AMD Issues, eyefinity, games freezing

[JohnnyGrey]

Anyone else have experience swapping from Nvidia to AMD? I recently switched from an EVGA GTX 960 2gb to a Gigabyte RX 580 8gb, and while performance increased a ton, there are little things that are making me second guess my decision. Overwatch was freezing every time a notification faded in and faded out (Origin, telling me a friend started playing Apex). Hard resetting my PC causes Eyefinity to turn itself back on. Sometimes alt+tabbing into and out of a fullscreen game is nowhere near as smooth as it is on Nvidia. I feel like the drivers on team red are just terrible.

 

What sucks is Newegg has a no refund policy on this card, and I ordered it like two weeks before the 1660 ti came out. I probably should have waited and spent the additional $90.

[samcool55]

Did you delete the nvidia driver with DDU?

Also, how tf did you manage to get Eyefinity enabled again? Or like, enabled at all?

I've heard a lot of driver issues before, but that's a new one for me.

 

I would just DDU both AMD and Nvidia drivers and reinstall the AMD one from the AMD website.

[JohnnyGrey]

17 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Did you delete the nvidia driver with DDU?

Also, how tf did you manage to get Eyefinity enabled again? Or like, enabled at all?

I've heard a lot of driver issues before, but that's a new one for me.

 

I would just DDU both AMD and Nvidia drivers and reinstall the AMD one from the AMD website.

I actually reformatted and started from scratch, so there are no remnants of Nvidia on my system. Yeah it's odd. I can restart my computer normally just fine, but if I ever need to hard reset my PC, like I just did when my mouse just stopped working while in Overwatch, when I get back into the login screen, eyefinity is on. The login is in the center of the bezels of both monitors, etc. NO idea how it turns back on by itself.

 

I do have an overclock of 4.3ghz on my CPU, so i hope that's not causing issues. I was too impatient to stability test longer than maybe twenty minutes. Nothing has crashed so far, other than Apex Legends every single match before the patch from last Thursday.

 

Driver version is 19.2.3. I'm gonna try the optional update now.

 

EDIT: To clarify, I have two 1080p 60hz panels. I was testing out Eyefinity with Division 2 maybe a week or so ago, since the game supports offsetting the view to one side. Normal FPS titles would have the crosshair behind a bezel with only two monitors. So initially, I manually turned it on.

Edited March 28, 2019 by JohnnyGrey

[SenKa]

17 minutes ago, JohnnyGrey said:

I actually reformatted and started from scratch, so there are no remnants of Nvidia on my system. Yeah it's odd. I can restart my computer normally just fine, but if I ever need to hard reset my PC, like I just did when my mouse just stopped working while in Overwatch, when I get back into the login screen, eyefinity is on. The login is in the center of the bezels of both monitors, etc. NO idea how it turns back on by itself.

 

I do have an overclock of 4.3ghz on my CPU, so i hope that's not causing issues. I was too impatient to stability test longer than maybe twenty minutes. Nothing has crashed so far, other than Apex Legends every single match before the patch from last Thursday.

 

Driver version is 19.2.3. I'm gonna try the optional update now.

 

EDIT: To clarify, I have two 1080p 60hz panels. I was testing out Eyefinity with Division 2 maybe a week or so ago, since the game supports offsetting the view to one side. Normal FPS titles would have the crosshair behind a bezel with only two monitors. So initially, I manually turned it on.

Are you by chance running Avast Antivirus?

[JohnnyGrey]

1 hour ago, SenpaiKaplan said:

Are you by chance running Avast Antivirus?

Nope! I just stick with Windows Defender, or whatever it "became" in Windows 10. Haven't used a third-party A/V in years.

 

So far nothing has happened since updating to the optional drivers, 19.3.3. I've played multiple rounds of Overwatch just fine. I'm about to fire up Apex or Division 2.

 

All things considered, I can't shake this feeling that Nvidia had a much more stable, polished platform.

 

If it's any consolation, I haven't owned an AMD card as my daily driver since the ATI Radeon 9600 XT, so it's been MANY YEARS. I'm loving the performance bump, but the little issues still suck.

[SenKa]

17 minutes ago, JohnnyGrey said:

Nope! I just stick with Windows Defender, or whatever it "became" in Windows 10. Haven't used a third-party A/V in years.

 

So far nothing has happened since updating to the optional drivers, 19.3.3. I've played multiple rounds of Overwatch just fine. I'm about to fire up Apex or Division 2.

 

All things considered, I can't shake this feeling that Nvidia had a much more stable, polished platform.

 

If it's any consolation, I haven't owned an AMD card as my daily driver since the ATI Radeon 9600 XT, so it's been MANY YEARS. I'm loving the performance bump, but the little issues still suck.

Ah, it was likely a driver issue then.

 

AMD certainly has it's issues, especially with launch day drivers. But, the performance per dollar is worth it, and the performance is pretty good too!

[JohnnyGrey]

On 3/28/2019 at 7:47 PM, SenpaiKaplan said:

Ah, it was likely a driver issue then.

 

AMD certainly has it's issues, especially with launch day drivers. But, the performance per dollar is worth it, and the performance is pretty good too!

Some bugs seem to have gone away but some things persist. I'm down to one monitor for a couple weeks, but it seems switching from an exclusive-fullscreen game to the desktop takes eons, and Overwatch still freezes everytime a notification fades in and out. For example, changing the volume via keyboard shows the Windows 10 volume slider overlay. That freezes Overwatch for two seconds, once when it fades in, and once when it disappears.

 

In all my years tinkering with computers, I have never experienced something as buggy as this. And this is an old card!