AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (14.200.1004.0 August 11)

Actually I had the Origin In Game on, so after disabling it my numbers are back to similar to the single card setup I had earlier.

98-200fps, which is +10fps on both ends.

 

You sir, have never lived lol

 

Overall, they're an Ok driver... a couple of FPS gained on watch dogs, AC4 and lichdom but they reintroduced the 'black screen after sleep' for me.

 

I am having BSODs when watching youtube flash videos. Not sure if it's driver cause but it started to happen after 14.7 RC3.

Error code is 0x00000124

 

that is VERY interesting. I got a 0x124 some weeks ago while using 14.4 i never found out where it came from. I came to the conclusion that it was due the fact that i tried 3 different GPU-OC Tools the day before because my System is/was rock solid without overclocking for over 2 years. So it might be some bug in the driver.
However keep in mind that 0x124 also could be CPU overclocking or bad ram.

 

Yeah I have OC'ed my CPU and tightened latencies of my RAM. I have always running iTurbo at background. But it happened two times in 30 min when watching youtube videos. I have now disabled HW Acceleration. Let see if BSODs come back again.

Edit. So far no BSODs

 

For funsies try installing MSI Afterburner and watch the fan speed on the 14.4s.

Then do the same thing with 14.7 RC3.

I am guessing that they might have adjusted the fan profile between versions.

I haven't seen any temp increase on my card, but I have been using a custom fan profile in MSI afterburner for years.

 

but you didn't have OC-Related Issues before? I just wonder.. if it is related to OC or this driver that's why im asking.

 

I use MSI Afterburner for overclocking and to set a custom fan profile. After switching to 14.4 I was able to lower my fan speeds throughout the curve and now my GPU is noticeably quieter while running cooler at the same time with the same GPU/memory clockspeeds.

With the 14.6/14.7 drivers I had to have my fanspeed curve ramp all the way up to 100% at about 80 degrees just to keep it below the throttling point (85 degrees on my particular card). Now I can set the fan speed to a maximum of 80% and it never goes above 80 degrees.

 

Which card do you have?

 

These drivers fixed my browser's corruptions...

Now I really have a solid and new driver!

Kudos to AMD!

 

Disable hardware acceleration.

 

Not really. Maybe in very rare cases I have experienced some BSODs but not this many while watching youtube videos. But I got already solution.

 

Gigabyte Windforce R9 290

 

from 14.6 an to 14.7 rc3 i got BSODs whit youtube an high temp
back on 13.12

 

Absolutly no problems for me these drivers are solid

 

Ok now I am a believer. This driver does increase your temps, my 290's are idling at 68º right now when they should be idling at around 50º with the same settings I always use.

Maybe it took a while for me to notice. I rolled back to 14.4 and everything is ok again.

 

my first gpu with two screens connected idle 58 c second one is 43 ulps disabled. I think you guys overreact to the idle temps.

 

Seems like everyone complaining about idle temp increase are from Brazil...
Meanwhile, I had a look at my idle temps the other day, was higher than normal then I realized I hadn't cleaned out the dust in months... (I'm so lazy =P)
After just quickly getting the mass amount of dust of JUST the fans (yeah, I had a look at the heat-sink and for some reason that seemed cleanish so didn't both with it but fans were caked in dust they could hardly move...), idle temps dropped from 36 to 29*C.

 

I updated the ccc from 14.4 to 14.7 rc3 and had no more black screens so far, and my iddle temps are the same on both drivers.