AMD RX 400 series (Polaris) MegaThread! FAQ & Resources

[Turb0Yoda]

lol, i fixed a pc for a friend and downloaded WOW for her since that's all she plays. that sucker was well over 70 GB with all the updates and packs and dlc and expansions and so on. my net is fast enough it did not take days but hers is so slow, it would have taken literally 3 days to finish!!

thought that was bad but 100+ GB for a game is just crazy.

A lot of big games these days... Star Citizen Alpha build is currently around 30gb... they are expecting 100gb+ for final game 😛

And I thought GTA V was big at ~65 Gigs

 

[manleysteele]

Anyone else choking on the i7 5820k. I have a 1080, but my CPU is an i5 3570k. I may have to forgo the HD texture pack unless that's some more bet hedging.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

I thought Fallout already had ENBs/Graphical mods..

*Don't own the game*

 

[Martell1977]

Anyone else choking on the i7 5820k. I have a 1080, but my CPU is an i5 3750k. I may have to forgo the HD texture pack unless that's some more bet hedging.

I would take that with a grain of salt. Look at the requirements for Forza Horizon 3:
http://systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/forza-horizon-3/13579

It's obviously harder on the CPU than GPU, though the graphics are awesome. My i7-950 handles the game perfectly on High settings @1080p. I don't know where they got the Core i7 3820 @ 3.6GHz but it's overkill as a minimum. Maybe they were trying to let people know that hyperthreading is a boost for the game as I see it using 8 threads all the time. Plus, when they say 12gb RAM, they aren't joking, it uses almost 10gb on average and I don't have the xpac, so have a feeling that might use a bit more.

 

[Sakkura]

I thought Fallout already had ENBs/Graphical mods..

*Don't own the game*

It does, Bethesda just wants to prove once again that they can do a pale imitation of modders work, with a greater impact on performance. 😀

 

[JordanMihailov]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

 

[lucas_7_94]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

1H 2017 if i'm not wrong.

 

[JordanMihailov]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

1H 2017 if i'm not wrong.

Wasn't it supposed to be released in the end of the last year, after that january and now 1h 🙁( Endless waiting...

 

[Robert Cook]

well I am working on the Vega megathread, but sometime 1st Half for certain.

 

[Math Geek]

always fun starting a thread with so little info to go on. the pascal one was all rumors and wishful thinking for a good month before anything solid was known. and then it was very little solid info only sparking more rumors and guesses

 

[Martell1977]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

1H 2017 if i'm not wrong.

Wasn't it supposed to be released in the end of the last year, after that january and now 1h 🙁( Endless waiting...

The rumor of AMD releasing at the end of last year was from how vague the chart AMD released about their releases. AMD had said multiple times last year that they were hoping for 1Q17, however, that was amended to 1H17.

There could be several reasons for this, but there is no indication as to the cause. It could be HBM2 shortage, design correction, production delays, or maybe just giving themselves time to get a good amount of stock to avoid the ridiculousness that occurred with the GTX 1080, 1070, 1060, RX 480 and 470.

 

[lucas_7_94]

So today, i think i did my huge mistake.

I was on 16.12.2, happy, i try to upgrade to 17.1.2.

So, i start DDU, clean uninstall, installed 17.1.2, but i cannot finish the installation. i get the "partially installed" error, so, again , DDU and try to install 16.12.2, but without luck.

Deleted almost everything from AMD on my side, DDU again, same steps, reinstalled 16.12.2, agains "partially installed". Opened MSI Afterburned and it tells i own installed 16.12.2, but AMD Relive is not installed. I open BF1 to test if i can run the game, and seems to be a yes (bad luck for me, because i really want to have relive for my videos).

I know, this is not the whole point of this thread, but, this is a thing on the RX cards and their drivers? Looking google, seems to be i'm not the only with this trouble and i don't want to reinstall windows.

 

[renz496]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

1H 2017 if i'm not wrong.

Wasn't it supposed to be released in the end of the last year, after that january and now 1h 🙁( Endless waiting...

