I reinstalled my PC the other week and I also added another monitor to my setup. Installed the latest drivers for my 5870 from AMD and now I am getting a lot of screen flickering, usually when playing video or switching windows from one monitor to the other. It's very annoying because video editing is what I do and usually I have a tutorial playing on one screen whilst I follow it on the other in the editing application.
I did a complete uninstall and reinstall with Display Driver Uninstaller - still playing up.
Looking around on the internet it seems that this is a buggy driver we have here. Some people have also reported problems booting into Windows with these drivers and I had the same problem too - if you restarted from within Windows it wouldn't boot back up again. I resolved it somehow though.
In true 'AMD fashion' with driver updates about once every quarter (if we're lucky!) the problem has been persisting since about mid-April and they STILL haven't done anything about it.
I can't remember if I had these drivers before I reinstalled my PC or not. I think I may have had older ones because I was not having any problems at all.
I'm not very happy about this. Is anybody else here who is using the 14.4 drivers noticing the same?
I did a complete uninstall and reinstall with Display Driver Uninstaller - still playing up.
Looking around on the internet it seems that this is a buggy driver we have here. Some people have also reported problems booting into Windows with these drivers and I had the same problem too - if you restarted from within Windows it wouldn't boot back up again. I resolved it somehow though.
In true 'AMD fashion' with driver updates about once every quarter (if we're lucky!) the problem has been persisting since about mid-April and they STILL haven't done anything about it.
I can't remember if I had these drivers before I reinstalled my PC or not. I think I may have had older ones because I was not having any problems at all.
I'm not very happy about this. Is anybody else here who is using the 14.4 drivers noticing the same?
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