AMD Firepro w7000 problems

[jamares]

Hi folks,

recently switched to Firepro w7000 and maya 2015 on win 7, and sice that day it causes me constant headache. Drivers crashes randomly from "just" locking maya when moving framebuffer around to lots of bluescreens. Anyone had better luck with windows 8.1 or is AMD Fireprojust hopeless card? (I've tryed all tested drivers up to latest 14.4 beta and all of them suck)

thanks,

jakub

[BenBisares]

Seems to be that most users have no issues but there are some users with issues. Problem is that there doesn't seem to be much in common amongst them.

Do you get and CERs (Customer Error Report)? If yes have you sent any to Autodesk and under which email address?

[jamares]

Hi Ben,

I'm not sure if I did, maybe once, but than I've realized that it's not really maya/autodesk problem. Now with latest beta it locks without crash message or goes blue screen. Generally it works much better with viewport 2.0 directX, but still not perfect and due some reasons I'd love to use either openGL or  legacy which I can't. As the problems prevails even with tested drivers it seems quite difficult to find some real solution so I'm thinking of giving it last try with windows 8.1. Than I'll probably need to go back Quadro ..

j

[BenBisares]

I was checking out our hardware certification for the w7000 and it was tested but with some issues (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/syscert/card?siteID=123112&catID=18254205&id=18844534&product=1...)

It doesn't say if it was causing blue screen/crashes but generally if it was causing that it wouldn't pass the certification. When we say "issues" it usually means graphical glitches and things like that. I could check with the team if you want.

[jamares]

Yeah I've checked certification charts before getting this card so thats reason those issues surprise me. It would be great if you could check with team. Especially if there's a chance to make it more stable by switching to win 8.1.

thanks,

Jakub