AMD classes these as 'Recommended' drivers, everything else is beta. I just stick to recommended only since I had issues with beta drivers.
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AMD classes these as 'Recommended' drivers, everything else is beta. I just stick to recommended only since I had issues with beta drivers.
Yeah that's a much better metric to go by than "WHQL", as getting WHQL signoff takes time and money but is of debatable value.
WHQL means the drivers have been certified to correctly operate with the relevant iteration of Windows, and has nothing to do with how they interface with the hardware. That would be down to the hardware and software designer, and not something Microsoft would be in a position to certify.
Both are as important as each other, unless you are on Linux.
Both are as important as each other, unless you are on Linux.
Verification and approval probably means that there should be no bugs and the release is tested for stability.
AMD releases Betas which have nothing to do with 100% stability and often are very unstable and/or are 100% beta in the true sense of the term.
WHQL drivers aren't bug free nor stable by default. Plenty of evidence of that in the past.
AMD also releases betas which have been working really well, bad drivers have actually been quite rare these past years.
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I think it is safe to say, another issue if you look at the recent nvidia driver (fix for 30 series) and watch the HU video, if you run the same hardware under linux and cannot replicate the crashing, its also brings into play the Windows build/updates that can cause instability for GPU vendors. I always thought the people that were plagued with their 5700XT's crashing or odd behaviour would somehow need to look at their windows setup as you cant rule out that is a reason for troubles.
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Anyone else had issues with PC waking from sleep with 20.9.2? Perfect for a couple of months but these new drivers don't seem to like it too much! Damn I might have to go back 
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Anyone else had issues with PC waking from sleep with 20.9.2? Perfect for a couple of months but these new drivers don't seem to like it too much! Damn I might have to go back
Expand on the issue man!
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I press spacebar on the keyboard to wake PC from sleep (as always) and the keyboard and PC seem to come to life but the screen doesn't seem to get a signal and I have to do a hard reboot to fix! Happened twice out of about 5 sleeps.
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I realised that the monitor problem I had from waking was actually the monitor itself. I found it on reddit somewhere, but basically if I get the warning/crash message in windows its not the GPU thats at fault - as in - if I power cycle the monitor, it brings itself out of mode properly and the settings work perfect. Didnt know this I always thought it was a driver thing with the GPU a while back.
What fixed the stutter for me was this change rendercount to half of your cores of CPU which you can find in task manager and also change VideoMemoryScale to 0.55 then click save and exit
This solved it! thanks (VideoMemoryScale)
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This solved it! thanks (VideoMemoryScale)
Good stuff
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Yeah that's not fixed at all.
It's frustrating how certain issues persist for such a long time. The oldest one I know of is the cursor corruption where it turns into a vertical stripy line, which has existed for years, across multiple GPU architectures, stretching back to when they were still ATI.
Working correctly on Vega, although some monitoring software may not have yet moved over to the same register.
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It's only AMD's Metrics that read it wrong, everything else is correct and has been since this issue started in May.
I can assure you VRAM usage is not near 3 GB while idling on desktop, although AMD's metrics said the exact same thing until recently.
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i'll DDU it later and do a clean install, AMD Metrics is still going over 100% while playing a game.