AMD GPU gamers only - your opinion on AMD drivers?

[Deleted member 193596]

fundamentally broken, overloaded with crap that really nobody needs.

 

[BoboOOZ]

fundamentally broken, overloaded with crap that really nobody needs.

Go away, troll!

 

[ratirt]

fundamentally broken, overloaded with crap that really nobody needs.

The Adrenalin driver is awesome with all the option it allows you to tweak. I need it so nobody makes no sense here. On top of that, that comes from a person who probably never used it anyway

 

[bug]

I don't mind the Adrenaline layout and I find the options there very useful. It allows me to optimize any game for the best performance separately. Of course, there's plenty more you can do with the spectrum of option but for the time being, individual game optimization for me is the way to go.
Besides, if anyone find it unnecessary, you can always switch to global gaming settings and call it a day.

Nvidia's simpler control panel also does that very well
Fwiw, Nvidia's drivers are bigger (600 vs 400MB) with GeForce Experience and stuff. But Experience is still optional, even though Nvidia pushes it hard.

 

[ratirt]

Nvidia's simpler control panel also does that very well
Fwiw, Nvidia's drivers are bigger (600 vs 400MB) with GeForce Experience and stuff. But Experience is still optional, even though Nvidia pushes it hard.

Well, It is not which driver is better or which driver's package is bigger when you look at the subject of this thread but an opinion about the AMD driver and what it brings.
This is what I like about it and shared my opinion aside of many other things that I really find useful. What's your opinion about the AMD driver though? Do you have an AMD GPU and you are using it or you have used recently?

 

[R0H1T]

The truth lies somewhere in between the two extremes, much like the rest of things in life!

 

[Fleurious]

Haven’t used an AMD card since running 4870s but had no issues that I can recollect.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

No complaints about the software works well here. & you can install drivers only if you want. There's even a software that I downloaded which I have never used that remove some parts of AMD Adrenalin software. I never used it, but I'm guessing it lets you pick which parts you want to remove if you have the full installation.

So how do you only install the driver without ripping it out like i showed? what is the software that lets you remove the parts you don't want? link?

 

[WhiteNoise]

I run an RX560 in my sons PC and I have to say, I have had issues with them. The latest drivers seem to be good with no problems lately. I admit I dislike their software suite and prefer nvidia.
Over the years I have always had issues with AMD drivers so I am leery of purchasing their cards. Sometimes though I do it just to save money, but then I usually feel like slapping myself.

I have two AMD cards currently being used in other computers. The RX560 above and the R9 480X (which is still going strong!)

 

[Deleted member 193596]

Go away, troll!

Go away, Fanboy!

i have TWO 5700XTs and both are barely functional (only the black screen was fixed now after 14 MONTHS!)
still have game crashes, enhanced sync is completely broken and unuseable, massive stuttering in several games like BF V.

but who cares.. huh?

 

[BoboOOZ]

Go away, Fanboy!

i have TWO 5700XTs and both are barely functional (only the black screen was fixed now after 14 MONTHS!)
still have game crashes, enhanced sync is completely broken and unuseable, massive stuttering in several games like BF V.

but who cares.. huh?

Most probably user error, open a thread here, I'm pretty sure we can help you.

Had the same problems, completely solved for a long time now.

Edit: and all my problems were user error, too, if that's not obvious from my wording.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I have had the 5700xt a week and ha no crashes, bsods, black screens, stuttering(that i can see) or anything else.

 

[EarthDog]

I have had the 5700xt a week and ha no crashes, bsods, black screens, stuttering(that i can see) or anything else.

Good. They resolved that issue a couple of releases ago.

 

[WhiteNoise]

Most probably user error, open a thread here, I'm pretty sure we can help you.

Had the same problems, completely solved for a long time now.

Edit: and all my problems were user error, too, if that's not obvious from my wording.

Honest question here but explain to me how user error causes a video card to not perform correctly? I buy a video card, install it, install the software/drivers then use it. If I have to do anything special for a video card to work properly, then that is not user error, that is crap drivers and tech. So i ask, what user error creates these problems you are talking about?

 

[BoboOOZ]

Honest question here but explain to me how user error causes a video card to not perform correctly? I buy a video card, install it, install the software/drivers then use it. If I have to do anything special for a video card to work properly, then that is not user error, that is crap drivers and tech. So i ask, what user error creates these problems you are talking about?

My user errors:

• installing additional tuning software
• enabling XMP profile on the CPU and not mem testing it (any memory OC applies)
• using only one rail for power delivery to the GPU

Do you recognize yourself in any of the bullets? Do you use MSI afterburner, Dragon Center, or equivalent? What speed is you RAM running at? Do you have 2 separate power rails going to your GPU?

