After playing Fallout 4 since its release, flawlessly and with Ultra level quality, I find after upgrading to the Crimson drivers (15.11 Windows 10 64) that the old saying, if it ain't broke don't fix it once again applies.
Let me preface this by saying I do like the look of the new Crimson control panel, but nothing in it seems to help with the problem that I only seem to have with Fallout 4.
The problem is this:
In the game, the all important direction bar at the bottom of the screen that informs the player of what direction they are going, in this very open world, indicates what things are nearby in any direction one chooses to point oneself, including critical information like distances to selected key points, becomes graphically unstable with the new drivers and for the most part unreadable. Anyone who is playing Fallout 4 knows what it must be like to be blinded in this excruciatingly important way.
Otherwise the games seem graphically as it was with the previous drivers. I have it set at the highest level and it performs flawlessly. No tendency to crash since I started playing the game.
I tried tinkering with the Crimson settings for the game, including returning everything to default. Nothing changed in the game.
Thinking there might be a conflict with some remnants of the old Catalyst drivers, using AMD's software driver removal tool, I did a clean uninstall, reinstall with the new Crimson suite. That solved nothing.
Then I repeated the driver removal operation, but this time I reinstalled the preceding Catalyst driver and suite (15.7.1 Windows 10/64) and now I have my game back the way I want it.
Too bad. I like the look of Crimson. I might not even have known there was a problem with the new driver if I weren't playing Fallout 4. Old games I tried as a test (i.e., Skyrim) showed no graphics issues.
I'd like to use the new Crimson suite, if anyone knows what might be going on I'd be willing to give it a try. Otherwise, I'm happy that in this case I've managed to unbreak what wasn't originally broken with minimal fuss. That doesn't always happen.
My system:
Windows 10 Pro 64
AMD FX 8350, 4.00 GHz
16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X series DDR3 2133 SDRam
AMD Radeon R9 290x 4 GB GDDR5 memory
Samsung EVO SSD
ASRock 990 FX Killer MB
Update. I just followed the handy link Tomshardware provided for me in my own post to this:
Fallout 4 compass flicker fix
I don't know if that's going to be a fix or not. I don't have any spare time at the moment to make what may be a futile effort, but I will when i can.
Now why couldn't I find that when I searched the site? Yeah, I know, poor search parameters or something.
Let me preface this by saying I do like the look of the new Crimson control panel, but nothing in it seems to help with the problem that I only seem to have with Fallout 4.
The problem is this:
In the game, the all important direction bar at the bottom of the screen that informs the player of what direction they are going, in this very open world, indicates what things are nearby in any direction one chooses to point oneself, including critical information like distances to selected key points, becomes graphically unstable with the new drivers and for the most part unreadable. Anyone who is playing Fallout 4 knows what it must be like to be blinded in this excruciatingly important way.
Otherwise the games seem graphically as it was with the previous drivers. I have it set at the highest level and it performs flawlessly. No tendency to crash since I started playing the game.
I tried tinkering with the Crimson settings for the game, including returning everything to default. Nothing changed in the game.
Thinking there might be a conflict with some remnants of the old Catalyst drivers, using AMD's software driver removal tool, I did a clean uninstall, reinstall with the new Crimson suite. That solved nothing.
Then I repeated the driver removal operation, but this time I reinstalled the preceding Catalyst driver and suite (15.7.1 Windows 10/64) and now I have my game back the way I want it.
Too bad. I like the look of Crimson. I might not even have known there was a problem with the new driver if I weren't playing Fallout 4. Old games I tried as a test (i.e., Skyrim) showed no graphics issues.
I'd like to use the new Crimson suite, if anyone knows what might be going on I'd be willing to give it a try. Otherwise, I'm happy that in this case I've managed to unbreak what wasn't originally broken with minimal fuss. That doesn't always happen.
My system:
Windows 10 Pro 64
AMD FX 8350, 4.00 GHz
16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X series DDR3 2133 SDRam
AMD Radeon R9 290x 4 GB GDDR5 memory
Samsung EVO SSD
ASRock 990 FX Killer MB
Update. I just followed the handy link Tomshardware provided for me in my own post to this:
Fallout 4 compass flicker fix
I don't know if that's going to be a fix or not. I don't have any spare time at the moment to make what may be a futile effort, but I will when i can.
Now why couldn't I find that when I searched the site? Yeah, I know, poor search parameters or something.
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