so recently i bought a r9 380 from club 3d, very beautiful card. but lately i've been experiencing some frame drop in games like for a second and its back to normal and random driver crashes, so i installed afterburner and it shows that its a engineering sample. does my problem have anything to do with the card being an engineering sample ?
******update sorry it isnt a ES
It could very well be that as engineering samples are revised. Before sending it in AMD recently released 15.7 drivers so if you don't already have them try those.
on the latest drivers from amd(15.7)
I would send it in... Or check how much engineering samples sell for :)
i can send it back to my retailer, in 30 days and get a new card! but not sure if it being a engineering sample is a good enough reason to send it in?
update this happened excatly http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/345998-290x-suddenly-engineering-sample/ but i didnt mess around with any of the bios settings :/
I don't see why it being an engineering sample should prevent it from being RMAd. Hunt down the bios for your card and try flashing jt
NOT AN ES CARD
The WDDM 2.0 driver set is not updated for the new cards! It falsely reports cards as ES. Check the GPU BIOS revision in GPU-Z, chances are high that it's a fairly recent version and this is not an ES card.
Also, AMD ES cards have this on the back:
Yeah well I don't see that sticker on the back ! :)
Well regardless, if the card is malfunctioning you should send it back. Didn't mean to come storming in and yell about it, but yeah you should send it back.
ES cards rarely even work from the start, but when they do they are extremely unstable or flat out broken.
For example:
So your thoughts of it being a sample that slipped through aren't completely unwarranted.
My gut reaction would be to air on the side of caution and send it back in if you can.
okay guys my bad im a half a$$ed Bastard when providing information, so here's the thing the card is perfectly fine it isnt a ES or something its just hard to explain pls have a look at this pic
so this thing automatically installs even after uninstalling it and reinstalling 15.2 drivers -.- pls HALP!
Advanced options > Turn off automatic updates?
Defer Uprades?
I don’t know for sure, but I think that this is a problem that has to do with windows 8 / 8.1. I had an ATI Radeon HD 3200 and it worked just fine on both windows 7 and windows 10, but as soon as I got around to installing windows 8.1 for performance reasons, then I installed one of my games that ran just fine on both windows 7 and 10, but when I started it, then it said that Open GL wasn’t supported. I went and checked the driver and it said (engineering sample wddm… something ) at the end. I tried installing the correct drivers manually after disabling windows update, but even the manual drivers just gave me the engineering sample which I knew for sure wasn’t there in any other versions of windows that I used.
