Download: AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 18.12.2 drivers

#5617142 Posted on: 12/13/2018 09:58 PM

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I tried it, but I reverted back from drivers from late November this year. Main reason for me on RX570 is that fan curve does not go below 36% ! Also Zero RPM option doesn't work. Fans always work at 1200RPM which is ~36%. I'm not gaming whole day, I like having my card idling with fans not working.. Also fan curve is bad for me because you can't make it "in squares/flat" as in MSI Afterburner. I would rather use old Wattman and target temp68c, max78c with max 2500 rpm then having this "test" method and risk my GPU.

I don't like having MSI Afterburner because it's messing with my overclock/fans for some weird reason. So stuck for now

I need up to 55c 0% fans, then up to 65c 33% and past that 50% to maintain 68/9c. It's not flat line but Wattman is doing job along with overclock and a bit of undervoltage (atleast comparing to auto voltage which goes higher). So yeah.. So mad.

#5617147 Posted on: 12/13/2018 10:14 PM

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That´s what i´ve done.
After deinstalling the 18.12.1 driver i´ve used DDU to clean my system.
Then i install the 18.12.2 ,but i can´t open the radeon settings and i have no icon in the systray.
Now i´m back to 18.12.1 and it works.
I don´t understand it.

#5617153 Posted on: 12/13/2018 10:31 PM

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In 3dmark difference is in margin of error so mostly added new features and performance optimizations for newest games on latest hardware. If you want here is comparison of scores on my pc:
18.12.1.1:
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/5389187
18.12.2:
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/5389419

#5617163 Posted on: 12/13/2018 11:02 PM

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That´s what i´ve done.
After deinstalling the 18.2.1 driver i´ve used DDU to clean my system.
Then i install the 18.2.2 ,but i can´t open the radeon settings and i have no icon in the systray.
Now i´m back to 18.2.1 and it works.
I don´t understand it.

I Just stick to a clean install from the drivers unless there's an issue.

Oh, and I don't know what everyone's crying about, all of the previous end of year drivers only supported the latest graphics cards at first, and gradually added a few more generations during the next few releases

#5617168 Posted on: 12/13/2018 11:27 PM

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No voice control, Zero RPM don't work (min rpm 35% always), no auto tuning, gpu usage monitor stiil buggy (crazy readings).
but performance is fine as always

#5617176 Posted on: 12/14/2018 12:14 AM

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Nvidia supports DSR ultra wide even for gtx 9 series. AMD denies support for R9 series.

I will never buy AMD again. Shady corporation.

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#5617177 Posted on: 12/14/2018 12:14 AM

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Hmm wonder if AMD made some differences between Zero Fan RPM depending on GPU architecture or possibly even different GPU models. I'm using 30% as the lowest fan speed and there's a difference in volume between that and Zero Fan being enabled which also reflects in temperature though idle isn't that much of a deal for temps anyway.

I know some models also only spun down or turned of one fan for some of the older GPU models triple-fan custom coolers and PCB's so I do wonder how it's controlled.
Minimum and maximum differing is curious too between Vega and earlier GPU's though the max temperature tolerance for the GPU and components do vary but being forced to use a over 30% min speed seems like a strange decision.


EDIT: Ah so zero fan does indeed bug and stops doing anything if you flip it after using the fan curve, a clean reinstall seems to be needed to get it back to default levels from that and then modifying the fan curve from auto will break zero RPM again or hinder it at least.

#5617216 Posted on: 12/14/2018 03:08 AM

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anyone having delay on alt+tab from gaming? especially on R6 Siege, fullscreen, LG-29UM67P Freesync 75Hz, RX 580 XFX, Windows 10 1809

18.12.1: Game -> Desktop = instantly.... Desktop -> Game = instantly
18.12.2: Game -> Desktop = 2-3 seconds(black screen).... Desktop -> Game = instantly

not an issue to me, just curiosity.

#5617238 Posted on: 12/14/2018 05:11 AM

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In 3dmark difference is in margin of error so mostly added new features and performance optimizations for newest games on latest hardware. If you want here is comparison of scores on my pc:
18.12.1.1:
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/5389187
18.12.2:
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/5389419
Which is more important? In-game performance improvements or benchmark performance improvements?

