AMD issue / Flickering using multi 1440p monitors and drivers 15.7 and up

[james1701]

I did not have a single flicker until I moved my PC. For that last week, it kept getting worse and worse. This morning, I noticed i was getting more buzz from my speakers than usual. I crawled under and noticed my speak cord was touching my display cables. Once I moved it, and disabled AMD HDMI audio drivers to stop getting an error on my sound controls, I have not seen a flicker since.

Might be worth a look for you.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I dont use HDMI connections at all. And my PC hasn't move either. I confirm that our issues are unrelated. ()

 

[Azix]

sell your korean monitors, sell two of your cards, buy some 1440p standard monitors.

why do you like to go 4 x GPUs?

 

[KaRLiToS]

sell your korean monitors, sell two of your cards, buy some 1440p standard monitors.

why do you like to go 4 x GPUs?

I am not here to justify my purchase or do the purchases you would do. Thank you.

The issue is now on the known list so I am fine with it. And many people with standard monitord get the issue too.

AMD community forum post from this morning.

Horizontal flickering and image tearing in 2D (3 screens, R9 290x), 15.7 and up
madmungo
madmungo 11 janv. 2016 01:30
Hi all,

Just upgraded to a Fury X and LG Ultra Wide monitor. I am on windows 10 single card/monitor using the latest drivers and am getting the corrupt screen in 2D mode only.
I have tried disabling ULPS, and setting higher 2D memory clocks with no change in behavior. I am using the DP output as it is the only one that supports
my monitors screen res of 2560x1080, have tried 4 cables and still get corruption when using them.

Every time it happens all I have to do is turn the monitor off then back on and it is fixed for a random duration but it is getting annoying fast.

So seeing as I ONLY have ONE monitor connected via Display Port and am getting this screen tearing it looks like it is either a driver issue or something to do with the
graphics cards Display Port implementation.

 

[PhonakV30]

Now , did AMD Put this on "Known Issue List" for next upcoming Crismon?

 

[KaRLiToS]

Now , did AMD Put this on "Known Issue List" for next upcoming Crismon?

I hope so, probably.

 

[thesmokingman]

And many people with standard monitord get the issue too.

AMD community forum post from this morning.

Apparently ppl still don't know how to deal with hw accel?

Your issue and single gpu should be different, even though they might "look" the same. Btw, I've found that I can induce the (non-hw-accel'd) flicker by raising my refresh rates high say 100-144hz. Under 120hz it hardly happens, under 100hz, it never happens.

 

[OafBoaster]

Apparently ppl still don't know how to deal with hw accel?

Your issue and single gpu should be different, even though they might "look" the same. Btw, I've found that I can induce the (non-hw-accel'd) flicker by raising my refresh rates high say 100-144hz. Under 120hz it hardly happens, under 100hz, it never happens.

This sounds like an issue, but the details of it don't represent my issue or I'd imagine the separate displayport/dvi monitors issue.

My issue was occurring consistently with two 60hz monitors - one on DVI and one on DisplayPort with an r9 290. The same issue does not occur with an hd7850 and the same connections.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

I ran 3 x 2560x1440 on Radeon Cads of R7 260x to R9 285. I even swapped out one of the 2560x1440 for a 2560x1600 monitor - So far I have not ran into the issue that OP is stating.

Will run more tests and report back.

 

[PhonakV30]

Well He has 2 Monitor with Res 1920x1080 and one 4K.

 

[gregr507]

As far as I can tell I'm having pretty much the EXACT same issue you are OP. I have one 1440p qnix and one 1200p dell, each running DVI out of my 290x. I game only on the 1440p screen, the 1200p is just as a side monitor and is usually turned off when I'm playing a game. I get the same flickering, it happens for me pretty much any time the card isn't overclocked. Like when I boot up it's flickering like crazy until I can get to trixx or afterburner and apply my OC profiles. Sometimes it doesn't even make it and just freezes. I also seem to randomly have some constant slowdowns in TW3 (which is the only game I've played recently). It doesn't do it every time I start the game, but sometimes it seems like it's playing way choppier.

