AMD R 290 w/Display Driver ver. 14.501.1003/Win8.1

skeeter123 wrote on 12/28/2014, 11:48 AM

Anyone with a Win 8.1/AMD R9 290 system tried the Catalyst Omega (14.12) package containing the 14.501.1003 display driver?

Results? Stability with Vegas Pro 13 Build 428?

My forum search results revealed that I should turn off GPU support before updating the drivers. Sound reasonable?

Thanks!

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NormanPCN wrote on 12/28/2014, 12:24 PM

I have the 14.12 Omega driver installed but I am on Windows 7 and I have a 7950 GPU.

No problems with the driver and Vegas.

I don't understand the turn GPU support off comment. Vegas is not running when you update the driver.

You should uninstall the existing driver before installing the new one. I use the AMD driver cleanup utility to do the uninstall.

skeeter123 wrote on 12/28/2014, 3:31 PM

Thanks, Norman....I'll make an image of the current install and go for it...

The "Turn off GPU support" was from this thread:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=914357

May or may not be applicable...

Cheers!

BruceUSA wrote on 12/28/2014, 3:37 PM

I am still using 14.6 and I never, I means never have any issue with V11/12/13. Never have a editing crash or rendering crash. Everything is rock solid for me and I don't find the need to update driver. My FX are BCC8, Newblu FX and titler Pro/NeatVideo. Everything is working like a dream. AMD 2X R9 290X OCed here.

skeeter123 wrote on 12/28/2014, 7:13 PM

Yeah. VP13 was rock solid. There was another issue related to the AMD driver causing a bizarre issue....thought I'd update the AMD driver and see if it fixed the issue..it seemed like a good idea at the time. lol.

Remembered that I had NVidia drivers still on board from before the R9 290 upgrade. Thought to myself: "Self, now would be a good time to get rid of those drivers...mebbe they are actually causing the video driver issue." What could possibly go wrong?" Oh, my....what a mess ensued...

Uninstalled all things Nvidia...PhysX, Audio, and video drivers. Rebooted like a good boy. Most of the boot completed, except the part where you can see the monitors after the little blue MSFT flag thingy. Nothing but black screen on both monitors (save for the arrow cursor)

Nothing but roadblocks trying to repair the Win 8.1 install (won't bore ya with the gore.)

Doing an image restore now...and crossing fingers that it takes...

Sorry. Off-topic. But jeez...lesson learned. Again. Ah, heck. Who am I kidding...

Will update if I ever get to the part where I actually update the AMD drivers...and it's impact (or lack thereof) on VP 13..

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set wrote on 12/28/2014, 8:29 PM

Just read the thread you pointed previously...

"JohnnyRoy (Date: 12/24/2014 9:23:52 PM)"

A bit weird solution, but I guess it's not a problem following the advice...
Right now I'm using 14.9, First and Fresh Install after total OS & System Renew...

New question:
How about other GPU-accelerated plug-ins, such like NewBlueFX, should I disabled them as well before update?