Just goes to show how someone official on the AMD forums assumed this was a problem caused by "outdated APIs" when in fact it was a bug in the drivers. By responding on that incorrect assumption, it's been blown up into a PR disaster.
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The AMD Driver Thread
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Just goes to show how someone official on the AMD forums assumed this was a problem caused by "outdated APIs" when in fact it was a bug in the drivers. By responding on that incorrect assumption, it's been blown up into a PR disaster.
Caporegime
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.1.1 Alpha
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/RSAE-18.1.1-Alpha-Release-Notes.aspx
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/RSAE-18.1.1-Alpha-Release-Notes.aspx
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Last night I updated my Windows 10 box with the Meltdown patch, which also forced the Fall Creators Update to be installed. I checked and the Meltdown patch is active (no AV issues). Since the update, the graphics card dies and the screen goes black a couple of minutes after login - whatever is running. Sometimes it restarts after 30 seconds or so, but then dies again shortly afterwards. GPU temps were steady at around 40. The machine is still running because I can use keyboard accelerators to cleanly shutdown.
Uninstalling the AMD driver and reverting to the basic Microsoft driver makes the system stable again.
I've tried the WHQL driver that Windows installs (17.7 I think), the latest stable (17.12.2) and the latest alpha (18.1.1). I can't see anything in the Windows logs. Uninstalling the Meltdown patch didn't fix the issue Any ideas as to how I can track the problem down?
OS Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version: 10.0.16299 Build 16299
GPU Asus Radeon R9390 DC3 OC Strix 8192MB
Motherboard Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150)
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Cheers!
TFG
Uninstalling the AMD driver and reverting to the basic Microsoft driver makes the system stable again.
I've tried the WHQL driver that Windows installs (17.7 I think), the latest stable (17.12.2) and the latest alpha (18.1.1). I can't see anything in the Windows logs. Uninstalling the Meltdown patch didn't fix the issue Any ideas as to how I can track the problem down?
OS Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version: 10.0.16299 Build 16299
GPU Asus Radeon R9390 DC3 OC Strix 8192MB
Motherboard Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150)
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Cheers!
TFG
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Aside from reverting to the basic Microsoft driver, you can also try Safe Mode, from which you should also try a DDU uninstall and then reinstall of graphics drivers after returning to normal. I'd check whether the AMD drivers are applying monitor settings that are somehow out of whack.
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I can't offer a solution but just mentioning that I'm running Win10 pro with the bug patch and the 17.11.4 driver with no issues after rolling back from 17.12.2. I'm not sure about the falls creator patch being installed but I presume it must have been automatically installed for me as well. I'm on a Ryzen cpu though so maybe it's cpu related with Haswell.
It's worth looking in on the Microsoft & Intel communities to see if anyone's posting about the same issue there..
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Thanks - tried that to no avail.
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Thanks - will do. Beginning to think I'll need to try a full reinstall but that'll have to wait until after I've finished this assignment!
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I had a very similar issue and found it was the AMD settings part of the driver causing the issue on my PC. Installing just the driver solved the problem although I now don't have the AMD settings/taskbar icon. I don't game much atm so haven't looked into it any further given it stopped the black screen lockups.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but didn’t work for me. Not gaming much myself at the moment, so could have lived with this!
Caporegime
Are our AMD GPU drivers affected by Meltdown and Spectre like Nvidias ?, as they've just released their fix drivers.
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I would expect most major applications to be affected by Spectre (see this Google P0 blog). Graphics drivers are huge and include things like a compiler - they're bound to need patching.
So we also gonna get a driver for that ''fix''...hmmm ok.
Just an update, I disabled hardware acceleration in my browsers and I'm not crashing now.
Caporegime
I was crashing in FF with the hardware acceleration on with my 64, just randomly while browsing, like imgur, something with a lot of pics, gifs, id just get a Dark Green screen, requiring a hard restart, but since i disabled the hardware acceleration (couple of weeks ago or so now), its been fine.
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Soldato
Do we know how if AMD are going to patch Spectre/Meltdown for older Radeon GPU's?
The fact Nvidia released drivers are making me think my Radeon 4350 needs a security update too.
The fact Nvidia released drivers are making me think my Radeon 4350 needs a security update too.
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It's not the GPUs which are vulnerable (despite misinformed articles by ZDNet and Techradar) - it's the driver software (they are compiled binaries and subject to Spectre like most other applications). It says as much in Nvidia's advisory, but tech "journalists" don't seem to be able to research properly these days.
