AMD Drivers 19.1.1 - Vulkan issue confirmed

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AMD Drivers 19.1.1 - Vulkan issue confirmed

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Never had so many Vulcan crashes.

Battling Xenon at the Jump Gate in Holy Vision to Faulty Logic,

Crash after crash (vulcan error https://www.egosoft.com:8443/jira/browse/X4-2)

Also noticed that when I hover mouse over stations to see their wares that the text is blacked out.

Might go back to the previous 18.12.3 drivers to see if this helps.
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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I had a lot of crashes with this AMD drivers. Unfortunately none of them left any log or debug info. Heck some of them were so hard that the system rebooted.

With this behaviour ,I thought of hardware failure or temperature issue. So I begin to investigate and diagnose further.

Finally I was able to get a stable system by disabling the AMD audio drivers ( which i *think* are involved only on HDMI connection, so it shoudn't matter, but...).

I disabled them directly from the device manager. Now I rely only on my onboard Realtek audio drivers and everything looks fine
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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I've not found any mention changes to Vulkan in the releases notes.
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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pflip wrote: Thu, 17. Jan 19, 11:57 I had a lot of crashes with this AMD drivers. Unfortunately none of them left any log or debug info. Heck some of them were so hard that the system rebooted.

With this behaviour ,I thought of hardware failure or temperature issue. So I begin to investigate and diagnose further.

Finally I was able to get a stable system by disabling the AMD audio drivers ( which i *think* are involved only on HDMI connection, so it shoudn't matter, but...).

I disabled them directly from the device manager. Now I rely only on my onboard Realtek audio drivers and everything looks fine
- which version of Windows are you running, and does your system have an installed soundcard ??
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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BugMeister wrote: Thu, 17. Jan 19, 12:27
pflip wrote: Thu, 17. Jan 19, 11:57 I had a lot of crashes with this AMD drivers. Unfortunately none of them left any log or debug info. Heck some of them were so hard that the system rebooted.

With this behaviour ,I thought of hardware failure or temperature issue. So I begin to investigate and diagnose further.

Finally I was able to get a stable system by disabling the AMD audio drivers ( which i *think* are involved only on HDMI connection, so it shoudn't matter, but...).

I disabled them directly from the device manager. Now I rely only on my onboard Realtek audio drivers and everything looks fine
- which version of Windows are you running, and does your system have an installed soundcard ??
Win 10 and no additional audio card. Motherboard is an MSI z97 gaming 7 running an Intel I7 4790K (no OC) with a Radeon RX560, the realtek is on board. This system has been solid for the past 2 years, just recently it started the issue with the reboot. It started with X4 (and I blamed either the vulcan implementation or the game itself :? ), but then it did it with other games that used to run fine.

Took me a while to debug it software (firewalls, antivirus, antimalware, previous AMD drivers, etc), windows, RAM, Power supply, HD, I tried everything, at then end was either the motherboard or some driver issue. Luckly I isoled the problem with the audio drives from AMD. They are called AMD High definition Audio and are (supposely) only involved when you have your video plugged in via the HDMI port. It shouldn't have matter in this case, but, out of desperation and lack of ideas :gruebel: , I removed and disabled them... system perfect now. :mrgreen:
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

Post by Xenon_Slayer »

I too seem to be getting several vulkan related crashes with 19.1.1

It seems to happen as soon as I get into a rather heavy battle. It would be useful if anyone describes what was happening around them in-game when it crashes.
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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Crashes during heavy battles with Xenon... not related to any one ship. A P or an I ... crash.

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AMD 580 8Gb vid card - Freesync enabled.
HP 32" Envy 2K Monitor

I will try disabling the HDMI audio even tho I am using a Display Port
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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So I disabled the AMD High Definition Audio Device under Device Manager.... seemed to help...

Then I got into a battle with an I and just as it was about to blow it crashed...


X4 Fatal Error
A fatal error has occurred and X cannot recovber.
vkQueueSubmitDeviceQueue(queue).Queue, 1, @info,o)Failed with err -4
(c:\dev\p1\src\x4\xgfx\be\vulkan\video_vk.cpp,2965)
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1

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Quick update.

Down-graded the drivers to V18.12.3 and no crashes. Very much an AMD Vulcan issue.
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1 - Vulkan issue confirmed

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This needs to be reported back to AMD by as many users as possible using the AMD feedback report form if it is to be addressed and fixed in future AMD driver builds.
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Re: AMD Drivers 19.1.1 - Vulkan issue confirmed

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have you tried adjusting the Virtual Memory settings..?
I have set the initial paging size to 2048MB - it does make things run a little smoother..
especially Edge..

you can get to it via System, under Advanced Settings..
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