Catalyst 14.12 WHQL Omega Windows®

The Mac said:
well, there are 2 more options.

1. roll back drivers to ones you know worked.

2. roll back bios update to one you know worked.
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4th card was never detected even with previous bios and driver sets, even when I had the 4GB versions installed, but I had made the mistake of installing the water blocks on all 4 cards, and had assumed one of them is defective.

This time I left the stock coolers on these 8GB cards, to at least see the XFX logo and the fans on the stock cooler spin up or down, and they do on all 4 cards....

So it really might be that Asus never bothered to test a configuration using 4 R290's on this particular board, and only bothered with up to 3 cards with all their Bios releases.
 
I bought the cards because of the extra memory onboard primarily, so if after all this trouble shooting it leads to a new bios release that allows 4 card setups to operate, even better so i'm not too pissed off about it...


It's just that because there is 4 full length X16 slots, we can't assume a particular GPU configuration has been tested in a given board that's all, and this might be one of those cases, but it is fixable with a bios release so I might have to wait a while for full 4 way mayhem to happen...:p
 
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I have suspected it was a bad card, but I bought five of these 290x's and 2 were bad, so I figured whats the odds of 3 out of 5 being bad. If it is hardware issue I will just live with it until the next cards come along, and try and get a $100 out of each of these cards, and get a single card solution I guess.

The issue I have is if it is hardware related (bad card) it is so intermittent that i would have a hard time returning it, they would just send it back and say your cards fine. Just not worth the hassle, when the damn things should work fine and fricking for sure 3 out of 5 shouldn't have been bad.

In the mean time I will try and bump up the voltage on my processor, it is just such a weird problem. totally fine in some games that max my hardware to it's fullest extent, yet will crash like that in lesser games.

I was hoping it was a driver issue, since it was only happening in dx9 games (up until sniper 3, which weirdly runs fine in mantle and uses more memory and draws more gpu usage...).
 
And it's still the same in my case...Only 3 cards detected and all updates are done on a fresh install of windows with only the latest Omega's installed, so it's definitely a Bios issue...:bleh:
 
would be nice to know something official. a quarter of a year without a driver and with all that's going on with games and bugs is truly unacceptable, imo.
 
shadow001 said:
And it's still the same in my case...Only 3 cards detected and all updates are done on a fresh install of windows with only the latest Omega's installed, so it's definitely a Bios issue...:bleh:
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rats

i smell poor quality control somewhere.

is is under warantee?
 
The Mac said:
rats

i smell poor quality control somewhere.

is is under warantee?
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It isn't that....I did another test where I pulled the card on the very first PCI-e slot, which is where the displays were hooked up to and I was monitoring the windows reinstall, and connected those displays to the second card just below it, and I still have 3 cards in windows and triple crossfire enabled.


It isn't the motherboard or a defect in any of the 4 video cards...The bios just won't report the existence of a 4th card to windows no matter what I do....I'm keeping touch with the support rep and sent him a message about it.


It's easy for them to test it on their end, since Asus also makes R290X cards, so put 4 of those cards on one of these boards on their end and they can see for themselves.
 
Just wanted to say that I am sorry AMD I missed your birthday...These drivers were baked 3 Months and 1 DAY ago. Happy Quarter of the year without crossfire support everybody! We can all celebrate today by not playing games!
 
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can you guys please open another thread?
you've been having a one on one discussion which is totally OT, for the past three pages.
Obviously can't force you. I am only asking this respectfully and out of pure kindness. would be much appreciated.

t0adp1p3 said:
Just wanted to say that I am sorry AMD I missed your birthday...These drivers were baked 3 Months and 1 DAY ago. Happy Quarter of the year without crossfire support everybody! We can all celebrate today by not playing games!
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I'm totally out of my mind for this, it really really sucks, and the worst is there is nobody to whom this can be brought to attention, i.e. AMD do exactly as they please.
 
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shadow001 said:
It isn't that....I did another test where I pulled the card on the very first PCI-e slot, which is where the displays were hooked up to and I was monitoring the windows reinstall, and connected those displays to the second card just below it, and I still have 3 cards in windows and triple crossfire enabled.


It isn't the motherboard or a defect in any of the 4 video cards...The bios just won't report the existence of a 4th card to windows no matter what I do....I'm keeping touch with the support rep and sent him a message about it.


It's easy for them to test it on their end, since Asus also makes R290X cards, so put 4 of those cards on one of these boards on their end and they can see for themselves.
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bummer. i was hoping it was windows.

pretty much a hardware (bios) issue as this point.
 
So it's been a while since the last driver update. I saw on TRS forums (evolve) that there should be a new set this week or early march? Any verification on this fact?
 
Crossfire is clearly an afterthought. Driver updates are, at least in my experience, rarely required to make a game outright work. Sometimes to fix performance issues, but very rarely to make a game simply work right or run well enough to play

They're crucial for crossfire operation though.

Maybe I'll be able to run crossfire in a couple weeks on attila, probably not though with how things went over with rome2. Likely no profile for this next driverset and maybe not even the one after that.

Meanwhile nvidia got theirs out and working for launch.
Each company has it's ups and downs though, I am sure surround is still woefully ****ed on the green teams side whereas eyefinity works great.

Why can't either of them just get it all right? It seems like they do well on a subject and then forget about it years later.
 
yeah, Eyefinity works a charm for me, too bad I need Crosssfire for the resolution I'm running at :bleh:
 
_TiTaNiuM said:
I wish there was a way for them to deliver crossfire profiles without major driver releases. I think I remember....
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Cap's were never able to do cfx for games that needed a major driver.

Games in general lately have had piss poor mgpu support, whether it be sli or cfx. Ubicrap stuff still has significant issues with both camps, sli still hasn't been fixed for dragon age

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/146579-Attila-sli-and-crossfire

doesn't look like sli is doing much _tit
 
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t0adp1p3 said:
The issue I have is if it is hardware related (bad card) it is so intermittent that i would have a hard time returning it, they would just send it back and say your cards fine. Just not worth the hassle, when the damn things should work fine and fricking for sure 3 out of 5 shouldn't have been bad.
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If it's really a defective card, the issue could be hidden due to your crossfire setup. For months I ran a crossfire 7950 setup with few random issues popping up (mostly on desktop apps), which turned out be largely caused by the second crossfired card. On its own that card, couldn't even put anything other than mouse pointer on a black screen at higher resolutions. Sapphire came through and sent me a replacement which has worked fine.

Perhaps running one of your crossfired cards alone will show a more deterministic fault pattern.

I agree with a need for separate thread :)
 
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