The AMD Driver Thread

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[ED209]

I'm so grateful this thread exists, as I've been teetering on the edge of buying the ASRock Taichi X OC or the Saphire Nitro+ all week and was worried about the driver issues. I'm a bit gutted as I didn't want to spend the extortionate amount extra for the small (6%?) gains the 2070 super gives, however it seems it's the more sensible choice at the moment. I wish AMD would get their **** together, their CPU's are amazing, but their GPU's just seem unreliable for far too many people.

This is why I got a 2070s in the end because of the driver issues and can’t be bothered with the hassle etc

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

This is why I got a 2070s in the end because of the driver issues and can’t be bothered with the hassle etc

Yup, I'd honestly lived to have tried AMD cards and saved some cash, but not this time. If they get their **** together I've no issue going either AMD or nvidia. I've no brand bias, I get what I feel is best for my usage.

 

[ED209]

Yup, I'd honestly lived to have tried AMD cards and saved some cash, but not this time. If they get their **** together I've no issue going either AMD or nvidia. I've no brand bias, I get what I feel is best for my usage.

I’m the same, I’ll use whatever card fits my budget and needs. It’s a shame as I had a sapphire R9 390 before since 2015 Black Friday sales and it’s been excellent card and never had any issues with it at all.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

I’m the same, I’ll use whatever card fits my budget and needs. It’s a shame as I had a sapphire R9 390 before since 2015 Black Friday sales and it’s been excellent card and never had any issues with it at all.

I had about a 15 year break in PC gaming, so last AMD card was after the Voodoo 2 card(s) I had... so a long time ago! The it's been a GTX750ti as it was the only card that would fit in my server, then 1050ti in the server, then build the gaming rig and 1070ti was my last card as AMD had the Vega at the time, but they were underwhelming at the time and power hungry.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Yup, I'd honestly lived to have tried AMD cards and saved some cash, but not this time. If they get their **** together I've no issue going either AMD or nvidia. I've no brand bias, I get what I feel is best for my usage.

The weird thing about this is theres lots of users who dont have the issues. Whats contradictory is if you look on the nvidia forums (and actually do this, not snub) their cards have issues just like them so its a global problem to do with drivers, API's and OS.

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

The weird thing about this is theres lots of users who dont have the issues. Whats contradictory is if you look on the nvidia forums (and actually do this, not snub) their cards have issues just like them so its a global problem to do with drivers, API's and OS.

There will be problems with both sets of cards, however AMD cards are clearly notorious which is why it's so widely publicised. Nvidia sounds more like individual edge cases as opposed to widespread driver issues. So yeah they will have issues, but not 'just like' AMD, because that simply isn't true.

Two of my work colleagues both have AMD cards AMD had nothing but problems. One is being replaced again on RMA (3rd time) for his v56 due to constant black screens and crashes to desktop. I decided to pay the slight premium of nvidia tax because I don't want to mess around installing and uninstalling drivers and messing about.

 

[schumi84]

I upgraded to the new 20.4.2 drivers yesterday afternoon for my 5600XT as I saw some of the fixes that were included however F@H still caused the driver to crash (however it auto-recovered)

The worst thing thought was gaming and every 30secs having the game freeze for a few moments and then come back again. This was also the graphics driver crashing and recovering so at this point I reverted back to the 20.2.2 (along with the factory reset button ticked during the install) and so far it has been fine.

As per this thread I have my new PSU installed but won't be attempting F@H on the card until I know that all the issues have been sorted.

 

[5t3v0]

I've been on 20.4.2 since launch a week ago and had one random driver crash in BL3 in that time which is the best stability yet on a 2020 driver for me. And I've been putting a lot of hours into borderlands since MH2.0 which came out same day as the driver. Feels a bit smoother too. So overall pretty happy with this driver. Hopefully AMD have turned a corner now (playing BL3 DX12 on OCed Vega 56)

 

[gpuerrilla]

I have been testing the COD Warzone on latest driver with vega56, will report if I have any issues. No black screens, but I never did get them.

 

[Gerard]

There will be problems with both sets of cards, however AMD cards are clearly notorious which is why it's so widely publicised. Nvidia sounds more like individual edge cases as opposed to widespread driver issues. So yeah they will have issues, but not 'just like' AMD, because that simply isn't true.

Nope, amd have a reputation of bad drivers that goes back to the 1990's and it's stuck with them ever since. Doesn't matter how much the drivers are improved it's a stigma that exists to this day. Nvidia have had their fair share of wide spread driver issues that have stuck around through multiple hardware iterations, this isn't unique to amd.

 

[gpuerrilla]

There will be problems with both sets of cards, however AMD cards are clearly notorious which is why it's so widely publicised. Nvidia sounds more like individual edge cases as opposed to widespread driver issues. So yeah they will have issues, but not 'just like' AMD, because that simply isn't true.

Two of my work colleagues both have AMD cards AMD had nothing but problems. One is being replaced again on RMA (3rd time) for his v56 due to constant black screens and crashes to desktop. I decided to pay the slight premium of nvidia tax because I don't want to mess around installing and uninstalling drivers and messing about.

See below.

Nope, amd have a reputation of bad drivers that goes back to the 1990's and it's stuck with them ever since. Doesn't matter how much the drivers are improved it's a stigma that exists to this day. Nvidia have had their fair share of wide spread driver issues that have stuck around through multiple hardware iterations, this isn't unique to amd.

Precisely. Just like the fake news banded about in the media there is an abundance of evidence its repetitive smear garbage. To simply state 'I go nvidia because I dont want to mess around' then in the same post acknowledge same company suffer from driver issues sums it up to be fair. People see what they wanna see, justify purchases on it, its pathetic.

