Cat 14.4 WHQL drivers now out

[FPSNige]

I seem to be getting atikmdag.sys related crashes when playing HTML5 videos (youtube or shared on Facebook).

I just get a BSOD, memory dump indicates its atikmdag.sys

At first I thought it was random but after a while I realised it only happens when playing youtube vids.
Running Windows 8.1 64bit (fresh install about a week ago with 14.4 WHQL) I don't recall getting these crashes on Windows 7 64bit but I didn't use 14.4 on Win 7 for long.

This could be my issue! I've been having display 1 crash on playing videos in either flash OR HTML5. From multiple sources and even local content.

I'm on 8.1 x64 running 14.4's

I've only BSOD'd once to be fair. My audio remains, display 2 is fine but display 1 is a grey screen. Not static though, the artifacting is similiar to the old untuned picture of a TV, post digital.

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[Deimos]

This could be my issue! I've been having display 1 crash on playing videos in either flash OR HTML5. From multiple sources and even local content.

I'm on 8.1 x64 running 14.4's

I've only BSOD'd once to be fair. My audio remains, display 2 is fine but display 1 is a grey screen. Not static though, the artifacting is similiar to the old untuned picture of a TV, post digital.

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I'm not sure this is the same thing, I just get a BSOD (the Windows 8.1 version of it) which does a memory dump then reboots. The windows logs just show "power failure or crash" but no errors or warnings.

It only happens for me when HTML5 is used to play video, so only when watching vids on youtube or facebook, embedded youtube vids are fine (because they use flash) so the " Rage3d's 1st Favorite and funny vid post section (from YouTube only please)" thread in off topic works fine.

 

[WaltC]

Update

Update

Couldn't resist trying the 14.4WHQL's again, this time from a solid 13.12 installation.

1) Created a restore point with the 13.12's installed, crossed my fingers, then used the same amdcleanuputility.exe program (that hosed my original 14.4WHQL uninstall) to uninstall the 13.12WHQL's. Worked perfectly. Upon reboot after uninstall, system was normal (hallelujah!)--no dead/inaccessible USB.

2) Next, during the initial attempt to install the 14.4WHQL's the installer functioned to the point of the first blank screen indicating initialization of the 3d driver (which is supposed to initialize in that manner twice on install, and twice during uninstall)--but then the screen stayed black and did not recover. I waited until all drive activity had ceased and then did a hard reset of the system.

3)System came back up normally, but with a partial install of the 14.4WHQLs. I again began a second, normal install procedure of the 14.4WHQLs from the CIM, on top of the first unsuccessful attempt, and the second attempt initialized all 3d drivers normally and finished without errors, and upon reboot 14.4WHQL had been successfully installed.

Yesterday, I had time for a gaming session lasting a few hours and I noticed no anomalies, errors, or Alfred-Hitchcock-profile blue screens (what blue-screens in Win8 remind me of.)

I am not ready to try to uninstall the 14.4WHQLs at the moment... In fact, I will not uninstall them and revert back to my 13.12WHQL restore point unless I get another SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED(atikmdag.sys) error, or something similar.

These drivers are still shaky, imo--as I shouldn't have had to install the 14.4WHQLs *twice* to get a proper install (perhaps the amdcleanuputility.exe is a bit too aggressive?) So we shall see. I'll update this post with further info should it arise.

 

[CyanBlues]

I'm not sure this is the same thing, I just get a BSOD (the Windows 8.1 version of it) which does a memory dump then reboots. The windows logs just show "power failure or crash" but no errors or warnings.

It only happens for me when HTML5 is used to play video, so only when watching vids on youtube or facebook, embedded youtube vids are fine (because they use flash) so the " Rage3d's 1st Favorite and funny vid post section (from YouTube only please)" thread in off topic works fine.

I've notice i get bsod with flash videos too, ever since the 14's came out, weird really, prime etc and everything pass perfectly fine, so does all the video card benchmark.

 

[clerick]

I've notice i get bsod with flash videos too, ever since the 14's came out, weird really, prime etc and everything pass perfectly fine, so does all the video card benchmark.

Happens to me too. I just started to think my gpus were failing...

 

[t0adp1p3]

Waltc I had to install the 14.4's twice to get them to run mantle bf4 without crashing. In fact installing them multiple times fixes a lot of people's issues with the,
M.

 

[Deimos]

What exactly is atikmdag.sys? can we use an older version of that one file?

 

[Deimos]

What exactly is atikmdag.sys? can we use an older version of that one file?

Nope, tried the RC1 version and Windows basically said "no video driver is installed".

 

[WaltC]

Waltc I had to install the 14.4's twice to get them to run mantle bf4 without crashing. In fact installing them multiple times fixes a lot of people's issues with the,
M.

Thanks, toad! I Haven't had any more errors or blue-screens so far, and I've been gaming a good bit for the past few days, too. So maybe if I had known to install the 14.4WHQls twice in the beginning I would not have had the problems I did. I'm still not going to try an uninstall, though... Not ready for that experiment quite yet!

