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The AMD Driver Thread

@catalystmaker

20.7.2 coming today with support for; F1 2020, Death Stranding and Hyperscape Open Beta as well as a few fixes following up from 20.7.1 update of last week.
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Soon I hope, Death Stranding has just finished downloading:P
 
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-7-2

https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/beta/Win10-Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-2020-Edition-20.7.2-July14.exe

Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2 Highlights
Support For
  • Death Stranding™
    • With the high preset on the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT, achieve up to 8% better performance playing Death Stranding with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 edition 20.7.2 than with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.5.1. RS-337
  • F1 2020™
    • With the ultra-high preset on the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT, achieve up to 5% better performance playing F1® 2020 with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 edition 20.7.2 than with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.1 Hyper Scape™ Open Beta. RS-336
  • Hyper Scape™ Open Beta
Fixed Issues
  • Launching VR applications using the Oculus Rift™ headset may cause corruption or a system hang on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
  • AMD Bug Report Tool may fail to load the available application lists and does not time out when failing to load.
  • Previews for video content on Netflix® using Microsoft® Edge browser may fail to load or appear black.
  • Wallpaper Engine or system folders may sometimes be detected as a game by Radeon Settings game manager.
  • Valorant™ fails to launch from Radeon Software Home screen or Gaming tab.
  • Hyper Scape™ may experience an intermittent game crash or hang on Windows®7 system configurations.
Known Issues
  • Brightness flickering may be experienced on some VP9 video content playback through applications or web browsers on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics product system configurations.
  • Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
  • Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab 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.
  • With HDR enabled, Windows® desktop may experience flickering, and performing a task switch while in a game may cause colors to become washed out or over saturated.
  • Audio may experience instability when connected through an Audio Video Receiver via HDMI® on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products
  • YouTube playback may become frozen with Microsoft® Edge player and Chrome™ when played on an extended display on some AMD Ryzen™ 7 3000 series and AMD Ryzen™ 4000 series APU system configurations.
  • Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
  • AMD is investigating isolated reports of intermittent system hangs while exiting system sleep on some AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics.
  • Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
  • AMD will continue to monitor and investigate any new reports of black screen or system hang issues during extended periods of gameplay closely. Users are encouraged to use the new Bug Reporting Tool for any issues they may encounter.
Footnotes
  • RS-336 - Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of July 13, 2020 using a test system comprising of Intel Core i9-9900K CPU (3.6GHz), 16GB DDR4-3200MHz memory, the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT graphics card and Windows 10 x64 with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2, and 20.7.1. Playing F1® 2020 at the ultra-high preset on 2560x1440 using the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT, with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2 scored 128.6 FPS while 20.7.1 scored 122.7 FPS, showing a 5% uplift driver over driver. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary.
  • RS-337 - Testing conducted by AMD Performance Labs as of July 13, 2020 using a test system comprising of Intel Core i9-9900K CPU (3.6GHz), 16GB DDR4-3200MHz memory, the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT graphics card and Windows 10 x64 with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2, and 20.5.1. Playing Death Stranding at the high preset on 2560x1440 using the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT, with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.7.2 scored 101.1 FPS while 20.5.1 scored 94.0 FPS, showing an 8% uplift driver over driver. PC manufacturers may vary configurations, yielding different results. Performance may vary.
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this update driver is a pain,driver is crashes around 10mins of game play, where as before could game all day on my nitro 64 at 1660mhz 1000mvs. memory 1070mhz 1000mvs. games mw and f12020. werid
 
I think I have a partial fix but need more peeps to confirm — anyone with a x570/Intel equivalent motherboard switch PCI-E speed from Auto/Gen4 to Gen3, dropped my temps by ~10c (with no noticeable FPS/bench score drop).
 
I have a problem with the latest AMD driver. I have a Vegsa 56 Pulse and when I enable desktop recording the mouse cursor starts suttering and lagging every 2 seconds, making the computer unusable.

