Something wrong with AMD display drivers?

So I've had a few crashes yesterday and today with mostly Fallout 4, occasionally Just Cause 3. My suspicion is my CPU which is a known bottleneck, but I'm not sure if that is truly the culprit. Any ideas?

Hardware:

CPU - AMD FX 4350 clocked at 4.2 Ghz (no OC)

GPU - Sapphire R9 380 4GB

Also please don't say that the solution is Intel

Anything you guys can tell me to help fix the problem or even just optimize my performance would be great.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Just saw that there's an update for the drivers, downloading now. Hopefully that helps.

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Your CPU is a bottleneck yeah, but I've had the same thing man. My GPU fan gets turned off by proprietary drivers, I get all sorts of artifacts in windows (I use MSI afterburner in windows to do the fans but I still get artifacts), and in linux I can't get the fans spinning on proprietary drivers AND theres no fan apps anyhere!

My system crashes when playing TF2 and recording in OBS, and again with the artifacts in windows as I said earlier.

It's ridiculous. They need to hire barnucles back because it's all going out the shitter at M$. As for AMD, I have no clue what is going on there.

Yeah I don't think I've had any problems with my fans, they don't spin until they get under load. Hoping to upgrade the CPU once I get enough money

Have you check your power supply to see if its working right and what model.

What is your motherboard so that you can potentially OC if possible if you are using an aftermarket cooler.

What is your Memory right now.

Underclock your GPU to factory specs, edit your registry files it worked for me. Sapphire Nitro Tri-X R0 390. The Latest drivers seemed even wonkier then before. And that was with the hotfix. GPU usage went down, so did bottom end FPS, though I did get over 3K FPS in my one match in Mech Warrior Online. I should have taken a screenshot of it. AMD needs to hire some QA testers or something. I realize they just seperated the CPU/GPU divisions. I realize Intel screws them over constantly, they have a competitive product, fix the damn drivers.

Here's the list:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ftPjTW

I don't think it's the PSU, and the mobo isn't really optimized for overclocking.

The RAM in that list is incorrect I have 16GB of some Knigston RAM

Are you sure its a hardware problem? run a stress test or something, that will at least hint at whether its software/hardware. Windows logs might give hints as well.

I'd also like to mention that your cpu is unlikely to cause much of a bottleneck in fo4 if any (I have a friend with a dual core that runs the game just fine)

What stress test should I run? I've never really done that before

It's probably unrelated, but as of the last week my AMD graphics driver for my R9 285 keeps crashing when running folding at home set to run on idle, doesnt have any issue when loaded by any other program or game. Im running the new AMD drivers and have noticed no issues untill now.

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I'm having same issues. FX-8350 R9 290 running 16.1 hotfix, still getting random crashes Fallout 4, played hours Farcry 4 no issues.

I do know that there are some issues with Fallout 4 and AMD gpu´s in general,
massive fps drops in certain area´s.
Disabling some of the Nvidia gameworks crap seem to fix allot.
But i have not heard about any actual crashes with the game and Crimson drivers.

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It's definitely driver related, quite a common issue right now for AMD + Fallout, not all cards affected equally though.

How can I disable some of the Nvidia gameworks stuff?

Fallout4 - Gameworks = works on AMD
That is all there is to say.

Godrays is the killer. It imposes some ludacris amount of supersampling and filters to work and makes AMD hardware choke.

The easy fix:

set in the falloutprefs.ini (located in documents\My games\fallout4)
bVolumetricLightingEnable=1
to 0

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/4/846939071162085095/

But when I set it to auto my fan just turns off.
Is there a new part of the driver that revs the fan when hot like a strix card?

did it help op?

I would check the System Event Log, to see what specifically caused the crashes. A bottleneck would not cause crashes.

If it were just Fallout 4, I would blame the game. It is not completely stable yet, and every Elder Scrolls game has always had teething issues.