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If you have an AMD GPU the fix mentioned above is already released. Check AMD's driver page for the "15.11.1 Beta". But my card (an R9 290) was unaffected.

TranquilMarmot 11y ago
This is why I don't try out beta drivers (until some brave canaries have tried them first)!
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- gruez 11y ago
  but the crimson drivers (that broke fan speeds) were not beta
- Strom 11y ago
  You have it backwards. The GPU fan bug is in the stable driver, and the fix is in the beta driver. While a lot of teams are moving to a more frequent release schedule like Chrome, AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year. The 2016 big stable release is the one with the horrible bug.
  - fnordsensei 11y ago
    One big release a year? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why that would be a good idea. Also, I'm not too impressed with the UI change. It looks like they sourced their graphic design from 2008.
    - sethhochberg 11y ago
      I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Gigabyte et al, even Intel's tweak tools are all awful. Gaudy, nonscalable, and bitmap-heavy is the name of the game.
    - kllrnohj 11y ago
      One big feature release in addition to 6 WHQL driver updates in addition to random beta drops.
  - Alupis 11y ago
    > AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year That's not really true.[1] They release "as needed", which varies in cadence. This is normal for a lot of software. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-driver-updates-releases-catalyst-126-beta http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-...
    - Strom 11y ago
      That's outdated info. A newer article, also from AnandTech, nicely goes into detail. "in essence putting major feature updates on a yearly cadence" [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overvi...
      - kllrnohj 11y ago
        From that same link it's 6 WHQL drivers a year, at least that's the plan. Major features on a yearly cadence is not really that big of a change. Major feature here would be things like Eyefinity, FreeSync, etc... This is very different from the monthly/bimonthly updates for performance improvements and bugfixes which is the real reason people update GPU drivers frequently.
  - jordanthoms 11y ago
    AMD used to do monthly updates, but they were too buggy so they moved to updating less often so they could spend more time testing, but the drivers are still buggy. Rapid releases can help but you can't really solve testing problems with release schedules.
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TranquilMarmot 11y ago

This is why I don't try out beta drivers (until some brave canaries have tried them first)!

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gruez 11y ago
but the crimson drivers (that broke fan speeds) were not beta
Strom 11y ago
You have it backwards. The GPU fan bug is in the stable driver, and the fix is in the beta driver. While a lot of teams are moving to a more frequent release schedule like Chrome, AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year. The 2016 big stable release is the one with the horrible bug.
- fnordsensei 11y ago
  One big release a year? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why that would be a good idea. Also, I'm not too impressed with the UI change. It looks like they sourced their graphic design from 2008.
  - sethhochberg 11y ago
    I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Gigabyte et al, even Intel's tweak tools are all awful. Gaudy, nonscalable, and bitmap-heavy is the name of the game.
  - kllrnohj 11y ago
    One big feature release in addition to 6 WHQL driver updates in addition to random beta drops.
- Alupis 11y ago
  > AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year That's not really true.[1] They release "as needed", which varies in cadence. This is normal for a lot of software. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-driver-updates-releases-catalyst-126-beta http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-...
  - Strom 11y ago
    That's outdated info. A newer article, also from AnandTech, nicely goes into detail. "in essence putting major feature updates on a yearly cadence" [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overvi...
    - kllrnohj 11y ago
      From that same link it's 6 WHQL drivers a year, at least that's the plan. Major features on a yearly cadence is not really that big of a change. Major feature here would be things like Eyefinity, FreeSync, etc... This is very different from the monthly/bimonthly updates for performance improvements and bugfixes which is the real reason people update GPU drivers frequently.
- jordanthoms 11y ago
  AMD used to do monthly updates, but they were too buggy so they moved to updating less often so they could spend more time testing, but the drivers are still buggy. Rapid releases can help but you can't really solve testing problems with release schedules.

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