AFAIK AMD never confirmed that. most of the talk are rumor only. but some people actually take this rumor as fact and keep repeating them over and over in forums making others thinking that it was true. this is pretty much what happen to fury x as well. some people expect amd to release HBM based card by the end of 2014 but fury x did not happen until june 2015. btw AMD already confirm that Vega is Q2 2017 in their latest earning report.

 

[renz496]

I can't read the whole thread because it's huuge ) Wan't ask: WHEN IS VEGA COMING ? I really want new video card and i am wandering between 1070, 1080 and the upcoming AMD card. I am waiting for this unveiling 6 months now )

1H 2017 if i'm not wrong.

Wasn't it supposed to be released in the end of the last year, after that january and now 1h 🙁( Endless waiting...

The rumor of AMD releasing at the end of last year was from how vague the chart AMD released about their releases. AMD had said multiple times last year that they were hoping for 1Q17, however, that was amended to 1H17.

There could be several reasons for this, but there is no indication as to the cause. It could be HBM2 shortage, design correction, production delays, or maybe just giving themselves time to get a good amount of stock to avoid the ridiculousness that occurred with the GTX 1080, 1070, 1060, RX 480 and 470.

personally i think AMD are waiting for HBM2 to be fully ready and cheaper to implement. but it seems HBM in general did not really go well? hynix has been updating their chart for HBM2.

https://videocardz.com/65649/sk-hynix-updates-memory-product-catalog-hbm2-available-in-q1-2017

So as you can see even Hynix plans can change quite often. The current plan is to release 1.6 GHz HBM2 stack with 4GB memory, and since we already know Vega has two stacks, this gives us 8GB and 409,6 GB/s bandwidth. That’s obviously lower than Fiji, in fact, it’s even lower than Pascal GP102 (480 GB/s), so it’s unclear if AMD is really going to use Hynix memory, or like NVIDIA use Samsung instead.

 

[-Fran-]

So today, i think i did my huge mistake.

I was on 16.12.2, happy, i try to upgrade to 17.1.2.

So, i start DDU, clean uninstall, installed 17.1.2, but i cannot finish the installation. i get the "partially installed" error, so, again , DDU and try to install 16.12.2, but without luck.

Deleted almost everything from AMD on my side, DDU again, same steps, reinstalled 16.12.2, agains "partially installed". Opened MSI Afterburned and it tells i own installed 16.12.2, but AMD Relive is not installed. I open BF1 to test if i can run the game, and seems to be a yes (bad luck for me, because i really want to have relive for my videos).

I know, this is not the whole point of this thread, but, this is a thing on the RX cards and their drivers? Looking google, seems to be i'm not the only with this trouble and i don't want to reinstall windows.

I had a similar problem going into 16.x but not going into 17.x with my RX480. What I did to solve it for the 16.x, was just use the installer to uninstall everything AMD without using DDU. Then install custom and just wait for it to install. Even if the installer doesn't tell you to restart, do it. That seemed to do the trick for me as well.

Cheers!

 

[Math Geek]

yesterday AMD announced Ryzen cpu's available early march with Vega following about a month behind. not seeing links to the actual announcement but seeing it on the various blogs and tech sites. no one likes to source stuff anymore. perhaps AMD will have the announcement on their pages somewhere.

 

[lucas_7_94]

So today, i think i did my huge mistake.

I was on 16.12.2, happy, i try to upgrade to 17.1.2.

So, i start DDU, clean uninstall, installed 17.1.2, but i cannot finish the installation. i get the "partially installed" error, so, again , DDU and try to install 16.12.2, but without luck.

Deleted almost everything from AMD on my side, DDU again, same steps, reinstalled 16.12.2, agains "partially installed". Opened MSI Afterburned and it tells i own installed 16.12.2, but AMD Relive is not installed. I open BF1 to test if i can run the game, and seems to be a yes (bad luck for me, because i really want to have relive for my videos).

I know, this is not the whole point of this thread, but, this is a thing on the RX cards and their drivers? Looking google, seems to be i'm not the only with this trouble and i don't want to reinstall windows.

