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The AMD Driver Thread

Only had a quick play with the options on the desktop and the running Superposition Benchmark but...

auto under volting didn't seem to do anything, auto o/c GPU just ramped my GPU clock up to around 1800Mhz and crashed the driver and auto o/c Mem doesn't seem to do anything either. :/
Mem timings tried auto/1/2 and saw no diff in Superposition scores.
Fan/temp control seems to work well, only dialled in a quick curve so need to tweak more.

Profile check/Game advisor thing doesn't work. It just span the refresh icon for an age and now just says 'Unable to get requirements for any games' and refresh no longer works.

Good news (at least from running Superposition), is that dialling in my normal manual o/c settings shows good performance with it holding max clocks more stable than before.

So so far mixed to be honest. Mainly seems the new features are just broken but as long as performance is there and games still run ok I'm not too fussed with waiting for them to be fixed but if these issues are wide spread for people it wont look good for them. ):
 
just updated the drivers and upon trying to boot pes2018 I got a bsod "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" caused by" atikmdag.sys"

EDIT just tried to play pes again and again another bsod

EDIT 2 just benchmarked Rise of the tomb raider and have lost 23 FPS forom from 91 average to 68
 
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iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
Love those pretzels!

After applying the GPU overclock option instead my PC crashed, this is hilarious.
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AMD rep @ reddit..

I want to point out that using the Auto-OC feature on Vega will most likely result in a crash but it is somewhat expected as it tries to find the threshold for your card, in fact, the warning message will notify you of that to an extent.
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i would just benchmarked assassins creed odyssey and im down 20 fps on that as well

and now ive just had a pop up saying default radeon wattman settings have been applied due to system failure even though i have never seen or been in wattman
 
TheMadHatter said:
i would just benchmarked assassins creed odyssey and im down 20 fps on that as well

and now ive just had a pop up saying default radeon wattman settings have been applied due to system failure even though i have never seen or been in wattman
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I am installing these now. Will give Assassins Creed Odysey a bench when done and report back.
 
docsonic said:
AMD rep @ reddit..
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iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
Ok, so does wattman log the last stable frequency before the crash and use that the next time or is it completely useless? :p
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To me, it seems backwards. It seemed to just massively ramp my GPU clock up instantly and crashed the driver.

To my mind it should slowly keep increasing until it hits an issue and then set it to just below that.
 
Damn it, I upgraded and immediately alt-tabbing or alt-entering takes 3 times as long as it used to. I previously had this issue with my RX 480. I'll have to try a DDU I guess. >_>

It also looks like MSI Afterburner fan curves don't work so I assume a new version of that will need to be released.
 
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Run Timespy on my.default OC and Undervolt profile, DDU old drivers and installed newest, put my profile back and run Timespy again and score hasn't changed so that's a plus lol.

Will give it a go tonight once I'm back from the kids nativity, just got Division 2 Alpha Invite so will see how well my rig runs in that.
 
For those having problems try removing,
all third party monitoring programs and overclocking programs,
i.e. Afterburner, trixx, etc, before you DDU And install the new drivers.

Then try out the new features of the driver.
 
kaiserc said:
For those having problems try removing,
all third party monitoring programs and overclocking programs,
i.e. Afterburner, trixx, etc, before you DDU And install the new drivers.

Then try out the new features of the driver.
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The fan speeds I'm seeing are not what is set in Afterburner or Wattman so I'm rather confused. Changing settings in either application seems to do nothing.
 
Well for the first time ever I'm going to have to use DDU as a last resort. Started the driver upgrade, screen went blank, stayed blank and went into power save mode. Had to repeatedly reset the PC to get into safe mode (why on earth they removed F8 key option I don't know).

From safe mode used the bundled AMD cleanup utility, managed to boot, started installation again - blank screen + monitor power save.

Repeated again, but this time tried to download another driver once booted into windows normally. While I'm doing this Windows automatically tries to put a driver on - blank screen again. So it appears that now any attempt to put any AMD display driver on results in no display and the screen going off - brilliant.
 
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