AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Software

[Pill Monster]

@Aquinus I don't know how AMD drivers ever get past Beta stage..this is what an average bug list looks like on release...

You have to admit it's pretty long....many are standard issue. Like the TDR error for example,, every release without fail has a TDR bug.


Resolved Issues:

• [57198] GTA V - game crashes with a TDR error
• [59298] Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - game crashes when run in DirectX® 11 mode on some AMD Radeon™ R9 390x series products
• [76921] The AMD Radeon Settings application will use the system default browser when launching web content
• [77703] A crackling noise is heard when running a 3D application in AMD Crossfire™ mode with Vsync enabled
• [78455] Autodesk Max 2016 - A crash may be experienced when launching the application on some AMD Radeon™ products
• [78465] Prepar3D® - A TDR error may be experienced when launching the application on some AMD Radeon™ R9 200 and AMD Radeon™ R9 300 series products
• [80838] A TDR error may be experienced when playing fullscreen video using the Windows® 10 Movies & TV app on some laptops with AMD processors and GPU's
• [80840] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Poor scaling may be experienced when launching the game in AMD Crossfire™ mode
• [80939] Secondary adapter may display error code 43 when enabling/disabling AMD Crossfire™
• [81499] AMD Freesync™ does not function on some Intel + AMD laptop systems under Windows® 7 and Windows® 8.1
• [81531] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Flickering may be observed on rain drops that fall on in game characters
• [81593] A BSOD error may be encountered when launching Bluray / Windows Media Player with a wireless display
• [81790] Skype - The system may hang when connecting to a 1080p video call
• [81827] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege - Random corruption may be experienced in-game
• [99999] AMD Freesync™ does not function if a Youtube video is playing alongside a 3D application

Issues Resolved since AMD Catalyst 15.7.1 and included in this driver

• [58233] Ashes of the Singularity™ may fail to launch on some GPUs with 2GB Video Memory.
• [58435] Driver installation may halt on some configurations
• [58450] Some BENQ 144hz Freesync™ monitors may lose the signal while uninstalling the driver
• [58485] Anti-Aliasing settings not being retained after changes are applied
• [58495] DiRT Rally™ crashes during gameplay and benchmarking when launched in DirectX® 11 mode on some BENQ 144HZ Freesync monitors
• [58646] Assassin's Creed® Unity may experience minor frame stutter when AMD CrossFire™ mode is enabled
• [58677] World of Warships may crash on some AMD Radeon HD5000 and HD6000 series products
• [58781] The DirectX® Diagnostic tool does not report DirectX® 12 available on supported products
• [58800] Dragon Age: Inquisition may crash if launched in Mantle mode
• [59081] The AMD Catalyst Control Center 'update' option fails to download the latest driver
• [59403] Ashes of the Singularity™ ‐ A 'Driver has stopped responding' error may be experienced in DirectX® 12 mode
• [59474] Diablo 3 crashes in the Act 2 Desolate Sands area of the game
• [76924] A TDR error may be experienced while toggling between minimized and maximized mode while viewing 4K YouTube content
• [76930] Intermittent playback issues with Cyberlink PowerDVD when connecting to a 3D display with an HDMI™ cable
• [77073] Star Wars™: Battlefront is able to use high performance graphics when launched on mobile devices with switchable graphics
• [77176] A TDR error is experienced when launching Star Wars™: Battlefront while a You Tube video plays in the background
• [77255] The secondary graphics adapter is missing in the Device Manager and the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center after installation of the driver
• [77754] A TDR error or crash is experienced when running the Unreal Engine 4 DirectX® benchmark
• [77786] Video playback of MPEG2 video fails with a playback error/error code message
• [77970] Ashes of the Singularity™ may crash on some AMD 300 series GPUs
• [78654] An error may be experienced when installing the latest graphics driver package on some AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series products
• [79577] The Intel graphics is flagged in an error state in the Device Manager in systems with switchable graphics
• [79796] The Oculus runtime may crash on launch
• [419871] BSOD observed when performing an express uninstall of the display driver in 4K resolution
• [421165] Battlefield™ Hardline becomes unresponsive after toggling the in-game Vsync option.
• [421444] Transcoded clips may fail to play on some Drag and Drop devices
• [421570] Audio driver is banged out for non-primary ASIC after enabling CF and rebooting system
• [422056] 3DMark Farandole may crash when AMD Mantle is selected from the test suite
• [422249] A ‘missing Dll’ error message may be experienced while doing an express uninstall of the current driver
• [422249] DLL missing popup message may be encountered when performing an express uninstall of the display driver.
• [422261] Mantle-based application may crash when system is woken from sleep mode
• [422273] A crash may be experienced on some AMD Radeon™ R9 300 series products while running the Unigene benchmark
• [422291] Battlefield™ 4 may crash if run in Mantle mode with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
• [422342] Cyberlink PowerDVD plays 3D content in 2D mode
• [422621] With quad AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled, TDR or blank display occurs when launching DirectX® 9 application in full screen
• [422671] Flickering corruption may occur in Dirt Rally™ with Advanced Blending enabled
• [422674] Corruption may occur in DiRT Rally™ with CMAA enabled with Portrait SLS and AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled
• [422675] Intermittent BSOD occurs when launching a race in Dirt Rally™
• [422797] Display profiles are not retained after driver upgrade from 14.502 to 15.20
• [422800] Some “Kaveri” APU-based systems may experience minor performance drop on PCMark8® video_group_chat & Casual Gaming tests
• [422806] Battlefield™ Hardline crashes on pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del while running in AMD Mantle mode
• [422853] Some systems experience a minor performance drop from 15.15 to 15.20 in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with HairWorks enabled
• [423759] Unable to apply Fill mode in Eyefinity if 2560x1600 and 2560x1440 resolutions are used together
• [423924] Unable to create an Eyefinity SLS if one of the displays is a MST display device
• [425417] Windows 10 driver installation may halt on some systems with an AMD 990FX chipset and AMD CrossFire™ enabled.
• [425432] Some BENQ 144hz Freesync monitors may lose the signal while uninstalling the driver
• [425484] DiRT Rally™ crashes during gameplay and benchmarking when launched in DirectX 11® mode on some BENQ 144HZ Freesync monitors
• [425496] Mad Max ‐ Color corruption is observed when Alt+Ctrl+Del is pressed followed by the Escape key
• [425659] Assassin's Creed® Unity may experience minor frame stutter when AMD CrossFire™ mode is enabled

