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The AMD Driver Thread

deviation said:
SAM is enabled with no button to disable it!
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If you hover over the question mark it tells you that if you want to disable it that you need to go into your BIOS. I'm not 100% but possibly it was removed to improve stability. Directly disabling or enabling via the BIOS is the logical place to do this. But perhaps @AMD_Vik might know more. There doesn't appear to be any mention of the change in any release notes. Is there a reason you want to be able to disable it? With it enabled you're basically reducing bottlenecks and getting larger, more efficient data transfers, and improved performance. :)
 
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Firegod said:
If you hover over the question mark it tells you that if you want to disable it that you need to go into your BIOS. I'm not 100% but possibly it was removed to improve stability. Directly disabling or enabling via the BIOS is the logical place to do this. But perhaps @AMD_Vik might know more. There doesn't appear to be any mention of the change in any release notes. Is there a reason you want to be able to disable it? With it enabled you're basically reducing bottlenecks and getting larger, more efficient data transfers, and improved performance. :)
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Thanks mate, it's silly the give us a feature then remove it.
I did originally disable it due to COD MW3 people claiming it solved the crashes a year or so ago, but that might have been fluke - but there was many threads on it, it has been fine for ages since that though, so for all I know they might have enabled it awhile ago and I didn't know :cry:
 
Update:
Hopefully this might help someone :)

So it turns out my monitoring now works within windows, AMD added a sneaky toggle "Game Detection for Metrics Overlay" that I somehow missed :cry: Turn that off and bingo, works outside of gaming :)
So with the previous reinstall of the Adrenaline app (but still in the same directory) bringing back my missing CPU telemetry, that's everything working again now :D
Win win!
 
So I have a 9070 after using Nvidia for around 5-6 years.. any tips to smooth out DayZ stutters? Wondering what the best AMD driver settings could be. So far I've tried Fluid Motion which helps but still seeing some random stuttering.

Cheers :)
 
MyBrainz said:
So I have a 9070 after using Nvidia for around 5-6 years.. any tips to smooth out DayZ stutters? Wondering what the best AMD driver settings could be. So far I've tried Fluid Motion which helps but still seeing some random stuttering.

Cheers :)
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Not been keeping up sorry, how did you transition over from Nvidia. Just rip and replace or did you DDU? Have you gone nuclear option yet and tried a fresh OS install?

EDIT: Also, just saying recommended PSU for 9070 is 750w. An old 650w PSU that is aged and degraded may cause stuttering. I'm just thinking about GPU spikes. Voltage ripple under load could cause micro stutters.
 
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Firegod said:
Not been keeping up sorry, how did you transition over from Nvidia. Just rip and replace or did you DDU? Have you gone nuclear option yet and tried a fresh OS install?

EDIT: Also, just saying recommended PSU for 9070 is 750w. An old 650w PSU that is aged and degraded may cause stuttering. I'm just thinking about GPU spikes. Voltage ripple under load could cause micro stutters.
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Just uninstalled Nvidia drivers, deleted all the Nvidia folders, ran ccleaner. Shut down, switch cards, boot up and install AMD drivers.

I ran DDU a few days later in case that would fix the DayZ stuttering but it was still the same.

About PSU, Sapphire recommend minimum 650w but I been looking for a new one and might grab an 850w this weekend as my EVGA is getting old even though it doesnt get warm, will throw that in my AM4 system that only runs a 2200G.
 
MyBrainz said:
So I have a 9070 after using Nvidia for around 5-6 years.. any tips to smooth out DayZ stutters? Wondering what the best AMD driver settings could be. So far I've tried Fluid Motion which helps but still seeing some random stuttering.

Cheers :)
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Stutters are usually related to VRAM or RAM. If either are overclocked, try them at stock to see if it resolves the issue. If they aren't overclocked then do a mem test on each of them to make sure they haven't got issues.
Also ensure you have Resizable BAR enabled.
 
