Anyone getting a black screen mid race?

[Tyche]

I am getting a black screen mid race and I have to restart my computer and relaunch the game because nothing else works. My specs are R5 1600, 5700XT, and 16GB of RAM. Nor sure if there is something I need to change to get the game working.

[Tyche]

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I haven't had time to mess with the game in a while. People are saying that it is the drivers for the card though. You could try rolling back to an earlier driver and see if that helps.

i have same black screen but dont have to restart my computer but the game still crash :(
im thinking just send it back to Amazon i hope to get most of my money back i might get a RTX or the RX 5800 when the new gpu come out

Nah its not the GPU. I was only getting a black screen in PCARS2. I think it is something with AMD's drivers or with the game. They'll fix it eventually. You could try disabling some of the new stuff in the radeon settings. I did that with some games that had a stutter and it fixed that. I still haven't played Pcars 2 in a while though since class just started back up. If you wanted though I could look real quick and tell you which settings I turned off and see if that helps you.

[N.Reeky]

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i have same black screen but dont have to restart my computer but the game still crash :(
im thinking just send it back to Amazon i hope to get most of my money back i might get a RTX or the RX 5800 when the new gpu come out

Nah its not the GPU. I was only getting a black screen in PCARS2. I think it is something with AMD's drivers or with the game. They'll fix it eventually. You could try disabling some of the new stuff in the radeon settings. I did that with some games that had a stutter and it fixed that. I still haven't played Pcars 2 in a while though since class just started back up. If you wanted though I could look real quick and tell you which settings I turned off and see if that helps you.

I agree, probably drivers and/or game. I am having same issue using an RX 5700. I used to get more universal crashing/black screens, but it seems like AMD has fixed all the other issues. Only having issue the issue with Project Cars 2 now. And it has gotten 10 times worse since I changed my motherboard and CPU. Only had single channel ram in old one. Now using a Ryzen 3600X and my FPS went up by 40-50 which is awesome but it’s totally unplayable now. Used to crash once in a while, now the most laps I’ve gotten in is 10. But usually won’t last that long.
I’m guessing it’s stressing drivers or graphics subsystem of game more as my GPU usage went from about 60% to now 98% with new CPU.
Odds are Project Cars 2 won’t get patched as I see last update was about 2 years ago. So I’m hoping it’s something AMD can fix with the drivers. I’m going to submit a report with link above.
Won’t even get into the favoritisms that SMS gave Nvidia on this title as well.

[N.Reeky]

Also I did not try disabling FreeSync but will try. Didn’t think it was an issue since it’s only happening in PC2.

[Mahjik]

That was the main reason I switched away from ATI/AMD GPU's. Their drivers. I used ATI a lot originally as they were the only manufacturer who supported triple screens with a single card. However, I always battled ATI specific issues with various games while non-ATI owners did not.

[N.Reeky]

Sadly some truth to that. I’ve read of a fair amount of driver issues lately. The hardware is amazing so it is unfortunate. I’m still standing by them. Equivalent performance Nvidia card would have cost me almost $200 more. Seems like no other issues right now as well. I just don’t know if they’ll have the resources or inclination to fix compatibility with a 3yo program. I forgot about your comments above which is actually a solid point, and matches my experience with loading up the GPU by upgrading CPU causing more issues.
I will try that and some other similar testing and update what happens:
Turn on chill to limit FPS
If that doesn’t work try power limiting.
Finally I’ll see if I can down clock.
Hopefully one of those works.
Really sucks because the 140-150fps I can get now is so good.

[Tyche]

Ok so I thought I should update now since I have done three races without problems. I disabled the list of settings in the radeon software under the graphics tab and I no longer have the black screen and also have a boost in performance. This list includes:

Radeon Anti Lag

Radeon Chill

Radeon Boost

Radeon Image Sharpening

Radeon encahnced sync

Im not sure which one was causing the problems since I just disabled all of them at the same time but I no longer have weird stutters or the black screen and I am getting higher fps.

[N.Reeky]

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Ok so I thought I should update now since I have done three races without problems. I disabled the list of settings in the radeon software under the graphics tab and I no longer have the black screen and also have a boost in performance. This list includes:

Radeon Anti Lag

Radeon Chill

Radeon Boost

Radeon Image Sharpening

Radeon encahnced sync

Im not sure which one was causing the problems since I just disabled all of them at the same time but I no longer have weird stutters or the black screen and I am getting higher fps.