 

[WhiteNoise]

@BoboOOZ I use one rail or two, depending on the PSU. I have never had any issues from doing so.
I use evga precision X1 (no issues to speak of)
In BIOS I set up the XMP profile when i first install everything. if I have any issues after testing I play with profile until everything is dandy. I run my ram at the speed they are supposed to run at. I use the XMP profile to make sure I run the advertised speed.

If I am overclocking then I expect issues can pop up so I do a lot of testing before I settle on my stable OC. Once that is done I never look back. All of this is done when i first build a PC from scratch. Once everything is stable, I never tweak a thing again until I buy parts to build another PC.

Done are the days of my tweaking and benching constantly. that is not a hobby of mine any longer.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

using only one rail for power delivery to the GPU

So i am guessing that is using a PCIe power cable that is single from PSU and splits to two at GPU end? I was using that type for my 5700xt red devil, but have just switched to two separate cables, as it is better.

 

[BoboOOZ]

I use one rail or two, depending on the PSU. I have never had any issues from doing so.
I use evga precision X1 (no issues to speak of)

That's not good, you're possibly asking for trouble, see this post:

For me it’s a non issue but “dirty power“ has been proven and using separate pci connections rather than a paired set has actually sorted some users issues
Someone I interact with who’s staff of a hardware producer has used rhis solution to sort a few customers issues basically using this image. View attachment 172388

In BIOS I set up the XMP profile when i first install everything. if I have any issues after testing I play with profile until everything is dandy. I run my ram at the speed they are supposed to run at. I use the XMP profile to make sure I run the advertised speed.

If I am overclocking then I expect issues can pop up so I do a lot of testing before I settle on my stable OC. Once that is done I never look back.

The advertised frequency is not at all guaranteed, my memory works fine with XMP profile 1, crashes randomly with profile 2. use memtest to find out if your memory overclocking is working (yes, XMP profile is overclocking). Ryzen memory management is finicky.

 

[WhiteNoise]

That's not good, you're possibly asking for trouble, see this post:

 

[BoboOOZ]

That meaning?

 

[erocker]

So how do you only install the driver without ripping it out like i showed? what is the software that lets you remove the parts you don't want? link?

I extract the driver package into a folder using 7zip. After that, go into the device manager, find the display device (that should be displaying as Microsoft Basic Video Driver with old drivers uninstalled), right click on it and select "Update Driver", "Browse my computer for drivers" and direct it to the folder where you unzipped the driver.

**Just realized that I may have just repeated what you've already done.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I extract the driver package into a folder using 7zip. After that, go into the device manager, find the display device (that should be displaying as Microsoft Basic Video Driver with old drivers uninstalled), right click on it and select "Update Driver", "Browse my computer for drivers" and direct it to the folder where you unzipped the driver.

**Just realized that I may have just repeated what you've already done.

You did lol. That is exactly how i did it. He seems to be saying you can install the driver only using the adrenaline installer, which you cant.

 

[R-T-B]

Most probably user error, open a thread here, I'm pretty sure we can help you.

Had the same problems, completely solved for a long time now.

Edit: and all my problems were user error, too, if that's not obvious from my wording.

Enhanced sync was indeed completely broken last I checked too.

That meaning?

Well that post has both been debunked for remotely modern psus, and it isn't anything to do with "rails" regardless.

 

[Cheeseball]

Go away, Fanboy!

i have TWO 5700XTs and both are barely functional (only the black screen was fixed now after 14 MONTHS!)
still have game crashes, enhanced sync is completely broken and unuseable, massive stuttering in several games like BF V.

but who cares.. huh?

Don't use Enhanced Sync or Chill. That's still broken for the RX 5700 XT for some reason.

When I had the RX 5700 XT in my system (and this was a reference model with the blower), I just disable any of the AMD optimizations (this includes the AMD texture caching) in the global tab and it ran flawlessly with it undervolted to 1151mV.

Mind you this is when I tried the Adrenaline 20.10.1 and 20.9.2 betas recently. Prior to that I was using the Radeon Pro Software which was flawless since the RX 5700 XT was added (I believe this was in February 2020).

 

[GoldenX]

Gotta love the lack of RT performance info in the stream.

Mind you this is when I tried the Adrenaline 20.10.1 and 20.9.2 betas recently.

Want a good one? 20.10.1 reverted the Vulkan driver from 1.2.149 to 1.2.133. All added extensions between those versions are now gone, lost.