Since I am a lazy piece of crap I'll just paste what I wrote on the AMD support community board:
I know it's a known problem but I looked around and found no definitive fix for my problem. I recently upgraded from two crossfired HD 7850s (worked marvels I tell ye) to a RX 480 Nitro, and then things went t**s up. The display driver does not stop THAT frequently while gaming, but it's a sure thing that it will do so with any game I play (driver-stopping champion game is World of Tanks. The game runs smoothly at the first 2 minutes or less, but I can't complete a single match). The troubleshooting section regarding the TDR issue did not help. Uninstalled Crimson and the display driver using both the AMD Removal and DDU tools, reinstalled everything but to no avail. My last attempt was doing all that again and installing Crimson 16.7 since it was said (on different sources and threads I stumbled with around the internet) to be Crimson's best working version for the RX 480. Needless to say, the problem persisted... The last thing left to do is a complete reinstall of the OS, but I want to avoid doing so until there's no other choice (and my guts tell me it won't fix the problem. I have trustworthy guts).
Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 9370
GPU: Sapphire RX 480 Nitro 8gb
Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 8gb
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bits with SP 1
Current crimson version: 16.7.3 (also tried with 16.9.2, 16.11 and the latest 16.12)
Oh, I have also created a registry changing the TDR value, but it didn't help... It just keeps the display frozen for longer.
Is there a fix for this that I might have missed? Other version of the drivers that work better? Is it a problem with this specific model of the RX 480? After all these years using AMD, should I return this one and buy a GTX?
I know it's a known problem but I looked around and found no definitive fix for my problem. I recently upgraded from two crossfired HD 7850s (worked marvels I tell ye) to a RX 480 Nitro, and then things went t**s up. The display driver does not stop THAT frequently while gaming, but it's a sure thing that it will do so with any game I play (driver-stopping champion game is World of Tanks. The game runs smoothly at the first 2 minutes or less, but I can't complete a single match). The troubleshooting section regarding the TDR issue did not help. Uninstalled Crimson and the display driver using both the AMD Removal and DDU tools, reinstalled everything but to no avail. My last attempt was doing all that again and installing Crimson 16.7 since it was said (on different sources and threads I stumbled with around the internet) to be Crimson's best working version for the RX 480. Needless to say, the problem persisted... The last thing left to do is a complete reinstall of the OS, but I want to avoid doing so until there's no other choice (and my guts tell me it won't fix the problem. I have trustworthy guts).
Specs:
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 9370
GPU: Sapphire RX 480 Nitro 8gb
Memory: 2x Corsair Vengeance 8gb
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bits with SP 1
Current crimson version: 16.7.3 (also tried with 16.9.2, 16.11 and the latest 16.12)
Oh, I have also created a registry changing the TDR value, but it didn't help... It just keeps the display frozen for longer.
Is there a fix for this that I might have missed? Other version of the drivers that work better? Is it a problem with this specific model of the RX 480? After all these years using AMD, should I return this one and buy a GTX?
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