#5617243 Posted on: 12/14/2018 05:50 AM

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I do not complain at all, just an observation which i wanted to share here.

#5617246 Posted on: 12/14/2018 06:06 AM

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I see warlord is a major cry ass AMD hater tool bag still. Glad to keep him on ignore.
Swear all he does is throw a tantrum of hate at AMD when he does not get what he wants.

And just to chime in on this. I have AMD/Nvidia rigs.
I hate NCP so much. Even on an SSD it takes for ever to load or to apply settings.
I have an nvidia gpu in my rig for retro hybrid physx setup, and my OS drive is a 960 evo. AMD opens up instantly and smoothing. NCP is a laggy joke fest.

Is NCP design just that ancient with how its written?
Why is AMD so fast in comparission? Like its even worse for NCP on a mechanical drive.

#5617249 Posted on: 12/14/2018 06:11 AM

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Alt tab fail here too.

#5617253 Posted on: 12/14/2018 06:39 AM

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Warlord is complaining about his R9 390X has gone to legacy support, and not getting the new perks. I'm in the same boat, but I made the move to 4K. I knew it was due for legacy since the 390 cards were never properly supported well in Wattman, so I guess they decided to retire the series.

Card still will work, just no Ultrawide VSR. Guess it's time to consider your next upgrade. If you go green, I'm sure you'll be welcomed warmly in the Green forums. Hope you like paying NVIDIA prices.

Considering you can get Vega 56's at the 390 price range when it came out, you'd get yourself some nice performance boost and current driver support. Or wait for Navi.

#5617255 Posted on: 12/14/2018 06:51 AM

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Trash drivers

Lower boost clocks
No actual use for mem timing control
P state control under 6 is useless anyway
Broke afterburner causing crashes and freezes over time

Watt man cant even consistently work either with manual settings

Uninstalled.

#5617273 Posted on: 12/14/2018 09:29 AM

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anyone having delay on alt+tab from gaming? especially on R6 Siege, fullscreen, LG-29UM67P Freesync 75Hz, RX 580 XFX, Windows 10 1809

18.12.1: Game -> Desktop = instantly.... Desktop -> Game = instantly
18.12.2: Game -> Desktop = 2-3 seconds(black screen).... Desktop -> Game = instantly

not an issue to me, just curiosity.
Maybe "exclusive fullscreen" works in new driver? Or maybe this new driver kind of broke Win10 Game Mode or "fullscreen optimizations" or did something to DWM.

On my side of the things, I had nasty problem with multitasking since MS introduced Game Mode.
Any time GPU was fully utilized by game (which was focused = controlable by keyboard/mouse), other windows requiring GPU became choppy of temporarily frozen.
Clicking to non-game window/desktop allowed everything to run flawlessly (until focus is returned to game window). MS simply gave too high priority to game over everything else and disabling Game Mode did not help.

With this new driver it works much better. It is not as good as when there was no Game Mode, but it is good enough.
Warlord is complaining about his R9 390X has gone to legacy support, and not getting the new perks. I'm in the same boat, but I made the move to 4K. I knew it was due for legacy since the 390 cards were never properly supported well in Wattman, so I guess they decided to retire the series.

Card still will work, just no Ultrawide VSR. Guess it's time to consider your next upgrade. If you go green, I'm sure you'll be welcomed warmly in the Green forums. Hope you like paying NVIDIA prices.

Considering you can get Vega 56's at the 390 price range when it came out, you'd get yourself some nice performance boost and current driver support. Or wait for Navi.
It is not Legacy Mode. It is like expecting HD 7970 to get opportunistic boost feature. Or get software feature for which it does not have HW support.

In case of VSR it is AMD's fault that they can't do it for older cards. But only due to having that stupid implementation where image is sent at higher resolution to screen instead of being precisely downsampled by GPU. And then sending image at native screen resolution to screen.
AMD's method is severely limited on IQ side by monitor's scaler and on available resolution side by GPU display output, display cable and scaler in screen.

Should have been fully software solution. When SoftTH can do that, AMD should too.