 

[the_mup]

I've been getting frequent blue screens with every driver version since 13.12. Today it finally corrupted the drive install, so now I'm about to see if I can get rid of the AMD cancer and install something that at least functions. Seriously AMD...GET YOUR **** TOGETHER.

 

[Dyre Straits]

I've been getting frequent blue screens with every driver version since 13.12. Today it finally corrupted the drive install, so now I'm about to see if I can get rid of the AMD cancer and install something that at least functions. Seriously AMD...GET YOUR **** TOGETHER.

What exactly is the BSOD error you're getting?

 

[the_mup]

Sometimes it was SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, other times it's not listed in blue screen viewer. Bluescreen view always lists atikmdag.sys as being the problem, however. I recently switched to 8.1...evidently there is a new blue screen of death that doesn't say much.

My blue screens weren't just from watching videos either, although that was a fairly common time for it to crash. I also had issues in games, I recall CoH specifically causing blue screens.

Anyways I'm back to 13.12 and it's been fine for almost a day now. All other version I was getting multiple bsod per day.

 

[DarkFoss]

Out of the 3 crashes I've experienced with this driver only 1 was unnamed.

051014-13953-01.dmp	5/10/2014 6:00:03 PM	 	0xa0000001	00000000`00000005	00000000`00000000	00000000`00000000	00000000`00000000	atikmdag.sys	atikmdag.sys+28ece	ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver	ATI Radeon Family	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	8.01.01.1390	x64	ntoskrnl.exe+153fa0	 	 	 	 	C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\051014-13953-01.dmp	8	15	9600	281,048	5/10/2014 6:01:01 PM
050414-14328-01.dmp	5/4/2014 8:54:25 AM	SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED	0x1000007e	ffffffff`c0000005	fffff800`9536cdbb	ffffd000`21f470a8	ffffd000`21f468b0	dxgmms1.sys	dxgmms1.sys+1e1f	DirectX Graphics MMS	Microsoft® Windows® Operating System	Microsoft Corporation	6.3.9600.17041 (winblue_gdr.140305-1710)	x64	 	 	 	 	 	C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\050414-14328-01.dmp	8	15	9600	280,992	5/4/2014 8:55:18 AM
042914-13984-01.dmp	4/29/2014 7:40:29 PM	SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED	0x1000007e	ffffffff`c0000005	fffff800`d097fdbb	ffffd001`dbfcb0a8	ffffd001`dbfca8b0	atikmdag.sys	atikmdag.sys+128f6f	ATI Radeon Kernel Mode Driver	ATI Radeon Family	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	8.01.01.1390	x64	atikmdag.sys+c7dbb	 	 	 	 	C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\042914-13984-01.dmp	8	15	9600	280,992	4/29/2014 7:41:21 PM

 

[Deimos]

I recently switched to 8.1...evidently there is a new blue screen of death that doesn't say much.

I find this to be one of the worst new things about Windows 8.1, I mean seriously M$, I have to install dev tools to find out why my PC is blue screening? WTF

Are you still running 5870 crossfire?

 

[chigger_ns]

I seem to be getting atikmdag.sys related crashes when playing HTML5 videos (youtube or shared on Facebook).

I just get a BSOD, memory dump indicates its atikmdag.sys

At first I thought it was random but after a while I realised it only happens when playing youtube vids.
Running Windows 8.1 64bit (fresh install about a week ago with 14.4 WHQL) I don't recall getting these crashes on Windows 7 64bit but I didn't use 14.4 on Win 7 for long.

I just got the same today with the 14.4 on win7 64

 

[_TiTaNiuM]

Has anyone been using these drivers with OBS and R290(x)s?

I am getting some texture error and hardlocking after random intervals of streaming to twitch. Sometimes it happens within 15 minutes, sometimes it happens after an hour.

Also, likely unrelated, youtube videos on the steam overlay cause a very similar looking lockup, sound continues, display gets all rainbow-y, eventually sound loops and gotta do a hard reset.

 

[the_mup]

I find this to be one of the worst new things about Windows 8.1, I mean seriously M$, I have to install dev tools to find out why my PC is blue screening? WTF

Are you still running 5870 crossfire?

No, I need to edit that...I have a 290x LCS.

Other than a few minor things like the bsod, windows 8 is awesome. The memory management alone makes it worth it.

 

[Dyre Straits]

For those having lockups/crashes during video playback:

Whether this still works or not, I have no idea because, so far [knock on wood] I don't have any of these problems.

But, previously, the "fix/workaround" was to Disable Hardware Acceleration.

 

[Deimos]

For those having lockups/crashes during video playback:

Whether this still works or not, I have no idea because, so far [knock on wood] I don't have any of these problems.

But, previously, the "fix/workaround" was to Disable Hardware Acceleration.

Ninja edit.

Found the option in Chrome, I'll report back if it works.

 

[_TiTaNiuM]

For those having lockups/crashes during video playback:

Whether this still works or not, I have no idea because, so far [knock on wood] I don't have any of these problems.

But, previously, the "fix/workaround" was to Disable Hardware Acceleration.

I don't have it happen in anything but the steam overlay