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The AMD Driver Thread

SpudMaster said:
Just disable Windows Update installing drivers via Regedit. That's permanent :-)
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However, this might break XBLive?

@Game

If you try wub posted above, it's install>run>click disable button=MS can't push any updates-but if you use Xbox live, you need to click enable-Close and Xbox live will resume as normal and windows shouldn't push updates as you're on the latest driver.

What I'd do:

Download newest driver

Download and Install AMD cleanup utility:


Run Wub>disable MS updates

Run AMD cleanup utility-it boots into safe mode, removes gpu divers(AMD clean install) and reboots

Run driver>reboot

Run Wub>enable MS updates.:thumbsup
 
GhostDog1981 said:
Incidentally has anyone noticed lower 1% lows on 25.3.1 on their RDNA 3 cards?

Also noticed lower Timespy scores on the newer driver versus 25.2.1. @AMD_Vik

I think a bit of regression on my card than benefit.
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Funny you say that, generally seeing testimony to the opposite, in that the newer branch is in more performant on RNDA 2 and 3
 
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AMD_Vik said:
Funny you say that, generally seeing testimony to the opposite, in that the newer branch is in more performant on RNDA 2 and 3
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Maybe the Timespy scores being lower doesn’t translate to lower actual performance in games but having reverted back to 25.2.1 I am seeing a 200-300 point uplift in the standard Timespy benchmark.

I am noticing higher avg FPS and 1% lows on 25.2.1 vs 25.3.1.

Eg Call of Duty MW3 benchmark at 1440p without upscaling on extreme settings getting 142fps on 25.3.1 and 145-147 fps on 25.2.1.
 
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Soo, just reinstalled a freshly downloaded windows 11 image onto a cleaned drive. Installed drivers for chipset, solidigm SSDs and the GPU. Installed Vesktop(discord) and brave browser and immediately got black flicker(monitor goes off and then on several times). I noticed similar behaviour in Linux Bazzite. Whenever I fullscreen an app with variable refresh active, the screen would flicker black once as in turn off and on like a resolution switch would do... soooo great.
 
Phixsator said:
Soo, just reinstalled a freshly downloaded windows 11 image onto a cleaned drive. Installed drivers for chipset, solidigm SSDs and the GPU. Installed Vesktop(discord) and brave browser and immediately got black flicker(monitor goes off and then on several times). I noticed similar behaviour in Linux Bazzite. Whenever I fullscreen an app with variable refresh active, the screen would flicker black once as in turn off and on like a resolution switch would do... soooo great.
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That is so annoying. And does it matter if it is hdmi or dp? Is the setting in Windows 11 to dynamically alter the refresh rate to save power, is that disabled? I think it is off by default tbh. Any firmware update for the monitor? Monitor inf installed? Also not sure if it would be linked but best ask, mobo bios up to date?
 
Firegod said:
That is so annoying. And does it matter if it is hdmi or dp? Is the setting in Windows 11 to dynamically alter the refresh rate to save power, is that disabled? I think it is off by default tbh. Any firmware update for the monitor? Monitor inf installed? Also not sure if it would be linked but best ask, mobo bios up to date?
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I've been through it all except testing the monitor over HDMI as HDMI don't play nice on Linux thanks to the HDMI consortium and my cable is to short. Everything else mentioned has been done at least once, included but not limited to, factory reset the monitor. Also found out that FSR 3 Frame generation doesn't seem to work with freesync at all in Cyberpunk causing tearing even when limiting the generated output to less than the monitors refresh rate.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
At least I can roll back drivers, 9070 users are ****** in that area.
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True :P, I'm managing the issue for the moment though. Anything web based has hardware accel turned off, discord really don't need to be accelerated anyway, and my browsers backend is switched to DX9. So for the time being no flicker/black screen issues. Games are running great. I thought my RX 6950 XT had good frame pacing, yet cant hold a candle to the 9070. Frame delivery just feels better than anything I can recall I've tried in the past. To have so much smooth performance even at a locked 170 watt envelope is ffing amazing.

EDIT: Actually my poor 5800x3d has issues keeping up in games like Cyberpunk @ 3440x1440p max raster settings. Like WTH :P. I'm day dreaming of a 9950X3D platform right now :P
 
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