AMD Readies Massive Radeon Software Update with Crimson Relive Drivers – Performance Increases For R

Nasher · 8 Dec 2016 at 16:51

Driver install screwed up half way through. Now says no AMD hardware found whenever I try again :/

henson0115 · 8 Dec 2016 at 16:53

Nasher said:
Driver install screwed up half way through. Now says no AMD hardware found whenever I try again :/

tried DDU? i reckon that will sort you out.

Nasher · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:04

Hmm it installed the menus etc but refuses to do the drivers. I had to go to device manager after and do it manually for some reason.

I've had the same problem with the older drivers. I had to run the install more than once for it to work using the "workaroundinstall" flag in the config file. Not sure whats causing it :/

I know from experience that if you leave the AMD driver half installed and reboot...BSOD on startup, which is a PITA to fix on win10.

FredFlint · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:05

This is the first driver since I got my FuryX(over a year) that the installer works and does not lock my pc up

Having to use DDU then Device manager then installing each of the other bits one by one was a real pain in the balls.

Bonjour · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:15

FredFlint said:
This is the first driver since I got my FuryX(over a year) that the installer works and does not lock my pc up Having to use DDU then Device manager then installing each of the other bits one by one was a real pain in the balls.

I've had similar issues with my CF 390s (computers appears to lock and then drivers take 1hr+ to install). Hopefully these drivers will fix that annoyance.

tommybhoy · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:19

LoadsaMoney said:
From whay ive read, Chill doesn't

From what I read pre-release, I had zero expectation of Chill being CrossFire compatible anyway, as I'd say it defeats the purpose of mgpu.

TonyTurbo78 said:
UPDATE ON MY BLACK SCREENS!

MSI AB disabled, no issues since, no black screens nothing. So, looks like MSI AB or Rivatuner doesn't play nice with this new driver suite (well for me anyway, might be different for others) just uploading a video now to Youtube to see how it looks quality wise.

Good news you identified the problem TT, you used the new fault reporting to inform AMD and any chance of your YT link to check out the quality?

tommybhoy · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:23

Bonjour said:
I've had similar issues with my CF 390s (computers appears to lock and then drivers take 1hr+ to install). Hopefully these drivers will fix that annoyance.

Don't know if it's the same fault but back in my mgpu days(can't remember what ones I was running) it done that every so often, disabling CrossFire before you started the install fixed that issue for me.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:24

Apparently AMD has added new support for VR specific features:

http://www.roadtovr.com/amd-radeon-...ous-space-warp-latest-radeon-software-update/

AMD have announced the release of their latest Radeon software suite, snappily titled “Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition” and, among many other features, the new suite brings with it support for Oculus’ newly introduced VR performance enhancement feature Asynchronous Space Warp plus VR focused rendering features ‘MultiRes’ and ‘MultiView’.

AMD’s “Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition” is the latest version of the company’s software suite designed for AMD’s Radeon GPUs. This particular update is packed with new features, including ‘ReLive’ – live video game capture and sharing, ‘Radeon Chill’ – an input rate linked power saving frame rate limiter and enhancements to AMD’s open variable frame rate technology Freesync.

For AMD VR users however, especially those rocking Oculus Rift headsets, the most interesting addition is official support for the platform’s Asynchronous Space Warp performance enhancement. Unveiled at this year’s Oculus Connect developer conference by company CEO Brendan Iribe, ASW is the evolution of ATW (Asynchronous Time Warp) allows judder reducing frame warping for both transnational (side to side) and rotational (turning) head movements. The upshot of the announcement was that Oculus declared it’s minimum hardware specification could be dropped.

liquid-vr-logo-1This is of course great news for AMD GPU owners, however there is some confusion as to which cards are supported with this update. As far as we understand, owners of the current line of 4xx Polaris-based cards will be well catered for, but older 3xx chipset owners are currently out of luck. A statement made recently via Reddit indicates that the company are “looking into the feasibility of enabling ASW on other/older parts.” We’ve reached out to AMD to clarify the situation here.

Update Dec 8th 14:38 GMT: AMD have confirmed that ASW is at present supported only on 4xx AMD GPU chipsets.

