The AMD Driver Thread

MyBrainz · 18 Jul 2019 at 01:04

gavinh87 said:
The web is plastered with these issues we are seeing. How these have gone unnoticed by their QA team baffles me.

And if the web was plastered with people not having issues then people having issues would be a fraction of that.

:rolleyes:

bro306 · 18 Jul 2019 at 02:34

gavinh87 said:
What was you running and what are you running now? Did it solve any frame hitching for you?

Was running 3600 mem at 14-13-13-22 changed it to 15-14-14-32 works perfect now.

gavinh87 · 18 Jul 2019 at 08:28

MyBrains said:
And if the web was plastered with people not having issues then people having issues would be a fraction of that.

Of course. But take a look for yourself.
Another botched launch.

nashathedog · 19 Jul 2019 at 09:43

gavinh87 said:
The web is plastered with these issues we are seeing. How these have gone unnoticed by their QA team baffles me.

Hi, Issues were to be expected, every time there's a big change to an architecture it takes time to get the kinks ironed out. Regulars on tech forums like this one should know this & keep it in mind when buying a product on launch.

gpuerrilla · 19 Jul 2019 at 13:32

Well, even the other side "it just works". Issues seem to happen on both companies releases so its more baffling that it baffles you gavin.

gavinh87 · 19 Jul 2019 at 15:29

Meh, the card has gone back.
The 2070s that has replaced it just works.
No drama

Zernath · 19 Jul 2019 at 18:10

gavinh87 said:
Meh, the card has gone back.
The 2070s that has replaced it just works.
No drama

My 5700 XT just worked too, no issues with the card or the drivers. That's across two computers as well. You must be unlucky!

gpuerrilla · 19 Jul 2019 at 18:25

Another just work £90 in Jensen's sky rocket!

meantime on the nvidia forums:

Marine-RX179 · 19 Jul 2019 at 18:36

Th0nt said:
Another just work £90 in Jensen's sky rocket! meantime on the nvidia forums:

Field always "greener" on the other side right?

EastCoastHandle · 19 Jul 2019 at 18:42

Th0nt said:
Another just work £90 in Jensen's sky rocket! meantime on the nvidia forums:

lol, classic...always fresh out of the oven.

Panos · 19 Jul 2019 at 19:15

Th0nt said:
Another just work £90 in Jensen's sky rocket! meantime on the nvidia forums:

There are no issues with NV cards

gpuerrilla · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:18

A bit like "macs dont get viruses!"

Dave2150 · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:22

Th0nt said:
Another just work £90 in Jensen's sky rocket! meantime on the nvidia forums:

The NVIDIA fanboys, or those who are financially dependant on NVIDIA (several members of this forum) will quickly dismiss that picture as lunacy.

Panos · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:27

Th0nt said:
A bit like "macs dont get viruses!"

As also @Dave2150 said.
When I was complaining about Nvidia drivers from September 2016, which dropped performance, support for 144hz with the XL2730Z over DP, and sound over 100hz refresh rate settings, I was told in here that was crazy.
Then moment posted the link (from NV forums) of the big discussion (over 500 pages long) with those issues people had (and never fixed since) on various monitors, I was called a heretic.

Similarly last year with the RTX card failure rates. The usual shills in here, were trying to talk down the chaos in the Nvidia forums, yet when many had issues here, were also faced dismissal and negativity

gpuerrilla · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:50

To think one brand doesnt have teething issues or is immune to problems baffles me

Zernath · 19 Jul 2019 at 21:31

Th0nt said:
To think one brand doesnt have teething issues or is immune to problems baffles me

When people like something, they are not particularly open to that something being criticised, or seeing it as anything less than perfect. It's a rather unfortunate human trait!

EastCoastHandle · 19 Jul 2019 at 21:32

Panos said:
As also @Dave2150 said.
When I was complaining about Nvidia drivers from September 2016, which dropped performance, support for 144hz with the XL2730Z over DP, and sound over 100hz refresh rate settings, I was told in here that was crazy.
Then moment posted the link (from NV forums) of the big discussion (over 500 pages long) with those issues people had (and never fixed since) on various monitors, I was called a heretic.

Similarly last year with the RTX card failure rates. The usual shills in here, were trying to talk down the chaos in the Nvidia forums, yet when many had issues here, were also faced dismissal and negativity

Sir, I must admit that is an excellent hand to have. But I can bet your 500 with a full house!

And COUNTING

But no, no, lets focus on drivers with a newly released Uarch. which we know will get better given time. Because we know if it ain't perfect the 1st time, historically, everytime then we have a "problem" :rolleyes:

Panos · 19 Jul 2019 at 22:09

EastCoastHandle said:
Sir, I must admit that is an excellent hand to have. But I can bet your 500 with a full house!

And COUNTING

But no, no, lets focus on drivers with a newly released Uarch. which we know will get better given time. Because we know if it ain't perfect the 1st time, historically, everytime then we have a "problem"

There is another discussion in NV forums, from September 2016 (3y ago) with issues of losing sound, and many Freesync monitors not working at full refresh rates any more with GTX1080 & 1070.
Also the one with the perf drop is true. Go to the benchmarks eg firestrike in this forum. Try to find my GTX1080 graphic results. The only 1080 beat it were the 11 Gbps cards that came 6 months later, after the release of the 1080Ti. All drivers after the one posted my scores, had reduced perf... in 2016..... So no excuses for dropping optimization to older cards etc malarkey.

19.7.2 are peculiar drivers with my Vega 64. If I run both The Division 2 (DX12) and X4 Foundations (Vulkan) from their launchers the performance (and visuals ) are tad poor.
By using the overriding profiles (2x MSAA, AF16, Quality Texture Filters) and executing them from Wattman, I get better visuals, especially on Division 2 getting rid the TAA crap, and more fps.
And that comparing to 19.5.2 which was using the since May. Avoided 19.6.x because was getting blurry graphics on ESO & WOT.

EastCoastHandle · 19 Jul 2019 at 23:58

Panos said:
There is another discussion in NV forums, from September 2016 (3y ago) with issues of losing sound, and many Freesync monitors not working at full refresh rates any more with GTX1080 & 1070.
Also the one with the perf drop is true. Go to the benchmarks eg firestrike in this forum. Try to find my GTX1080 graphic results. The only 1080 beat it were the 11 Gbps cards that came 6 months later, after the release of the 1080Ti. All drivers after the one posted my scores, had reduced perf... in 2016..... So no excuses for dropping optimization to older cards etc malarkey.

19.7.2 are peculiar drivers with my Vega 64. If I run both The Division 2 (DX12) and X4 Foundations (Vulkan) from their launchers the performance (and visuals ) are tad poor.
By using the overriding profiles (2x MSAA, AF16, Quality Texture Filters) and executing them from Wattman, I get better visuals, especially on Division 2 getting rid the TAA crap, and more fps.
And that comparing to 19.5.2 which was using the since May. Avoided 19.6.x because was getting blurry graphics on ESO & WOT.

It's no surprise to me. We've seen this all before. It's like a marry go round. But what I don't understand is why are we getting these ridiculous posts trying to tarnish Navi launch?
I find it hard to believe one would think we wouldn't find counter points as well as proof to rebuff such claims. And yet...here we are doing so.

Zernath · 20 Jul 2019 at 02:25

EastCoastHandle said:
But what I don't understand is why are we getting these ridiculous posts trying to tarnish Navi launch?

Well, you have the paid Nvidia shills running damage control, the bitter folks who are trying to justify their expensive Nvidia purchases, and then there's the mindless drones who are just regurgitating the tripe the shills have fed them.