The most annoying thing is that the flickering issue happens when I leave my computer and come back to it after a while. I don't have sleep mode enabled or anything, I just have my screen set to turn off after a certain time. But every time I come back to my computer and turn my monitors on I have to navigate a flickery mess (which seems to be worse on the smaller dell for some reason) to re-apply my OC profile. I haven't played around with anything that much to try to figure it out, because like you, my work-around is working. It is really annoying though. I may just drop back to the last drivers that you say worked. I didn't realize the problem had been going on for this long. I was starting to wonder if my card was dying or something lol

 

[KaRLiToS]

Try Drivers 15.6 and let me know if the flickering is still present.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I ran 3 x 2560x1440 on Radeon Cads of R7 260x to R9 285. I even swapped out one of the 2560x1440 for a 2560x1600 monitor - So far I have not ran into the issue that OP is stating.

Will run more tests and report back.

Thanks for testing man.

All users having my issue have Hawaii (290, 290x, 390, 390) x, have multi-monitors and are using display port as one of the display output. :thumbsup:

Well He has 2 Monitor with Res 1920x1080 and one 4K.

No,

1st: CrossOvers 27Q Led-P DVI (2560x1440)
2nd:CrossOvers 27Q Led-P DVI (2560x1440)
3rd: Samsung U28D590 (4k) native Display Port (3840x2160)

I run each of them in 1440p to have a 7680x1440 resolution 48:9 (8040x1440 with bezel compensation)

I bought them in 2012 from Korea when there was a lot of people buying 1440p monitors from Korea: CrossOvers, CatLeap, QNix, Shimian, I got them for like 390$ CAD with shipping.

2012

 

[EXCellR8]

For what it's worth I was having flickering a lot with my 2 QNIX monitors when I was using DP adapters. Since then I moved to a R9 380 with dual DVI output and everything has been absolutely fine.

 

[KaRLiToS]

For what it's worth I was having flickering a lot with my 2 QNIX monitors when I was using DP adapters. Since then I moved to a R9 380 with dual DVI output and everything has been absolutely fine.

I don't use any adapter, I have 2 natives DVI monitors and one Display Port monitor.

 

[gregr507]

Thanks for testing man.

All users having my issue have Hawaii (290, 290x, 390, 390) x, have multi-monitors and are using display port as one of the display output. :thumbsup:

Actually I'm running both my monitors on DVI and having similar issues. Although I admittedly didn't read the whole thread, so maybe you're having other issues, but it sounds very similar. Anyway I'll probably give those drivers a shot, thanks for that. Nice setup btw. Does running the 4k screen in 1440p affect the image quality much?

 

[PhonakV30]

1 monitor plugged via DisplayPort connection

According to this Review Crossover 27Q LED-P Pivot Edition Doesn't have DisplayPort Port , just Only "Power connector & One DVI-D input".
I assume that You connected one DVI into Slave card 1 and another DVI into Slave card 2 Then your Dp concection Into primary Card.Am I right?

 

[KaRLiToS]

According to this Review Crossover 27Q LED-P Pivot Edition Doesn't have DisplayPort Port , just Only "Power connector & One DVI-D input".
I assume that You connected one DVI into Slave card 1 and another DVI into Slave card 2 Then your Dp concection Into primary Card.Am I right?

No.

For eyefinity to work, they need to be plugged all in the primary card. (Unlike Nvidia)

R9 290xs have 2 x DVI-DL, 1 x HDMI and 1 x Display Port.

My two CrossOvers are plugged into DVI-DL of the first card and the Samsung is plugged in the Display Port of the first card.

 

[EXCellR8]

Yup, they all need to be on the primary for eyefinity/crossfire.

Have you tried swapping primary cards to see if that changes anything? Or is that not possible due to cooling solution in your rig?

Have you posted this on AMD forums? I think a lot of people are having issues with the latest drivers.

 

[KaRLiToS]

It does it on each single card or each combinations (Each single cards, Crossfire, Trifire) that I can do with the cards currently in place with only the use of the motherboard GPU dip switch.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

For what it's worth I was having flickering a lot with my 2 QNIX monitors when I was using DP adapters. Since then I moved to a R9 380 with dual DVI output and everything has been absolutely fine.

I don't use any adapter, I have 2 natives DVI monitors and one Display Port monitor.

From my research (I could be wrong) - some of those monitors don't have a scalar ability to properly display videos or images from some source GPUs because they are only pass through scalars. It may cause communication problems from the monitors' board to the GPU's video outputs. It may be one reason why they have a list of cards or device sources of what may or may not work properly.

Which could also explain they may have issues with particular GPUs in multi-monitor configurations.

