Drivers & Software

[luigi2k]

Video card is XFX Radeon R7 265. Windows 10.  ASUS M5A99X PRO R2.0.  16 GB DDR3.  Samsung 1T 850 PRO.

These crimson drivers are terrible — 16.*
I never had these problems before crimson was installed.

Crashes in low temps, low CPU load, low drive activity, in 2D, in any browser playing videos, in 3D in COH2.
I am stuck on 16.5.1.  Selecting 16.3.2 to roll back does not work.  I need to clean install.  This is just so sad.

Please advise.

[amdmatt]

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[luigi2k]

I think that I updated 16.3.2 to 16.4.1 and started getting crash-restore cycles. Next I updated to 16.5.1.  Crash-restore cycles remained.  Adding the TdrDelay variable set to 8 seconds in the registry was no help.  I do not believe the crash-recovery period got any longer (about 2s).  So I uninstalled 16.5.1 and in the process my USB drivers got corrupted.  Try operating Windows 10 without a mouse.  In the past accelerator keys made it easy to be a keyboard jockey.  But now in the time of web pages trying to operate a pulldown combo control without a mouse is impossible.  Reinstalling the USB drivers seemed to go ok but no devices could be recognized.  An attempt to reinstall 16.3.2 did not work.

On Sunday I decided to use a restore point that I had manually created about two weeks before.  The restore worked but reported an unspecified error.  The video driver was back to 16.3.2 and the USB 2 ports worked.  I had to plug a USB 3 drive into a USB 2 port first to be mounted.  Then I could mount the drive through any of the four USB 3 ports.  I ran the system file check.  It finished with no errors.

Since then there has not been another crash-restore on this machine.  And to be sure I created another restore point.  This was the first time a video driver update boned me.  I will be more carefull from now on.  I noticed 16.4.1 is no longer available.  Good.

[amdmatt]

Thanks for the feedback, glad you got things back in order.