[Elvis Poldervaart]

with all due respect to, that all what you wrote is abit excessive,

First, i didn’t change any driver in windows, i only changed “personalize”,
its a routine’of mine and never was a problem before till the R9 290x,
second, tweaking windows is way something else, what i only did
is change the look of the desktop a bit, how terrible,
third, where did you read i changed all of the settings in
every thing you describe and tested not all default?
Because of a bit changing the settings of “personalize”?!
It simply doesn’t work if you read further and to say
i cause it myself well..that’s nonsense.

I agree your point about the “fresh install” however, that is good point.

Anyway, on to the subject, the card goes back tommorow as it is still
blinking/flashing/strobing in every program, again not because of my “tweaking” 🙂

[Elvis Poldervaart]

Yes gonna call the supllier later on, the screen tearing is solved, it
was indeed about VSync, when i do a fresh install of windows i always turn
of as much as posibble with “personalize”, Aero peak was off..strange or not
but some forums said that, turned it back on, and voila nomore screen tearing,
long live windows..

So the flickering/strobing is still there in every program.
Have tobe to the card, googled so much last days…but this…speachless
Never AMD again thats for sure what i know, the Gsync and adaptive VSync
from NVIDIA i never had problems with i this amd’s Freesync
is only for like 15 specific monitors, RadeonPro have some FPS/Hz setting and
adaptive VSync, but it doesnt help all, i feel and the problem lays there…

[Elvis Poldervaart]

Update:

It is worser then i thought, as i tested only WMP and Youtube
and no screen tearing and or blinking/flashing i prseumed it was only VG13..well…i tryd AE CC 2015, not with external monitor screen tearing (cant really test it as it works otherwise) but
same thing when selecting files (png/mov everything) both monitor flashes a few times…bizar….faulty card?

I am playing around at:
https://www.vsynctester.com/

This goes beserk to on both monitors, tryd radeonpro with
adaptive vsymc..but no luck

[Elvis Poldervaart]

I thought so to, yes i am sure, i can do that blindly now sinds a few days 😉

Googled at work a lot again, power supply i read alot could be it
(did online some power supply consumption calculator tests)
but as i expected that won’t come above 620W,
i even doubled every choice, even i had crossfire and doubled all i would had a consumption of 780W, i have some youtube links ready for testing V-Sync and some utilities like vsynctester and radeon pro (for adaptive sync)
i feel and think its about FPS and Hz, in CCC there is only turn on/off V-Sync and triple buffering or something, NVIDIA have adaptive, think i miss/need that., one term i learned is “screen tearing “, read alot about it on R9 cards but on infinity modes and/or 4k monitors…

[Elvis Poldervaart]

Hi Aaron,

Thank you for posting that and for your reply,

GPUZ says at Bus Interface: PCI-E 3.0×16 3.0.

You mean Performance monitor?! have high peaks till 90 when playing in Vegas Pro, and a small program i downloaded but that stayed in green, no idea what i am looking at…

I didnt see in my bios USB 3.0 Turbo mode, Asmedia i turned off
and 3.0 usb, no differents.

LuxMark is working..i geuss…it did render some picture and then the result, but one good thing about what i noticed that in AMD CCC the Activity went all the way to 100% but when playing in vegas it does nothing sometimes it goed fast to 3% then to 0%, so that means vegas doesn’t use the GPU at all even its selected?!
in LuxMark also it says also Platform Version: OpenCL 1.2 ? shouldnt be this much higher ?

I dont have that kinda files/extensions, i only work with .mov and/or mp4.

And yes i read that about plugins, gonna do that for sure from now on, thank you

[Elvis Poldervaart]

Hello John,

Thank you for your reply and i went today for a fresh install of windows as it made me crazy on work, well crazy, sad…
I contacted BruceUSA even via mail as i am clueles and thankly
he replyd and suggested what you said and a fresh install to
but no luck…below is my reply to him so i dont have to type evrything again and hope you or someone else can help me.

“Hello Bruce,

First thank you for your reply, and i thought the same thing this morning already at work (keeps playing in your head), so i even went earlyer from work and did a fresh install and only the R9 290x GPU, and geuss what…

Same crazy things, i did almost the same as what you wrote (had to install quicktime etc. to)
When i turn on “wait for V-Sync” in VP13 the flickering/blinking with fast a movement video is almost gone on the external preview window/monitor, but now i have something new after selecting a few .mov files in vegas (explorer and turn on/off Auto preview play) VP13 on the first monitor flashes the whole screen like 5 times on both monitors (with external monitor on) or the external monitor freezes on a frame and then it is crashing time.

Problem Description
Application Name: Vegas Pro
Application Version: Version 13.0 (Build 453) 64-bit
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\Video Hardware Drivers\Monitor3D.dll
Fault Address: 0x000007FEDEBB522C
Fault Offset: 0x000000000000522C

So it have tobe the drivers and/or something todo with V-Sync (never knew about it untill now)
and the extended display setup i geuss…no idea nomore…

Below is a thread i sended on a forum so you can see my rig setup and more explained:

https://www.moviestudiozen.com/forum/vegas-pro/543-vegas-pro-13-and-asus-r9-290x-alot-of-problems#2091

I have to admit that the timeline playback are is a bit better with .MOV files but almost the same as the GTX 670, so not good either, the other project was with a .mp4 file well that stutter/lag even more now then before the fresh install and again
even the GTX 670 played it ok.

No idea nomore really, a bit sad if i must be honoust..

Greetings,
Elvis”

Help….