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when did it start it? anyway to identify the difference with a working older driver? Have you spoke with Mark with xfx about it? Tell him hes got to fix this shit? Unless he wants you cross flashing different cards firmware till you find a possible fix?
started after i got it a couple weeks ago but pretty sure it was fine for a few days before i started playing with it(soft mod, new drivers). im going to try going back further, some people are saying the older driver version without relive integrated works better. no i havent contacted anyone, havent admitted defeat yet. also hadnt seen any of this about the 5700/xt issues prior to buying it...
you have to pm him as he doesnt come around unless he gets emails AFAIK
ill try that too...
well that is for sure possible.....certain games i use form time to time will CTD on load up unless i completely close out afterburner and rtss. certainly easy enough to test out
yeah ive had that a few times, not the game or amd's fault really.
from what i know about the dev for afterburner......Hes more or less a genus guy the works his ass off in russia. But if a driver change adds a bug that makes his app cause issues, He figures thats not on him and AMD can kiss his ass and stop adding MORE unpaid work to his life. lol Hes got a real attitude but ya cant blame him, and i certainly dont. lol
Is the firmware you flashed on yours not compatible with pendragons? Do those cards have dual bios in case of bad flashes?
i'm supposed to be able to flash my card to a XT thicc 2 bios and my card does have dual bios. i just havent gotten to that point yet. i just tried the soft mod again to try and increase low use state voltage and speeds and crashed bad enough that it wouldnt boot to normal mode. had to go to safe mode and ddu. think the soft mod messed things up. i am now running on 19.12.1 and ill see how that goes...
Clearly GPU stuff sold is unlike the CPU not 100% safe proof. It's also overclocked by the manufacturer. If you look at the professional grade cards they are used at lower speed and TDP.
Radeon VII needs to be revised by the user. You need to take off the blower and flatten with care the contact on the GPU with very fine sandpaper to obtain flat mirror surface, then put substantial Artic Silver MX2 all over it, and then reseat the blower with a bit more pressure. You can find these on Youtube.
Doesn't really apply to me in any way as I said I use a water block. The issues did not occur until had to reinstall drivers on a fresh windows. Literally one day everything fine and dandy on old windows install with fairly up to date drivers, next day reinstall windows using the same drivers, card is completely unstable without additional power and at least a 100MHz downclock.
No bios switch, I just flashed and prayed. I used the 143 bios which is not public but on techpowerup unverified uploads.
I saw that on reddit yesterday and checked it out. My registry was already configured like that before I rolled it back to the beginning drivers. Thanks for the pointer though.
Are there different firmwares for your radeon7? Just wondering if certain bios are unaffected more than others? There all the same hardware anyways i would have thought
I'm using the bios that was issued after release that had the UEFI fix. Other than that I usually just updated drivers every so often. I have yet to have a black screen in 2 days so I'm thinking that installing the original drivers for the card and then upgrading through the versions has fixed my issues. Not really sure what was carried over from the old stuff that makes it work fine though.
its my theory the driver bugs only happen with certain bios roms (cause honestly some many cards are unaffected) something to think about if theirs a next time
Hence means Vega has probably no issues. and this is a problem only with navi. because that is what 100% of the responses say except for those minor complains about the clock speed which doesnt seem to be a problem for many
rolled back to 19.12.1 and did this ^^ and havent had any crashing in a couple days. hope i didnt just jinx it...
yeah sometimes but it happened with all gpu makers. this card is the first that has given me issues in ~10 years. dealing with this kind of thing should be expected every now and then.
shit happens and you have to roll with it. there is way too many different parts, configs and variability for everything to work perfect 100% of the time. you have to expect to have glitches every now and then and be able to deal with them without having an internet melt down.
thats not how it is in the real world though.
Buy what ever makes ya happy! the less you people buy the better price ill get on my next amd card (or at least it will be in stock) When big navi goes on sale well be lucky to find it in stock, as usual.
I would have traded out the card to another one and if that also worked like crap -> either buy another brand or did exactly what you did go to Nvidia. Would you done the same thing with a 2080Ti that after a week that space invaded you? Never buy a Nvidia product for how ever long? I agree, we buy the card, which supports the company that makes it, the workers at the store or online etc. and end up with something that does not work which makes it a waste of time for everyone. Frustrating and you might just been that unlucky chap who got a bad card. Frankly it is good to leave a big stink when this happens to keep companies on their toes but in the future evaluate what will best work with you by whom ever is my jest or recommendation.