Question about AMD display drivers

BlueDev

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I can see that what I need is this but there are two download links. Am I supposed to install both or just one of those? Crimson Edition is new but Catalyst is old news. I've had a lot of trouble with Crimson Edition but I think my PC got along well with Catalyst. But do I still need to install both or just the Catalyst Software Suite 15.7.1?

Right now I have an old version 13.301.1001.0 installed from 12/20/13 (that came with my PC) and I got BSODs a few times with that since I got the PC in 2014. Is that version Catalyst? I guess it is because Crimson is newer. Do I need to uninstall 13.301.1001.0 before installing either Catalyst or Crimson (or both) or just go ahead and install with 13.301.1001.0 still installed. The 13.301.1001.0 version works pretty well but it just makes the videos (all videos, youtube, on my hard drive etc...) jerky or choppy so I think it's the driver.

Is there a lot of difference between Crimson and Catalyst? I've been seeing some people still using Catalyst after Crimson was released so I just wonder.
 

minarix

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crimson is there new set of drivers, and it fixes alot of stuff, i'm fairly sure you can't have both installed, do a clean install of crimson, then in your browser turn hardware acel on or off depending what its currently set to, and see if that fixes your issue.


OR just update to the most recent catalyst version