Try one of these possible solutions:

1) try switching your 4K monitor to an HDMI output to see what happens.

2) Take out out the GPU in the PCI Express Slot #1 and only use the GPU in PCI Express Slot #2. Next connect everything into the GPU that is only using the PCI Express Slot #2

See if any one of those two makes the flickering go away.

I just want to clarify that some monitor vendors do ship monitors with issues - and that in the past AMD did release minor driver updates to fix those monitors. But those fixes were mainly for monitors that were not VESA compliant - may be those fixes did not carry over to the new drivers.

From looking at all those videos with monitor issues in this thread - I have seen them before. And we resolved every one of them by swapping out monitor parts or updating the monitor firmware.

 

[digitaldurandal]

From my research (I could be wrong) - some of those monitors don't have a scalar ability to properly display videos or images from some source GPUs because they are only pass through scalars. It may cause communication problems from the monitors' board to the GPU's video outputs. It may be one reason why they have a list of cards or device sources of what may or may not work properly.

Which could also explain they may have issues with particular GPUs in multi-monitor configurations.

Try one of these possible solutions:

1) try switching your 4K monitor to an HDMI output to see what happens.

2) Take out out the GPU in the PCI Express Slot #1 and only use the GPU in PCI Express Slot #2. Next connect everything into the GPU that is only using the PCI Express Slot #2

See if any one of those two makes the flickering go away.

I just want to clarify that some monitor vendors do ship monitors with issues - and that in the past AMD did release minor driver updates to fix those monitors. But those fixes were mainly for monitors that were not VESA compliant - may be those fixes did not carry over to the new drivers.

From looking at all those videos with monitor issues in this thread - I have seen them before. And we resolved every one of them by swapping out monitor parts or updating the monitor firmware.

I don't think this is going to assist him. Also, HDMI uses the same output clocks as DVID, I don't think he can hook up 2 DVID and one HDMI at the same time, and I believe in a previous post he tried all kinds of different output options as well.

I have a similar problem with different monitors. Also no issues on 15.1, issues with 15.7 onward.

2x FHD2401 1920x1200 DVI
1x HP ZR24w 1920x1200 DP

After approximately 1 to 2 hours Ill get tearing and flickering that goes across all 3 monitors in eyefinity mode and have to turn eyefinity off and back on for temporary relief.

Also do not have options for bezel compensation on 15.6 onward.

I have been using the monitors for years without issue.

I have the problem in windows 7 and windows 10. The bad thing is in W10, 15.1 is not an available driver for me to use which is really the best driver for my configuration.

My 2c I believe they changed something in 15.7, maybe related to W10 or freesync support that affected systems not even on that configuration.

AMD fixes it soon or I switch when the new cards arrive this year.

 

[Spanners]

Just wanted to add I have the same issue post 15.6. I'm running a U2715H (DP) and a Korean panel (DVI) as a secondary screen, both 1440p. Run from a R9 290.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

Hmmm... this is odd... I am running R9 285 Radeon Cards and R7 260x Radeon Cards with either 2 or more monitor setups of various resolutions from 2560x1440, 2560x1600 and 1920x1080. During Project FreeSync development, one of things I have to do is to test all AMD Drivers that come through, I have even tested ones that were never made available to the public and did not encounter the issues some of you are experiencing when I tested those drivers with regular multi-monitor setups (non-FreeSync monitors).

What brand and model of Radeon Cards are you guys running? I think OP is running Sapphire R9 290x Radeon Cards (Correct me if I am wrong).


I know a few AMD features, including FreeSync, requires that Monitors have VESA compliant EDID or monitor settings in place. Even regular Non-FreeSync monitors need to have VESA Compliant EDID or settings in place. I know some end users are modding their monitors' EDID and monitor settings to overlcock (or for other things) - that can make it not VESA compliant and cause issues with monitor communication with graphics card. Which may also result in some issues that may occur when new AMD features are added or in place. A graphics vendor like AMD, when creating drivers or adding new features, have to adhere to these VESA standards to make sure an output device like a monitor works well with their cards.

 

[Spanners]

What brand and model of Radeon Cards are you guys running? I think OP is running Sapphire R9 290x Radeon Cards (Correct me if I am wrong).

I'm running a Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290 (the older reference PCB version). I haven't read the thread as thoroughly as I might have but the display corruption looks exactly like it would if the memory was overclocked too far. So I'm assuming it's something to do with idle memory clocks or voltage.