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The AMD Driver Thread

djay said:
I have found these drivers to be superb, It has fixed the graphical issues I was seeing in the menus on COD MW and everything is working absolutely spot on!
I am very impressed with the 5700XT AE edition card.
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Good to hear. I hope that is the same across the 5700 community so we can move on from the negative press.My card is a vega 56 which wasnt the priority for fixes lets face it so I didnt expect much if any improvement but likewise I didnt expect it to get worse
 
Haven't been gaming in a while and I cant seem to figure out how you lock a minimum p state in the new Radeon Software.

Is it no longer possible?
 
Goose said:
I tried setting every P state to the same clock and voltage but the game crashed pretty soon after loading.
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Which driver, 20.2.2? I just tried it too and got the same problem but then this driver has been crashing for me anyway. I've been not been using min states like this so that suggestion was passed on rather than personal recommendation, sorry. Perhaps it doesnt work well with this new driver and was the reason it was removed?
 
TNA said:
Now you are sounding like a child. I win you lose na na na naaa naaaaaaa.

You won nothing. You just keep embarrassing yourself. I asked you a simple question, how did I strawman? Prove it. You could not and then went in to full on child mode.
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It's nothing new. I remember the 3dfx v nVidia arguments 20 years ago. I'm getting flashbacks reading this thread!
 
Link and change log of todays WHQL driver for any interested.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-2-2

Fixed Issues
  • Performing a task switch with some Radeon Software features enabled or some third-party applications with hardware acceleration running in the background may cause a system hang or black screen.
  • Improvements have been made that allow for more responsive fan ramp up or fan ramp down times on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
  • Performance Metrics Overlay and Radeon WattMan incorrectly report lower than expected clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products during gaming workloads.
  • When Instant Replay is enabled, a TDR or black screen may occur when launching games or applications.
  • A black screen may occur when toggling HDR on in the game settings of Battlefield™ V.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt™ may experience an application hang or black screen during certain parts of the game or intermittently during gameplay.
  • Some video content in Chrome™ may appear as a black screen or be unresponsive on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products when hardware acceleration is enabled.
  • Metro Exodus™ may experience an application hang or TDR when choosing some specific dialogue prompts in the Sam’s Story DLC.
  • Grand Theft Auto™ V may experience an application crash when invoking Radeon Software’s overlay with third party OSD applications running.
  • Monster Hunter World™: Iceborne may experience intermittent crashes while idle or on the character creation screen.
  • Some games colors may appear washed out when HDR mode has been enabled in game and Windows® on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products
  • After a Factory Reset installation with the ‘Keep My Settings’ option chosen, Instant Replay could fail to function if it was enabled in the previous Radeon Software installation.
  • When invoking Radeon Software’s overlay while a game is open users may observe flickering in the game or in the Radeon Software interface.
  • Radeon Software may experience a crash and error message when locking Windows® or performing a sleep or hibernate with the Radeon Software Streaming tab open.
  • A loss of display with working audio may be experienced on a limited number of displays when performing a mode change on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
  • Radeon Software may fail to launch if Radeon Software’s overlay is disabled and a game is running in the background.
  • Battlefield™ V may experience an application hang or TDR after extended periods of play.
  • Some Origin™ games may fail to be detected or may detect the incorrect game title in Radeon Software.
  • Some productivity applications are being detected and listed in the Radeon Software games tab.
  • The Radeon Chill hotkey could sometimes continue to remain enabled once the user has removed or disabled the hotkey.
  • Red Dead Redemption™ 2 may exhibit blocky textures on snow covered terrain.
  • After resuming from sleep, Chrome™ may experience an application crash if video content was previously playing on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
  • Radeon FreeSync status in Radeon Software may sometimes fail to update when enabling or disabling the feature through the display itself.
  • Fortnite™ may experience an application crash on Radeon RX 500 series Hybrid Graphics system configurations.
Known Issues
  • Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Enhanced Sync has been temporarily disabled from the gaming profile and any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
  • Performance Metrics Overlay and Radeon WattMan incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting.
  • DOOM™ may experience an intermittent system hang or application crash during gameplay.
  • Desktop cursor may intermittently remain visible after toggling Radeon Software’s overlay in some games. A workaround is to bring up the game menu or task switch to refresh the cursor.
  • A system crash or hang may occur when running the Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers™ benchmark.
  • The Gaming tab in Radeon Software may display some folder locations appearing as games.
  • Radeon Software may open with an inconsistent window size or may not keep its previously set size when opened.
  • Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
  • Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
  • Some games may experience stutter while using Instant Replay or third-party applications that stream or perform screen capture. A potential workaround is to disable these features or applications while gaming.
  • Although Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2 resolves many black screen issues, AMD is aware that some users may still experience black screen or system hang issues during extended periods of gameplay. AMD will continue to monitor and investigate reports of these issues closely.
  • AMD A-Series/E-Series APU Processors will reflect older Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition Settings user interface. AMD will update the user interface to the 2020 Edition in a future release.
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SkeeterUK said:
Does WHQL actually make a difference? I presume it has more testing or something but are any extra bugs fixed when the whql ones are out?
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Well apparently this WHQL version of the driver has a few more bug fixes than the previous non WHQL version.
 
LoadsaMoney said:

A lot better now, thats good to hear :)
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Only just seen this and agree with the conclusion where he says it is a shame that it took AMD 7 months to solve this issue (assuming this driver has finally done that).

It does seem like AMD are putting more resources into drivers and going forward hopefully they will avoid scoring own goals like this. With them being financially in a much better place now they can up their R&D and hopefully get back to competing with Nvidia right at the top.

Hopefully they can launch their RNDA2 stuff perfectly and get some good reviews from day 1 this time.

By the way, in the video above AMD confirmed the way I was doing it with drivers is correct. Basically you do not need to run DDU when either updating drivers or even changing from one AMD card to another. Only time you should consider doing that is when switching from AMD to Nvidia or vice versa. But in that case I just do a secure erase and reinstall windows anyway so no need to ever use DDU :)
 
New drivers just not worth it for the extra stuff, best just stick to the 19.12.1 tbh i mean ur not getting fps increase, ur not keeping pstates locks, ur not keeping freesync viewing ability. Why bother with new drivers not like games need em imo.
 
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