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The intro logo video in Assassin's Creed 2 crashes, causing the Windows 10 PC to restart, if Enhanced Sync is enabled. This is on RX-470. Resolution and other graphic settings do not matter. Disabling Enhanced Sync globally or specifically for the game fixes the issue. Enhanced sync causes some...

HDR gaming is still very uncommon among PC gamers, and online searches about game specific HDR issues rarely show enough information. This thread can be useful for sharing some experiences running PC games in HDR mode, and any problems encountered along with possible workarounds. About Forza...

16.10.1 hotfix driver doesn't install correctly on R9 290 cards. Some of the files are not updated, which you only find out, on fresh driver installation (either using DDU, or uninstalling the driver first using AMD install manager) After a fresh install, display tab is not there. Vulkan...

I recently got the chance to run XFX RX 480 GTR Black 8GB and the Nitro RX 470 8GB in the same machine. I am keeping RX 470 and here are few observations. First of all the, the PC serves gaming HTPC duties and has a Sandy Bridge i5 2500k with 16GB RAM in a Silverstone GD04B case. Noise and...

Powercolor Nano is now available at $460 (after rebate) at Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131679&cm_re=radeon_nano-_-14-131-679-_-Product With the availability of DisplayPort to HDMI2.0 adapter having 4K @60Hz 4:4:4 support, this card can be great for a gaming...

[Edit Dec 1, 2015 - Custom resolution settings are working, but the pixel clock rates are still locked to 330MHz, and pixel clock patcher is still needed for these new Crimson drivers, if you want to set higher than 2560x1440@81 Hz refresh rates] While this was mentioned in the other thread...

Has anyone here tried putting PC to S3 sleep/wakeup cycle successfully with Catalyst 15.8 on R9 290/290x? For me, the PC sleeps fine, but on wake up, the display either flashes color patterns, or shows a black screen. Power cycling the PC brings it out of that state. I have tried every BIOS...

Take a look at Project Cars ridiculous performance on Radeons. R9-290X is only 10% faster in minimum frame rates compared to R9 270X, and only 20-30% faster on average fps) http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Project-CARS-PC-238576/Specials/Benchmark-Test-1158026/ We know that Gameworks is a library...

TigerDirect accepted my return request today, and have sent me UPS return label. I won't be charged any restocking fee. Their response email is also quite courteous and addresses the issue in a sensible way. I hope they are compensated by MSI (and NVidia) I still have one of 7950s from my...

The debate started about couple of weeks back, and at that time I dismissed it based on the unreliable sources, but a day or so ago, a CUDA tool came up which tests memory bandwidth (L2 cache as well) on the GPU at different chunks of VRAM. With the tool, it's clear that GTX 970 is hampered by...

When trying to get the current Visual Studio Express download (which has been free for years), I found that MS last month released the full version for free, and it's named Visual Studio Community 2013. You can use any extensions that previously wouldn't work for VSExpress. All development tools...

I have been running core i7 920 (D0 stepping) for almost four years now on an X58 platform. One of the last two BIOS updates several years ago from ASRock added support for intel Xeon CPU-IDs. So when I started hearing about these used Westmere based six-core X5650s available on eBay, it seemed...

Didn't see it mentioned here that Creative Labs finally released newer X-Fi drivers last month. Windows 8.1 is now properly supported. I had few issues before the update, mainly that sound could break and crackle in desktop mode suddenly and would get better after a while. Some settings in...

With 14.2 beta drivers, playing HD videos (1080i for instance) in Windows Media Center (mpeg2, 12-15mbps) can crash the driver especially if you seek the video frames forward and backwards quickly in large steps. Interestingly, the problem doesn't happen when crossfire is disabled. Going back...

I think it's time to have a thread for this particularly annoying issue until it's resolved. The problem was introduced in 13.8 beta driver, and has been there in all revisions of 13.10beta, 13.11beta as well as in 13.9 WHQL. Once crossfire is enabled, with ULPS on (default state), the second...