16.1 Hotfix out

[Hardwood]

On usual download page. Has fix for long waited for Elite supercruise bug, so no time to comment. Must play!

[V1per]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-arti...ase-Notes.aspx

Resolved Issues

• [82645] Fallout 4 – The compass flickers during gameplay on AMD Radeon™ R9 290 and AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2
• [84118]/[59475] Elite: Dangerous - Poor performance may be experienced in Supercruise mode under Windows® 10
• [82887] The driver installer appears to hang at various stages of the install process
• [84116] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – random frame freezes may be observed during gameplay
• [84112] Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC) setting do not apply consistently to all games. In order for FRTC to function properly, Vertical Refresh/VSync must be turned off
• [58978] DiRT Rally – A crash may occur when starting a new race with AMD Crossfire™ and AMD FreeSync™ enabled
• [83370] The AMD Gaming Evolved overlay may cause a black screen, or introduce game stutter
• [82497] Assassins Creed Syndicate - Using "Very High" graphics settings in 3x1 Eyefinity mode may cause displays to switch off
• [82093] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Some flickering may be experienced in shaded areas of the screen while game levels are loading
• [82788] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Frame freezing during gameplay may be experienced
• [82794] Just Cause 3 - The system may hang when task switching on systems with AMD CPUs and GPUs
• [82777] Just Cause 3 - Application profile setting added for laptops with Switchable Graphics
• [82779] Fallout 4 - Gameplay may be choppy in AMD FreeSync™ mode in Ultra mode at 1440p resolution
• [82895] Fallout 4 - Brightness flickering observed with AMD FreeSync™ enabled on certain displays
• [80254] cnext.exe intermittently crashes during Windows® shutdown
• [81809] A crash may be experienced if an HDMI™ display is a cloned display device on an HP Envy 15 notebook
• [82485] "Failed to create OpenGL context" error message may appear after installation
• [82842] "Cannot find RadeonSettings.exe" error message may appear during installation
• [83277] "AMD Install Manager has stopped working" error message may appear during installation
• [83484] "Cannot find cncmd.exe" error message may appear during installation
• [82902] Display may flicker on certain laptops after prolonged gameplay with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
• [81489] Unable to create 4x1 or 2x1 portrait mode SLS with 4K displays
• [82042] Video corruption may appear in Movies & TV app when is VSR enabled and scaling mode is set to "Full panel"
• [82492] Portrait Eyefinity mode may not be configured correctly using Radeon Additional Settings
• [82695] No display on certain laptops when toggling display mode or connecting an HDMI™ display
• [82900]/[81859] Flickering may be experienced on some monitors when AMD FreeSync™ is enabled
• [80064] Notifications reverting back to English on non-English systems after reboot
• [82490] Misaligned UI may be observed on the Bezel Compensation screen
• [81777] Launching a game from the Game Manager may launch on a single display after enabling and disabling AMD CrossFire™ in a 3x1 AMD Eyefinity™ setup
• [81856] Marginally increased power consumption may be observed during video playback

Known Issues

• [79428] StarCraft II: Flickering may be observed in the 'Episode 3' campaign
• [80836]/[59701] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - Flickering or poor performance may be experienced when running in AMD Crossfire™ mode
• [81736] Call of Duty Online - The game may crash if the Print Screen key is pressed on a 4K monitor
• [81448]/[77961] A system restart may be experience when waking the system from sleep mode on some systems with Intel processors
• [81651] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Texture corruption may be experienced if the game "Field of View" setting is > 100
• [82213] Star Wars™: Battlefront - Some users may experience minor flickering or corruption at different game location or while viewing the in-game cinematics
• [81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Building textures may be missing on some AMD Freesync™ displays with VSync enabled
• [82387] Assassin's Creed Syndicate - The game may crash if the Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay" is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
• [82789] Total War™: Rome II - Choppy gameplay may be experienced
• [84509] Gaming Evolved client does not initiate when launching Metro Last Light if AMD CrossFire™ is enabled
• [84434] Far Cry 4 – A crash may occur after performing (ALT + Enter) to switch between windowed/full screen modes with the AMD Gaming Evolved "Video Capture" feature turned on
• [82499] Talos Principle - A crash may occur while changing Gaming Evolved Video settings or pressing ALT + Enter when "In Game Overlay" is enabled
• [84591] Mad Max – Low FPS performance may be experienced in game when AMD FreeSync™ and AMD CrossFire™ are enabled
• [84428] Battlefield Hardline – A crash may occur when changing graphics settings from "Ultra" to "High" during gameplay
• [83839] Some games may experience brightness flickering with AMD FreeSync™ enabled
• [83833] Radeon Settings - AMD OverDrive™ clock gauge needles for the secondary GPU may be in wrong position when the system is idle and the secondary GPU is inactive
• [83832] Radeon Settings – AMD OverDrive™ Power setting changes on the secondary GPU are not immediately displayed. This is seen only on dual GPU graphics cards, such as the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 and Radeon R9 295x2
• [83287] Game stuttering may be experienced when running two AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics cards in AMD CrossFire™ mode
• [82892] Display corruption may occur on multiple display systems when it has been running idle for some time
• [83031] Star Wars™: Battlefront – Corrupted ground textures may be observed in the Survival of Hoth mission
• [82824] Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Flickering may be observed is task switching is used during gameplay
• [81915] Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Building textures are missing and game objects stutter if VSync is enabled in Quad AMD Crossfire configurations

