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The AMD Driver Thread

This is a bit dodgy. upgraded whilst still trying to find why getting weird crashes...but,

"Edit: In case you are wondering where that Quake Champions Beta shortcut on your desktop comes from, AMD's 17.4.4 driver installation stealth-adds that to your desktop, with a bit.ly tracking link, instead of directly to the official page. Looks like AMD is making some $$ from it, a referral id is included in the final URL destination, too."

I have all icons hidden (all one of them hehe) because I never use desktop...but, the main reason why I use custom installs with drivers, is to not have stuff installed (even if only a sponsored link) when I don't want it.

Sort of defeats the point of their banner ad' thing too doesn't it?
Why not just stick something there for those that use such things?

EDIT: Aaaand it's gone. That was fast! :D
https://twitter.com/x/status/857779275985977344
 
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opethdisciple said:
Be honest, what is the state of play with the AMD gpu drivers?

I've been green since the 670 launched. In those years I've had very very few driver issues. Maybe once in that time frame I'd had to roll back to previous drivers.

My head is green and I'm comfortable green. BUT I went and bought a Ryzen CPU which I'm really happy with and the idea of a Ryzen/Vega set up sounds nice... but it confuses the hell out of me as I am comfortably green!

I currently have a 970 and would like a Freesync/Gsync 144hz 1440p monitor. This 1070 has my name on it but i'm trying to wait for Vega.

But then looking at benchmarks the 1070 will only get fps in the 60-70s (all bells and whistles) and not sure if that's disappointing or not considering the 144hz monitor upgrade.

Also thinking that if anyone can get the most out of Ryzen it will be AMD with a Vega gpu.
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I moved from a 560ti to a 280x and now an rx480 and the drivers have always been spot on
 
opethdisciple said:
Be honest, what is the state of play with the AMD gpu drivers?

I've been green since the 670 launched. In those years I've had very very few driver issues. Maybe once in that time frame I'd had to roll back to previous drivers.

My head is green and I'm comfortable green. BUT I went and bought a Ryzen CPU which I'm really happy with and the idea of a Ryzen/Vega set up sounds nice... but it confuses the hell out of me as I am comfortably green!

I currently have a 970 and would like a Freesync/Gsync 144hz 1440p monitor. This 1070 has my name on it but i'm trying to wait for Vega.

But then looking at benchmarks the 1070 will only get fps in the 60-70s (all bells and whistles) and not sure if that's disappointing or not considering the 144hz monitor upgrade.

Also thinking that if anyone can get the most out of Ryzen it will be AMD with a Vega gpu.
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I own both NVIDIA and AMD systems and regularly use both. The drivers are extremely stable for both vendors when using a single GPU.

You'll get users like TonyTurbo78 who'll buy crossfire 390's, expecting them to work perfectly with 100% scaling in every game, then complain in this driver thread every 5 minutes. Users like this, with false expectations/poor understanding tend to give AMD a bad name.

99% of gamer's run a single GPU, for which AMD provide very good drivers. They are stable and work properly, just as they are with NVIDIA. Of course there can be teething issues with both vendors with new games, though this is part of life and generally never completely breaks a game.

Don't let these users put you off a fantastic product :)
 
What I'm referring to primarily is graphical glitches in games. You see I'm 'green blind' at the moment. For me green = gaming. So AMD in Gameworks games I know my head would hurt (irrational logic) thinking I'm playing a Gameworks games on an AMD card....
 
Dave2150 said:
You'll get users like TonyTurbo78 who'll buy crossfire 390's, expecting them to work perfectly with 100% scaling in every game, then complain in this driver thread every 5 minutes. Users like this, with false expectations/poor understanding tend to give AMD a bad name.
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You do realise there are a few problems that Hawaii based GPUs suffer from?

Sometimes it is not the drivers it can be the hardware itself.

I also don't think that someone who uses only AMD cards would want to give the brand a bad name would they !!!
 
JediFragger said:
Seem these companies only seem to see the 'light' once they've been found out! Good job internet!! :D
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Tbh I don't see the issue here, it was a simple shortcut easy to delete. Not only that it was giving you the opportunity to get into a beta version for quake champions.

It's not like it was a shortcut to the games buying site lol
 
shankly1985 said:
Tbh I don't see the issue here, it was a simple shortcut easy to delete. Not only that it was giving you the opportunity to get into a beta version for quake champions.

It's not like it was a shortcut to the games buying site lol
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Yes, but people don't like the principle of things just stealth appearing on their PC. It was only a shortcut, but where's the limit? Two shortcuts, ten shortcuts, fifty shortcuts? It's only a step away from stealth program installation. It just rubs people up the wrong way.

And yet Wattman settings keep being reset on boot, and they haven't fixed it yet.
 
Is it possible to use Radeon Chill without using Wattman?
I'm happy with Afterburner for setting my OC and voltage and also for monitoring usage and temperatures and stuff. But Radeon Chill is interesting.
 
Why don't AMD have chill auto applied when the driver is installed? It would stop all these **** poor reviewers slating the cards for power consumption. It has moved my max power from 270+ down to lower than 220.
 
On a Fury Nitro graphics drivers 17.4.3 and 17.4.4, I've seen it on both of them once now where my core clock gets stuck at 300mhz and it games stutter because of it, is this a new issue? I've never seen it before.
 
los said:
On a Fury Nitro graphics drivers 17.4.3 and 17.4.4, I've seen it on both of them once now where my core clock gets stuck at 300mhz and it games stutter because of it, is this a new issue? I've never seen it before.
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Well since this I've been switching between the 2 drivers and run DDU and can't get my core clock off 300 no matter what, so ended up going back to 17.3.2 (17.3.3 wouldnt download) and all is good now, so think I'll give these a miss for a bit!
 
There's definitely something screwy about their drivers.
Tried several versions over the last month or so.
I'd had it fine for some time, but then I started getting random reboots/white static screen-reboots.
Had thought mobo or psu was on its way out, tried all sorts. Even bought a brand new psu to no avail.
Turns out it's possibly something to do with Wattman.

Gone through several versions of drivers & recently reverted to 17.3.3 in last couple of days & not had a single crash nor reboot.
 
Nexus18 said:
Lol at these 17.x.x/relive drivers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/67sjqu/radeon_software_crimson_relive_edition_1744/
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One thing worth pointing out, people with issues post on sites, making it seem like it much worse than it really is.
How meny users out there like me with out any issues vs users having problems?

For example just head over into the nvidia forums official and see just how much reports of issues happening there.

I even use wattman and not had a single crash from it. Matter of a fact I use everything the Crimson drivers even offer.
 
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