And again a black screen and not completing the install, now with code "thread stuck in device driver".
No crossfire for me for a while it seems..
Please Reinstall:
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-> https://mega.nz/#F!AN81UKJT!cbQoPD97KrQzXmjA4eTp8A
And Gamers Stuff you need:
-> https://mega.nz/#F!8J12QTQJ!k1klZMJrQYFmKbNKL2Xktw
Better to have all in one Place 😛 (I've updated K-lite Mega recently)
Then try again with no DDU, but instead reinstall 17.8.2 WHQL then 17.9.1 and then Upgrade to 17.9.3
Should be fine after that, and you can be sure that all Settings/Games Profiles etc. are migrating to new Driver.
Note-> Sometimes when new Branch appear you need to delete in Safe Mode this Place:
c:\Users\***\AppData\Local\AMD\DxCache\
c:\Users\***\AppData\Local\AMD\GLCache\
With ATI try to Upgrade Drivers not Clean Install nor DDU 😀
Still periodically getting "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." With XFX RX Vega 64 Liquid.
This is after DDU and fresh install with reboots.
For those who are openly bashing Warlord, how many of you are using Windows 10 RS4 builds? He precisely described what his issues are and under what circumstances they occur. He also pointed out that the drivers aren't WDDM 2.3, which I "assume" is a RS4 build only feature. His choice of words might not be the best, something I myself have objected and have argued with him in the past, but looking around Reddit, his issues seem legit.
It's "Agonizing" to see how some of the die hard AMD fans jump to the defense of their beloved brand whenever someone shares their negative experiences with the drivers, but are quick to discard the fact that the issues could be legit. (Given time, the issues do prove their existence, which AMD either ignores or silently fixes 6 or 7 months later.)
When OnnA repeatedly reported the random artifact and other issues such as long loading times with Forza Hortizon 3, the biggest loud mouth AMD fanboy (who's also present in this very thread) shot him down in every thread, till reviewers like DigitalFoundry themselves demonstrated the issue in videos and only then, AMD fixed it.
There's a reason AMD has such a tiny share in the GPU market and has to face losses every calendar year. You'll only hear tales of how SLI setups went wrong and AMDYoga™ restored peace in the minds of such disturbed individuals and helped them find the balance of their Chakra and how that makes nvidia a failure as a company when numbers are saying otherwise.
It also comes across as hypocritical to bash anyone who reports UVD bug feature saying "Ye owneth an ancienth AYEHMDEE cardz, thou not supporteth them, therefore ye shan't receive/deserve supporth" but will use GTX 600/700 series of nvidia cards as an example of allegged gimping, which actually has drivers that'll switch between power states properly, a feature people take for granted.
I hate to repeat myself, but I'll say this again, each and every PC is unique, and it's combination of Software/hardware can sometimes produce results that are unexpected. An issue that occurs for someone may not manifest at your end on the very same GPU, doesn't mean the issue isn't legit. Stop bashing everyone that reports a negative experience in this forum.
Still periodically getting "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered." With XFX RX Vega 64 Liquid.
This is after DDU and fresh install with reboots.
good to hear...I wont bother with updating to this driver then...For me anything past 17.7.2 (Fuck you AMD) Im guessing have some kind of very serious wattman bug cause everything just crashes pretty soon when playing. Maybe they get it right with the 18 series release for fucks sake. I might try it one day with never opening watman.....idk maybe that would help?
Full driver cleaning and making sure you never open the Wattman panel should enforce the GPU defaults following mainly the bios definitions which you could then tweak yourself with a compatible editor software, as the Vega has two slots as long as you back up the defaults (And ideally never flash one of the bios slots at all so there's a backup available at all times.) the risk should be minimal. 🙂
This was popular with the Fury and some other GPU models too due to Wattman being a bit inaccurate with the values you set and the values that are then reported as being used and how the GPU controls in-game during various load levels.
Each and every GPU die is different though so how much you should over or under volt and how much you can extend clock speeds or even having to lower clock speeds to attain full stability will vary so it's usually down to a lot of lengthy tests for various games and benchmarks to ensure near 100% stability at all times.
Doesn't help if Wattman mucks things up, Afterburner also doesn't support Vega just yet but a upcoming version should so that will give at least one software method of enhancing the GPU and calibrating clock speeds and power levels.
(User should take care though, having a unstable OC being applied could be problematic so yet more testing, though I suppose that's pretty basic when overclocking or even when underclocking.)
(Afterburner itself should be fine just to mention that, applying a not 100% stable OC as the PC is booted up however could be problematic and that's where the risk is thus the whole thing on testing for stability before finalizing any profile settings.)
Stability can also be affected by the driver itself and whatever AMD is controlling from that even without Wattman active, anything from game compatibility to GPU fixes such as the black-screen issue with the 290 series or the display corruption with Fury both of which unfortunately took months to fully resolve via drivers.
Full driver cleaning and making sure you never open the Wattman panel should enforce the GPU defaults following mainly the bios definitions which you could then tweak yourself with a compatible editor software, as the Vega has two slots as long as you back up the defaults (And ideally never flash one of the bios slots at all so there's a backup available at all times.) the risk should be minimal. 🙂
This was popular with the Fury and some other GPU models too due to Wattman being a bit inaccurate with the values you set and the values that are then reported as being used and how the GPU controls in-game during various load levels.
Each and every GPU die is different though so how much you should over or under volt and how much you can extend clock speeds or even having to lower clock speeds to attain full stability will vary so it's usually down to a lot of lengthy tests for various games and benchmarks to ensure near 100% stability at all times.
