AMD Catalyst 14.9.1 BETA Download

FunkyMike

2014-10-14 13:48

Ahh pardon. I only half way understood the issue. Isn't AMD moving towards EFI VBIOS to deal with random "non sanctioned" edits? Or was that Nvidia.

#4937621

theoneofgod

2014-10-15 03:36

First a random complaint: WHY ? WHY I bought a AMD card again ? I'm so stupid. I'm getting random reboots out of nowhere with those Drivers... I'm playing and then the PC simply reboots itself, anyone having the same issue ? I tried to revert back to 14.9 but I simply cant, I uninstalled like 5 times using the DDU and when I install the 14.9 it wont work.

Do you have Lucid MVP installed? That thing causes so many problems it's not funny. I used to have crossfire issues but not anymore.

#4937882

DrunkenDonkey

2014-10-15 12:42

Random reboots are most likely hardware related, eyeing on the psu first. Try using some cpu burn test to ensure the cpu is stable, and check the power connectors to the videocard and if the psu is modular - to the psu too. My recent crashes were caused by one of the connectors to the psu not fully plugged in, as a result it half melted and the videocard was not getting enough power

#4938090

DrunkenDonkey

2014-10-15 16:58

With my case of crashing due to psu the first thing I did was changing the driver with some older one, 13.12 I think and the crashes next to disappeared, still there, but needed much more time to crash, so I blamed driver first too. Had 7950 lying around and tried with it too - not a single crash, so turned to blame the video. The end result - with not enough power, the much more hungry 290 was reaching the "soft spot" and crashing, 7950 was rock stable on all drivers and the latest drivers had better usage on the card, triggering the crashes, while the older managed to keep it just under the soft spot. Changing the psu connector solved it once and for all, still using the same psu, just moved to another connector.

#4938531

bigcid1

2014-10-16 01:50

First a random complaint: WHY ? WHY I bought a AMD card again ? I'm so stupid. I'm getting random reboots out of nowhere with those Drivers... I'm playing and then the PC simply reboots itself, anyone having the same issue ? I tried to revert back to 14.9 but I simply cant, I uninstalled like 5 times using the DDU and when I install the 14.9 it wont work.

first off,that power supply isn't big enough ,you need about a 1000-1200watt to handle the current from those 290x's

#4938670

DrunkenDonkey

2014-10-16 08:35

Run same test, but burn the cpu at the same time too, that i7 can be sucking some power and the artificial tests don't do much with it, while games do, but I too don't think it is the psu when furmark is doing okay. Also the usual stuff - memory, had a faulty memory module some 7 months ago, it was actually passing a single memtest86 run (and the windows 8 memory diag), but when I left it for whole day I have seen the errors, had exactly gaming crashes before changing the module.

#4938912

DrunkenDonkey

2014-10-16 15:39

I don't recall really did I have better experience with different drivers when I had bad memory. But the bad memory is almost never really "bad" in terms of smoking, it is a single bit in a single byte having wrong value when performing very specific operation. More than an year ago a colleague was stunned - downloading ISO image from a dvd resulted in bad file. He examined and found that 1 bit was different, and that happened only with this operation and was 100% reproducible every time. Ran memtest and it showed nothing, then changed memory and no issues after. Just let it go when you are not home for several hours, won't hurt and you'll have confidence in the memory after that at least 🙂

#4938917

lukas_1987_dion

2014-10-16 15:44

I have no crashes/locks, but just strange hangs in some games (Saints Row 3 & 4, Skyrim). I will probably back to 14.4..

#4938938

theoneofgod

2014-10-16 16:25

A tip here. With Windows, AutoIT scripting software. If you make a basic script and let it run (and showing in the tray always) it prevents the GPU from going into idle mode. I do this to prevent the monitor issue. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/ Just use this snippet of code and make sure you have the trayicon visible (blue circle with A in it)

While 1 Sleep(100) WEnd

You can also compile this as an .exe and have it run at system startup.

#4939153

Memorian

2014-10-16 21:29

Slowdowns in Ryse with these.

#4940649

darktranq

2014-10-19 03:01

I've had all my "Driver has stopped responding" error messages since upgrading to 14.9.1, and I'm only using 2D/desktop apps such as Firefox. But when I'm in game, it runs great and smooth as silk. Ugh. Frustrating.

#4940872

theoneofgod

2014-10-19 16:49

Well im back on 13.12 (again) these still have the idle and load heat increase issue for me,that's a +5-8 degrees with the same fan profile/clocks/voltage setting as running under 13.12 for ZERO increase performance 😛uke2: Its been months since this issue was reported to AMD and it seems that they aren't going to fix it,i can only think its a side effect of them trying to alleviate the grey/black screens 2d login/idle problem and that they think its a worth while trade off..........

You know, If I was part of AMD's driver team and a read this. I'd ask myself "what the hell am I doing"

#4941581

sapo_joe

2014-10-20 22:31

My PC is having serious problems with these drivers and the 14.9's... After playing any videos (with or without Hardware Accell), my system starts showing thin colored horizontal lines all over the screen, and if I don't reboot it soon, it ends with a BSOD. I even changed back my BIOS, with no success... I was scared I would have to RMA my VGA... Gladly, I'm back using 14.8, with no such problems, which is a relief. 🤓 Anyone else having these issues?

#4941585

The Mac

2014-10-20 22:37

did you update flash recently?

#4941601

sapo_joe

2014-10-20 23:11

did you update flash recently?

Yes, I believe so... But the problem also occurs when I play videos with Media Player Classic.

#4941624

sapo_joe

2014-10-21 00:25

Only two reasons to buy a Nvidia card over AMD atm is the new 970/980 series is pure pwnage, and Nvidia Inspector vs the dead development of RadeonPro. Both companies have driver issues and neither has been much better than the other in my experience (I go back and forth every generation of cards). Hopefully AMD steps up to the plate with something soon to mitigate the disaster that is the 9 series. Competition is a good thing for gamers.

Disaster? How so? I can play any new game maxed out, even in stereoscopic 3D... And my card cost less than a Geforce GTX 760! C'mon...

#4941669

sapo_joe

2014-10-21 02:34

Yeah, all my BSODs have been on the desktop or in flash applications (Youtube/Twitch). One happened when I opened the Battle.net launcher but I don't remember which one it was. I got another one last night btw: http://i.imgur.com/R1GQYZH.png This is really sad.

I'll say, avoid the 14.9 series of drivers until they fix this... 14.8's are running just fine here! 🙂

#4942520

theoneofgod

2014-10-22 13:53

Yes, the WHQL one's will be well accepted!!

What's the difference?

#4942568

theoneofgod

2014-10-22 15:42

Prolly not to much, but WHQL stamped!

That's the only difference.

#4942597

theoneofgod

2014-10-22 16:34

Wont know until they release it and read the release notes for changes.

But there is absolutely no difference between beta and WHQL in general. Of course a different in version but not just because it's signed.