after upgrading from 15.7.1 to Crimson, i am getting a horrible flickering/flashing in millisecond fashion in games. tried disabling ULPS in after burner, no luck. tried with/without powertune option in After burner, no luck. tried upgrading afterburner and enable/disable ULPS no luck.
on top of all that, the new crimson driver now forces the GPU clock speed to be in 3d mode all the time. i usually have separate 2d/3d profiles setup for GPU clock speeds, so when in desktop environment the clocks are low, but in games it ramps up. but now it's constantly stuck in 3d mode regardless whether or not you're gaming. i think it might have something to do with the new UI. for some reason, it's making the GPU think it's in a game. i've seen this happen before when some application would render in 3d which would cause the gpu to go into 3d mode. i think the new UI is doing the same thing.
i rolled back the driver back to 15.7.1 and games no longer flicker. but since i did a driver roll-back, the Crimson UI is still there. although games no longer flicker, the Crimson UI still making the GPU think it's in 3d mode. i might do a full uninstall tonight to put CCC back on.