WYP
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AMD's Radeon Software 20.5.1 driver packs 19 bug fixes
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Dicehunter
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I'm quite looking forward to the driver after this one which will enable hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in the Windows 10 May update, Intel and Nvidia already have a driver our for it, Just waiting on AMD to support WDDM 2.7.
Still getting hard crashes (black screen & reboot) on this driver in games (F1 2019 for example) and gpu accelerated apps (firefox, chrome, edge) on my Radeon VII, reinstalled 19.5.2 which is perfectly stable...
Edit: @Wyp - When are you newsie people on the web gonna club together and give AMD some stick for the terrible drivers especially on their top of the line card which is pretty much non functional on any recent driver? I really do get the impression that AMD have a lot of people on thier payroll as no media groups seem to be making noise about it....
Edit: @Wyp - When are you newsie people on the web gonna club together and give AMD some stick for the terrible drivers especially on their top of the line card which is pretty much non functional on any recent driver? I really do get the impression that AMD have a lot of people on thier payroll as no media groups seem to be making noise about it....
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WYP
News Guru
Still getting hard crashes (black screen & reboot) on this driver in games (F1 2019 for example) and gpu accelerated apps (firefox, chrome, edge) on my Radeon VII, reinstalled 19.5.2 which is perfectly stable...
Edit: @Wyp - When are you newsie people on the web gonna club together and give AMD some stick for the terrible drivers especially on their top of the line card which is pretty much non functional on any recent driver? I really do get the impression that AMD have a lot of people on thier payroll as no media groups seem to be making noise about it....
They get plenty of stick about their drivers online. There is a reason why this driver article has to tell Radeon users where to go to report issues.
TBH, I haven't experienced these issues on any of the Radeon GPUs that I regularly use. If I had a Radeon VII, I'd love to see if I come across the same issues as you in the same games, but unfortunately, this isn't something that I can test right now.
It's not a matter of getting paid off. My life would be a lot more financially comfortable if that were the case. I'm just not going to dedicate an article to driver issues that I have never seen that are often based on random social media posts.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Still getting hard crashes (black screen & reboot) on this driver in games (F1 2019 for example) and gpu accelerated apps (firefox, chrome, edge) on my Radeon VII, reinstalled 19.5.2 which is perfectly stable...
Edit: @Wyp - When are you newsie people on the web gonna club together and give AMD some stick for the terrible drivers especially on their top of the line card which is pretty much non functional on any recent driver? I really do get the impression that AMD have a lot of people on thier payroll as no media groups seem to be making noise about it....
Not saying that this is what you're doing but one of the things that the drivers seem to be bad at doing is installing over the top of the old drivers, I've found that with my RX5700XT that if I select the advance driver where it lets you uninstall the old drivers first it tends to give less issues, otherwise a DDU clean with fresh install tends to be a good start too, I honestly think half the issues too are due to the amount of Windows updates wrecking things especially the build updates.
Fresh install of windows every time, and yes I agree that windows probably has something to do with it also, but AMD should be on top if it, nvidia doesnt have these issues.
Id send you my card if I had a spare, with regards to bug reporting AMD should do their own testing and release stable drivers.
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WYP
News Guru
Agreed. These issues shouldn't exist and AMD deserves the stick they get for it. I do know that they are working on these issues and that they are investing more than ever into their drivers.
Things like this will take time to fix, and I really hope that AMD can get it sorted as soon as possible. They need to fix this if they want more support from OEMs.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Mate I know how you feel cause at first I had nothing but issues with black screens and game crashes etc and it has been better, although when I changed to 20.4.2 I've noticed stuttering in Star Citizen that I didn't have before, so they still don't have every thing right, I think and hope they'll eventually get it all sorted and thing will improve for everyone.
I'm not really to bothered to be honest because 19.5.2 drivers are 100% stable, but some day these drivers are gonne be obsolete and will not work.
I have invested heavily in this gpu (waterblock etc) so I would like to have it for at least two more years to come.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
Understandable buddy!
I've actually found the latest driver updates to be relatively painless, but I also don't play tons of games on my Radeon VII. But I always test the overclocking after a driver update, using Time Spy Extreme stress tests, and even with this new driver, I'm still popping over 2000mhz on the core, HBM is steady at 1200.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
All working so far on the 5700XT, The only problem I generally had was black screens of which I found out it was due to Enhanced sync, I turned it off and never got it again.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Still getting hard crashes (black screen & reboot) on this driver in games (F1 2019 for example) and gpu accelerated apps (firefox, chrome, edge) on my Radeon VII, reinstalled 19.5.2 which is perfectly stable...
Edit: @Wyp - When are you newsie people on the web gonna club together and give AMD some stick for the terrible drivers especially on their top of the line card which is pretty much non functional on any recent driver? I really do get the impression that AMD have a lot of people on thier payroll as no media groups seem to be making noise about it....
Sadly the Radeon 7 has just been an incredibly hit and miss card, Even a work mate of mine went through 3 before he gave up and just bought a 5700XT, I went through a few aswell due to its instability, Great card on paper but a lot of the batches were very faulty.
