Cmdrmonkey
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So they go like 5 months without releasing a driver and when they finally do it kills cards. Fucking lol. AMD is a bad joke these days.
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So they go like 5 months without releasing a driver and when they finally do it kills cards. Fucking lol. AMD is a bad joke these days.
Smells like FUD. The GPU will halt the system if it overheats.
Reminds me of an incident years ago when FUD went around the forums about nVidia drivers somehow killing monitors.
My Sapphire 390X got fans locked "at 20%", which its not only locked is really stuck OFF unable to move, with or without crimson, I normally use afterburner for OSD and custom fan profile, afterburner can't make the fans turn ON, the profile seems to be working because If in the OSD the fan RPM move as like they were working, but the fact is the fans are completely turned off. used Trixx no way to make it work, reverted to catalyst 15.7 and guess what also doesn't work, fans just don't work anymore and it was after the Crimson driver installation.
I'm tired of all the BS and FUD about GPUs and alleged 'driver issues.'
Honestly, it sounds like more people fucking up on their own. Either not installing correctly, not uninstalling previous versions, or not adjusting the settings after install. AMD gets the blame, when people are most likely just being the idiots they always are.
If people aren't installing it correctly then maybe AMD should have spent 10 minutes writing an install guide for people with CCC installed already.
My Sapphire 390X got fans locked "at 20%", which its not only locked is really stuck OFF unable to move, with or without crimson, I normally use afterburner for OSD and custom fan profile, afterburner can't make the fans turn ON, the profile seems to be working because If in the OSD the fan RPM move as like they were working, but the fact is the fans are completely turned off. used Trixx no way to make it work, reverted to catalyst 15.7 and guess what also doesn't work, fans just don't work anymore and it was after the Crimson driver installation.
Installed it on my air cooled secondary PC with an R9 290. The fans are working fine and revving up under load.
I'm tired of all the BS and FUD about GPUs and alleged 'driver issues.' I don't know if it's just stupid teenagers comparing their dicks or competing marketing departments trying to sway potential customers, but it's really fucking stupid.
But if something goes wrong on a system that happens to have an AMD component, ALL fingers point at AMD, where if the same problem happens on an Nvidia system, people will thoroughly diagnose a unit and take a much more cohesive approach.
AMD DRIVERS ARE FUCKING GARBAGE. Get the fuck over it.
Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed, but i could say the same with nVidia's drivers/hardware when i gone to Windows 7 i used to get BSOD's on boot with nvxxx.dll drivers tried reinstalling from safe mode and still got them, thats on my nVidia 470GTX nVidia fixed it eventually, but then i gone to the R9 290 and it's been fine ever since except one issue... for me anyway... thus far. I have had lot of bad luck with nVidia cards i have had alot just die for no apparent reason the 8800GTX, 260GTX where you play a flash video and the computer would freeze and, the GTX 260 died while just browsing the internet, kinda pissed off really since the GTX260 was a year old and eVGA wouldn't honour the warranty since it was bought off of ebay even though it was factory sealed and never opened and registered on their website a week of having it. The 8800GTX died but the distrubuter gave a 9800GTX as a replcement which was slower.Its always something with you fucking people. It cant just be what it is, its either we are all Nvidia fanboys out bashing AMD for fun or we are idiots that broke our own shit and want to blame AMD or whatever dumb fucking bullshit you come up with to stay in denial.
AMD DRIVERS ARE FUCKING GARBAGE. Get the fuck over it. So sick of the god damned AMD fanboys blaming everyone BUT AMD when the shit hits the fan.
I know this forum hates calling out fanboys but enough is fucking enough... It really makes certain forums absolutely unbearable. This is an actual qyuote from one of these guys in the AMD subreddit talking about AMD drivers, you cant even make this shit up.
I really wish the mods here would stop punishing the ones calling out these forum ruining fanboys and start doing something about the fanboys themselves. They have literally ruined certain subforums and will threadcrap and flame all day long if you dare criticize. This happens in AMD, Nvidia, AMD processor and Intel threads but the AMD graphics threads are the absolute fucking WORST...
Well, I just removed and reinstalled the Crimson drivers on my work PC. (The panel selection on the right click menu was missing after I swapped video cards.) After that, the fan control was set to on instead of Auto and the settings would not save because cnet.exe would crash on shutdown. I have removed them for now until the fix is released but, I highly doubt the cards are burning up unless someone is disabling the overheat protection or overclocking.
Anecdotal:
I've been ati the vast majority of my life, aside from an S3 S2000 back when UT came out and an 8800gts (you'd be an idiot not to have one back in their heyday). Otherwise I went from 4870 to 6870 to Xfire 6870's and today I'm on a 770 4GB.
Ati drivers have been trash for a long time and have always felt "buggy" to me. Nvidia drivers aren't innocent of issues, and both sides suck ass when it comes to Crossfire/SLI support, but Nvidia just feels far more stable, and their updates are much more often. With ati, often it would be something that caused Blue Screens or hardlocks; with nvidia, crashed game or an error during driver installs, with error codes that actually point to something.
Further, the UI and settings possible with Nvidia are a leap ahead of AMD, with MSI/Riva/Other 3rd party tools pretty much required to get the same functionality that Nvidia has by default.
TLDR: I went from being skeptical of Nvidia, thinking they were just as bad as AMD; but my experience having switched has completely changed my opinion.
The update fixed all my issues so we are good to go. From what I understand, AMD also provided some additional games patches and fixes in the update so kudos to them.