[evil-doer]

So thats new.. Installing these makes my monitor turn off in the middle of installation, and it will not come back on no matter what I do. Well that is, until I hit the reset button on my computer. But after it boots back up it does seem to be running the new drivers.. but thats never happened before.

[nutcrackr]

84116 and 82788 are surely the same bug?

Good to see compass issue fixed in FO4. Hoping these are stable.

[The Mac]

yup, i can report compass bug fixed for 290...

GTAV hud as well...

[Talon_262]

I'm just glad that they seemed to have fixed the bugs with the installer showing jumbled text and taking forever to install.

[evil-doer]

Oh and the horizontal tearing when scrolling in firefox is back.

To elaborate, when scrolling any page in firefox with the mouse wheel, there is horizontal tearing, normally half way up, or towards the top of the window. And I had, and I guess still have, no idea if the problem is firefox itself, or the windows drivers. Apparently its a mixture of both?

When I updated to the 64 bit version of firefox recently it seemed to go away. But now updating my video driver its back? So who knows. But its really annoying.

[bittermann]

Originally Posted by evil-doer

Oh and the horizontal tearing when scrolling in firefox is back.

I haven't seen it and I use Firefox exclusively. Is there a certain situation or website this occurs on?

[SoCalMX70]

Installed. Everything running smooth here. Mainly playing Witcher 3 and Battlefront currently.

[Lurk]

that's a pretty hefty list of fixes
on to test these later tonight

[Dyre Straits]

Anyone with multi-monitors know if the settings are fixed? With the original Crimson, the only way to get a multiple displays active was to use the Windows Display Settings (at least for me it was) and then trying to find Eyefinity or other mutli-monitor settings in Crimson was MIA.

I'm still using Catalyst drivers for now.

[LordHawkwind]

Originally Posted by evil-doer

Oh and the horizontal tearing when scrolling in firefox is back.

To elaborate, when scrolling any page in firefox with the mouse wheel, there is horizontal tearing, normally half way up, or towards the top of the window. And I had, and I guess still have, no idea if the problem is firefox itself, or the windows drivers. Apparently its a mixture of both?

When I updated to the 64 bit version of firefox recently it seemed to go away. But now updating my video driver its back? So who knows. But its really annoying.

Spot on. I thought it was just me but there is definite tearing when scrolling. I use the 64 bit version and 15.12 drivers. It is very annoying, so much so I exported my favourites to Edge (what a pain that was) and am going to use that until firefox is fixed.

As well as tearing firefox will freeze for a moment before doing anything. Hopefully they sort it out soon.

[LordHawkwind]

Originally Posted by bittermann

I haven't seen it and I use Firefox exclusively. Is there a certain situation or website this occurs on?

It most definitely occurs on the Rage3d forums!!

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by LordHawkwind

Spot on. I thought it was just me but there is definite tearing when scrolling. I use the 64 bit version and 15.12 drivers. It is very annoying, so much so I exported my favourites to Edge (what a pain that was) and am going to use that until firefox is fixed.

As well as tearing firefox will freeze for a moment before doing anything. Hopefully they sort it out soon.

I've found that, whenever Firefox gets updated, it's necessary to get FlashPlayer updated as well.

[LordHawkwind]

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

I've found that, whenever Firefox gets updated, it's necessary to get FlashPlayer updated as well.

I presumed it updated itself but obviously not. Just updated flashplayer and see if it improves things.

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by LordHawkwind

I presumed it updated itself but obviously not. Just updated flashplayer and see if it improves things.

I have chosen to NOT let it auto update due to the fact that I don't want the optional McAfee app installed along with the update.

[Hardwood]

Originally Posted by LordHawkwind

It most definitely occurs on the Rage3d forums!!

