Driver update causing artifacting

[Arttekeov]

I updated my RX 580 driver from 19.5.2 to 19.9.2 and now I have really bad flashing artifacts on both of my monitors. I have no idea what is causing this to happen as it just starts to happen whenever I open a window of any kind or sometimes mouse movement will cause it to start.

[Nord]

Well, as with all software/driver related issues you have 3 options:

 

1.) Revert back to the last known good driver, so 19.5.2 in your case.

2.) Re-program the driver yourself to fix the issue.

3.) Simply re-install the driver (preferably with a full clean install) and see if it works properly now. If not fall back to 1.) or 2.)

 

[Arttekeov]

9 minutes ago, Nord said:

Well, as with all software/driver related issues you have 3 options:

 

1.) Revert back to the last known good driver, so 19.5.2 in your case.

2.) Re-program the driver yourself to fix the issue.

3.) Simply re-install the driver (preferably with a full clean install) and see if it works properly now. If not fall back to 1.) or 2.)

 

I have no idea how to re program a driver and re installing the driver through AMDs own clean install and with DDU didn't work.

 

I guess for now I will be reverting to a stable driver but I really hope I can use some of the later drivers because they have some good performance increases.

[Nord]

If you’d know how to reprogram a driver, you would not be here asking what to do  

 

As is, drivers are sometimes faulty for specific hardware, (no matter if GPU, CPU, Audio or w/e) especially those that give “huge performance boosts”. Just stick with the old one for one or two weeks and then try the new one again. By then it probably actually works properly.