Problems with Crimson

[digitaldurandal]

Anyone else have issues with the new drivers?

Civ BE with crossfire had SFR and the two sides of the screens were out of sync
Hunted: The Demons Forge crashes after intro video
Endless Legends crashes after 10 - 15 minutes

Currently rolling back

 

[3DVagabond]

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers? Also, some games require deleting game files when you update drivers. Not sure if any of these apply?

 

[digitaldurandal]

Have you tried reinstalling the drivers? Also, some games require deleting game files when you update drivers. Not sure if any of these apply?

No, I didn't bother with a reinstall. I went back to the previous driver I was using for now.

I have never had to do the latter ever. I think with 3 out 4 games being affected that I have a tried its not going to be anything with game files.

 

[MongGrel]

Also, some games require deleting game files when you update drivers.

Had never ran across that problem myself. But I guess there are a lot of games out there.

Crimson seems to run fine on Cinebench R15, it improved a small bit here since I installed it yesterday.

Honestly haven't tried it out in a game I guess.

 

[3DVagabond]

I've seen it. Just a trouble shooting suggestion. As was doing a clean re-installation of the drivers.

 

[digitaldurandal]

Any of you running crossfire?

 

[digitaldurandal]

Looks like the issue with Civ BE RT with Mantle and crossfire on 15.11 has been known about for nearly a month. 15.7.1 doesn't have eyefinity bezel correction. I am stuck at 14.12

"Galatian - Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - link
Still no fix for my screen tearing issues I'm seeing in Civilization: Beyond Earth - Rising Tide while using Mantle on 2 R9 290X crossfired. The problem does not occur with Direct X11. Have been posting this issues for the last 4 beta drivers and haven't heard a word from either AMD or Firaxis. Hilarious as this is a AMD sponsored game using and AMD API."

 

[Headfoot]

Is anyone getting issues where there are small square artifacts and missing menu headers in SW:BF, as well as artifacting on the compass icons in Fallout 4 only when you are not in power armor?

 

[digitaldurandal]

Is anyone getting issues where there are small square artifacts and missing menu headers in SW:BF, as well as artifacting on the compass icons in Fallout 4 only when you are not in power armor?

I have heard that over 60 fps or crossfire has some issues with FO4 but dont have the game to test.

 

[Killrose]

I swear the fan on my 290 reference type video card runs full speed more often than it did using the Cat generation of drivers. I have the dual bios switch set to slow mode not performace mode. I only play War Thunder right now, in Tank multiplayer mode and have not had any problems.

 

[Headfoot]

I swear the fan on my 290 reference type video card runs full speed more often than it did using the Cat generation of drivers. I have the dual bios switch set to slow mode not performace mode. I only play War Thunder right now, in Tank multiplayer mode and have not had any problems.

Yeah check your fan profiles. The original Crimson release locks your fan profile at a set speed so it doesn't turn up or down based on usage, so itll be louder while idling.

Mine will stay at whatever fan speed I last set them at and will not automatically adjust unless I set Afterburner to Auto mode explicitly.

 

[Killrose]

I have a Gigabyte brand/AMD reference card, so I tried Gigabytes own OC utility to set fan profiles. It would work for about 2min at most, then jump from the "manual" program settings I just made to "Auto" settings by itself while I was in game play. The card was no way even close to getting hot, so after some frustration with the program I un-installed the thing. I am playing with the Crimson fan sttings now, and trying to find a setting that does not throttle my GPU a bunch and is not so noisey.

 

[Headfoot]

If you're using the reference fan, from my testing the fan noise gets significantly more irritating once you get past about 40-42%. Even 40->47% is pretty big. Right around 40 is the inflection point.

Another forum had testing by users showing nearly no degradation of performance at -15% power tune, and no degradation at all at -10%. Between 38-42% fans, -15% power tune and a -12mv undervolt (but still overclocked to 1ghz from 947), my gpu doesn't exceed 85c and its not all that loud. Doesn't throttle either.

 

[monkstah]

Is the new Crimson software really worse than the normal AMD driver issues? I keep seeing bad juju about it

 

[Killrose]

Not sure whats happening, gpu-Z no longer updates/logs correct fan speed or percentage of fan speed on my system. It only shows fan @38% and fan speed at 1760rpm plus/ minus 30rpm even though I hear it spool up.

makes it kinda hard to monitor any changes I make. Think il go back to the last/latest Catylist driver.

 

[Killrose]

Weird, need to have Gigabyte OC-Guru installed before gpu-Z will read correct fan speed and fan RPM. WTF's up with that? still using Crimson drivers, but I don't remember that being the case with Catylist. Maybe now the fan speed changes I make with Crimson will work.