Known Issues:

• [58978] Dirt Rally - A crash may be experienced starting a new race with AMD Crossfire™ and AMD Freesync™ enabled
• [78139] PowerDVD - 3D playback may fail on some configurations using an HDMI 2.0 dongle
• [79428] Starcraft 2: Flickering may be observed in the 'Episode 3' campaign
• [80251] Fable Legends: The DirectX® 12 benchmark may fail to launch on some configurations
• [80836] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Flickering or poor performance may be experienced when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode
• [81402] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - A crash may be experienced when setting game to Ultra-High graphics mode
• [81403] Flickering may be observed on some Freesync monitors while playing Wolfenstein - The New Order and Battlefield™: Hardline with Vsync disabled
• [81448] A system restart may be experience when waking the system from sleep mode on some systems with Intel processors
• [81489] Unable to create 4x1 or 2.1 portrait mode SLS with 4K displays
• [81651] Star Wars™: Battlefront - texture corruption may be experienced if the game "Field of View" setting is > 100
• [81736] Call of Duty Online - the game may crash if the Printscreen key is pressed on a 4K monitor
• [81777] Launching a game from the Game Manager may launch on a single display after enabling and disabling AMD Crossfire™ in a 3x1 AMD Eyefinity™ setup
• [81809] A crash may be experienced if an HDMI™ display is a cloned display device on an HP Envy 15 notebook
• [81844] Unable to change resolution if a wireless display is the only connected display
• [81856] Marginally increased power consumption may be observed during video playback
• [81859] Flickering may be experienced on some monitors when AMD Freesync™ is enabled
• [81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with Vsync enabled
• [82083] Ark Survival Evolved - Poor performance may be experienced when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode
• [82093] Star Wars™ : Battlefront - Some flickering may be experienced in shaded areas of the screen while game levels are loading
• [82213] Star Wars™ : Battlefront - Some users may experience minor flickering or corruption at different game location or while viewing the in-game cinematics
• [82387] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - The game may crash if the Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay" is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"

 

[William J. Stockich]

Being new to the forum I don't think I replied to you in the right way last night. Anyway, I can see that I live in a much lower, more elementary computer world than you. I've never played a computer game; I've never overclocked; I've never tweaked any AMD factory settings, except to arrange the monitors. I only bought a second video card because I wanted a 4th monitor. I got my 4 monitors running, but when I finally figured out crossfire and hooked it up, it shut down three. That was too much for me. I didn't need crossfire. My interests are solving problems of mathematics and physics, and for me spending time away from that is time lost. You mention TDR error. I've never heard of it. How much background would I have to have to know of its significance?

I don't think anyone is going to be able to bail me out of this disaster except AMD. I just expect many others may be doing the same download in the coming days, and I take this time to report my experience hoping it will be helpful.

I appreciate very much your interest and willingness to help, but even if my problem was among those you list, I'd have to start a research project just to figure what you mean. Each of those statements requires a extensive education to understand, and I don't have that education.

 

[Aquinus]

I got my 4 monitors running, but when I finally figured out crossfire and hooked it up, it shut down three.

