AMD Radeon Adrenalin Now Lets Users Report Crashes In-Driver

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

@theoneandonlymrk

The birdie dude originally used the word "rant" didn't he. Was he looking for helpful tips here? No.

Dude just wanna vent off some frustration. Nothing more nothing else. If he wanted help in solving these problems he would have contacted AMD support (which he did!)

It is great you wanna help. Some folks definitely would appreciate the gesture. But this is clearly not the case here. You gotta read the undertone of a post first.

Also shutting down conversation is never good. From what I have seen your pattern of replying, people without product of discussion simply cannot pariticpate in discussion? I don't think that goes with forum guidelines in replies right. Sure it definitely roughs your feathers the wrong way, just gotta suck it up my man. I am sure if you had your own forum you can make up whatever rules you want, including "don't own a product don't deserve to discuss" rule.

Well , he could have replied without implications that I'm a fanboi.
Something along the lines of I have reported it would have done, without implying I'm defending AMD by asking only if he reported it or started a help thread, thread jacking isn't in the rules either.
Ridiculous.

Also I had not noticed the RANT bit, not that that validates thread shiting, but I wouldn't have replied tbh ,had i noted that, it was early for my eyes ,sorry.

I cannot know what he has or hasn't done without asking and being labelled, tut.
Your other points are fair enough, my forum is a picture of serenity.
It's lonely there though lol.

I don't think I need the training, others do.
Was it I throwing fanboi statement out first, no.
was it me attacking others with bias comments, not initially until bias showed itself.

Some Roam the place with stirring spoon in hand.

 

[Lionheart]

Was gonna give my two cents but I think I'll tip toe on outta here.

 

[Basard]

My friend's 3600/5600xt system has had issues with the screen blacking out and causing games to crash to desktop constantly. Dunno if the latest driver release has fixed it, but he's new to PC gaming, and I feel bad for recommending his hardware for his first build. If it weren't for the driver issues he would love it. Poor bastard.

 

[HD64G]

My friend's 3600/5600xt system has had issues with the screen blacking out and causing games to crash to desktop constantly. Dunno if the latest driver release has fixed it, but he's new to PC gaming, and I feel bad for recommending his hardware for his first build. If it weren't for the driver issues he would love it. Poor bastard.

My main problem with my Ryzen/Navi system was the memory settings' stability that caused 99% of the problems in games. Tell this friend of yours to set the RAM to default settings (2133MHz) to test if the instablity still occurs (then the GPU driver is the problem) or all gets fixed and he just need to tune the memory for more stability than speed.

 

[r.h.p]

you can probably lock 120 fps with lower settings
still,adaptive sync helps a lot in BF-type games,when there's explosions your fps is bound to dip a lot

na u missed my point ct , I turn Freesync on with dx12 And no dramas

 

[bug]

Somehow I think bug reports was the last thing AMD lacked, but every bit helps, I guess?

 

[r.h.p]

Somehow I think bug reports was the last thing AMD lacked, but every bit helps, I guess?

I never send back info if they ask , same with windows , just don’t give a sheet . I reCkon they don’t read it anyway unless it’s a massive problem millions of people get I think...?

 

[bug]

I never send back info if they ask , same with windows , just don’t give a sheet . I reCkon they don’t read it anyway unless it’s a massive problem millions of people get I think...?

Even if they don't read each and every report, automatic crash reports can be scanned for patterns.

 

[r.h.p]

Even if they don't read each and every report, automatic crash reports can be scanned for patterns.

Ok probably, is it a blockchain program that scans it u reckon ?

 

[bug]

Ok probably, is it a blockchain program that scans it u reckon ?

No. What business would blockchain have here?

 

[r.h.p]

No. What business would blockchain have here?

Lol I don’t know

 

[Space Lynx]

this should have been there a week after launch with how bad the drivers were... what a mess. I am definitely going Ampere. ryzen 4800x and Ampere

 

[Caring1]

Somehow I think bug reports was the last thing AMD lacked, but every bit helps, I guess?

And that, was a Bug report, back with more later.

 

[cucker tarlson]

na u missed my point ct , I turn Freesync on with dx12 And no dramas

obviously,sorry

 

[1d10t]

I buy a whole product. I don't buy a Lego to tinker to make my games work. This is just freaking ridiculous. In my 20 years of using NVIDIA, I've never used their Control Panel (aside from adding a custom monitor refresh rate) because everything just worked.

Chill out , gramps I'm just trying to help. No need to spout rampage to me like that. Wanna talk to the manager?

Also shutting down conversation is never good. From what I have seen your pattern of replying, people without product of discussion simply cannot pariticpate in discussion? I don't think that goes with forum guidelines in replies right. Sure it definitely roughs your feathers the wrong way, just gotta suck it up my man. I am sure if you had your own forum you can make up whatever rules you want, including "don't own a product don't deserve to discuss" rule.

