generlly running fine. It's just when really pushing in certain areas by seemingly just Empyrion?
My fan profile has never been anything other and auto.
I just recall last night when I had these issues, the GPU usage graph just looked odd to me. It was sitting at about 80-90%, but with very clear/quick jumps to 100% and back down again in a second or two. As if it was hitting a wall and reducing, every 5-10 seconds...
The other odd thing was, one time I got a video freeze, I turned the machine off. Compeletly powered it down, even unplugging it, and pressing the on button, and powered it back up and the video output was still blank... As if something was still cooking/suffering maybe?
But do a google for 7870 video freeze and you'll see I'm not alone seemingly...
But my update of the video drivers is either a coincidence or the cause...
ps: Just need the Nvidia 1070s to drop in price and then I'll be jumping ship!
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If the install runs correctly there is definitely a clean install option
If I was you i'd re download the drivers from web, uninstall current installation , close afterburner and stop it from running on windows start, re install new drivers and just leave everything at default and try the game.
Report back with what sort of crash (if any) you get and what temps / fan speed you are getting
Giz
If I was you i'd re download the drivers from web, uninstall current installation , close afterburner and stop it from running on windows start, re install new drivers and just leave everything at default and try the game.
Report back with what sort of crash (if any) you get and what temps / fan speed you are getting
Giz
Use display driver un-installer.
Don't know about the 7870, but I have a MSI twin frzr III 7850 in another system and it works perfectly fine, no issues at all and it is used for a lot of video playback. Temps are also great, don't even have MSI AB etc. installed to undervolt etc. as there is no need too.
I would advise you to have a read in the last few pages of the nvidia driver thread too, just as many complaints as in here except far more over the last year...
Best thing to do is give it 2+ days and see what people are saying on here before you update, I usually do this but with the new ones, I decided too soon. Back on 16.11.5 and not a single problem.
Don't know about the 7870, but I have a MSI twin frzr III 7850 in another system and it works perfectly fine, no issues at all and it is used for a lot of video playback. Temps are also great, don't even have MSI AB etc. installed to undervolt etc. as there is no need too.
I would advise you to have a read in the last few pages of the nvidia driver thread too, just as many complaints as in here except far more over the last year...
Best thing to do is give it 2+ days and see what people are saying on here before you update, I usually do this but with the new ones, I decided too soon. Back on 16.11.5 and not a single problem.
Fury Pro Win10 , constant red screens of death with Relive, ddu'd tried again, still cack. On boot the Radeon software took ages after boot before becoming available to open / show in taskbar . Plus seemed to cause all kinds of problems with NZXT Cam not loading / opening. Even with Cam uninstalled, same crashy crashy.
Back to 16.11.5 all is well again.
Back to 16.11.5 all is well again.