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It could very well be a coincidence but I haven't changed it back to find out.
I originally made the change on a mining rig and thought I would just change it on all my PCs... why not.
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The AMD Driver Thread
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It could very well be a coincidence but I haven't changed it back to find out.
I originally made the change on a mining rig and thought I would just change it on all my PCs... why not.
Still getting a 1604 error whenever I try to install an Adrenaline 2020 driver (every version installed so far). Did the work around AMD suggested but the problem persists. I believe it is in relation to the HDMI audio driver which does not make the blindest bit of difference to me but frustrating.
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The new AMD drivers will turn you into a Goddamned sexual tyrannosaurus, just like @5t3v0 ...
Just running with the Predator theme.A half a frame improvement, you say? That's better than losing half a frame! SOLD!!!
It's not been this much fun to be an AMD owner in donkeys
Soldato
You did follow the steps here?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/e9bten/if_you_are_encountering_error_1604_during/
Otherwise just install from fresh the latest windows.
Soldato
\o/
Soldato
Them goddamn couriers are useless at everything!!
Soldato
Should i disable EnableUlps in the reg if i just have 1 gpu the 56 pulse? I thought that thing was for crossfire or sli configs not single card owners? And would it really help stutters etc in games?
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Try it and if it helps, great, but if not then just change it back again.
You know what you're doing in RegEdit, right?
Also follow the instructions about the Microsoft Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter tool to remove "AMD WVR64". In my case I also needed to remove the "AMD Problem Report Wizard". I might have also removed the "AMD Settings" but cant exactly remember if I did or not, it was some time ago, I think it was listed twice so I think I removed it possibly. The clue was in the XML error report file during the driver install when you get the 1604 error message you can save/export it, if you look through the XML file with notepad++ and search for "fail" or "error" it tells you which components failed to install.
Mah Gawd it works. Apparently the duplicate Branding Settings or other one were causing issue. Had previously tried the WVR64 and did not work.
Many thanks gents.
Soldato
Next time just format the damn windows if your initial version is over 18 months old.
It barely takes 10 minutes these days and even Steam works having everything on a different drive/partition and just point the folder.
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Has anyone checked out the game advisor in the new driver? For BL3 it rated 72 fps as marginal even though it knows I have a 75 hz monitor, and as an upgrade it recommends a Radeon VII. Bampots!
Soldato
Yeah its basically hinting all my components could be on another tier up.
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I turned that noise off, my wallet doesn't need to be reminded there's better hardware than mine out there.
I don't think it's telling you to upgrade, it's saying that if you want to upgrade, then here is the AMD upgrade path. Obviously whether you want something more powerful depends on what you have, and what results you want to get out of the games you play.
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I get that, and I was being a bit flippant, but why plug a card that is out of production and now legacy over the current 5700 xt? Odd. The performance rating of marginal was also completely arbitrary and therefore meaningless. If was coded intelligently it would take into account my monitor refresh rate and the fact I am using Chill to target 70 fps and rate as optimal. Why did they waste all that development time making this garbage instead of fixing the bugs? How do I turn it off?
Soldato
Yeah thats the nail on head.
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I'm sure I'm being too simplistic here as the driver devs will be separate from the UI devs but it does feel like the priorities have been wrong of late.
I just checked ye old interweb and see the VII is still on sale. So perhaps AMD are disingenuously trying to trick me into buying up their old stock rather than future proof my system?
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The VII is actually a great card @5t3v0 , quite expensive but has it strengths such as mining eth. Im not quite sure why they released it though as they clearly knew about the navi cards coming only months later, so you had vega's - about 18 months later vega II - 5 months later Navi..
The UI I toyed with last night before trying out a game - which actually played really well. I will explore the other features like recording desktop tonight if I can remember.
The UI I toyed with last night before trying out a game - which actually played really well. I will explore the other features like recording desktop tonight if I can remember.
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It's not a great suggestion for 1440p gaming at 75 hz. 120 or 144hz sure. Or if I needed an extra heat source for my room
The 5700 xt is the obvious upgrade path from vega 56/64 for anyone too impatient to wait for Navi 2. Surely it's not beyond the wit of man (or woman) to code that up? Either its sloppy coding or it's a plug to clear old stock of cards no one wants. Whichever, AMD needs to focus on the driver and leave advice on performance and upgrades to the reviewers and forumsI got a black screen driver crash last night and had to do a hard reset. Not had one of those in a long time. Doesn't bode well