Lamborgini sucks, Ferrari is better, while riding commuter line everyday.
AMD suck, nVidia is better, typing with Intel UHD 600.
It's legal, non said otherwise, but it doesn't hold any accountability and hence there's a title already for them

 

[cucker tarlson]

Chill out , gramps I'm just trying to help. No need to spout rampage to me like that. Wanna talk to the manager?




Lamborgini sucks, Ferrari is better, while riding commuter line everyday.
AMD suck, nVidia is better, typing with Intel UHD 600.
It's legal, non said otherwise, but it doesn't hold any accountability and hence there's a title already for them

he is the ferrari part of that thing you know

 

[freestyle18]

The drivers are horrible. I have a 3600 paired with RX 5700 XT. I had crashes in every single game: Detroit Become Human, Borderlands 3, Metro Exodus. It didn't matter if a changed the settings or screw around with the voltage. Until yesterday. I've rolled back to the previous drivers, the 20.4.2 version, and i can actually game again. Not a single crash till now.

AMD should up their game, i know they have nice hardware but my god, the drivers are absolutely awful.

 

[milewski1015]

I buy a whole product. I don't buy a Lego to tinker to make my games work. This is just freaking ridiculous. In my 20 years of using NVIDIA, I've never used their Control Panel (aside from adding a custom monitor refresh rate) because everything just worked.

Mad about not being able to tinker with gamma control yet you happily state you didn't tinker with Nvidia CP for years. Which do you want?

I've had a Nitro+ 5700 XT for 7 months. Were the drivers wonky to begin with? Sure. But I was fully aware of that going in, having done my homework. As I've mentioned in other threads, I was perfectly okay with having to troubleshoot a little bit (haven't had to in months since the release of 20.2.2 (I think that was the one, could be wrong though) to get essentially 2070 Super performance for $50+ cheaper.

 

[bug]

Mad about not being able to tinker with gamma control yet you happily state you didn't tinker with Nvidia CP for years. Which do you want?

That's how it works: you set gamma once, you're set for at least a year (or more, of your monitor doesn't burn out fast).

I've had a Nitro+ 5700 XT for 7 months. Were the drivers wonky to begin with? Sure. But I was fully aware of that going in, having done my homework. As I've mentioned in other threads, I was perfectly okay with having to troubleshoot a little bit (haven't had to in months since the release of 20.2.2 (I think that was the one, could be wrong though) to get essentially 2070 Super performance for $50+ cheaper.

I understand coming from the AMD land you knew to look for these problems. Coming from Nvidia, I wouldn't have expected them. Troubleshooting doesn't bother me (I wouldn't run Arch Linux if it did), but getting accustomed to things working a certain way, you just don't expect some problems.

 

[milewski1015]

That's how it works: you set gamma once, you're set for at least a year (or more, of your monitor doesn't burn out fast).

Fair enough. I haven't messed with gamma so I don't claim to have any understanding of what's involved.

I understand coming from the AMD land you knew to look for these problems. Coming from Nvidia, I wouldn't have expected them. Troubleshooting doesn't bother me (I wouldn't run Arch Linux if it did), but getting accustomed to things working a certain way, you just don't expect some problems.

I had no driver issues whatsoever with my RX 580. As I mentioned, only reason I knew there was the possibility of issues was because I did my homework before buying. Maybe not everybody does that (although I'm not sure why they wouldn't as you would think that'd be an important part of the purchasing decision), but by the time 5600 XTs were released, driver issues were well known.

 

[bug]

I had no driver issues whatsoever with my RX 580. As I mentioned, only reason I knew there was the possibility of issues was because I did my homework before buying. Maybe not everybody does that (although I'm not sure why they wouldn't as you would think that'd be an important part of the purchasing decision), but by the time 5600 XTs were released, driver issues were well known.

I only meant, you hear about issues, but some specifics may still catch you by surprise. And not necessarily when going Nvidia->AMD, I'm pretty sure it can happen the other way around, too.
Plus, in the specific case of driver issues, you hear about them, but you'd think they get sorted out a month or two down the road...

 

[Basard]

My main problem with my Ryzen/Navi system was the memory settings' stability that caused 99% of the problems in games. Tell this friend of yours to set the RAM to default settings (2133MHz) to test if the instablity still occurs (then the GPU driver is the problem) or all gets fixed and he just need to tune the memory for more stability than speed.

I'll have to ask him about all that. He's pretty new so I kinda assume he's got BIOS settings at all default....

As far as your stability issues... were they crashes to desktop, or hard freezes/blue screens?

 

[HD64G]

I'll have to ask him about all that. He's pretty new so I kinda assume he's got BIOS settings at all default....

As far as your stability issues... were they crashes to desktop, or hard freezes/blue screens?

Mainly crashing to desktop (when memory errors were few) but when RAM instability was heavy it would hard lock or blue screen also. Sometimes it would even cause the GPU driver to reset after the crashing to desktop happened.