# Issue with the latest AMD Radeon Driver

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942 "2023-07-13T17:28:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/1 "2023-07-13T17:28:44Z")

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Hi  
After windows update installed the latest AMD Radeon Driver for my Radeon Pro W5500 graphic card  
my renderer went all black, so I needed to roll back my driver to the older version.  
Anyone have an idea how to resolve the problem  
Note: I’m using VTK ActiViz libraries version 9.2.2023.328  
Any insight would be much appreciated

MK

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### Author: ![sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sankhesh/32/73_2.png) [@sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/sankhesh)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/2 "2023-07-14T03:38:47Z")

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It would help to understand the issue if you could provide details of your rendering pipeline. Which mappers, actors, property settings etc.?

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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/3 "2023-07-14T13:07:19Z")

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It’s not about rendering pipeline, renderer is not displaying anything, I can’t change even the renderer background color. I think problem is much deeper than constructing simple rendering pipeline and showing the actor.  
MK

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### Author: ![sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/sankhesh/32/73_2.png) [@sankhesh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/sankhesh)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/4 "2023-07-14T13:43:43Z")

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I see. Do you see any errors? It could be that there are failures in the graphics context initialization. To narrow it down to a vtk graphics issue - could you try [paraview](https://www.paraview.org/download) on that machine? Based on what you see, it should tell us whether the issue stems from how VTK initializes the context or if it is rooted in ActiViz.

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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/5 "2023-07-14T14:53:16Z")

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Thanks for the tip, I was thinking on the same line, but never tested it before. It turns out that Paraview is working OK, there must be something else going on with my application, I’ll investigate more to check if this is Activiz problem or my application.  
MK

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### Author: ![madmoonman](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@madmoonman](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/madmoonman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/6 "2023-07-14T16:20:31Z")

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Maybe you are running into the same FXAA issue I experienced recently?  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/issues/18970](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/issues/18970)

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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/7 "2023-07-14T18:42:01Z")

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Ah, thanks for pointer, I didn’t know where to start. I’ll try testing over the weekend, will post what I found.  
Thanks

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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/8 "2023-07-14T23:40:55Z")

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OK, here is what I found out:  
I needed to turn off FXAA in order my application to work. Not sure why is not working with latest drivers 2022/2023.  
Using older driver released in 2021 didn’t have any issues.

Thanks again for help  
MK

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### Author: ![santichialvo](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/santichialvo/32/1248_2.png) [@santichialvo](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/santichialvo)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/9 "2024-06-01T19:18:02Z")

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Hi, was there any other solution rather than disabling FXAA? Was the bug found? We’re seeing something similar recently on a PC with an AMD card. VTK 9.2.6.

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### Author: ![MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@MarKara](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/MarKara)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/issue-with-the-latest-amd-radeon-driver/11942/10 "2024-06-02T00:23:43Z")

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Not that I’m aware of. Didn’t research subject any further and meanwhile I switched to NVIDIA  
Though I’m still keeping FXAA because of my users.  
Sorry but not help here.  
MK
