AMD has admitted that the driver has a few shortcomings.
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The Crimson Drivers are supposedly limiting fan speed of the Graphics Cards which are causing them to overheat and die before the user can realize it. Drivers are overiding user setting and setting fan speeds to just 20% which is not suitable especially while playing demanding games.
In a credible report by Elric Phares of Tech of Tomorrow, the Crimson drivers initially seemed to fry the graphics cards in a Windows 10 system, but the hardware worked fine after installing the Radeons into a separate Windows 8 machine.
“So, there is a bug with the new Crimson drivers that AMD released (not beta, final release) that lock your GPU fan speed and because of this, many users have reported playing for extended periods of time with their fans locked to 20%”, says one unfortunate AMD user.
It’s not an isolated case, thou some reports suggest it’s only happening to non-reference cards that utilise soft-overclocking.
It has been reported by some gamers on various game forums that the “Diablo 3” runs on low GPU while it gets stuck at high GPU, but now AMD has already fixed the issue. AMD now acknowledges a software issue and is preparing a hotfix for a potentially serious fan-bug.
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We will remain in contact with AMD as the hotfix is created and released. Slotting the graphics cards into different PCI-E ports on the same Windows 10 machine that suffered from the fan speed issue allowed the system to POST, but games flickered too much to be playable. You can see their statement below. Anyway, if you’ve been noticing some unusually hot temperatures in your AMD system lately, this is probably why.
