The AMD Driver Thread

melmac · 2 Apr 2025 at 20:31

humbug said:
AMD created Display Port for a reason

AMD did not create Display port.

It was a bunch of companies back in 2005 that developed the standard and handed it off to VESA in 2006. The companies involved were the likes of ATI, Nvidia, Dell, HP, Samsung, Genesis, Molex, Philips and some others. And I don't think any of the patents involved in display port belong to either AMD/ATI or Nvidia.

Dontrocktheboat · 2 Apr 2025 at 20:40

Kirkatron said:
Ok, so currently have two Edge browsers side by side. Looked like everything was working fine then moved my mouse from one browser to the other and the screen went black for a very short time and returned back. I'm struggling to replicate consistently as it appears to be effected by what is in the browser at the time of two being open side by side. For example, now I can happily browse both and nothing is happening (Just as i went to send it went black haha, so no idea what's going on). Super strange, but two Edge browsers side by side def causes issues.

that's it. Mine flickers and says "Instant Game Response"

This is what the issues could be

"If you're experiencing flickering with "Instant Game Response" on an AMD graphics card, especially with OLED TVs like the LG CX, the issue might be related to VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) and fluctuating frame rates in darker areas of games."

This issue is sadly happening in a browser, especially when i have two open at the same time...which is strange.

Hate to say it but never had an issue with gsync on this tv.....I guess you cant win them all AMD....

Kirkatron · 2 Apr 2025 at 21:08

Dontrocktheboat said:
that's it. Mine flickers and says "Instant Game Response"

This is what the issues could be

"If you're experiencing flickering with "Instant Game Response" on an AMD graphics card, especially with OLED TVs like the LG CX, the issue might be related to VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) and fluctuating frame rates in darker areas of games."

This issue is sadly happening in a browser, especially when i have two open at the same time...which is strange.

Hate to say it but never had an issue with gsync on this tv.....I guess you cant win them all AMD....

I only see this issue with two browsers open and they have to be anchored to the sides. If they are floating windows it doesn't seem to be an issue.

I had a 7900 XTX for two years and this issue is definitely new as I will have used multiple browsers at once over that two year period.
I actually never had an issue with it in that time other than with Hell Divers 2 at launch, but I think that was more to do with the game.

pooley · 2 Apr 2025 at 21:11

Just moved to Win11 the other day and this flickering issue is happening to me also, Using Brave browser on a LGCX with a RX6900 Gpu, Going fullscreen stops the browser from flicker but then it has problems when scrolling it goes wonky quite often. Never had this on Win10!

humbug · 3 Apr 2025 at 10:39

pooley said:
Just moved to Win11 the other day and this flickering issue is happening to me also, Using Brave browser on a LGCX with a RX6900 Gpu, Going fullscreen stops the browser from flicker but then it has problems when scrolling it goes wonky quite often. Never had this on Win10!

It seems there are people with this issue on Win 11, for science make sure Dynamic Refresh Rate is off, should not be running that anyway you're never going to save a polar bear by reducing you screens power consumption by 3 watts.

And set your refresh rate to 60 Hz, just to see if that fixes it, if it does use Display Port if you can or get a new good quality cable.

Phixsator · 3 Apr 2025 at 21:04

Kirkatron said:
Will it be obvious? Or is it a slight flicker I'm looking for?
I haven't had two side by side since this driver so guessing this is why I haven't seen it before.

Mine will black screen on and off as if the monitor is asked to display an unsupported resolution or somehow lacks bandwidth. I'm on a Sammy G8 OLED so only 175hz 3440x1440, nothing to crazy to drive these days.

PS: Dynamic refresh is off

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 11:42

25.3.2 9070 XT on a 4k 144hz through HDMI 2.1 is keeping my VRAM at 909Mhz when idle with power at 30w. If I set to 60hz then the VRAM drops to double figures and power into the teens. VRR is on through freesync premium pro so the max refresh shouldn't matter as it should lower this automatically.

I remember people having this issue on the previous gen but it didn't effect my 7900 XTX.

Any ideas on how to fix?

humbug · 4 Apr 2025 at 11:58

Kirkatron said:
25.3.2 9070 XT on a 4k 144hz through HDMI 2.1 is keeping my VRAM at 909Mhz when idle with power at 30w. If I set to 60hz then the VRAM drops to double figures and power into the teens. VRR is on through freesync premium pro so the max refresh shouldn't matter as it should lower this automatically.

I remember people having this issue on the previous gen but it didn't effect my 7900 XTX.

Any ideas on how to fix?

I don't see anything wrong with that, power consumption is about the same as it is on my 7800 XT at 1440P HDR10 165Hz, if anything mine is perhaps closer to 40 watts.

If its running a high res high refresh rate the power is going to be a little higher but it does seem lower than it is on the 7000 series as working correctly.

