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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

You got AB running to see where the limitation is?

Can't really work out what's wrong with just "stutter" as the only piece of information.

From my experience leaving it on balanced or any of the settings without locking to P7 Core and P3 HBM2 can result in stutter as it switches power states. First try that. Though currently without more information there's not a lot more I can offer.
 
TrixX said:
You got AB running to see where the limitation is?

Can't really work out what's wrong with just "stutter" as the only piece of information.

From my experience leaving it on balanced or any of the settings without locking to P7 Core and P3 HBM2 can result in stutter as it switches power states. First try that. Though currently without more information there's not a lot more I can offer.
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i would say its the card from when i had my nvidia card which the games played fine on i haven't changed anything excpet for a new psu due to seasonic not liking vega
 
TheMadHatter said:
any help as my sapphire vega is doing my head in great card everyone says yeah right

cant even get a game to play correctly even walking on tomb raider causing stutter
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a) Use DDU in windows safe mode to wipe Intel (if any), Nvidia and AMD drivers. (you need all 3).
b) Use Ccleaner and repair registry (run twice).
c) Use the drivers coming later today otherwise 18.12.1.1

Let us know how it goes.
 
a) Use DDU in windows safe mode to wipe Intel (if any), Nvidia and AMD drivers. (you need all 3).
b) Use Ccleaner and repair registry (run twice).

already done the following made 0 difference and ill try the driver late any eta today when its due ?
 
im now going to hang my head in shame and get my coat "From my experience leaving it on balanced" to "optimised" seems to have fixed TR and PES 2018 (i didnt know about the balanced/optimised setting (mostly been a nvidia user) ("without locking to P7 Core and P3 HBM2" i havent done this as i don't know how to)

one other question should the usage be 99-100% on TR
 
Mine got.

Awful pic alert (I had a lamp shining on it)

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I cobbled the rig together so I have a spare rig for my mother's house. Works nice, very quiet too. I just left Valley running for an hour and it topped out at 64c. I didn't hear the fans spin up once (they won't until it hits 70)

So yeah, very happy indeed :)
 
I have the Sapphire Nitro Vega 64+... The other day I was super high and messing with settings, testing under-volt etc. At some point my PC crashed and wouldn't boot. i switched the bios switch on the GPU and it was fine again.

Problem being, because I was so high, I cannot remember if I switched the bios switch back again or if I left it as is. So the question I have is which is the default position for the bios switch on the card I have? Both bios's work fine now, but I have no idea which is the "default" one.

Also, I may as well ask: what are the difference between the two? Is it just the standard "power saving" and "performance" or something else?
 
ALXAndy said:
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I cobbled the rig together so I have a spare rig for my mother's house. Works nice, very quiet too. I just left Valley running for an hour and it topped out at 64c. I didn't hear the fans spin up once (they won't until it hits 70)

So yeah, very happy indeed :)
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Living upto your name anyway :p, case looks decent with those generic sleeveless psu's taken out. The amount of money those things cost you would think they would go with decent psu cables, even though its not a windowed case.
 
YB2ndBEST said:
I dont' care about anything in the new driver except memory timings... can't wait to play with those tonight! Anyone mess with them yet?
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Well there's only 3 options: Auto, Level 1, and Level 2, and they seem primarily designed for non-gaming applications. So far no-one has reported any games that achieve higher performance with any of these settings with a Vega card. :(
 
DragonQ said:
Well there's only 3 options: Auto, Level 1, and Level 2, and they seem primarily designed for non-gaming applications. So far no-one has reported any games that achieve higher performance with any of these settings with a Vega card. :(
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To be brutally honest those new drivers are an utter farce, AMD have whether intentional or not, hidden the fact that none of the 3 Options (Mem OC, Auto OC, UnderVolt) work in harmony together, you choose one or none at all which is a pretty rubbish thing really, it changes nothing for most Vega owners as running the Auto OC means you lose the nice Undervolt, the Mem OC basically does nothing and the Undervolt option actually gimps your performance...

Coupled with the fact that the drivers are prone to other issues like causing BSOD, Black SCreens on start up, hitching and stutter in games etc, id say those drivers should never have been released in their current state, infact they should have been marked as a Beta driver with a huge disclaimer that they are a work in progress etc.

Ive gone back to the previous drivers, i wont touch those new drivers until AMD sort out the many glaring issues and actually make the Auto Tune up stuff actually work mutually together, yes its lazy but AMD harped on about how much sensors etc that Vega has, im fairly certain they should be able to write something that results in you pressing a button and the driver and software working out the best settings for your card etc.
 
Having read through the recent posts in this thread, I'm going to use an earlier set of drivers for me sapphire V64 when it arrives today. I don't want all the hassle that the latest drivers cause. Can I use afterburner to undervolt without upsetting the performance of the V64 too much? If so, I'll use that for the time being until amd sorts this situation out. I'll have a go with wattman later on once I can get some info on using it, I don't even know what these "P states" are (frequencies?).
Any info given on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
pieman109 said:
Having read through the recent posts in this thread, I'm going to use an earlier set of drivers for me sapphire V64 when it arrives today. I don't want all the hassle that the latest drivers cause. Can I use afterburner to undervolt without upsetting the performance of the V64 too much? If so, I'll use that for the time being until amd sorts this situation out. I'll have a go with wattman later on once I can get some info on using it, I don't even know what these "P states" are (frequencies?).
Any info given on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Look, you can use Wattman with the latest drivers, undervolt as normal and the cards work fine. The settings I have posted a dozen times the last few weeks, work perfectly.

MSI AB doesn't have the necessary tools to properly undervolt, while it drops performance if you use the overlay.
 
Panos said:
Look, you can use Wattman with the latest drivers, undervolt as normal and the cards work fine. The settings I have posted a dozen times the last few weeks, work perfectly.

MSI AB doesn't have the necessary tools to properly undervolt, while it drops performance if you use the overlay.
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Are these settings you posted in this thread? If so I'll have a trawl through and see if I can find 'em.
 
EloquentParadox said:
I have the Sapphire Nitro Vega 64+... The other day I was super high and messing with settings, testing under-volt etc. At some point my PC crashed and wouldn't boot. i switched the bios switch on the GPU and it was fine again.

Problem being, because I was so high, I cannot remember if I switched the bios switch back again or if I left it as is. So the question I have is which is the default position for the bios switch on the card I have? Both bios's work fine now, but I have no idea which is the "default" one.

Also, I may as well ask: what are the difference between the two? Is it just the standard "power saving" and "performance" or something else?
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The default bios position (1) with a board power limit of 210 watts on the card is the one close towards the back of the case and the other position (2) increases the board power limit to 240 watts and therefore is the performance setting.

You can check using TechPowerUp GPU-Z in the advanced settings to find out your card board power limit and bios setting.
 
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Panos said:
Look, you can use Wattman with the latest drivers, undervolt as normal and the cards work fine. The settings I have posted a dozen times the last few weeks, work perfectly.

MSI AB doesn't have the necessary tools to properly undervolt, while it drops performance if you use the overlay.
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Unless MSI Afterburner is updated to fix fan profiles with this driver, I think 18.11.2 is a better option for me for now. Whether I can be bothered to revert is another question...probably depends how long it takes Afterburner to be updated or AMD to fix the idle fan issue. I do like the settings overlay and instant replay stuff though.
 
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