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Have you had serious blue screen issues with AMD/ATI's drivers?

  • Yes, for quite a while.

    Votes: 9 24.3%

  • Yes, in the past.

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Yes, only recently.

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • No, haven't had an issue.

    Votes: 18 48.6%

  • No, I have an NVidia card.

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • No, I have integrated graphics.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    37
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sk1939

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To my great annoyance I've had three, THREE, blue screens in the past hour thanks to AMD's latest unstable driver release. One is unacceptable, three is ridiculous. Has anyone else had issues?
 
Information such as what exactly?

I had a 9800GT and a Quadro FX580. Neither of them had issues with their drivers. I hadn't had issues in the past with AMD, only over the last few years, but I've never found the Catalyst drivers to be stable compared to NVidia. The issues I've had are blue screens thanks to an AMD .sys file, "Graphics driver has stopped responding", the fact that Alt-Tab while in a full screen game causes my keyboard to type literally one key a second, and intermittent slowdowns in games.
 
Yeah this is rideculous 2 years the 6870 has been out and still no stable drivers for my next gpu purchase im gonna welcome nvidia with open ar ms
 
I have stated before many times and will again.
99% of the time all driver related issues are the fault of the interface between the chair and the keyboard.

Yes there are issues some of the time yet I question the ability of most people who blame the Graphics drivers to actually know that it is the drivers that are the problem.
A common scenario would go like this. "Oh I just installed a new GPU and the PC has blue screened a day later must be the GPU"

I would suggest that most of these people don't even know where the event viewer is never mind how to read it properly, much less know how to stop the BSOD from flashing up and disappearing before any meaning full info can be obtained.

My personal experience is as follows.
20 + years building computers, total faults related to GPU drivers, AMD/Nvidia/Omega and various combinations of third party applications such as ATI tray tools. = 1

Mactronix :)
 


Complete and utter bunk in this particular case. It's a driver error because it's the drivers that are the issue.


System

- Provider

[ Name] Display

- EventID 4101

[ Qualifiers] 0

Level 3

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2012-04-22T14:53:36.000000000Z

EventRecordID 543019

Channel System

Computer <Redacted>
Security


- EventData

amdkmdap

Followed by

System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
[ Guid] {331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}

EventID 41

Version 2

Level 1

Task 63

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x8000000000000002

and

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-WER-SystemErrorReporting
[ Guid] {ABCE23E7-DE45-4366-8631-84FA6C525952}
[ EventSourceName] BugCheck

- EventID 1001

[ Qualifiers] 16384

Version 0

Level 2

Task 0

Opcode 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2012-04-22T18:02:49.000000000Z

EventRecordID 543099

Correlation

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0

Channel System

Computer

Security


- EventData

param1 0x00000116 (0xfffffa800d587010, 0xfffff88004ac18c8, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000002)
param2 C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP
param3 042212-76128-01


 
That is complete crap.
Mactronix, i understand you try to think it is the "user", however i know enough to understand if i went wrong.
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Back up a bit there. I didn't say every one and I did say there are issues.
Little bit too defensive there I think.
I do know people, people who know one end of a transistor from another, who have had a few issues. I also know a never ending army of people who have many many issues where they are sure its X/Y or Z. Just because they decided it was.

I stand by my statement but will apologise if it caused offence, none was intended, or you will note directed.
However I do resent your assertion that my statement is total crap, its based on real world experience.
I specifically avoided using the word "User" so quite why you quoted it evades me ?

Mactronix :)

EDIT @ sk1939 this applies to you too.
 
I've actually had more issues with NVidia drivers than I have with AMD drivers. My old MacBook Pro's 320M has given me trouble after R295. It will BSOD during the WEI test and any time a hardware accelerated video decoder is used. R285 is fine and apparently some other people have the same issue. It's certainly not the norm but when cards are even, your experience and the experience of others is all you have to go on. I had a 5570 a couple years ago when I wasn't as big into gaming, but I kept my drivers up to date and never had an issue. At that point, the only issues I had were with NVidia drivers, so naturally I went back to AMD for my 7870 and haven't been disappointed.
 


I've tried every driver revision since I bought the card a year or so ago. I haven't kept track of whats "stable" and what's not, and I try to keep the drivers up to date.
 

recon-uk has been continually trolling and baiting and every time logic is rubbed in his face he claims troll. I cannot see how one recon-uk has lasted this long but then again the common denominator is Nivida trolls are common and respected here at Tom's Hardware and AMD/Radeon gets bashed on and trashed by the community, mods and writers much much much more than does Nvidia and Intel.
 


As a Radeon user, I have to disagree with that. I don't find issues of bias toward AMD or Nvidia. Some people claim the "Kepler sends Tahiti on vacation" title was biased but it wasn't. The benchmark scores showed an Nvidia advantage and the writer made a word play on the Tahiti (an island) name. Some people also say the "Is AMD sacrificing IQ for performance?" article is biased. If anything, it absolves AMD's of any accusations of doing the thing indicated in the title and the article's conclusion clearly illustrates this.
 
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