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The AMD Driver Thread

dante6491 said:
One thing I have noticed is that Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling does not appear to be enabled in the main graphics drivers. Loads of buzz back in June/July, but not heard anything since and I would have though the RX6800 series would have included it.
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The buzz was largely from windows updating to support it. Think its still a BETA amongst everyone and hasn't been shown to help that much so far.

Might come in with the 2020 Adrenalin feature release maybe.
 
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.3 Highlights

Support For
  • Immortals: Fenyx Rising™
  • Vulkan® Ray Tracing Extensions
Added Vulkan® Support
  • VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate
    • This extension provides the ability to change the shading rate per fragment. This extension allows for multiple pixels to be shaded via a single fragment shader invocation as opposed to the normal rate of one invocation per pixel.
  • VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
    • This extension provides acceleration structures for representing geometry that is spatially sorted. Acceleration structures are the most common way for quickly identifying potential ray intersections by ray tracing techniques.
  • VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
    • This extension introduces ray tracing pipelines along with new shader domains and an indirection table to link shader groups with acceleration structures.
  • VK_KHR_ray_query
    • This extension introduces ray queries, which can be used by any shader type outside of the optional dedicated ray tracing pipeline to return traversal results to the calling shader.
  • VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations
    • This extension defines the infrastructure and usage patterns for deferrable commands, which allows dependent extensions to defer their own operations. The VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations extension itself does not specify any commands as deferrable.
  • VK_KHR_pipeline_library
    • This extension introduces pipeline libraries. A pipeline library is a new special pipeline type that defines a set of pipeline states. It cannot be bound, rather it can be linked into other pipelines.
  • VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation
    • This extension indicates support for the SPV_KHR_terminate_invocation SPIR-V extension. The SPIR-V extension introduces a new instruction OpTerminateInvocation that allows a shader invocation to immediately terminate, which provides the behavior required by the GLSL discard statement.
Fixed Issues
  • Lower than expected performance may be experienced on Radeon™ RX 6000 series graphics products in Watchdogs:® Legion and Dirt™ 5.
  • Lower than expected performance may be experienced on Radeon™ RX 5000/500/400 series graphics products in Godfall™.
  • Godfall™ is not detected or listed in Radeon Software gaming tab.
  • Crysis™ Remastered may experience corruption on character models on Radeon™ RX 6800 Series graphics products.
  • Fixed some intermittent crashes found in Total War™ Saga: Troy and World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands.
  • World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands may fail to launch when DirectX®12 API is selected on Windows®7 system configurations.
  • Fixed some intermittent crashes found in Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War with DirectX® Raytracing enabled.
  • HDR on supported Windows 10 desktops might get disabled when DOOM® Eternal™ starts rendering in HDR mode.
  • Fixed issues found on Adobe™ Illustrator, Adobe™ Premier and FinalWire AIDA64.
  • Fixed corruption issues in Red Dead Redemption 2 in 1080p resolution on Radeon™ RX 6800 Series graphics products.
Known Issues
  • Brightness flickering may intermittently occur in some games when Radeon™ FreeSync is enabled, and the game is set to use borderless fullscreen.
  • Metro Exodus™, Shadow of the Tomb Raider™, Battlefield™ V and Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare may experience intermittent application crashes with DirectX® Raytracing enabled.
  • Anisotropic Filtering in Radeon™ Software graphics settings is not taking effect in DirectX®9 applications on RDNA graphics products.
  • Some games may experience stuttering when set to borderless fullscreen and an extended display is connected running the Netflix™ windows store application on RDNA graphics products.
  • Radeon™ recording and streaming features may fail to enable on AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 series graphics products.
  • Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Oculus Link users might experience crashes on Polaris and Vega series graphics products.
  • Flickering might be observed if the Radeon Software Overlay is invoked while Immortals: Fenyx Rising™ is running on an extended display.
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege might experience corruption in Hybrid Graphics scenarios when using the Vulkan API on an extended display.
  • Screen flickering might be observed when using MSI Afterburner.
Important Notes
  • AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Vega Graphics FAQ for Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition can be found here.
Package Contents
The Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.3 installation package contains the following:

  • Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.11.3 Driver Version 20.45.01.24 (Windows Driver Store Version 27.20.14501.24001)
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https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-11-3
 
My card used to idle with the fans silent at under 20%. Now I get 1 min of very audible 1200rpm followed by 3 mins 0rpm. Rinse and repeat. A quick search suggests this was intended. :/

EDIT: Couldn't find Tuning, so used the search feature to take me to it. Made some changes but can't save them because the button has gone. WTF :/ :/
 
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Skunkworks said:
My card used to idle with the fans silent at under 20%. Now I get 1 min of very audible 1200rpm followed by 3 mins 0rpm. Rinse and repeat. A quick search suggests this was intended. :/

EDIT: Couldn't find Tuning, so used the search feature to take me to it. Made some changes but can't save them because the button has gone. WTF :/ :/
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Set a custom fan curve with Afterburner. AMD's fan control is dog **** and always has been.
 