 

[doody]

i've had no problems with my rx5700xt sapphire pulse im now on 20.4.1 everything ok had the gpu for allmost 12 months

 

[KungFuSpaghetti]

See below.



Precisely. Just like the fake news banded about in the media there is an abundance of evidence its repetitive smear garbage. To simply state 'I go nvidia because I dont want to mess around' then in the same post acknowledge same company suffer from driver issues sums it up to be fair. People see what they wanna see, justify purchases on it, its pathetic.

Pretty sure I never mentioned driver issues, I just said issues, because there will be issues for some people on nvidia. You seem quite triggered by my not choosing AMD, but having had zero issues in the last 5 years (other than enabling freesync when it was first made available), I decided to pay the nvidia tax because despite what you say, driver issues are more widespread with AMD. Like you say though, people just see what they want to see don't they

 

[Trick]

I've gone from 20.4.2 back to 20.4.1. Too many black screen moments when launching in-browser videos, and occasional driver crashes. Slightly lower 3DMark perfroamcen too.

20.4.1 seems ok to me.

 

[humbug]

Not had any real problem with drivers yet, 20.4.2.

I will say this:

• Radeon Enhanced Sync doesn't work, or at least not as well as Nvidia's equivalent "Fast Sync" I play a lot of Star Citizen, which means i spend a lot of time in the 30's - 40's FPS which is below my monitors Free-Sync rage (Min 48) and with Radeon Enhanced Sync i get screen tearing all over the place... With Nvidia's Fast Sync there was none of that.
• YouTube in Firefox also has screen tearing, i had the same thing on the GTX 1070 BUT with Nvidia's driver i could set a profile for FireFox and enable V-Sync for it which stopped that.
• Sometime the Randeon Software shuts down for no apparent reason, I hit Alt+R and nothing happens, i Alt+Tab out and see the Radeon icon has disappeared from the System Tray, its shut down in the middle of the game without me even noticing it.

 

[gpuerrilla]

There will be problems with both sets of cards...Nvidia...will have issues, but not 'just like' AMD, because that simply isn't true.

Just in case you think any post (replying to you) is being "triggered". I was responding to your contradiction ^

Pretty sure I never mentioned driver issues, I just said issues, because there will be issues for some people on nvidia. You seem quite triggered by my not choosing AMD, but having had zero issues in the last 5 years (other than enabling freesync when it was first made available), I decided to pay the nvidia tax because despite what you say, driver issues are more widespread with AMD. Like you say though, people just see what they want to see don't they

Really losing me now, your admitting to having zero AMD issues in 5 years but are paying nvidia tax because AMD drivers are terrible. LMAO. Lighten up chief buy what you want

 

[shankly1985]

Not had any real problem with drivers yet, 20.4.2.

I will say this:

• Radeon Enhanced Sync doesn't work, or at least not as well as Nvidia's equivalent "Fast Sync" I play a lot of Star Citizen, which means i spend a lot of time in the 30's - 40's FPS which is below my monitors Free-Sync rage (Min 48) and with Radeon Enhanced Sync i get screen tearing all over the place... With Nvidia's Fast Sync there was none of that.
• YouTube in Firefox also has screen tearing, i had the same thing on the GTX 1070 BUT with Nvidia's driver i could set a profile for FireFox and enable V-Sync for it which stopped that.
• Sometime the Randeon Software shuts down for no apparent reason, I hit Alt+R and nothing happens, i Alt+Tab out and see the Radeon icon has disappeared from the System Tray, its shut down in the middle of the game without me even noticing it.

You not using enhanced sync correctly. This is for when frame rate is above the monitor refresh rate instead of enabling a frame rate limiter or vsync enhanced sync will kick in and display a complete frame = no tearing.

Fast sync works the same way so it wasn't fast sync working for you for sure.

It’s worth noting that Fast Sync only works as along as the GPU is rendering at a frame rate above the monitors refresh rate.

https://beebom.com/what-is-nvidia-fast-sync-enable/amp/

Tearing from a browser? Never once experienced this not even sure how this is possible seeing Windows own vsync kicks in to stop tearing.

 

[humbug]

Just disabled Enhanced Sync and enabled global V-Sync, see if that does the trick.

Defiantly no screen tearing with the GTX 1070.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Tearing on videos on chrome i use the trick to set it to dx9 which helped a lot with stutter when scrolling and general slugishness in performance on some sites and i think helped videos streaming on chrome. I think its because chrome uses opengl which runs bad on amd for somethings even tho i think its mainly uses dx11, not sure how it all works but when i switched from whatever default it was to dx9 or something it helped a lot.

Choose ANGLE graphics backend
Choose the graphics backend for ANGLE. D3D11 is used on most Windows computers by default. Using the OpenGL driver as the graphics backend may result in higher performance in some graphics-heavy applications, particularly on NVIDIA GPUs. It can increase battery and memory usage of video playback. – Windows

to dx9

Then theres these that might help, there all custom set to enabled.

Override software rendering list
Overrides the built-in software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android

#ignore-gpu-blacklist
Smooth Scrolling
Animate smoothly when scrolling page content. – Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android

#smooth-scrolling
0" jstcache="7">
GPU rasterization
Use GPU to rasterize web content. Requires impl-side painting. – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android

#enable-gpu-rasterization
0" jstcache="7">
Out of process rasterization
Perform Ganesh raster in the GPU Process instead of the renderer. Must also enable GPU rasterization – Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android