Experiences with AMD Drivers?

[don_svetlio]

I've had really shit experiences with AMD's drivers. No idea why, but I think AMD hates me.

Feel free to share - don't forget to mention which GPU and time (2009-2010 were dark days for AMD's drivers and Nvidia's cookers, er, I mean GPUs)

[don_svetlio]

Going all the way back to my 5850's to my 7970's I had. Thier drivers were very slow and the interface was/is shit. Games had problems, problems, after problems. Windows had problems, after problems. I kept my 7970's for two years, but after fighting with AMD's drivers I threw my hands up and called uncle. Switched to nVidia and never looking back.

5850 was exactly 2009 - 7970 I find a bit odd since those were 2012 GPUs and by then things were stable mostly. Likely CF issues?

[dalekphalm]

Going all the way back to my 5850's to my 7970's I had. Thier drivers were very slow and the interface was/is shit. Games had problems, problems, after problems. Windows had problems, after problems. I kept my 7970's for two years, but after fighting with AMD's drivers I threw my hands up and called uncle. Switched to nVidia and never looking back.

Very strange, my 7950 has been the best GPU I've ever owned. I had way more issues with my old GTX 7900 GS.

 

I even mined the crap out of it, and it still kept going strong, before and after I stopped mining as well.

[don_svetlio]

CF issues, multi-monitor support was absolute shit. I had two 6950's before and they worked really god damn well. But when the 7970 was introduced, that card performed better than both of my 6950's combined so I bought two lol. AMD hates me, so I had to leave the red team and return to the green team.

Luck of the draw I guess.

[don_svetlio]

Maybe, I think AMD really hates me though.

Eh, I blame my fucked up 280 on Asus' cheap VRMs

[don_svetlio]

If I wasn't gaming at 4K and some how could be assured 100% that AMD's drivers are fixed then I would have bought a R9 Fury X and Crossfire them. I must admit that when Crossfire worked well with my 7970's, games were pretty beast at the time.

Well, Fury X is the newest shiny and they are trying awfully hard to make it always work. Maybe it was say 95% guaranteed

[don_svetlio]

Yeah well if it wasn't equipped with 4GB of VRAM I would have seriously considered it over my 980 Ti I have. Honestly though when I looked online and saw the 980 Ti destroying the Fury X in almost every game, I quickly threw that card out the window.

Oddly enough that's only at 1080p - at 1440p they trade blows and at 4K the Fury X pulls ahead

[Jesse221]

I haven't had any issues with drivers excepte with win 10 I have been having something happen twice now when removing drivers and rebooting to update to newer driver I will get a corrupted screen and have to use mobo gfx to uninstall the AMD in device manager and screw with a bunch of crap to get it back to a baseline bag adapter and then install the new drivers. I am not sure why win 10 is doing that and it is annoying but I don't fully blame and for it.

[xAcid9]

I haven't had any issues with drivers excepte with win 10 I have been having something happen twice now when removing drivers and rebooting to update to newer driver I will get a corrupted screen and have to use mobo gfx to uninstall the AMD in device manager and screw with a bunch of crap to get it back to a baseline bag adapter and then install the new drivers. I am not sure why win 10 is doing that and it is annoying but I don't fully blame and for it.

Did you use DDU to remove your driver? Best to do that everytime you want to upgrade or install newer/older driver.

[Jesse221]

Did you use DDU to remove your driver? Best to do that everytime you want to upgrade or install newer/older driver.[/quote

That's what I did this last time to clear it all out but I have never had to do that with win7/8 only 10 seems to screw up on driver uninstall