Any idea? It disappears the moment I flick desktop recording off. I really want to use this feature for game replays and it worked just fine yesterday with the older drivers.

Thanks
 
I thought my rift was broken when it kept locking up after starting up an app or game. I'm just glad it was a driver thing and quick fix.
 
nitram100 said:
I have a problem with the latest AMD driver. I have a Vegsa 56 Pulse and when I enable desktop recording the mouse cursor starts suttering and lagging every 2 seconds, making the computer unusable.

Any idea? It disappears the moment I flick desktop recording off. I really want to use this feature for game replays and it worked just fine yesterday with the older drivers.

Thanks
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Sounds similar to a problem I've had.

Check the Video Encode graph in Task Manager under GPU - does it spike every couple of seconds when you enable recording? Do you have more than 2 audio channels and/or a creative sound card?

Instant Replay would fail to start for me when using >2 channel audio on my Creative AE-5, but it would attempt to keep starting every couple of seconds causing the mouse cursor lag. Some have said manually setting Audio channels to Stereo under Recording settings might work, allowing you to record and continue using >2 audio channels.

Alternatively the recording features of the Windows Game Bar work pretty well, and it doesn't exhibit this issue.

Admittedly I've not tried to use >2 audio channels with Instant replay recently, could be they fixed it in a previous driver and it has regressed again...


Edit: Just tried it and either changing "Audio Channels" to Stereo OR setting "Separate Microphone Track" to Enabled fixes it.
 
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Tested 20.7.2 last night with my Vega64 (have been using 20.4.1 previously), no issues so far. No random driver crashes, no black screens, no occasional chrome/video issues. I was able to load my previous voltage and fan profile, all games tested ran ok without any issues. 3DMark timespy gave me best score I’ve yet seen - it’s not much different than previous and is probably within the margins of error, but it’s nice to see improvements rather than losses.

no issues with heat either - the fans followed the profile and gpu hot spot seemed to be the same as 20.4.1, not getting a higher than 90degs or so.

I need to now test to see whether Afterburner resets the voltage/fan profile when resuming from standby - I had to stop afterburner loading with windows previously and quit it after use otherwise clocks and voltages in Radeon settings would always return to default.
 
jupiter_man said:
When is AMD going to fix the random black screen issues, I have been getting random 2 seconds black screen for more than a year, changing CPU / graphic card dont work.
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Well lets be honest you got it with Radeon7 and it's not fixed now so it'll never be fixed imho. I'll be sticking with .3 March release as it's running perfect, I'm tempted but nope, if it ain't broke don't fix it is my moto at the moment.
 
I think performance is up with these drivers but the Hotspot temps have shot up, fan speed's along with it, the pitiful cooler ASRock glued to this GPU is struggling to contain it. Hot Spot temps are way over 100c now, as high as 107c with the fan speed at near 70% up from the low 60's.

Edit: it'll overheat when the weather gets hot.
 
Are there any GPU fan experts here? i have been looking on the Chinese market for other vendors fans that might fit on my card but i don't know which ones might be better than mine. they don't come with a CFM rating.
 
humbug said:
I think performance is up with these drivers but the Hotspot temps have shot up, fan speed's along with it, the pitiful cooler ASRock glued to this GPU is struggling to contain it. Hot Spot temps are way over 100c now, as high as 107c with the fan speed at near 70% up from the low 60's.

Edit: it'll overheat when the weather gets hot.
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I'm with you, its more the fan speed increases that isn't great, if hot-spot/junction temps go to much more 100c I'll go back to the 2.4.1 drivers until the hot-spot temp is sorted out if it gets sorted that is.

I'm hoping the Lian-li Lancool 2 mesh mite help temps with 2x120mm on the psu shroud pointing at the gpu, from reviews it did bring temps down 3-4c what that will do to hot-spot I don't know but and that was with 1x120mm fan so I'm hoping it will keep it below 100c.
 
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