Hi, Yesterday I received my new R9 290. Put it in my computer per the instructions, installed the drivers from the included DVD. I ran some games and also a few benchmarks (Unigine Heaven and 3dMark 11). Everything worked fine.
I installed Trixx in order to set the fan profile to custom. Then I downloaded the new Catalyst 14.4 drivers from AMD. Installed them and things seemed stable. Went through the process again, ran a few games and then the benchmarks. When I shut down Unigine Heaven, I got my first black screen.
I noticed that after I rebooted, it could sit at the login screen for however long...but as soon as I logged in, black screen. I removed the card, hooked my dvi cable up to my Motherboard's onboard VGA and booted back into windows. I used the add/remove programs button to uninstall all AMD drivers, shut down, reinstalled the card and went back through the process. Everything works fine until I install the 14.4 drivers.
I finally grabbed the AMD Driver Cleanup Utility from AMD, ran that, reinstalled 14.4...everything SEEMED to work then...but anytime I run anything but 2d (desktop) stuff, I get horizontal artifacts all over the screen, even when I shut games down and go back to the desktop. So, I am currently running the "stock" drivers that come on the DVD, but I am concerned that my new GPU has issues, since it won't run 14.4.
Any ideas? Thanks
I installed Trixx in order to set the fan profile to custom. Then I downloaded the new Catalyst 14.4 drivers from AMD. Installed them and things seemed stable. Went through the process again, ran a few games and then the benchmarks. When I shut down Unigine Heaven, I got my first black screen.
I noticed that after I rebooted, it could sit at the login screen for however long...but as soon as I logged in, black screen. I removed the card, hooked my dvi cable up to my Motherboard's onboard VGA and booted back into windows. I used the add/remove programs button to uninstall all AMD drivers, shut down, reinstalled the card and went back through the process. Everything works fine until I install the 14.4 drivers.
I finally grabbed the AMD Driver Cleanup Utility from AMD, ran that, reinstalled 14.4...everything SEEMED to work then...but anytime I run anything but 2d (desktop) stuff, I get horizontal artifacts all over the screen, even when I shut games down and go back to the desktop. So, I am currently running the "stock" drivers that come on the DVD, but I am concerned that my new GPU has issues, since it won't run 14.4.
Any ideas? Thanks
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