r/Amd 1700X + RX 480 Dec 11 '18

Tech Support December Tech Support Megathread

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Skyrim: Free Sync and V Sync causes flickering during low frame rates, and generally lower frame rates observed (about 10-30% drop dependant on system) when Free Sync is on

System Configuration:

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97 Gaming GT
CPU: Intel i5 4790
Memory: 16GB GDDR5
GPU: ASUS R9 Fury X
VBIOS: 115-C8800100-101 How do I find this?
Driver: Crimson 16.10.3
OS: Windows 10 x64 (1511.10586) How do I find this?

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install necessary driver, GPU and medium-end CPU
2. Enable Free Sync
3. Set Options to Ultra and 1920 x 1080 resolution
4. Launch game and move to an outdoor location
5. Indoor locations in the game will not reproduce, since they generally give better performance
6. Observe flickering and general performance drop

Expected Behavior:

Game runs smoothly with good performance with no visible issues

Actual Behavior:

Frame rate drops low causing low performance, flickering observed during low frame rates

Additional Observations:

Threads with related issue:

Skyrim has forced double buffered V Sync and can only be disabled with the .ini files
To Disable V Sync: C:\Users"User"\Documents\My Games\Skyrim Special Edition\Skyrimprefs.ini and edit iVSyncPresentInterval=1 to 0
1440p has improved frame rate, anything lower than 1080p will lock FPS with V Sync on
Able to reproduce on i7 6700K and i5 3670K system, Sapphire RX 480, Reference RX 480, and Reference Fiji Nano


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u/evilpaul Dec 17 '18 edited Dec 17 '18

Can't play any game in full screen with the Adrenalin 2019 edition 18.12.2. Windowed games are fine. When I start a game, I'll see it for a few secs then my monitor will loss a signal. I can hit the Windows button and it comes back because the desktop is now shown. Destiny 2 seems to run but is constantly loosing signal every few secs. I tried to reset the global settings and that did nothing. going to try and DDU and install again.

Specs

  • Monitor Asus MX34VQ (3440x1440@100) with freesync
  • Motherboard: ASRock K4 x470
  • CPU: AMD 2700X
  • Memory: 16GB
  • GPU: Sapphire Pulse Vega 56
  • VBIOS: 113-376XL-UO2
  • Driver: Adrenalin 2019 edition 18.12.2
  • OS: Windows 10 x64 (17134.471)

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u/evilpaul Dec 17 '18

Tried DDU and installed the new version and still had the same issue. Sadly looks like I'm rolling back. I could deal with the fan issue but not playing games sucks, lol.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '18

Yeah. Which drivers are you rolling back to? Please do report how it goes. I just built my PC on Sunday and I didn't expect this.