Download: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.3

#5752802 Posted on: 01/21/2020 03:59 PM

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Black screen issue is gone nice
Is time Don Vito for review?

#5752805 Posted on: 01/21/2020 04:18 PM

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Black screen issue is gone nice
Is time Don Vito for review?

Tested?

Known Issues
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- "Some Radeon RX 5700 series graphics users may intermittently experience a black screen while gaming or on desktop. A potential temporary workaround is disabling hardware acceleration in applications running in the background such as web browsers or Discord."


Fixed Issues
- "An intermittent black screen or loss of display may occur when performing parallel actions such as web browsing, gaming or watching video."

Are they insane at AMD, or am I missing something?...

#5752824 Posted on: 01/21/2020 04:51 PM

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Several separate issues mostly just resulting in a variety of separate problems.
One of them causes a temporary display loss and maybe the driver recovers. (Sometimes just turning on or off the display also brings the signal back, might not even be a full TDP or driver reset.)
One of them causes a permanent display loss and a reboot or shutdown is required. (Kinda like a typical non-recoverable display driver crash.)
One of them causes a shutdown and automatic reboot similar to the PSU tripping the Over Current Protection I think (OCP) but it happens even on stronger Kilowatt single rail PSU models and while earlier attributed to overclocking it can also happen on stock settings.

So in total I believe since 19.7.x there's now been five maybe six black screen related bug fixes leaving hopefully only the last one(s) here though possibly still with Vega, Polaris and earlier also being affected unlike the 19.x drivers.

#5752826 Posted on: 01/21/2020 04:55 PM

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Several separate issues mostly just resulting in a variety of separate problems.
One of them causes a temporary display loss and maybe the driver recovers. (Sometimes just turning on or off the display also brings the signal back, might not even be a full TDP or driver reset.)
One of them causes a permanent display loss and a reboot or shutdown is required. (Kinda like a typical non-recoverable display driver crash.)
One of them causes a shutdown and automatic reboot similar to the PSU tripping the Over Current Protection I think (OCP) but it happens even on stronger Kilowatt single rail PSU models and while earlier attributed to overclocking it can also happen on stock settings.

So in total I believe since 19.7.x there's now been five maybe six black screen related bug fixes leaving hopefully only the last one(s) here though possibly still with Vega, Polaris and earlier also being affected unlike the 19.x drivers.

Haha ok then

#5752838 Posted on: 01/21/2020 05:12 PM

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Yeah I've been trying to make sense of it but not really gotten much luck other than seeing AMD's driver notes pretty much confirming there's at least a few different ones and it's getting fixed but the main Navi issue is possibly still a problem and possibly connected via various separate problems manifesting as the same type of issue though maybe also split into various severity levels. (Recoverable, fatal, bad enough the system powered down.)

Makes me wonder but can't really confirm if it could be a possibility of various game or driver side crashes causing Navi cards to behave unpredictably or become unstable but it's hard to say although at least with a few games more commonly having this issue it's setting up for something that AMD's driver programmers can hopefully replicate and test in a more reliable manner now.
Lots of replies in the AMD Reddit topic on the issue too and covering both this issue and some of the ones that have now been resolved though in most cases it does seem to be purely a software error so there's a lower chance of faulty hardware and such.

Still trying to figure it out but yeah I'm not having much luck overall and finding some common factor or basis has been very difficult because the issue is just very random and can also be very rare.
Shader issues, shader compiler problem, timing issues and who knows but with the existing fixed black screen errors hopefully this one and the regressions on earlier GPU models can be wrapped up soon and be done with.