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The AMD Driver Thread

Dave2150 said:
For example, that Tonyturbo guy who has posted more issues/problems in this thread than anyone else combined, all stemming from the fact he didn't research the limitations (and general bad state of Crossfire/SLI) of purchasing two 390 cards etc.
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LMAO are you for real...just standard for you to post random crap that has no truth to it what so ever, just so it makes you feel better trying to appear a clever know it all.

Coming from a previous 7950 crossfire setup that was incredible, I didn't need to do any research, at the time crossfire was amazing. It was very rare for a game TO NOT HAVE crossfire support or scaling. No matter what game I threw at it, tick the box that said use crossfire for any game that doesn't have a crossfire profile associated and you would get absolute minimum 75% usage on both cards no matter what.

So let me now inform you properly a few key reasons why I went for 390 crossfire.

1. I had a 1440p Freesync monitor so 8GB cards naturally made more sense than any 4GB combination of cards. Add to that I never made the jump to 290 or 290x, so when 390's came around with more memory, much better overall build quality, better performance and at the same time as the disappointing FuryX launch where I had already saved £550 for that card. Buying two 390's for the price of one over hyped and massively under performing GPU was a no brainer.

2. The price. Cost me under £500 for two GPU's that took a giant **** over any single £700 GPU from either AMD or Nvidia.

3. And the big one like I said above. At the time of purchase crossfire was epic on my existing setup. I had zero problems running crossfire on ALL the major games I was playing. So to go from 7950 crossfire to 390 crossfire was a massive jump in power and one that started out absolutely amazing. It wasn't until after that point that crossfire decided to go downhill massively. Now of course, not having a crystal ball or the amazing knowledge of Dave2150, who knew crossfire would turn into the abortion that it is now.
 
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I agree with Tony. Had a 295X2 and except WOT and it's DX9 custom engine, had no issue with all other games and Freesync.
And even on WOT 70fps on single overclocked 290X and Freesync monitor was perfect.

But saying that moving to the FuryX (Nano) didn't dissapoint me either. Less perf but happy also sold the 295X2 as much as I bought it :D
 
I bought an Asus PG279Q and when when running at over 60hz i get random black screens that only last for about half a second or less then it goes back to normal. It might only happen once an hour or less but it is quite annoying.

Anyone else have this problem? I have tried may driver versions and nothing seems to solve the issue. In fact the older driver would flicker like mad on 144hz so at least that doesn't happen anymore.

Gpu: R9 290 TriX@ 1000/1300
 
vfdb said:
I bought an Asus PG279Q and when when running at over 60hz i get random black screens that only last for about half a second or less then it goes back to normal. It might only happen once an hour or less but it is quite annoying.

Anyone else have this problem? I have tried may driver versions and nothing seems to solve the issue. In fact the older driver would flicker like mad on 144hz so at least that doesn't happen anymore.

Gpu: R9 290 TriX@ 1000/1300
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have you tried another cable?
 
vfdb said:
Yeah I bought a new display port 1.2 cable. Does the quality of display port cables matter?:confused:
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It can. My old DP cable was absolutely fine for my old 1080p/60Hz monitor. Never had an issue with it. However, when I bought a 1440p/144Hz one recently, I found that I was getting dropouts all the time. Regular black screens for a few seconds at a time, then it'd recover. I switched to the DP cable that came with the monitor and it resolved the issue completely.
 
I bought one a while back and it was completely useless - every time I tried to increase the refresh rate to 75hz via Windows I was getting artefacts, flashing to black screen and really loud and scary popping noises!! Quickly reverted back to the one supplied with the monitor and all was well again. I actually live in fear of ever having to replace it...
 
The auto fan bug we got with the drivers we had before the first ReLive driver's back, Are any other Fury pro or Fiji owners experiencing it? It usally takes a couple of hours in game to happen.

I've just submitted my second report form this week. This is what I wrote:

There was a bug in the drivers we had before ReLive where the Fury tri-x's auto fan was being over-ridden by the drivers, That bug is now back, Once I hit a couple of hours in game the Tri-x's fans are ramped up to around 80% and it's keeping the card below 30 degrees. I've had the card over 18 months and have never had to mess around with the fan profile, Usually the auto fan speeds up when the card hits 75 degrees and by the time it reaches 78 degrees the fans have reigned it in so it drops back down. At the end of a long gaming session with any game gpu-z shows the maximum temperature hit by the card as being 78 degrees and the max fan speed during the session being in the low to mid 30's, As mentioned I've had the card 18 months and being a bit of a nerd I always monitor the stats. Now gpu-z shows that when the card hits 75 degrees the fan ramps up to 80% and stay there until I finish gaming at which point they slowly drop back down.
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Sound familiar?
 
JediFragger;30485588 said:
I use a custom fan profile on my XFX m8 so wouldn't get this.
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Fair enough, I don't need to use one normally, the stock fan profile does a great job on the Fury Tri-x oc model keeping it under 78 degrees no matter what and that's with no higher than a 34% fan speed which is quiet, Now it sounds like a leaf blower :(

EDIT: In comparison I just used afterburner to lock fans at 33% and after about an hour and a half at full load (in-game) the temps have not gone above 66 degrees according to Real temp.
 
I made a custom fan curve for mine that keeps it around 60-65C. The PSU fan is the loudest thing so having my Fury fans spinning a little more makes no difference to me.
 
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