AMD r9 290 drivers on windows 10

Simmo1985 wrote on 11/12/2015, 11:14 PM
Hi all,

New user to Vegas Pro 13 Edit. I've got a R9 290 in my machine. The new 15.7.1 driver does not seem to be compatible with Vegas. Vegas crashes on start-up during the "GPU intialization" stage. I've installed 14.9 drivers and they are working fine. Just wondering if anyone has had any luck with any drivers newer than those? Especially on Windows 10.

Cheers.




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OldSmoke wrote on 11/13/2015, 11:50 AM
I am running 15.7 with Windows 10 and a ASUS Radeon R9 290. I don't have any issues with Vegas or any of the 3rd party plug ins. I am surprised you got 14.9 to work with Windows 10, it's actually not available from the AMD website under windows 10.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
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PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

Simmo1985 wrote on 11/13/2015, 6:13 PM
Yeah, I had to download 14.9 from the Guru3d website. I can't seem to find 15.7 online, only 15.7.1 and 15.10 / 15.11 beta drivers. None of the latter work for me. Pretty frustrating. I'm not sure what's causing the issue.

I even installed Windows 7 (as a dual boot OS), which would basically be equivalent to doing a "fresh install". The 15.7.1 drivers were still causing Vegas to crash on start-up.
Derm wrote on 11/14/2015, 3:30 AM
I'm on driver version 15.2 on windows 10 and Catalyst Control Centre tells me that this is the latest version. No issues here
John222 wrote on 11/14/2015, 5:05 AM
"I'm on driver version 15.2 on windows 10 and Catalyst Control Centre tells me that this is the latest version. No issues here"

Same here with Vegas Pro 11. Also I just installed the latest Windows update last night and everything still works fine including GPU rendering.
Simmo1985 wrote on 11/14/2015, 6:41 AM
Thanks guys. The problem seems to have something to do with my PC specifically. I tested the card in another machine also with Windows 10 and GPU rendering works fine with those drivers.

i have no idea what the issue is. I've updated BIOS to latest version. Tried multiple driver uninstall / reinstalls. Tried fresh Windows 7 install (dual boot) to no avail. I'm not sure what there's left to try... I'm at a loss.

It works fine with older drivers, so I guess I'll just have to keep running with them. Not ideal though.
Simmo1985 wrote on 11/15/2015, 5:16 AM
Well I eventually got to the bottom of it...

I've got two graphics cards in my PC. A 980ti and a r9 290. I use the 980ti for gaming, the r9 290 is the better performer when it comes to Sony Vegas though.

With the r9 290 - 14.9 drivers, the GPU is happy for me to not even have any of my monitors plugged into the AMD GPU. GPU acceleration works fine. I have my two monitors plugged into the 980ti.

With the 15+ drivers. GPU acceleration only works if I plug in at least one monitor into the AMD graphics card and have that monitor set as my "primary monitor". This is a real inconvenience, as my primary monitor is Gsync monitor (which only works with NVidia cards). What a headache...
Simmo1985 wrote on 11/22/2015, 2:29 AM
Just thought I'd let people know that I seem to be getting a lot better performance on the 14.9 drivers than with the new 15.x drivers. So I've reverted to those drivers. I now plug both my monitors into the 980ti. The R9 290 just sits in the machine and is used solely for Vegas hardware acceleration.