This is several hours of idling...
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12-13W avg power
Used to be able to go down towards 10w tbp with 3840x1600 @ 144hz and 1080x1920 @ 60 hz when going fullscreen on YouTube and pause video playback, but it now only go's down to 25w so it gotten worse again.
Also starting steam big picture causes memory not to downclock making idle go towards 90+ until steam is restarted.
even going controller calibration or settings trigger this until steam restart.
... If you own a 7000 card and you aren't a member of Radeon Vanguard already, do yourself a favor and sign up.
Normally i would join such program however AMD messed up and their terms and conditions are laughable like not taking responsibility for anything, after that mess up with anti-lag+ no i do not think i will.
Let them go thru the bug reports like normal, and if they ignore i just make memes about them instead and shove those into my bug reports instead.
I really liked anti-lag+ tho and what happened to many players sucks but issues like these always get resolved, however if you in the vanguard program while testing you may get vac banned before date the driver officially hit, they may not overturn your ban as a result, which is exactly why i highly recommend not joining that program.
I do not mind communicating via special channels to get issues fixed faster, but i have zero interest in testing things under NDA that are probably so highly experimental that it triggers anti cheat to freak out.
If they release this kind of stuff to the masses and make a mistake i get annoyed at most, cos reality is its gonna get resolved, and i am pretty sure their been users banned and not unbanned their was 1 user that reported getting banned and did not get unbanned as of yet, however if the guy is lying guess will never find out.
Their are so many issues these days with drivers and the RGB laser show bug only got fixed after a lot of nagging without any mention of a fix.
While Radeon Boost issue remains while RT is turned off for example.
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However the above issue is avoidable by either turning of radeon boost with alt+k or turning on ray tracing.
Its kind of hilarious Radeon Boost gives different results with directx11 vs directx12 and their used be 3 different glitches now their are 2, AMD never acknowledged their was an issue with Radeon Boost with Raytracing being off however, anyway this is how i expected known issues to be.
RGB disco aura will engage during camera movement in directx12 ultimate with ray tracing turned off (workaround turn off radeon boost using alt+k default key binding.)
Camera will freeze up during movement (workaround turn off radeon boost using alt+k default key binding.)
as for with RT on this was listed already.
As for fixed issues still be useful to know, alto i would probably fact check anyway.
Fixed a bug with environmental smoke/gas/etc effects causing an RGB laser show or RGB rectangles to appear on screen during gameplay/cutscenes.
Also knowing which games have known issues with stability like driver timeouts is very useful as it reduces my stress and gives me hint to perhaps try something else for the time being.
If been reading reddit and forums a lot lately in combination with my own reports their are now 38 known issues in my own known issue list most of them are reported multiple times by multiple users.
If not 1 known issue manages to get on list next driver i am gonna cringe so hard.
It's so strange seeing people complain about drivers, I've literally had no issues whatsoever for over a year, what am I doing differently ?
That just means you are playing probably 1 of the newer games that is very stable a lot, while mostly playing older games that tend to have less issues.
first year when i owned 6900 XT i had 0 issues for 1 whole year, all i played was World of Warcraft and many old games, when i started buying newer games which is why i upgraded after like 1 year i started running into more and more issues, also 2022 happened a lot of users had MPO related issues which are easy to identify with black screens out of nowhere ignoring freeze before it if it freezes before it is result of driver timeout, if you instantly go black screen without freeze its a MPO issue like after alt tabbing, also related green screens pink screen grey screens assuming you do not freeze first, pink screen could be triggered in broken drivers by turning on and off gpu scaling avg user does not do that, but if you enable it on both screens you did its avoid able issue however that is no longer an issue.
Anyway these are old issues that no longer exist hopefully won't come back, however in really case case with AFMF on you can trigger driver timeout when frequently alt tabbing, which is when i recommend disabling AFMF to avoid problems like when actively chatting while gaming on discord.
