The AMD Driver Thread

Relentless81 · 11 Dec 2019 at 12:14

Hmm games are running well and OC is perfect at the moment on my 56 I'm not sure I want to risk using these. Is there a major benefit it seems there are a lot of changes and have been able to load their Wattman profiles without issue?

gpuerrilla · 11 Dec 2019 at 12:28

Do not upgrade if your setup is running well. If you want one of the newer features you could reconsider.

roy23 · 11 Dec 2019 at 12:35

Anyone have luck with this update with No Man's Sky?, it just hangs on startup for me at the hello games screen.
19.21.1 was fine.

5t3v0 · 11 Dec 2019 at 12:35

Relentless81 said:
Hmm games are running well and OC is perfect at the moment on my 56 I'm not sure I want to risk using these. Is there a major benefit it seems there are a lot of changes and have been able to load their Wattman profiles without issue?

My Wattman profile loaded fine (when I eventually found out where to load it) but I'm losing 4 fps on BL3 which is outside the margin of error from 64 fps. I'll sit this version out and wait for one with less bugs

Relentless81 · 11 Dec 2019 at 13:05

Ok thanks, the Radeon Boost looked interesting but I'll wait for these major changes to mature a little my PC is perfectly stable right now and gaming time is precious so CBA introducing issues

roy23 · 11 Dec 2019 at 13:08

roy23 said:
Anyone have luck with this update with No Man's Sky?, it just hangs on startup for me at the hello games screen.
19.21.1 was fine.

Oh weird, turning on anti-lag fixes this.
This is on a 480 btw.

5t3v0 · 11 Dec 2019 at 14:05

Relentless81 said:
Ok thanks, the Radeon Boost looked interesting but I'll wait for these major changes to mature a little my PC is perfectly stable right now and gaming time is precious so CBA introducing issues

A wise decision going by the number of different issues being reported already. Like you, my 56 OC is running nicely on the pre-19.12.2 driver and I've not yet played a game I havent been able to run at 1440p x 60+ fps with Ultra/High quality so I dont yet have the need for image sacrificing technologies like Boost. Different story I expect for higher monitor res and frequency and maybe in the most demanding new titles. Hopefully by the time I need it, AMD will have resolved the problems.

One thing I did notice while testing BL3 under 19.12.2 was that the GPU boost clock didnt peak as high as under the previous driver (about 30 MHz less) so it looks like that behaviour has changed or the application of wattman OC profiles has become more conservative, although I'm not sure that alone would account for all the 4 fps drop.

Poneros · 11 Dec 2019 at 14:16

Goose said:
Anyone figured out how to lock your P-State in the new software?

Also on the look out for this. Might have to roll-back if it's completely removed. This is a CRUCIAL setting for Vega.

5t3v0 · 11 Dec 2019 at 14:23

Poneros said:
Also on the look out for this. Might have to roll-back if it's completely removed. This is a CRUCIAL setting for Vega.

Under "Performance" then "Tuning"

Goose · 11 Dec 2019 at 16:17

5t3v0 said:
Under "Performance" then "Tuning"

Yes but it doesn't look like you can lock a P State.

5t3v0 · 11 Dec 2019 at 16:43

Goose said:
Yes but it doesn't look like you can lock a P State.

Not sure what you mean. The functionality is the same as in Wattman but just initially hidden under a simplified view. You can load your profile created from the previous driver by clicking on the 3 vertical dots next to the 'apply changes' button. I still needed to load twice to enable the zero fan rpm. The downside for me was that the new driver seems to boost the gpu less than 19.12.1 did resulting in lower fps - 6% less in BL3!

Goose · 11 Dec 2019 at 18:12

5t3v0 said:
Not sure what you mean. The functionality is the same as in Wattman but just initially hidden under a simplified view. You can load your profile created from the previous driver by clicking on the 3 vertical dots next to the 'apply changes' button. I still needed to load twice to enable the zero fan rpm. The downside for me was that the new driver seems to boost the gpu less than 19.12.1 did resulting in lower fps - 6% less in BL3!

In Wattman you lock P7 as the minimum P State, it doesn't seem like you can do that with the new software.

Kevin Matthews · 11 Dec 2019 at 18:31

Run DDU to uninstall Driver but when it trys to restart it gets stuck on restart which will lead to a BSOD power state failure any ideae? New GPU and PSU and still same issue.

5t3v0 · 11 Dec 2019 at 19:01

Goose said:
In Wattman you lock P7 as the minimum P State, it doesn't seem like you can do that with the new software.

Ah yes, got you. Indeed it has gone. Intrigued why you would set P7 to min. Doesnt that run the card at max speed permanently?

Goose · 11 Dec 2019 at 19:56

5t3v0 said:
Ah yes, got you. Indeed it has gone. Intrigued why you would set P7 to min. Doesnt that run the card at max speed permanently?

Yes but i set it for each game individually. My card is water cooled so running it flat out it isn't a problem.

Grim5 · 11 Dec 2019 at 20:00

apparently the newest driver kills vega 56/64 performance and the fan curves dont work

Phixsator · 11 Dec 2019 at 20:01

5t3v0 said:
Ah yes, got you. Indeed it has gone. Intrigued why you would set P7 to min. Doesnt that run the card at max speed permanently?

Some games have barely tax the gpu causing the gpu to throttle speed which in some cases causes stuttering cause it will jump up and down in clock speed all the time. Locking P7 prevents this.

shankly1985 · 11 Dec 2019 at 20:03

shankly1985 · 11 Dec 2019 at 20:03

Grim5 said:
apparently the newest driver kills vega 56/64 performance and the fan curves dont work

Everything is fine on my VEGA 64
My custom tuning profile is working fine

Phixsator · 11 Dec 2019 at 20:17

Grim5 said:
apparently the newest driver kills vega 56/64 performance and the fan curves dont work

Next time perhaps provide some source of your claim if its not from personal experience.

shankly1985 said:
Everything is fine on my VEGA 64
My custom tuning profile is working fine

Same here. So fare my Vega 64 is running as it should.