Doesn't help if Wattman mucks things up, Afterburner also doesn't support Vega just yet but a upcoming version should so that will give at least one software method of enhancing the GPU and calibrating clock speeds and power levels.
(User should take care though, having a unstable OC being applied could be problematic so yet more testing, though I suppose that's pretty basic when overclocking or even when underclocking.)
(Afterburner itself should be fine just to mention that, applying a not 100% stable OC as the PC is booted up however could be problematic and that's where the risk is thus the whole thing on testing for stability before finalizing any profile settings.)
Stability can also be affected by the driver itself and whatever AMD is controlling from that even without Wattman active, anything from game compatibility to GPU fixes such as the black-screen issue with the 290 series or the display corruption with Fury both of which unfortunately took months to fully resolve via drivers.
The asshole's should make certain options with new drivers like (skipping any Wattman changes) and i can go back to always using the weekly/monthy new driver revisions. My card is less than 6 moths old and already there fucking me with drivers. I could understand if it were 5 year old cards.
Note:
After 17.9.2 and in 17.9.3, DX12 in DeusEx MkD working again ! (With ZEN)
Note 2:
I've observed BIG boost in FPS in all Games i Play:
R6:Siege +5FPS on Average
SW BF +8FPS on Average
FH3 +12FPS on Average (With Textures on High now, shadows High from Medium, rest on High/Ultra + 2xMSAA with FXAA High)
And list goes on !
Note 3:
Best driver for Benchmarks
:D Great Driver for my RIG (i think is The Best one! to date)
Warlord does have a lot of legitimate points, agreed, but its rude to bash a bunch of people who are just problem solving their hardware. I'm by no means a die hard amd fan (nvidia is superior in most ways lets be honest) I was just pointing out a bit of hypocrisy.
Note:FH3 +12FPS on Average (With Textures on High now, shadows High from Medium, rest on High/Ultra + 2xMSAA with FXAA High)
And list goes on !
Well... yep. For the first time I agree there is a boost for FH3. Performance is back on par with 16.12.2 driver, it only took 10 months to get it back. But I already noticed performance going up and down between runs, maybe that is just a game thing. But once it's up, it stays there. Fury is still running below competition in this game though.
I'm not able to make Radeon Settings keep settings for specific games. I usually set tessellation off for PUBG, but when I reboot my system, the setting is back to AMD optimized.
Is there a workaround for this? Maybe making profiles readonly? But idk where they are stored.
657MB!? The beta was like 362MB, almost double the size for that signature 😱
Edit: Yeah, it has ccc2. Funny how after installing and starting the old CCC manually it says there are no settings it can configure. 🙁
Probably ended up having CCC2.exe in there again, that's like some 200 MB of something that I don't think is ever actually installed.
It's the previous version of the control center, some driver versions have it and others exclude it and I don't really know why, CNext and the still-for-some-reason-included Catalyst Legacy aren't part of that so it probably just got bundled in again.
EDIT:
C:\AMD\Packages\Drivers\Display\WT6A_INF\*This folder name varies for each driver*\
Something like that for location, depending on where you unpacked the exe to get the actual installer files and such. 🙂
(Also varies a bit per driver if there's some 150 files or 160 files total, not too sure what the excess files do either besides CCC2.exe but they might be media related.)
EDIT:
Seems to be something like that, and some other bits and bobs. 😛
Under the "Packages" folder for included software we now have those "AppProfiles" again making a return, RAIDXpert2 is a new one entirely in two variants which I guess are motherboard dependent (AMD and Intel?) and for the driver folder we have some AMDPSP folder in two varieties too now.
Though yeah ccc2_install.exe is also in there though it was only 130 MB and not some 200 so I war wrong about it's size initially.
EDIT:
The PSP driver seems to be PCI related to something about cryptography going by the readme.txt and releasenotes.txt files in it's folder, something from the usually stand-alone chipset drivers perhaps?
EDIT:
And in addition to the HDMI GPU audio driver there's also a I2S audio driver.
does anybody have issue with monitor. I have "non plug and play monitor" in device manager and cannot activate neither VSR nor Night Mode feature but if run any game and use alt+enter to get full screen my monitor becomes "Plug and Play" and everything works fine untill reboot or shutdown. I tried 17.7.2 and latest drivers.Cannot understand -or monitor getting die(it is old enough) or drivers.
I tried running the CCCSlim included with this version, and it informs me that there are no settings in CCC that cannot be adjusted in Radeon Settings. lol Older versions of CCCSlim still run, but are now missing more tabs.
I tried running the CCCSlim included with this version, and it informs me that there are no settings in CCC that cannot be adjusted in Radeon Settings. lol Older versions of CCCSlim still run, but are now missing more tabs.
I have CCC from 15.11 beta -> and it is still working
(even the Freesync Tab 😉 )
Tip
Im using CCC for Gamma Tweaks e.g. 1.100 with -6 Brightness and +1 contrast etc.
Great for Games i Play, many games don't have extensive Gamma tweaks.
One that have it is FarCry 4 😀
bugfeature saying "Ye owneth an ancienth AYEHMDEE cardz, thou not supporteth them, therefore ye shan't receive/deserve supporth" but will use GTX 600/700 series of nvidia cards as an example of allegged gimping, which actually has drivers that'll switch between power states properly, a feature people take for granted. I hate to repeat myself, but I'll say this again, each and every PC is unique, and it's combination of Software/hardware can sometimes produce results that are unexpected. An issue that occurs for someone may not manifest at your end on the very same GPU, doesn't mean the issue isn't legit. Stop bashing everyone that reports a negative experience in this forum.