Great to hear! In my opinion could have been disabling enhanced sync. But who knows. I didn’t have any of those on but when I disabled FreeSync, all is good now as well. So assuming enhanced related to this but I don’t know. You don’t need the others for PC2 anyway. I’ve used them in other games without issue.

Whomever suggested turning FreeSync off - THANK YOU!

Did a few races without any issues. Even after the computer was left on over 24hrs and running folding at home thrashing the GPU. I even forgot to pause it one time and raced for over an hour without issue. Didn’t even notice that it was doing the calculations in the background and made significant progress by the time I was done racing. What a beast!!

Not sure why only PC2 has issues with FreeSync but I don’t even notice it being off. Probably much less beneficial when using a high refresh rate monitor. Running 144Hz. I don’t notice any tearing going over 144fps either. So it doesn’t bother me to turn it off. I may just turn it off globally.

So in my experience I’ve run this computer through the gauntlet by now and would wholeheartedly recommended AMD GPU (and CPU) they are definitely upping their game lately. The new generation AMD GPU beat Nvidia in power consumption and at a lower price.

[N.Reeky]

I spoke to soon. Haven't really been able to get more than 12 laps in since then. So it's not strictly freesync. I'm now playing around with framerate limiting with the Chill setting. Haven't solved yet. Latest drivers didn't fix either. This is still the only game with issue. I guess I could just start the folding calculations on my GPU before starting PC2. LOL. Accidentally got 1.5 hours like that without crashing. Now I am lucky to get 20 min again. So that's a clue to problem I suppose. Just don't know what it means exactly. Downclocking 200Mhz didn't help.

[MISTER WU]

Sorry to hear mate, i would be removing everything out the documents folder (Back it up) and then make sure your screen refresh rate is all set how you want it then start the ganme, apply GFX settings and ensure refresh rate is the same, make sure any logitech software or anything is running before starting the game.

Personally, i use DDU to remove drivers and then use devmgmt.msc (Device Manager) to install just the driver.

[Tyche]

Weird I haven't had any problems since I turned off all that stuff that I previously listed. And yeah, for me it is also only problems in this game. I play all kinds of other games, rocket league, rainbow 6 siege, hitman 47, dirt rally 2.0, wrc 7, hellblade, tomb raider, frost punk, firewatch, battleblock theatre, kerbal space program. And the only game I have problems with is Project Cars 2. So I am guessing it is something to do with their files and our cards since that seems to be the common theme here.

[cpcdem]

One thing that is very different in PCARS2 compared to almost every other game, is that it is very heavy on the CPU. Being a sim, there are A LOT of calculations going on all the time, pushing the CPUs and not only the GPUs to their limits. Do your machines get enough cooling?

[rush158]

I'm using a 5700 xt and i have been having random black screen crashes also

[N.Reeky]

Definitely enough cooling. Using a 280mm CLC for cpu. CPU doesn't get over 50c gaming. GPU is blower reference style, but with stock settings doesn't get above 75c. Good pressurized case ventilation. If I adjust fan curves it can easily be cooler, but this doesn't affect stability. In fact changing stuff in Radeon Software might possibly decrease stability. BUT when I did a manual driver install in device manager without using radeon software, it made no difference. I also tried DDU. Noticed it found nvidia and intel drivers even though I uninstalled them, so I did DDU three times on everything to clear them all. But after that, Intel drivers came up in windows update and we don't have anything Intel on this PC so I decided to reset Windows. Seemed to work better for a while, but PC2 still eventually froze to a black screen a couple times already.

So moral of the story, everyone who is having problems with Project Cars 2 with an AMD GPU, please submit a report to AMD with every driver update AMD releases until it is fixed. Hopefully one day we can drive without issue again. Here's the form. I've already submitted a few times now:
http://amd.com/report

[bingbean]

AMD has already received thousands of reports since the RX 400 series. I experienced the same problems with the RX 470 card.
Many games worked normally, but there were many games that card didn't handle. Most of them were older games like RD: DIRT, RBR, max payne2 etc, where I had a black screen. The only thing that helped was downclocking by 10-15%.
I thought it was just some bad series, but I found a lot of information about the problem in various forums and it was a pretty big problem. So it looks like AMD hasn't been able to fix it yet. The HD series of AMD cards was great, the RX series is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[N.Reeky]

Shoot. I’ll try downclocking again with the newer driver. I’m not sure it registered last time I tried it. Don’t think I saw a change in GPU clock when I viewed metrics overlay.