I had a similar problem going into 16.x but not going into 17.x with my RX480. What I did to solve it for the 16.x, was just use the installer to uninstall everything AMD without using DDU. Then install custom and just wait for it to install. Even if the installer doesn't tell you to restart, do it. That seemed to do the trick for me as well.

Cheers!

No luck. I try "Clean uninstall" it say "Driver uninstalled correctly.". Restarted the machine and again, i try installing the same driver and the same trouble.

 

[RCFProd]

So today, i think i did my huge mistake.

I was on 16.12.2, happy, i try to upgrade to 17.1.2.

So, i start DDU, clean uninstall, installed 17.1.2, but i cannot finish the installation. i get the "partially installed" error, so, again , DDU and try to install 16.12.2, but without luck.

Deleted almost everything from AMD on my side, DDU again, same steps, reinstalled 16.12.2, agains "partially installed". Opened MSI Afterburned and it tells i own installed 16.12.2, but AMD Relive is not installed. I open BF1 to test if i can run the game, and seems to be a yes (bad luck for me, because i really want to have relive for my videos).

I know, this is not the whole point of this thread, but, this is a thing on the RX cards and their drivers? Looking google, seems to be i'm not the only with this trouble and i don't want to reinstall windows.

Tried removing drivers manually?
http://www.overclock.net/t/988215/how-to-remove-your-amd-gpu-drivers-new-2016

 

[littleleo]

So today, i think i did my huge mistake.

I was on 16.12.2, happy, i try to upgrade to 17.1.2.

So, i start DDU, clean uninstall, installed 17.1.2, but i cannot finish the installation. i get the "partially installed" error, so, again , DDU and try to install 16.12.2, but without luck.

Deleted almost everything from AMD on my side, DDU again, same steps, reinstalled 16.12.2, agains "partially installed". Opened MSI Afterburned and it tells i own installed 16.12.2, but AMD Relive is not installed. I open BF1 to test if i can run the game, and seems to be a yes (bad luck for me, because i really want to have relive for my videos).

I know, this is not the whole point of this thread, but, this is a thing on the RX cards and their drivers? Looking google, seems to be i'm not the only with this trouble and i don't want to reinstall windows.

I had a similar problem going into 16.x but not going into 17.x with my RX480. What I did to solve it for the 16.x, was just use the installer to uninstall everything AMD without using DDU. Then install custom and just wait for it to install. Even if the installer doesn't tell you to restart, do it. That seemed to do the trick for me as well.

Cheers!

No luck. I try "Clean uninstall" it say "Driver uninstalled correctly.". Restarted the machine and again, i try installing the same driver and the same trouble.

Perhaps boot up in safe mode and see it is showing more than one driver and delete them all that way.

 

[lucas_7_94]

No luck with removing drivers manually.

About boot in safe mode, no luck. In "Monitor Adapter" it says RX 480 only.

 

[lucas_7_94]

Ok, i solved it. And i will explain here what happened (the best i can).

So, i have a SSD 256GB from Samsung, short story: i'm out of space currently on the C:\ driver. So, i managed to follow a tutorial to do a symbolic link from Installer folder (C:\Windows\Installer) to point to my driver E which haves 1TB of space (E:\Windows\Installer). Once removed the symbolic link, followed the tutorial linked by @RCFProd. After doing that, i reboot the system, and used DDU to make complety sure i didn't have any AMD Drivers on my back.

Once i rebooted, i installed again 16.12.2. I know i'll be able to install 17** new drivers, but for the moment, i will wait the WHQL one (yes, i know WHQL doesn't mean nothing this days but who knows)

 

[RCFProd]

Nice 😉

 

[-Fran-]

Well, not having space in the Windows drive is always a bad thing... Not only for programs, but as a general rule. Try to get it at least 10GB of breathing room IMO.

And thanks for posting the solution; another one for the cache of solutions for the community, lol.

Cheers!

 

[littleleo]

I love a happy ending!

 

[lucas_7_94]

Thanks you for all the help! And yes, i'm planning uninstalling some programs and considering a clean windows install.