For a long time, AMD / ATI graphics card has always had a lot of fans, but even the A powder, have to admit that AMD's drive quality is often unsatisfactory, there will be some strange problems.
This is not, AMD drivers have been troubled recently, AMD released the latest version of the driver after 17.12, the user found a large number of DX9 games crash flash back like this is not AMD driver for the first time trouble, then AMD Drive also poke out what Louzi?
Today, I bring you to gossip about inventory AMD drive trouble caused it!
Cause a lot of DX9 game crash
Let's start with this recent driver incident: AMD recently released the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 17.12 driver, a special version of AMD's epinephrine that is highly anticipated by both the official and the player , Look at the name of the driver, which is a living 'chicken blood'.
And after testing, this driver does make some games have obviously improved, but at the same time the problem appeared - a large number of DX9 games in the driver under the collapse of the situation, simply can not play.
Players found that in the operation of some old games, there will be 'exception in exception handler' prompt box, the game can not run.
The basic problem is the use of DX9 classic games, such as "Red Alert 3", "Command and Conquer 3", "Wizard", etc. The previous driver is not the existence of these problems, apparently this is AMD's new drive pot .
In the face of these issues, some media sources have given some players feel chilling.Media once reported that these problems are caused due to the old API, AMD will not waste resources to fix the problem.However, AMD finally stands statement Will verify the detection Bug, repair the problem as soon as possible, I believe in the end there will be a good result.
Cause the system to appear various problems
Driving the game out of the question, in fact, or extenuating, after all, the number of games on the PC, the type of miscellaneous, even put a lot of manpower and resources, it is difficult to take into account one by one.But, lead to system problems, it seems true Is no effort.And the AMD driver caused the system problems are not less, here are a few examples.
The catalyst unloading tool caused the system to crash
If you uninstall a driver through the default uninstall panel, there may be a residue, so AMD is pleased to provide users with AMD-powered uninstall tool.
However, this uninstaller has been a problem, in the early 1.2.1.0 version, this program will cause the system to blue screen and so on, and even the system's security model can not enter.
These problems mainly appear in the Windows 8 system, many users use the catalyst AMD uninstall tools, have encountered the power plan is lost, can not enter the safe mode, personalized system menu disorders and other issues.
Of course, AMD said the tool for Windows 7, Windows 8 compatibility is a problem, but some Windows 7 users still have problems.
Driver installation error
This is a problem that comes up in Catalyst 14.4, which is also Microsoft WHQL certified and supposed to be performing well, but many users experience problems with drivers that can not be installed at all, but not all users encounter it Problem, after investigation, this is actually caused by the AHCI driver.
AMD driver package will usually be bundled with several components of the drive, such as bundled graphics drivers, motherboard drivers, etc., Catalyst 14.4, the graphics driver is actually no problem, but bundled, including the AHCI drive failure, resulting in All drivers in the driver package can not be installed.
Because not all users are using AMD's chipset, so this issue is only 3A platform users will encounter, beliefs enough does not seem all good.
However, since the cause was found, it was easier to work with. AMD then removed the AHCI driver from Catalyst 14.4 and subsequently provided a separate download of the repaired AHCI driver.
System frequently reported
This is a problem that appears in the Windows 10. Some users found that after upgrading to Windows 10 Build 9926, the system frequently reported error, there 'Code 43' error message.
This is caused by AMD's graphics card driver. At the same time as the error, the performance of the graphics card driver is not normal. Whether it is running a game or some software that depends on the graphics card, serious performance problems will occur.
However, in previous versions of Windows 10, AMD driver performance is normal, the failure caused by system update is AMD's responsibility at least other home graphics driver is no problem.This thing seems to be AMD and Microsoft common pan, Finally, AMD and Microsoft solve the problem together.
Cause the motherboard PCI-E slot overload
System crash led to the collapse of the system, it seems not a big deal, not to play games or rollback drive it wants.
However, the power of AMD-driven, engage in software errors can not only make such a trifle past, AMD drive brewed over the motherboard PCI-E slot overloaded power tragedy.
PCI-E interface, the power supply standard is 66W, but AMD's version of a driver will allow RX480 take power in the PCI-E up to 142W, which will even cause the PCI-E slot burned, there are foreign friends Unfortunately, move in. To address this issue , AMD released a new driver, the problem was finally fixed.
Leading to cooling fan is not working properly
Of course, AMD drive pit hardware is not always so pitifully mined.In the past, AMD driver also caused a cooling problem.
Soon after AMD released the new generation of Crimson, the user feedback drive will limit the fan speed to 20%, which will not release the heat in time.When the graphics card heat to a certain extent, the fan suddenly full load operation, the fan Will continue to switch between 20% and 100% speed two states, the situation is quite Kichiku.
This problem is actually very good solution, not all users will encounter this problem occurs because the new drive I do not know why the speed set to manual mode, the speed is 20%, the user can automatically adjust the speed of transfer back. However, AMD still released a patch, the new driver will no longer set an unreasonable speed.
to sum up
In addition to the above mentioned areas, there are other AMD driver egg pain, such as OpenGL issues frequently, a certain game splash screen, video card driver crash VPU reset in some cases, will be bundled with some game software promotion, etc., These believe are old A rice deep feeling.
However, we also have to see, AMD is also to continue to improve the quality of the drive Crimson crimson driver release, AMD drive efficiency greatly increased reputation even exceeded the NV drive. Hope that AMD can make persistent efforts for the user with Come to a more stable experience!