Skunkworks said:
My card used to idle with the fans silent at under 20%. Now I get 1 min of very audible 1200rpm followed by 3 mins 0rpm. Rinse and repeat. A quick search suggests this was intended. :/

EDIT: Couldn't find Tuning, so used the search feature to take me to it. Made some changes but can't save them because the button has gone. WTF :/ :/
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try using msi after burner ...
i use it and keep fans at 30% all time
 
varkanoid said:
Does the onscreen display show the correct values now as it was broken in 20.11.2 ? (CTRL & ALT & O)
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Seems to yeah. I've just put a post in the overclocking section though as I'm struggling with the clock speed. Never seems to go above ~1500Mhz. Both overlay and Metric page working fine, so I think it's a separate issue. But just did CTRL+SHIFT+O and the overlay appears and works OK (ran a benchmark). Hope this helps.
 
Firegod said:
Seems to yeah. I've just put a post in the overclocking section though as I'm struggling with the clock speed. Never seems to go above ~1500Mhz. Both overlay and Metric page working fine, so I think it's a separate issue. But just did CTRL+SHIFT+O and the overlay appears and works OK (ran a benchmark). Hope this helps.
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Thanks.
 
20.11.3 still causing a black screen for me on vega during install... once ive hard rebooted, ive noti9ced loads of pci devices get uninstalled then installed wtf are AMD doing? is this an gpu+x570 strange that no one else has noticed it, i did a factory reset, cleaned the drivers out before hand, strange thing is nothing changes. always ends in a black screen which has to be hard rebooted.
 
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-12-1
Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.12.1 Highlights
Support For
  • Radeon™ RX 6900 Series
  • Cyberpunk 2077™
Fixed Issues
  • Gaming applications can sometimes get stuck running at lower than expected graphics clocks on Radeon RX 6800 series graphics products.
  • The HP Reverb G2 VR headset may fail to sync or may have a black screen when run with Radeon RX 6800 series graphics products.
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege may experience corruption in Hybrid Graphics scenarios when using the Vulkan API on an extended display.
  • Crossfire™ may experience issues when attempting to change the games resolution to a 16:9 ratio.
  • Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon™ RX 5700 series graphics products.
Known Issues
  • Brightness flickering may intermittently occur in some games when Radeon™ FreeSync is enabled, and the game is set to use borderless fullscreen.
  • Some displays such as the Sceptre C series or Samsung™ Odyssey G9 series may experience an intermittent black screen on Radeon RX 6000 series graphics products.
  • The Samsung™ Odyssey G9 C49G95T may experience display or corruption issues when set to 5120x1440@240hz.
  • Metro Exodus™, Shadow of the Tomb Raider™, Battlefield™ V and Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare may experience intermittent application crashes with DirectX® Raytracing enabled.
  • Anisotropic Filtering in Radeon™ Software graphics settings is not taking effect in DirectX®9 applications on RDNA graphics products.
  • Some games may experience stuttering when set to borderless fullscreen and an extended display is connected running the Netflix™ windows store application on RDNA graphics products.
  • Radeon™ recording and streaming features may fail to enable on AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 series graphics products.
  • Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
  • Oculus Link users may experience intermittent crashes on Polaris and Vega series graphics products.
  • Screen flickering might be observed when using MSI Afterburner.
  • 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.
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AMD drivers for Cyberpunk are under 'optional' not 'recommended' therefore AMD doesn't currently recommend AMD users play this game yet. Check and mate ;) In my experience the optional drivers were a daily BSOD.
 
keyser said:
AMD drivers for Cyberpunk are under 'optional' not 'recommended' therefore AMD doesn't currently recommend AMD users play this game yet. Check and mate ;).
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I don’t think you understand how this works. The only difference is the recommended drivers have a WHQL stamp which is updated roughly every three months. They undergo no more testing than the optional drivers. Optional drivers can be updated several times in a month for new game releases.
 
LtMatt said:
I don’t think you understand how this works. The only difference is the recommended drivers have a WHQL stamp which is updated roughly every three months. They undergo no more testing than the optional drivers. Optional drivers can be updated several times in a month for new game releases.
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They're both labelled WHQL on the website. But ok I see. In my experience the 'optional' driver was terrible until I went 'recommended', earlier in the year.
 
keyser said:
They're both labelled WHQL on the website. But ok I see. In my experience the 'optional' driver was terrible until I went 'recommended', earlier in the year.
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Fair enough, probably just unlucky then as usually recommended drivers were optional at some point.
 
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