The AMD Driver Thread

gpuerrilla · 5 Feb 2020 at 19:17

5t3v0 said:
It's not a great suggestion for 1440p gaming at 75 hz. 120 or 144hz sure...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 forums

Yep its nigh on misleading and probably coded back when 5700's werent available would be my guess!

5t3v0 said:
I 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

FS ken!

5t3v0 · 5 Feb 2020 at 20:19

Th0nt said:
FS ken!

It happened just as katagawa died and about to drop his legendaries. I bet I missed out on an anointed cutsman because of that! Ah was greetin like bairn so I was. It's been an emotional rollercoaster with these 2020 drivers. Be warned and prepared for rage

gpuerrilla · 5 Feb 2020 at 20:29

By the time they get it right we will all be on a 5900x or a 3070Ti.

Phixsator · 6 Feb 2020 at 07:03

Okay something is up with windows. I'm getting driver reset/crashes even on the older 19.12.1 which used to be pretty stable for me. Wouldn't surprise me if MS have deployed another stealth update.

gpuerrilla · 6 Feb 2020 at 07:45

They broke the search by trying to stealth in Bing of all things yesterday. Would be likely they have changed other items to cause issues too.

5t3v0 · 6 Feb 2020 at 08:03

Yeah saw that too although no issues for me last night. There's also been an optional cumulative update this week: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/windows-message-center#387

gpuerrilla · 6 Feb 2020 at 11:43

But they shouldn't be affecting the graphics drivers, or at least highlight what patch kb is doing to software so that savvy users can track what it can effect.

I guess the more bells and whistles the radeon app offers, the more chance M$ have of being able to interfere with it.

5t3v0 · 6 Feb 2020 at 12:34

Th0nt said:
I guess the more bells and whistles the radeon app offers, the more chance M$ have of being able to interfere with it.

You'd hope AMD and other major product vendors would get early sight of M$ patches to allow for regression testing. Prob not though.

Plus the current AMD release schedule of a driver update a week is not without it's own risks in terms of introducing new bugs

gpuerrilla · 6 Feb 2020 at 13:47

Not gonna complain if they churn out 3 within a month, but there seems to be more items in the 'known issues' list than the fixed list which concerns me..

5t3v0 · 6 Feb 2020 at 20:46

Th0nt said:
Not gonna complain if they churn out 3 within a month, but there seems to be more items in the 'known issues' list than the fixed list which concerns me..

There were 8 known issues in 20.1.4 and now there are 11 in 20.2.1! On one hand it's great that AMD are turning bug fixes around quickly rather than keeping users waiting for monthly releases but it must be squeezing testing cycles even if developed in parallel leading to higher risk of new bugs being introduced. AMD need to take a long hard look at how they got into this mess and sort their processes out so that 3-4 driver releases per month are no longer necessary. I get the need for competitive advantage but in the last 8 months they have rushed products to market with unfinished drivers and firmware and then compounded the complexity with a complete driver overhaul with new UI and functionality. It's too much. Let's hope that the lessons are learned in time for Navi 2 in Q3 (if rumours are to be believed). I'm hoping to upgrade my vega towards the end of the year (black Friday time probs) and driver stability will be a key factor in that decision

gpuerrilla · 6 Feb 2020 at 21:36

Yep similar thoughts from me.

brakeinup · 8 Feb 2020 at 09:56

I'm running the latest Adrenalin drivers on a Powercolor XT. The system is reporting the GPU fans spinning at 1190 RPM as is Argus, but the fans are stationary.

If I uncheck Fan Tuning and Apply then recheck and apply they fire up. Other than that drivers are stable for me.

SkeeterUK · 8 Feb 2020 at 22:07

Is that the dragon card brakeinup? That is the one a utube vid said was smelling like burning cos the fans wernt going on properly or something wasnt it?

Phixsator · 9 Feb 2020 at 09:09

Windows 10 Server build 1809 and no issues with the latest drivers 20.2.1 . I know, why am i using a server edition of windows? because i didn't have an enterprise key handy and i wanted to test a bloat free windows.

PapaLazaru · 9 Feb 2020 at 20:35

I've installed 20.1.3 and am getting black screens on Minecraft and Youtube. Weird.

brakeinup · 10 Feb 2020 at 21:12

SkeeterUK said:
Is that the dragon card brakeinup? That is the one a utube vid said was smelling like burning cos the fans wernt going on properly or something wasnt it?

No just the standard card with 2 fans. I've RMA'ed it as it gets a bit toasty for my liking.

derlabzs · 12 Feb 2020 at 13:42

20.2.1 working great so far with a radeon vii + MPT, but, I did wipe windows before install which is something I never do, I always ddu everything.

chaosophy · 12 Feb 2020 at 18:15

PapaLazaru said:
I've installed 20.1.3 and am getting black screens on Minecraft and Youtube. Weird.

I get similar when playing MC and having video - like YT or Twitch on the second screen - seems to come and go with different 20.x.x drivers on Vega64, using Firefox.

Disabling h/w acceleration in the browser 'seems' to fix it.

z10m · 13 Feb 2020 at 11:48

PapaLazaru · 13 Feb 2020 at 12:39

chaosophy said:
I get similar when playing MC and having video - like YT or Twitch on the second screen - seems to come and go with different 20.x.x drivers on Vega64, using Firefox.

Disabling h/w acceleration in the browser 'seems' to fix it.

Thanks dude.