When running Crossfire, only the primary GPU can be used for display output. I learned this the hard way the very first time I used CFX back when I was using two 6870s.

what type of developer are you? I assumed software so figured you'd know this stuff, prob better than me.... Are u doing web development?

Most of what I do interacts with web applications and I do have to do some web dev on occasion however, my current responsibility at work is a multi-threaded integration system that keeps multiple independent systems in sync based on events generated by a PostgreSQL server. As of right now, it can process anywhere between 30 to 300 database updates per second depending on the type of database event that occurred and if data needs to be written back to the database and as many as 100 RESTful API calls per second depending on the endpoint. It's also acting as en endpoint for a handful of incoming API calls.

 

[William J. Stockich]

Yeah, that's what I concluded too.

 

[Pill Monster]

Being new to the forum I don't think I replied to you in the right way last night. Anyway, I can see that I live in a much lower, more elementary computer world than you. I've never played a computer game; I've never overclocked; I've never tweaked any AMD factory settings, except to arrange the monitors. I only bought a second video card because I wanted a 4th monitor. I got my 4 monitors running, but when I finally figured out crossfire and hooked it up, it shut down three. That was too much for me. I didn't need crossfire. My interests are solving problems of mathematics and physics, and for me spending time away from that is time lost. You mention TDR error. I've never heard of it. How much background would I have to have to know of its significance?

Depends how deep you want to dive, knowing a bit about debugging would help, as well as having a good grasp of what goes on under the hood of Windows.
In basic terms a TDR means the GPU stopped responding, it was given job to do and it took too long to do it. In AMD's case many TDR's are caused by low voltage on the GPU core. It's not really a bug per se.

I don't think anyone is going to be able to bail me out of this disaster except AMD. I just expect many others may be doing the same download in the coming days, and I take this time to report my experience hoping it will be helpful.
I appreciate very much your interest and willingness to help, but even if my problem was among those you list, I'd have to start a research project just to figure what you mean. Each of those statements requires a extensive education to understand, and I don't have that education.

An extensive education isn't a prerequisite, however spending a lot of time on MSDN doesn't hurt..

Bit of info here....
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff570087(v=vs.85).aspx

Pro Tip: Don't believe everything you read, particularly when it comes from vendor reps or affiliated blogs....

Most of what I do interacts with web applications and I do have to do some web dev on occasion however, my current responsibility at work is a multi-threaded integration system that keeps multiple independent systems in sync based on events generated by a PostgreSQL server. As of right now, it can process anywhere between 30 to 300 database updates per second depending on the type of database event that occurred and if data needs to be written back to the database and as many as 100 RESTful API calls per second depending on the endpoint. It's also acting as en endpoint for a handful of incoming API calls.

I just double checked and yeah WHQL is mainly for OEM's, makes sense as we never use Beta drivers when imaging.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/gg463010.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj128255.aspx




Update:
I found the MSDN blog on driver signing if you're interested.... I incorrectly said SDK cert, it's WDK.. but close enough..
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_har.../01/driver-signing-changes-in-windows-10.aspx

 

[William J. Stockich]

Say your car breaks down on the freeway. How deep do you want to drive to fix its problems? Do you want to know how to debug or troubleshoot until you get the engine running again? It would help if you knew what went on under the hood of Toyota (or whatever). Or would such thing be so low on your priority list that you wouldn't know what to do in the first place?

I was trying to find out if this was a common problem, and if anyone had a solution. What I did learn is that AMD only announced this download on Nov 24. So, since I received mine on the 27th, I wondered if AMD just started sending these upgrades out on the 27th. So far, I have had one other person email me having had the same download bomb. And at any rate, if anyone else has had this problem, I feel it is far too early for anyone to have found a solution. By the way, I'm 76, and time is running out for me, so I have to choose what I do carefully. I admire your expertise and thanks very much for your interest

 

[AsRock]

Say your car breaks down on the freeway. How deep do you want to drive to fix its problems? Do you want to know how to debug or troubleshoot until you get the engine running again? It would help if you knew what went on under the hood of Toyota (or whatever). Or would such thing be so low on your priority list that you wouldn't know what to do in the first place?

I was trying to find out if this was a common problem, and if anyone had a solution. What I did learn is that AMD only announced this download on Nov 24. So, since I received mine on the 27th, I wondered if AMD just started sending these upgrades out on the 27th. So far, I have had one other person email me having had the same download bomb. And at any rate, if anyone else has had this problem, I feel it is far too early for anyone to have found a solution. By the way, I'm 76, and time is running out for me, so I have to choose what I do carefully. I admire your expertise and thanks very much for your interest

Huh ?, if it's broken down it aint going any were.

All new software has bugs deal with it as it's a proven fact.

As for Toyota