Best driver for RX580 ever?

[PLAfiller]

Hi all,

few days ago, I got a pop up for driver update from AMD center and I let it download and update the drivers to 21.3.1 and it has been unbearable since then. I got random short crash with black screen and AMD Bug report window showing up. I can re-produce the issue as many time as I like, for example: wanna log into Skillshare? I just click "Sign in" -> BOOM crash (regardless of the browser used). Wanna download older AMD driver, click on the download link-> BOOM crash, write a post on TPU-> boom crash, I can go on and on. I also have TDR (Time out detection And Recovery) issues. I leave the PC working, go do something else. I go back, it went to sleep. I wake it up aaand all the icons are huge on the desktop. There are no options for resolution. I have to restart, change scaling! and then only I have the full range of resolutions for the monitor. My system specs are in my profile. It is a dual monitor setup with the same brand monitors, but not the same model: one is ultrawide 21:9 (on display port) and the other one is 1080p screen on HDMI. Anyhow, this cannot go any longer. What is the most stable driver our there for this particular card? I don't care how old it is? I am thinking I am pulling the CD that came with the card.....it's that bad.

 

[dalimit]

20.11.2 i use long time and its stable for me. When oc on other drivers i get crashes.
Never update over AMD center . Uninstall AMD manually in settings/programs ,express uninstall and then install new driver.

 

[atifsh]

you can do 3 things

1: full ddu uninstall
2: install new drivers as minimal or just drivers.
if this fix you issues
3: full ddu and install oldest whql from amd or guru3d

 

[Tetras]

I use 19.11.3 on my rx 550s with a group policy to disable driver updates, no black screens ever. Prior to this, it was forcibly updated and many black screens.

 

[PLAfiller]

Final resolution for this one for me was 17.10.1. That was seemingly the last driver that has any traces of VP9 codec support from the Polaris cards. VP9=Youtube. Try watching a 1080p video at latest AMD drivers on RX570/RX580 check your CPU/GPU usage and then switch back to this old relic and you will see what I mean. Apparently h.264 was costing too much in patent fees, so Goodle pushed their own open-source video codec. Obviously it didn't get hardware support right off the bat with GPU makers and especially AMD. Looks to me Nvidia did a better job here. At least that's what I've got from my crash course into the problem.

 

[atifsh]

Final resolution for this one for me was 17.10.1. That was seemingly the last driver that has any traces of VP9 codec support from the Polaris cards. VP9=Youtube. Try watching a 1080p video at latest AMD drivers on RX570/RX580 check your CPU/GPU usage and then switch back to this old relic and you will see what I mean. Apparently h.264 was costing too much in patent fees, so Goodle pushed their own open-source video codec. Obviously it didn't get hardware support right off the bat with GPU makers and especially AMD. Looks to me Nvidia did a better job here. At least that's what I've got from my crash course into the problem.

just for the knowledge... what's your usage say?
for me on 570 8GB 1080 P full screen YouTube video on latest drivers
18 - 24 % CPU
18% GPU

 

[NETINHOWS CODE]

Final resolution for this one for me was 17.10.1. That was seemingly the last driver that has any traces of VP9 codec support from the Polaris cards. VP9=Youtube. Try watching a 1080p video at latest AMD drivers on RX570/RX580 check your CPU/GPU usage and then switch back to this old relic and you will see what I mean. Apparently h.264 was costing too much in patent fees, so Goodle pushed their own open-source video codec. Obviously it didn't get hardware support right off the bat with GPU makers and especially AMD. Looks to me Nvidia did a better job here. At least that's what I've got from my crash course into the problem.

Hi, well I think I have a similar problem, and I wanted to know how you downloaded an old AMD driver, my video card is an rx580.

 

[68Olds]

Hi, well I think I have a similar problem, and I wanted to know how you downloaded an old AMD driver, my video card is an rx580.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/previous-drivers.html/graphics/radeon-600-500-400/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-580.html