The AMD Driver Thread

Davedree · 17 Oct 2017 at 15:01

Is there a way to get the radeon additional settings up In 17.10.1

It used to be in home>preferences then click radeon additional settings. But it is not to be found anymore.Driver notes mention the retirement of of it and states it's been moved into radeon settings.
But all I can see under display is colour depth and pixel format, when clicking the drop downs there are no other options.
It's stuck at 8bit and ycbcr 4:2:0

LtMatt · 17 Oct 2017 at 15:06

Davedree said:
Is there a way to get the radeon additional settings up In 17.10.1

It used to be in home>preferences then click radeon additional settings. But it is not to be found anymore.Driver notes mention the retirement of of it and states it's been moved into radeon settings.
But all I can see under display is colour depth and pixel format, when clicking the drop downs there are no other options.
It's stuck at 8bit and ycbcr 4:2:0

Pixel format is the option you are looking for Dave, but not sure why it only gives you one option.

Davedree · 17 Oct 2017 at 15:13

That's strange as yours gives you different modes to select. I wonder if it's because I'm using hdmi 2

Davedree · 17 Oct 2017 at 15:29

Just tried it on my 24INCH 1080p monitor and the pixel formats are selectable. Yet when connected to my Sony 4k TV running at 1080p I
It only shows the one. Do you know if it's a driver script that determines the settings, or there's some kind of handshake?

https://i.imgur.com/pMy38DZ.jpg
Sony at 1080p

https://i.imgur.com/PeKCdhX.jpg
Asus at 1080p

Davedree · 17 Oct 2017 at 16:26

Solved it I needed to turn an enhanced hdmi setting on in my TV menu, and the enhanced mode only works on hdmi ports 2 and 3.

10bit y4:2:0 ftw
https://i.imgur.com/MrxoXHX.jpg

Steampunk · 17 Oct 2017 at 16:43

@AMDMatt, are you guys ever going to fix the Wattmen reset on boot with hibernate/fastboot? People have been complaining about this for more than a year - losing all your settings every boot should be a high priority shouldn't it? Why have AMD still not fixed it?

LtMatt · 17 Oct 2017 at 17:11

Steampunk said:
@AMDMatt, are you guys ever going to fix the Wattmen reset on boot with hibernate/fastboot? People have been complaining about this for more than a year - losing all your settings every boot should be a high priority shouldn't it? Why have AMD still not fixed it?

Not personally aware of that bug. The settings save on my system when using Hibernate/Fast Boot. The only time my settings reset is when i have a driver/system crash.

Steampunk · 17 Oct 2017 at 17:24

AMDMatt said:
Not personally aware of that bug. The settings save on my system when using Hibernate/Fast Boot. The only time my settings reset is when i have a driver/system crash.

Come on, it's all over your own AMD forums, as well as everywhere else with a quick google. I've reported it many times too directly on the web reporting page. It's like Wattmen settings are incompatible with fastboot/hibernate.

Mesocyclone · 17 Oct 2017 at 19:43

The same nightmare on my system starting from 17.9.2. Cant install these correctly, results: no working CF, no screen connected to AMD products or one GPU automatic disabled in the devicemanager. Have send thickets, almost begged for investigation/fixing, but no dice.

I guess it should come from somebody with commerical weight for taking action

Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2017 at 19:51

Steampunk said:
Come on, it's all over your own AMD forums, as well as everywhere else with a quick google. I've reported it many times too directly on the web reporting page. It's like Wattmen settings are incompatible with fastboot/hibernate.

I've had this problem with the 480X, 580X and now Vega64, Wattman resets to the default on every single reboot or from hibernation, Sleep etc....

On a side note I'm looking forward to see what the Fall Creators Update does for Game Mode

shankly1985 · 17 Oct 2017 at 20:13

I have also had this happen couple times in the past. Not had it happen for months now though. Not sure what triggers it.

Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2017 at 22:35

The fall creators update driver refuses to install, Had to go back to an earlier one.

Only ever gets halfway then stops, The previous driver installs in seconds.

shankly1985 · 17 Oct 2017 at 22:51

Dicehunter said:
The fall creators update driver refuses to install, Had to go back to an earlier one.

Only ever gets halfway then stops, The previous driver installs in seconds.

Am holding off for about a week or so before I update.

gupsterg · 17 Oct 2017 at 22:58

Dicehunter said:
I've had this problem with the 480X, 580X and now Vega64, Wattman resets to the default on every single reboot or from hibernation, Sleep etc....

On a side note I'm looking forward to see what the Fall Creators Update does for Game Mode

At least with Polaris and below "we" could mod bios to be able to set card as "we" want without OS SW/issues of these SW, with VEGA that option is gone

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Dicehunter · 17 Oct 2017 at 23:09

shankly1985 said:
Am holding off for about a week or so before I update.

The Windows update itself works fine, Just the driver appears to be poo.

gupsterg said:
At least with Polaris and below "we" could mod bios to be able to set card as "we" want without OS SW/issues of these SW, with VEGA that option is gone .

True, It seems as we get more advanced technology, We also get more and more limited with what we can do to it.

shankly1985 · 17 Oct 2017 at 23:14

Dicehunter said:
The Windows update itself works fine, Just the driver appears to be poo.

People on Reddit saying 17.10.1 work fine on the new Windows update. I might do it on the weekend

gupsterg · 17 Oct 2017 at 23:27

Dicehunter said:
True, It seems as we get more advanced technology, We also get more and more limited with what we can do to it.

Yes is a shame

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It would be nice if cards aimed at "Enthusiast" could have say VBIOS with options "we" could configure via a menu system, just like "we" do on motherboard for CPU, etc. "Vendors" happy that "we" are not modding and users happy they have access.

Dicehunter · 18 Oct 2017 at 02:54

I have noticed something annoying with this new Creators Update driver, The displays Hz drops down to the minimum Freesync range, In the case of my monitor it's 40Hz, If I keep the monitors OSD open I can see the Hz change from 144 to 40, Makes the mouse feel very sluggish, It goes away during games etc... but when just using the mouse on the desktop or webpages it's not a nice experience, The moment I switch Freesync off it goes away and stays at 144Hz, I hope this gets fixed as having a ghosting mouse and sluggish desktop aint a good experience.

DragonQ · 18 Oct 2017 at 08:54

shankly1985 said:
I have also had this happen couple times in the past. Not had it happen for months now though. Not sure what triggers it.

Same, my settings get reset every now and then. Could just be after crashes or BIOS "overclock failures" though, can't remember.

DragonQ · 18 Oct 2017 at 08:59

Dicehunter said:
I have noticed something annoying with this new Creators Update driver, The displays Hz drops down to the minimum Freesync range, In the case of my monitor it's 40Hz, If I keep the monitors OSD open I can see the Hz change from 144 to 40, Makes the mouse feel very sluggish, It goes away during games etc... but when just using the mouse on the desktop or webpages it's not a nice experience, The moment I switch Freesync off it goes away and stays at 144Hz, I hope this gets fixed as having a ghosting mouse and sluggish desktop aint a good experience.

Are you sure it's not actually just using FreeSync on the desktop? Theoretically that'd be a good thing because if you're looking at a static image there's no point it wasting power refreshing at 144 Hz. I have no idea if FreeSync can even work outside of fullscreen applications though because surely applications and Windows GUI frameworks rely on a fixed refresh rate.

If it is just stuck at 40 Hz though then that's clearly a bug.