The AMD Driver Thread

[Kirkatron]

Its none of these as before I put the 9070 in I had my 3060 Ti in there with minimal stuttering.. its an AMD thing that I had previously with Vega 56, RX 480/580, 7950 etc. I thought after 6 years of being on Nvidia that AMD would have this sorted by now but I was thinking brute force it with a 9070 lol It aint as bad as it was years ago but its still there, random stuttering/juddering.

Anyway I can live with it for now

I say this as I have a 9070 XT and I have zero stutter. I'm running a 13700k with 7400 DDR5. My previous 7900 XTX didn't have stutter either.
However when I changed from a 3070 to a 3090 when I had a 10900k with 4400 ddr4 ram it unveiled an issue with my RAM and I had stuttering and occasional crashes.
If you haven't got a frame limit set then your CPU and Ram will be working a lot harder due to the much higher frame rates, which may have uncovered an existing issue that wasn't noticeable at lower frame rates. Even with a frame limit set, it'll be working harder due to the higher minimum frames.
It's definitely worth checking.
Your VRAM wasn't the same on the 3060 Ti. So disregarding this seems weird. Is your VRAM running stock on the 9070 with these issues. Definitely worth doing a Vulkan Mem Test to see if the throughput is as expected for the data rate and that there are no errors detected.

 

[MyBrainz]

Seems like I have almost sorted out the DayZ stuttering, I've just left all the settings at default for the DayZ game profile and use vsync in game. It seems better now I switched the refresh rates back to their native 144Hz from having them at 120Hz (reason for 120 is for streaming purposes having to have OBS at 60fps for Twitch). Tested it with Twitch by setting OBS to 72fps and it works perfectly. I guess the 3060 Ti didnt have the grunt to play DayZ and run OBS at the same time with OBS needing a fair bit of GPU usage these days.

The AMD H.264 encoder is decent now, pretty much nipping at the heals of Nvenc in my opinion. AV1 test at 25K bitrate with 1440p output to Youtube was just amazing! Typical that it all works great now I dont really stream anymore

There is one issue I noticed by accident and that is the glow sticks in DayZ were causing me stutter and fps drops while in the underground part of the Namalsk map (Athena 2). I never noticed it before so I feel it might just happen on AMD cards. I wonder what setting in the drivers could help reduce the fps drops?

Anyways I'm fairly happy now I know I dont need to use any of the fancy tech tricks built into the driver, just default and vsync in the game with native refresh rates is working very well, with game settings even to extreme if I need but then I might miss Famas Boy hiding in the trees so ambient occlusion is set to low

One more thing, minimising and maximising games from full screen is instant, I never had that on Nvidia, had to wait a second or 2, this was in Win 11 when I upgraded from Win 10. Also changing display settings is way quicker too, not needing to wait for all 4 displays to go off and on again. Oh and idle clocks running 4x 1080p 144Hz displays.. just perfect double figures with 30c-32c temps (even in this warm weather) which is just how I like it!

 

[tommybhoy]

There is one issue I noticed by accident and that is the glow sticks in DayZ were causing me stutter and fps drops while in the underground part of the Namalsk map (Athena 2). I never noticed it before so I feel it might just happen on AMD cards. I wonder what setting in the drivers could help reduce the fps drops?

Try vsync off in game, with vsync on either globally or DayZ game profile in Adrenaline.

Could also limit your refresh rate slightly under your output refresh rate, might help.