The AMD Driver Thread

Kei · 23 Nov 2017 at 23:21

Anybody else having trouble getting GTA IV to work with a vega gpu? On mine it seems to load up then sits with a black screen. The secondary screen connects and disconnects several times, eventually it seems to crash the gpu drivers and cause a reboot. This is using the 17.11.2 drivers but it was the same on 17.11.1 too

I've not found any other game that suffers from this.

shankly1985 · 23 Nov 2017 at 23:29

Kei said:
Anybody else having trouble getting GTA IV to work with a vega gpu? On mine it seems to load up then sits with a black screen. The secondary screen connects and disconnects several times, eventually it seems to crash the gpu drivers and cause a reboot. This is using the 17.11.2 drivers but it was the same on 17.11.1 too

I've not found any other game that suffers from this.

Known Game Bug not related to AMD. You need to run safe mode when you start the game up after its forced closed. This will reset the video settings and allow you to change resolution again.

Kei · 24 Nov 2017 at 08:37

The menus work perfectly. I only get this black screen issue once I load a save and it gets past the scrolling white text loading screen. If I try to change resolution I also get prolonged periods of black too.

This is the first time I have seen this problem. I had no issues with my gtx 780 nor the radeon hd 6970 I had before that.

GizF1 · 24 Nov 2017 at 08:48

Do you have enhanced sync on and in game vsync as well?

Kei · 24 Nov 2017 at 09:17

I don't think so. Certainly haven't enabled it myself. V-sync in game is usually on.

LoadsaMoney · 24 Nov 2017 at 14:25

The drivers with the OSD will be here soon, so i may as well just wait for those

D1craig · 24 Nov 2017 at 16:40

LoadsaMoney said:
The drivers with the OSD will be here soon, so i may as well just wait for those

hope so. its a pain in the arse having other programs to show you stuff when most of them want to overwrite the stuff you do in wattman.

Kei · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:29

shankly1985 said:
Known Game Bug not related to AMD. You need to run safe mode when you start the game up after its forced closed. This will reset the video settings and allow you to change resolution again.

Having had a look in event viewer, it seems to be a problem causing the display driver to crash. I have about 10 of these events over a 30 second period when I tried to play yesterday.

"Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

I've submitted a report to amd. Will see if anything comes of it. No other games suffer this problem so it's not exactly a deal breaker.

zophiel · 24 Nov 2017 at 23:32

I have that a lot on the wifes pc using the last two sets of drivers.

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 00:24

Kei said:
Having had a look in event viewer, it seems to be a problem causing the display driver to crash. I have about 10 of these events over a 30 second period when I tried to play yesterday.

"Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

I've submitted a report to amd. Will see if anything comes of it. No other games suffer this problem so it's not exactly a deal breaker.

Ah OK what I was saying is something else.

GoogalyMoogaly · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:00

Can you use Wattman to do overclocking/undervolting but still use Afterburner to monitor temps and usage, etc. or will Afterburner overwrite Wattman settings?

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:04

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Can you use Wattman to do overclocking/undervolting but still use Afterburner to monitor temps and usage, etc. or will Afterburner overwrite Wattman settings?

For on screen display? If so I don't see why not.
I just use Gpuz on second screen.

GoogalyMoogaly · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:06

shankly1985 said:
For on screen display? If so I don't see why not.
I just use Gpuz on second screen.

I use Afterburner on a second screen. I like the graphs it does and that it can also monitor some CPU stuff as well (temps, usage, not interested in CPU clock speeds).

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:08

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I use Afterburner on a second screen. I like the graphs it does and that it can also monitor some CPU stuff as well (temps, usage, not interested in CPU clock speeds).

Hwinfo64 is excellent also

GoogalyMoogaly · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:13

shankly1985 said:
Hwinfo64 is excellent also

I do have that, but haven't figured out how to make it do Afterburner-like graphs.

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:30

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I do have that, but haven't figured out how to make it do Afterburner-like graphs.

Make sure its running in sensor mode, and right click on any sensor you want to show and click show graph.

GoogalyMoogaly · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:38

shankly1985 said:
Make sure its running in sensor mode, and right click on any sensor you want to show and click show graph.

ah, nicve. Does it remember all the graphs between restarts, don't wanna have to do that every time.
Also how do you get all the CPU usage graphs onto one graph rather than having 8 (one for each thread)?

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:40

GoogalyMoogaly said:
ah, nicve. Does it remember all the graphs between restarts, don't wanna have to do that every time.
Also how do you get all the CPU usage graphs onto one graph rather than having 8 (one for each thread)?

Yeah it will remember after each restart and even put them back onto your second screen where you left them. CPU You want to show graph for Total CPU usage, not cores/threads.

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:43

Can I just share this post for credit to AMD on just how good Relive looks!! 35mbs H.265 they is a little performance hit around maybe 5% Space battles, dark scenes, lights, speed all captured perfectly.

35mbs at 1440p 60fps 8 min recording and file size was only 1.8GB

shankly1985 · 25 Nov 2017 at 13:48

@GoogalyMoogaly make sure you also click save when you quit HWinfo