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 12:01

humbug said:
I don't see anything wrong with that, power consumption is about the same as it is on my 7800 XT at 1440P HDR10 165Hz, if anything mine is perhaps closer to 40 watts.

If its running a high res high refresh rate the power is going to be a little higher but it does seem lower than it is on the 7000 series as working correctly.

The 30w doesn't bother me so much. It's the fact that the VRAM gets stuck at 909Mhz and doesn't ramp down. It's just weird.
By comparison though my 7900 XTX used 18w at same settings and the VRAM would drop to 30Mhz

humbug · 4 Apr 2025 at 12:12

Kirkatron said:
The 30w doesn't bother me so much. It's the fact that the VRAM gets stuck at 909Mhz and doesn't ramp down. It's just weird.
By comparison though my 7900 XTX used 18w at same settings and the VRAM would drop to 30Mhz

I see, i'm not at my PC for a few days so couldn't tell you have mine behaves with VRam.

Mr Evil · 4 Apr 2025 at 14:44

Kirkatron said:
25.3.2 9070 XT on a 4k 144hz through HDMI 2.1 is keeping my VRAM at 909Mhz when idle with power at 30w. If I set to 60hz then the VRAM drops to double figures and power into the teens. VRR is on through freesync premium pro so the max refresh shouldn't matter as it should lower this automatically.

I remember people having this issue on the previous gen but it didn't effect my 7900 XTX.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Can you use DP instead of HDMI? I get higher idle power consumption on my 7900XTX if I use HDMI.

Kirkatron · 4 Apr 2025 at 15:22

Mr Evil said:
Can you use DP instead of HDMI? I get higher idle power consumption on my 7900XTX if I use HDMI.

Unfortunately not, I only have 4 HDMI 2.1 ports. I didn't have this behaviour on my 7900 XTX with HDMI though, I was maybe lucky with that card. It's not the end of the world, I'll just put up with it if there isn't a fix.

pooley · 4 Apr 2025 at 17:21

humbug said:
It seems there are people with this issue on Win 11, for science make sure Dynamic Refresh Rate is off, should not be running that anyway you're never going to save a polar bear by reducing you screens power consumption by 3 watts.

And set your refresh rate to 60 Hz, just to see if that fixes it, if it does use Display Port if you can or get a new good quality cable.

I don't have any display ports with it being a tv or support for dynamic refresh but putting the display @60hz seems to have sorted it, Thanks for the tip!

BS Dave · 5 Apr 2025 at 07:57

Hey everyone I've got a 9070xt on order, but currently used nvidia DLDSR in a few games. Is there an AMD equivalent?

I like to run DLSS Performance at 4k then downscale to 1440p

NutritioN · 5 Apr 2025 at 08:34

Someone will be along with a better answer, but isn't 4k with DLSS performance equivalent to 1080p?

SpudMaster · 5 Apr 2025 at 14:32

BS Dave said:
Hey everyone I've got a 9070xt on order, but currently used nvidia DLDSR in a few games. Is there an AMD equivalent?

I like to run DLSS Performance at 4k then downscale to 1440p

Virtual Super Resolution will allow you run at higher resolutions than your monitor supports. So you can render a 4k image on a1440 monitor

BS Dave · 5 Apr 2025 at 14:41

NutritioN said:
Someone will be along with a better answer, but isn't 4k with DLSS performance equivalent to 1080p?

Yes. Which is better than 1440p quality which renders under 1080p. Upscaling to 4k is often the sweet spot and when you downscale produces a very sharp image, plus it ensures the full ultra textures are used, again resulting in a sharper image

ICDP · 5 Apr 2025 at 16:11

I would like to correct one misconception. 4K textures don’t need 4k screen or resolution to render correctly. You will get the full texture regardless of the resolution your monitor is set. For reference I did a lot of 2D texture work for games companies over the past 20 years.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 Apr 2025 at 08:18

Is anyone else getting this issue, I'm assuming it's driver related...

If I'm playing a game and switch focus, say to a browser window (e.g. to read these forums in between rounds of CoD) I get a 1-2 second black screen. Then when I switch back I get the same. The game doesn't seem to have an issue suggesting the drivers has crashed out anything though.
It's just getting really annoying.

Icyseanfitz · 7 Apr 2025 at 11:42

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Is anyone else getting this issue, I'm assuming it's driver related...

If I'm playing a game and switch focus, say to a browser window (e.g. to read these forums in between rounds of CoD) I get a 1-2 second black screen. Then when I switch back I get the same. The game doesn't seem to have an issue suggesting the drivers has crashed out anything though.
It's just getting really annoying.

I was getting this consistently with my new 9070xt with chrome, I believe I disabled the ability for chrome to use the GPU in settings and it fixed it completely