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The AMD Driver Thread

SpudMaster said:
Strangely enough, just tried it today and it's working now. Nothing changed since yesterday other than the PC being turned off over night
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So going back to the overlay not working...
So for me it doesn't work when playing Windows Store games, only tested with Doom Dark Ages but all CPU metrics other than utilisation are at 0 when playing. With Steam games it works as normal.

Anyone else found this?
 
Not sure where to post this but felt it was worth sharing. Not sure @AMD_Vik if this is something you've come across, or if it is a windows "issue". But, I've been having a terrible time with Mechwarrior 5 Clans. Constant crashing with a "fatal error" and then the AMD bug report pops up saying it detected a driver timeout. Can happen 1 minute into the game or 2 hours into the game. Most of the time it would crash on the cutscenes (but not always). So things I tried:

1. SFC /scannow
2. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
3. Shader Cache reset
4. Reinstalled / Repair on 25.5.1
5. Turning down in-game graphics / disable frame gen / disable FSR
6. Removing undervolt on GPU
7. Check game file integrity via Steam

Nothing helped.

Until I came across a post on the AMD community from about 6 months ago.

Open up regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and set a new DWORD for HwSchMode and set it to a value of 2. Restart.

I've just done this and managed nearly 3 hours of Mechwarrior 5 Clans without a single issue! :eek:
 
yashiro said:
You can use Windows settings Ui to do this. Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling is the setting name. (2 = setting is on)
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I don't have it. Apparently it is within System > Display > Graphics > Change Default Graphics Settings. All I see is Variable Refresh Rate and Auto HDR toggles in the UI.
 
Which suggests something is a bit wonky? If your card supports it the option should be there. Either there's a weird software bug or changing the registry is just placebo. Which exact version of Windows, AMD driver and card is this?
 
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Firegod said:
Not sure where to post this but felt it was worth sharing. Not sure @AMD_Vik if this is something you've come across, or if it is a windows "issue". But, I've been having a terrible time with Mechwarrior 5 Clans. Constant crashing with a "fatal error" and then the AMD bug report pops up saying it detected a driver timeout. Can happen 1 minute into the game or 2 hours into the game. Most of the time it would crash on the cutscenes (but not always). So things I tried:

1. SFC /scannow
2. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
3. Shader Cache reset
4. Reinstalled / Repair on 25.5.1
5. Turning down in-game graphics / disable frame gen / disable FSR
6. Removing undervolt on GPU
7. Check game file integrity via Steam

Nothing helped.

Until I came across a post on the AMD community from about 6 months ago.

Open up regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers and set a new DWORD for HwSchMode and set it to a value of 2. Restart.

I've just done this and managed nearly 3 hours of Mechwarrior 5 Clans without a single issue! :eek:
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Funny enough, this was recently reported to us by Ed from Sapphire several weeks ago, though this was specific to FSR enablement. We haven't observed general crashing in this, however. The HWSchmode key shouldn't have an impact outside of an applicable OS + HW configuration. Which OS and GPU is this with?
 
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AMD_Vik said:
Funny enough, this was recently reported to us by Ed from Sapphire several weeks ago, though this was specific to FSR enablement. We haven't observed general crashing in this, however. The HWSchmode key shouldn't have an impact outside of an applicable OS + HW configuration. Which OS and GPU is this with?
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Oh wow really. Cheers. It's windows 11 pro 24h2 build 26100.4061 with the asrock 6900xt.
 
yashiro said:
Which suggests something is a bit wonky? If your card supports it the option should be there. Either there's a weird software bug or changing the registry is just placebo. Which exact version of Windows, AMD driver and card is this?
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Just posted the info in previous reply. Could be a glitch but it certainly appears to have rectified the issue for me. Maybes next GPU I'll do a fresh windows install. But DISM and SFC all check out clear.
 
AMD_Vik said:
Funny enough, this was recently reported to us by Ed from Sapphire several weeks ago, though this was specific to FSR enablement. We haven't observed general crashing in this, however. The HWSchmode key shouldn't have an impact outside of an applicable OS + HW configuration. Which OS and GPU is this with?
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Can you have a look why idle VRAM is so high? It's literally 3GB VRAM used in Windows. 9070XT with latest official.
 
hornetstinger said:
Can you have a look why idle VRAM is so high? It's literally 3GB VRAM used in Windows. 9070XT with latest official.
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You can look and see what it's being used by. 'Idle' is going to be different for everybody.

Open Task manager > Details tab
Right click on a column heading and choose 'Select columns'
Scroll down to the bottom and tick 'Dedicated GPU memory'
Sort by column

FYI my 9070XT uses 1-1.5GB on Windows 11 with Arc browser and one tab open (this one)
Top VRAM process is Desktop Windows Manager at ~650MB
 
I think it's pretty much anything that has a 'hardware acceleration' option buried in the settings. So that's lots of visually rich programs like browsers and browser based programs like Steam for example.

Poor explanation, but that's the idea.
 
Lee Charles said:
Yeah only stutters when viewing windowed at 4k but In 1080p/1440p windowed mode It's fine and when using Fullscreen
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I have no idea whats going on tbh, Ive tried messing with hardware aceleration too. I dont know if its a amd thing or windows being windows. other than your gpu being radeon we both have amd cpus and x570 mobos ive never noticed any issues in the past or anything.
 
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