R9 290 drivers issues after 17.7.1

minaelromany

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I have been struggling for a long time with AMD Crimson Drivers after 17.7.1 that worked fine but of course new games benefit from new drivers.

All drivers after 17.7.1 gave me issues especially with Eyefinity and the issues range from side monitors not going to sleep to full system lockup as soon as I enable Bezel Compensation after drivers install.

Currently I have 17.10.3 and they work well but it has the issue of side 2 monitors not sleeping (monitors' power light never goes to orange for sleep) and and I can't enable Bezel Compensation at all. The system locks up when I initiate BC setup.

I am running Windows 10 64bit on Rampage III Extreme X58 motherboard, 12GB RAM, Intel Xeon W3680 and 3 BenQ 24" monitors in 5760x1080 (6048x1080 with bezel compensation). I have used update drivers method on top of older driver AND a full clean driver installation but the issue still persists.

The funny thing is, I have 2 monitors connected with DVI and one with DP to DVI cable. If I used HDMI instead of one of the 2 DVI, BC does work well but this gives another issue... Namely, full frequency VRAM of 1400Mhz and it won't idle at all. And also side monitors won't sleep as well.

If it was not for newer games benefitting from new drivers, I would've settled for the old 17.7.1 but I have the right to have my system working with new drivers when AMD claims the new drivers should work with my card and not limited to new cards. I have also been a loyal AMD customer since ATI days from 1998 till this moment and this is the first time EVER I have to ask for help with such an issue that completely breaks functionality for me.

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
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I was okay with 17.7.1 but all new games I play NEED new drivers to work well.

This might be true if you had a Vega or an RX model. Even at that my RX580 doesn't see much if any help from newer drivers compared to the last WHQL set. That's not to say there aren't a couple games that get fixes for all GPUs but not many.
I'm saving gray hairs by sticking to the WHQLs for all 4 of my gpus. i.e. rx 580, r9 290x, hd 5870 and an APU.
 
This might be true if you had a Vega or an RX model. Even at that my RX580 doesn't see much if any help from newer drivers compared to the last WHQL set. That's not to say there aren't a couple games that get fixes for all GPUs but not many.
I'm saving gray hairs by sticking to the WHQLs for all 4 of my gpus. i.e. rx 580, r9 290x, hd 5870 and an APU.

There are 2 new games that I play and the new drivers show HUGE benefit with them.

Forza Motosport 7 has major lags in menus and cutscenes with the older drivers but runs without issue with the new ones.

Assassin's Creed Origins with the new drivers have better performance by 24% which makes it playable vs unplayable.
 
sorry no Eyefinity

I am running a 290x on my test bed now
on my 1900x threadripper build and 17.10.3 seems to work fine but then i'm not playing games on it much at 4k60 on my sony tv

other than a few tests games & benchmarks and loading all my software before moving it into my case

but have not had any problems with it ON the last months or so of AMD drivers
 
I have posted the same issue on AMD Forums and amdmatt helped passing my issue to the drivers team.

https://community.amd.com/message/2830380

With the new 17.11.1, Bezel Compensation was enabled without a crash or lockup!

However monitors would take longer to adjust with many graphical glitches for a few seconds till everything works.

The only issue left now is the 2 displays other than the preferred one don't go to full sleep. They would go black but with backlight working and green power LED while the preferred display monitor would normally go to full sleep with powered off panel and orange LED
 
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