As well as ASW, the latest LiquidVR (the company’s VR focused API suite) suite included with the Crimson ReLive release adds two more important VR rendering features, MultiView and MultiRes. MultiView is AMD’s equivalent of NVIDIA’s SMP (Simultaneous Multi-projection) which greatly enhances efficiency when rendering stereoscopic scenes (which of course all desktop VR headsets do). MultiRes is equivalent to NVIDIA’s Multi-res Shading, a performance optimisation which reduces detail of the rendered view the further towards the edge of a user’s field of view. Both will be important performance enhancements as the costs of entry for VR capable PC hardware drops.

The latest Radeon release with the latest LiquidVR is an important milestone for the company, keeping its core VR performance featureset competitive with NVIDIA’s as we approach the second year of high fidelity PC based consumer virtual reality. AMD card owners can grab the latest software from here.

Also,it seems AMD DX11 overhead has improved as on Reddit when someone tried the newer drivers when compared to the previous set.

Bonjour · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:33

tommybhoy said:
Don't know if it's the same fault but back in my mgpu days(can't remember what ones I was running) it done that every so often, disabling CrossFire before you started the install fixed that issue for me.

Awesome. Thanks for the tip. Will try this evening.

LoadsaMoney · 8 Dec 2016 at 17:53

tommybhoy said:
Don't know if it's the same fault but back in my mgpu days(can't remember what ones I was running) it done that every so often, disabling CrossFire before you started the install fixed that issue for me.

I didn't know you could install the drivers with Xfire disabled

Before i got onto these Crimsons (16.3s), i always had problems installing the drivers, everytime i started the install, when it came to installing the display driver, the Green progress bar just used to crawl all the way to the end until it filled up, then i had to hard restart, and run the installer again, for it to continue from after that (started from the HDMI audio driver), to finish the install.

TonyTurbo78 · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:32

tommybhoy said:
From what I read pre-release, I had zero expectation of Chill being CrossFire compatible anyway, as I'd say it defeats the purpose of mgpu.

Good news you identified the problem TT, you used the new fault reporting to inform AMD and any chance of your YT link to check out the quality?

Sure thing mate, keep an eye here, can't do it tonight I'm out but can do it tomorrow.

Uhtred · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:38

Does anyone know how to get rid of the recording counter on the top left? Or at least move it...

Raelgun · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:40

Is there a way to install Relive portion of the drivers separately, keep trying to install the whole package and doesnt let me install that, everything else installs however.

shankly1985 · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:51

Uhtred said:
Does anyone know how to get rid of the recording counter on the top left? Or at least move it...

I seen something when you bring up the overlay alt-z then setting and you can change its location etc

Uhtred · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:07

shankly1985 said:
I seen something when you bring up the overlay alt-z then setting and you can change its location etc

legend

Panos · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:13

Installed new drivers after uninstalling the old and used DDU. no issues.

Lokken86 · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:24

AMD shares over $10 since this came out. Take it it's good then?

beany_bot · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:32

Maybe those having problems are overdoing things a bit?
I didn't uninstall drivers, didn't use DDU. Just literally went into Radeon and clicked update....that was it lol. It updated Radeon, my drivers and then I clicked install ReLive. Hardly rocket science. Had and have no issues. Why make it harder for ourselves?

IF later down the line I have issues I can use DDU. But to use it pre-imitatively seems silly.

Seanspeed · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:51

beany_bot said:
Maybe those having problems are overdoing things a bit?
I didn't uninstall drivers, didn't use DDU. Just literally went into Radeon and clicked update....that was it lol. It updated Radeon, my drivers and then I clicked install ReLive. Hardly rocket science. Had and have no issues. Why make it harder for ourselves?

IF later down the line I have issues I can use DDU. But to use it pre-imitatively seems silly.

It might surprise you to know that people have different experiences when it comes to this stuff quite regularly.

Just because things were smooth sailing for you doesn't mean everybody else is an idiot who doesn't know what they are doing. Drivers are a finnicky business these days.

shankly1985 · 8 Dec 2016 at 21:58

I only used DDU this time because it's been months since I fully wiped xd