Download: AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 20.1.2 driver

#5758042 Posted on: 02/06/2020 04:28 PM

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1600+ posts is not a fluke unfortunately.

Yes, start by disabling hardware acceleration and hope.

#5758047 Posted on: 02/06/2020 04:39 PM

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Disable hw acceleration in browser and media player until they fix it.

#5758079 Posted on: 02/06/2020 06:27 PM

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More info might help but in effect avoid running hardware acceleration together with demanding 3D workloads for the GPU such as gaming.
Avoid alt-tabbing too including if using windowed mode or borderless. (Yeah somehow even outside of exclusive fullscreen or attempts of it for D3D12 or Vulkan it can *still* be unstable on current drivers.)
Certain D3D11 titles can just be unstable in general, DXVK can wrap to Vulkan and work around the problem but it's potentially trading maximum framerate for stability upwards of 20% or so possibly so there is a bit of a penalty for it.
Enhanced Sync can still be somewhat problematic if enabled far as I can find although as with many of the ongoing Adrenaline 2020 and/or Navi issues it's pretty mixed.

Hardware acceleration issue itself is also kinda mixed whether it's simply Chromium (Chrome browser and programs on Chromium Engine Framework.) or that and also media and image GPU acceleration such as reports on Media Player Classic and video playback both stock and filters like MPC's own or DXVA accelerated or MadVR.
Plus reports around software such as Adobe and image editing but the stuff I've seen here is display corruption or corrupted work not driver crashes and certainly not to the extent of where the card essentially shuts off or whatever this black screen symptom is actually doing.

For browsers it's also mixed if it's just viewing or media playback and various browsers but I suspect it's both and kinda random how it triggers thus it seems like it's a bit mixed when it's just a bit more uncertain when and how it bugs out.


EDIT: As to certain D3D titles well the big one seems to be Battlefield 5 currently and the GPU might need a combination of downclocking and voltage balancing but it'll pretty much be stable if that game runs especially the D3D12 mode though then again going to a earlier driver also stabilizes things so somethings up here in the driver code anyway so torture testing it isn't really needed since it is something in the driver code affecting things.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Witcher 3, Borderlands 3 and maybe others are also a bit hit & miss in terms of stability though it's more likely to be the old display driver crash and game crash as a result not a black screen possibly unrecoverable until the system is powered down.
(Outer Worlds seems sensitive too.)

And throwing it through DXVK for D3D11->Vulkan seemingly resolves the stability issue so yeah the DirectX Direct3D code is hitting something though I couldn't begin to say what.
(But it seems to work in 19.12.1 though that has messy OpenGL driver issues so for that you'd want 19.11.3 though on Windows I suppose it's less of a criteria or how to say.)

#5758627 Posted on: 02/08/2020 07:15 PM

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I was wondering if the people experiencing black screens, are you on an Intel or AMD platform?

#5758657 Posted on: 02/08/2020 09:45 PM

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it has nothing to do with platform, those affected are on intel core, ryzen, phenom, etc.

It's either a hardware fault (GPU eratta) or AMD are using unsafe IO and colliding with Microsoft and its unsafe IO access.