Kirkatron said:
Stutters are usually related to VRAM or RAM. If either are overclocked, try them at stock to see if it resolves the issue. If they aren't overclocked then do a mem test on each of them to make sure they haven't got issues.
Also ensure you have Resizable BAR enabled.
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Its none of these as before I put the 9070 in I had my 3060 Ti in there with minimal stuttering.. its an AMD thing that I had previously with Vega 56, RX 480/580, 7950 etc. I thought after 6 years of being on Nvidia that AMD would have this sorted by now but I was thinking brute force it with a 9070 lol It aint as bad as it was years ago but its still there, random stuttering/juddering.

Anyway I can live with it for now :)
 
MyBrainz said:
Its none of these as before I put the 9070 in I had my 3060 Ti in there with minimal stuttering.. its an AMD thing that I had previously with Vega 56, RX 480/580, 7950 etc. I thought after 6 years of being on Nvidia that AMD would have this sorted by now but I was thinking brute force it with a 9070 lol It aint as bad as it was years ago but its still there, random stuttering/juddering.

Anyway I can live with it for now :)
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Odd

No stutter on my 9070 nor on previous RX570/580's.

In fact I don't recall stutter on any of my cards Nvidia or AMD.

Puzzling.
 
adidan said:
Odd

No stutter on my 9070 nor on previous RX570/580's.

In fact I don't recall stutter on any of my cards Nvidia or AMD.

Puzzling.
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Yea I have changed everything over the years, every component, every peripheral. It all started with the 0.60 or 0.61 update years ago, was running fine when it was DX9 :cry:

Also been on 1gig fibre for a few years so I cant see it being that and I dont think it is as I have created my own LAN server with my AM4 build now and it still happens :(
 
MyBrainz said:
Its none of these as before I put the 9070 in I had my 3060 Ti in there with minimal stuttering.. its an AMD thing that I had previously with Vega 56, RX 480/580, 7950 etc. I thought after 6 years of being on Nvidia that AMD would have this sorted by now but I was thinking brute force it with a 9070 lol It aint as bad as it was years ago but its still there, random stuttering/juddering.

Anyway I can live with it for now :)
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I'd format if I were you.

My old Vega 56 system was running smoothly for a couple of years when all of a sudden every game started to stutter and nothing felt smooth despite decent frame rates. After a format, everything ran nicely so it was definitely a Windows update which had caused the issue. I've blocked automatic updates ever since and not had any stuttering issues with any graphics card I've had (ignoring games which are known for it). I also found I don't need to format as often! :D
 
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I'd format if I were you.

My old Vega 56 system was running smoothly for a couple of years when all of a sudden every game started to stutter and nothing felt smooth despite decent frame rates. After a format, everything ran nicely so it was definitely a Windows update which had caused the issue. I've blocked automatic updates ever since and not had any stuttering issues with any graphics card I've had (ignoring games which are known for it). I also found I don't need to format as often! :D
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Honestly I've tried a format so many times, it never fixes it. I only recently updated from Windows 10 to 11 this year so its a pretty fresh install.
 
MyBrainz said:
Its none of these as before I put the 9070 in I had my 3060 Ti in there with minimal stuttering.. its an AMD thing that I had previously with Vega 56, RX 480/580, 7950 etc. I thought after 6 years of being on Nvidia that AMD would have this sorted by now but I was thinking brute force it with a 9070 lol It aint as bad as it was years ago but its still there, random stuttering/juddering.

Anyway I can live with it for now :)
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It's defo not an AMD thing and you shouldn't have to put up with it. It has to be something else causing it. I've been vega64, 6700xt and 6900xt and no stutters.
 
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Think I'll do a test later that probably hasnt been done before with DayZ.

I have sometimes thought that zombies spawning in might be the cause so as I have my own LAN server, sometime later today I'll try to completely disable zombies, there is min-max counts in the config file for pretty much everything, including the infected :D
 
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