Not seeing it here. I wonder if it's for 1440 monitors?

Thanks V1per for filling in the missing info. After several months of waiting for a real win10 driver to fix Elite: Dangerous I just had to try them... and it's working great.

So far my only complaint is eyefinity issues.
1) although easy to get going with the radeon software quick setup, I'd really like a hotkey combo to switch between eyefinity, single and extended modes.
1a) And just to rub it in, I have Elite set to start in eyefinity mode, which doesn't work, i.e. it stays in the current display mode instead of switching. The hotkey was really handy in these situations.
2) you can set the main screen to have the taskbar/system tray but it forgets that after a restart, until you run the "additional settings".

[WaltC]

Originally Posted by LordHawkwind

It most definitely occurs on the Rage3d forums!!

I'm running Firefox x64 DE and I get no tearing at all, gpu acceleration on. I haven't seen that issue in Firefox since I quit using the 32-bit version long ago. Highly recommend Ff x64 DE. Don't use anything else.

[Lurk]

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Anyone with multi-monitors know if the settings are fixed? With the original Crimson, the only way to get a multiple displays active was to use the Windows Display Settings (at least for me it was) and then trying to find Eyefinity or other mutli-monitor settings in Crimson was MIA.

I'm still using Catalyst drivers for now.

I never had trouble creating an Eyefinity setup with Crimson, but I can tell you that most video options that were present in CCC are still missing from Crimson and are somewhat available in Additional Settings (old CCC ).

I don't see anything changed in this respect with 16.1, so you are probably better off using old CCC.

To get Windows taskbar on the right monitor I still have to run Additional Settings every time at boot, which in return resets my monitor calibration, so it's always a painstaking: boot system, open CCC, wait for taskbar to switch to the right, close CCC, open Windows monitor calibration, go to advanced settings, reset current calibration, close, close. A pain the the goddamn butt, right?

On a side note, I can tell my cards are behaving differently in Crossfire as I don't hear fans spinning as much as before, so 16.1 must have done something at least in that regard.

[@md_Guy]

So what's the deal with the "Check Updates" option in Crimson ?
Currently have 15.30 installed and when click Check Update says no updates found, even when we know the 16.1s are out. Does it ONLY search for those drivers of same type (WHQL vs Beta ?).

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by Lurk

I never had trouble creating an Eyefinity setup with Crimson, but I can tell you that most video options that were present in CCC are still missing from Crimson and are somewhat available in Additional Settings (old CCC ).

I don't see anything changed in this respect with 16.1, so you are probably better off using old CCC.

To get Windows taskbar on the right monitor I still have to run Additional Settings every time at boot, which in return resets my monitor calibration, so it's always a painstaking: boot system, open CCC, wait for taskbar to switch to the right, close CCC, open Windows monitor calibration, go to advanced settings, reset current calibration, close, close. A pain the the goddamn butt, right?

On a side note, I can tell my cards are behaving differently in Crossfire as I don't hear fans spinning as much as before, so 16.1 must have done something at least in that regard.

Thanks!

And, yes, I'll be skipping Crimson for the foreseeable future, it looks like. (Is that a pun? Or what is it? )

[Lurk]

you are very welcome. 3900 post range member support

[Treeckcold57]

Just tried Crimson 16.1 Hotfix last night and it seemed okay for the games...but the one thing is I don't like how the GPU clock kept bouncing and it ranged from 600Mhz to 900Mhz....There was a little stuttering in Serious Sam 3: BFE. So I came back to 15.11 beta and now I got my clock back to 1020Mhz-1050Mhz and there is no stuttering at all except a little low FPS when in heavily combat. I had to reported it to driver feedback.

[Korrigan]

It fixes way more than just what's in those release notes.
It also fixed the very rare glitches I had in Witcher III with my 290x, notably near water. Now the game is just smooth at max settings and perfect, without those small, very rare but yet noticeable artifacts. Performance isn't changed, still excellent.

[Lurk]

nm, no wonder I wasn't hearing spinning fans; these drivers totally disable Crossfire in Eve Online. Game was running at half refresh rate as well

back to 15.12 and all is normal again. I hate reverting

[pax]

Meh was getting hard locks with the latest everything in games after 15 to 30 min gaming sessions, no error msgs other than akamai cant install 10-15 times a day at reboot... and had to revert to a previous build and probs are gone. Currently on 15.11's and everything fine so far...

Avoiding anymore updates for a while but anyone else see this? Hadnt had probs like this in a long time. Crashes to desktop sometimes at worst but not hard locks.