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The AMD Driver Thread

Thanks for the explanation.

I wonder if AMD have done something on their end to block 3rd party tools from making changes to overclocks etc. as iirc, using these tools in the background has been what's causing so many issues with the new relive drivers... and the last 2 drivers have been working great on my 290, originally had to revert back to 16.11.5 due to crashes, poor performance etc.
 
Ive had some "interesting" results with the installing amd drivers after i put my second gpu in for some crossfire action. Anywho a DDU later and AMD install and clean to the latest drivers and my crossfire seems to be working pretty good. But waow it has been touchy to begin with.
 
After my initial issues I settled on sticking with 16.11.5 but thought I would give Re-Live another go so updated to 17.4 and once again, still no target temperature or fan speed settings in Wattman on my 390. I have since tried a full reinstall and cleaned with DDU then installed 17.5.2 but still no joy. Am I missing something?
 
Fens said:
After my initial issues I settled on sticking with 16.11.5 but thought I would give Re-Live another go so updated to 17.4 and once again, still no target temperature or fan speed settings in Wattman on my 390. I have since tried a full reinstall and cleaned with DDU then installed 17.5.2 but still no joy. Am I missing something?
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Secure erase, clean install windows. Nearly always fixes problems.
 
Phixsator said:
secure erase is a bit excessive no? a simple format C: /q would suffice imho.
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That doesn't format other hidden partitions on the disk, which may be causing the problems. Either have the windows install wipe the disk partitions, or use diskpart to clear it. At least check the disk with diskpart to see if there's anything still lurking on there.
 
After using AMD 9 years now, I am having my first ever issues with drivers, the last two updates have screwed up my audio, I game on my TV and the HDMI audio isn't showing up in my playback devices for my Samsung TV
 
Phixsator said:
secure erase is a bit excessive no? a simple format C: /q would suffice imho.
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Secure erase is super quick, so no reason not to to be honest. I am assuming he is on an SSD. For me secure erase to windows back installed is about 15 minutes or less.
 
TNA said:
Secure erase is super quick, so no reason not to to be honest. I am assuming he is on an SSD. For me secure erase to windows back installed is about 15 minutes or less.
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Yes on an SSD, yep looks like a clean install it is then - probably worth doing a clean install anyway as my current windows 10 install was an upgrade from windows 7.
 
Steampunk said:
That doesn't format other hidden partitions on the disk, which may be causing the problems. Either have the windows install wipe the disk partitions, or use diskpart to clear it. At least check the disk with diskpart to see if there's anything still lurking on there.
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I was not being clear with what I meant. Didnt mean literally using the cmd prompt to format C: /Q :) . Was trying to simplify what i meant which was basically how you have put it without the diskpart :)
 
DONOHUE07 said:
After using AMD 9 years now, I am having my first ever issues with drivers, the last two updates have screwed up my audio, I game on my TV and the HDMI audio isn't showing up in my playback devices for my Samsung TV
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Same thing happened to me but my hdmi audio suddenly stopped working with latest drivers after a restart if I remember correctly and then wouldn't show up in my playback devices. Tried re-installing drivers and numerous previous versions that I knew worked but still would not show.
In the end I cleaned with DDU and installed latest drivers and it's been working since.
 
SpudMaster said:
Same thing happened to me but my hdmi audio suddenly stopped working with latest drivers after a restart if I remember correctly and then wouldn't show up in my playback devices. Tried re-installing drivers and numerous previous versions that I knew worked but still would not show.
In the end I cleaned with DDU and installed latest drivers and it's been working since.
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Glad it worked for you, even after using DDU I still lost my audio after a restart. The only way I can 'prevent' and audio loss is to keep my PC running, but even after I close down a game it's 50/50 wether the audio vanishes. Really annoying
 
Off topic: ARRGGH They closed the VEGA thread :(:(:(

On topic: 17.5.2 are working great for me.


Steampunk said:
That doesn't format other hidden partitions on the disk, which may be causing the problems. Either have the windows install wipe the disk partitions, or use diskpart to clear it. At least check the disk with diskpart to see if there's anything still lurking on there.
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I've got a 3tb drive that has a full tb partitioned off and untouchable, My own stupidity caused it, Will diskpart fix it?
 
Off topic: sorry, my bad. :( :o

On topic: drivers fine here as well, though started getting the freesync flicker/flashing screen recently (though still blaming the last big Win10 update) but can seem to work around it by turning the 'blur reduction' setting on and off on the monitor when it happens. It seems to force freesync support on and off and kicks things back to life.

re: 3tb drive. If you can't sort it in standard diskmgmt.msc then diskpart can normally do it. Or get a boot disc iso with tools etc on it like some of the Linux based ones or Hiren's, WinUBCD etc, they normally have some pretty good tools for managing partitions etc. Worst case - if you can back up the data - you should be able to blow the whole disk layout and reformat as one big partition. But depends on what you mean by untouchable and what the cause of that is.
 
Hey Matt. Mario Kart 8 using CEMU emulator hasn't worked since driver 17.1.2 on RX cards (That's the last working driver).
I'm pretty sure it's low priority lol. But any chance of a fix? Don't want to roll back that far just for 1 game.
 
beany_bot said:
Hey Matt. Mario Kart 8 using CEMU emulator hasn't worked since driver 17.1.2 on RX cards (That's the last working driver).
I'm pretty sure it's low priority lol. But any chance of a fix? Don't want to roll back that far just for 1 game.
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I very doubt AMD work on getting drivers setup for emulation Lool
Am sure you should be on there reddit asking the developer on why the newer drivers don't work anymore they can only fix it.
 
FreeSync decided to not work the other day for no apparent reason. I haven't updated my drivers, it was a normal bootup, etc. I ran CRU again to check the range was still 57-144 Hz and it was. I reset the driver using the CRU utility just in case and rebooted the machine, and it started working again.

Bit annoying, it seems to happen once a month or so for no apparent reason (small sample size though).
 
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