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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**
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Sounds like PEBKAC to me Kaapilini.
Thought it might be that earlier as crossfire works fine for me on 14.6 in Crysis 3. 
I expect, for whatever reason the crossfire profile is not loading. Are you starting the game in full screen mode? Maybe make it windowed, save, then put it back to full screen, save, restore factory defaults in CCC, restart pc and see if that fixes the problem.
Sounds like PEBKAC to me Kaapilini.
I expect, for whatever reason the crossfire profile is not loading. Are you starting the game in full screen mode? Maybe make it windowed, save, then put it back to full screen, save, restore factory defaults in CCC, restart pc and see if that fixes the problem.
No PEBKAC here only from the AMD driver writers.
CF with 2 cards works fine but with 3 and 4 cards I need to start the game a couple of times to get 3 and 4 way CF working. This problem does not happen with 14.4 only 14.6 (both beta and RC). I think the AMD driver team did not test it that well as they assumed it was working fine on 14.4 so it should on 14.6.
Update: So I upgraded to Windows 8.1, used DDU in Safe Mode and tried 14.6 - disaster, black screens when launching games, crashes and problems aplenty. Used DDU again and tried 14.4 - nice colourful patterns across the screen - PC basically unusable. Managed to reinstall 13.12 successfully and the PC then actually seemed to work for a few days. However, first serious gaming was an hour of Far Cry 3. Upon leaving the game fans spun up, screen went black. Upon rebooting found the PC to have poor stability with coloured lines and patches appearing on the screen from time to time. Once again went down the DDU and reinstall drivers route. Seems a bit better now, however I'm getting random blue screen crashes.
Who Crashed conclusion "13 crash dumps have been found and analyzed. Only 10 are included in this report. A third party driver has been identified to be causing system crashes on your computer. It is strongly suggested that you check for updates for these drivers on their company websites. Click on the links below to search with Google for updates for these drivers:
atikmdag.sys (ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)"
Really fed up of messing around with this rather than actually using my PC. Anyone got any tips or want to buy a Gigabyte Windforce R9 290?
Id a similar issue with Crysis 3 on a 7990, on initially going into the game 1 gpu remained at 2d clocks, had to either alt tab in and out or alt enter to window mode and back to full screen for the second core to engage 3d clocks.
It's been stable so far this evening (no gaming though) however just opened up Facebook and got a screen full of coloured pattern for a few seconds - Display driver stopped responding has been recovered.
So I downloaded fresh copies of 14.4 and 14.6RC from AMD. 14.6 crashes every time at the driver installation stage. 14.4 is now up and running, however attempting to play a YouTube video got me a screen of coloured patterns (stuck memory?) followed by a black screen and the old favourite "Display driver stopped responding has been recovered" message, so I'm not exactly filled with hope.
Apart from sending it back, is there any definitive way to find out?
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14.4 is supposed to work.
But what the hell is wrong with AMD drivers that causes games to artifact like they do? =/
OK: try the card in a different PC, test the RAM @Memtest
lower the OC of the CPU to default, check the rails on your PSU
OK: try the card in a different PC, test the RAM @Memtest
lower the OC of the CPU to default, check the rails on your PSU
The 290 seems to have got even worse and keeps crashing so I have had to switch back to my GTX 580. If I had £1 for every time I've run DDU recently I would be rich!
I would like to try it in another PC, but I can't think of anyone local to me that I know who has a decent spec machine that would run it
No overclock being used (except the default on the GPU). What's the best way to check the PSU (Thermaltake Toughpower XT 775W) as that seems the only plausible cause I can think of if the 290 is stressing it that bit too much? Can this be done with software or do I have to chance electrocuting myself?
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Is their something wrong with AMD drivers? I hadn't noticed, not had any problems myself, that's what I don't get, if there is something wrong with the drivers why does it not happen on my system. Could it be because I install drivers over current drivers and have never, ever used driver cleaners, ddu or whatever. Mmmm.............who knows.
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The 290 seems to have got even worse and keeps crashing so I have had to switch back to my GTX 580. If I had £1 for every time I've run DDU recently I would be rich!
I would like to try it in another PC, but I can't think of anyone local to me that I know who has a decent spec machine that would run it
No overclock being used (except the default on the GPU). What's the best way to check the PSU (Thermaltake Toughpower XT 775W) as that seems the only plausible cause I can think of if the 290 is stressing it that bit too much? Can this be done with software or do I have to chance electrocuting myself?
The best way would be to try in a different PC or with a different PSU- maybe tat the local PC dealer ... Just to put a CPU in the MB on the box and a let us say 850w PSU and try it ..
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I would like to try it in another PC, but I can't think of anyone local to me that I know who has a decent spec machine that would run it
If you're anywhere near Medway in Kent, you're welcome to pop over and we'll try it in my rig.
The 14.6 RCs run a bit smoother for me on a 7950 and have got rid of a few problems that were posted on Reddit I.E blue screening on certain websites.
Thanks.. I've no probs with the Beta's atm but when u say smoother is that Mantle? BF4? Not been gaming much lately but when i do its BF4
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