Download: Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.5.1

#5548167 Posted on: 05/19/2018 07:22 AM

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Can anyone tell me if the 7850K is still supported and not EOL?? Thanks. I hope this new driver set supports it.

#5548169 Posted on: 05/19/2018 07:47 AM

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If the info I found is correct then it's Kaveri and that's supported in the INF file at least so it should work, looks like something of a 200 series GPU which is also supported being part of GCN 1.1

As for flip queue and render ahead I think DX12 has support for flip discard and waitable swap chain if using VSync (Has to be supported I believe, API standards and such.) but this needs a flip queue or render ahead value of 3 or 4 I believe, 3 I think is often the default or rather it needs back buffer count +1 or higher as I recall.
Technically supported on DX11 too but rarely used (Never?) far as I know at least.

I don't think the game uses this for DX11 though and it might be a separate issue entirely even if VSync is used.

When possible I prefer to enforce 3 back buffers and 2 flip ques or how it's called (Software, SpecialK specifically.) but I often use a software framerate cap and with VSync disabled so I might have to look up how this worked again.
(Trading input latency for stutter or framerate drops but if the GPU can keep up it shouldn't drop like that AFAIK.)


EDIT: Eh probably messing up the explanation a bit, still have a lot more to try and learn about DirectX and the graphics card and such too, it might be the cause or it might be something else the game does and dropping to a single render ahead frame value is causing the game to exhibit serious framerate drops.

#5548192 Posted on: 05/19/2018 10:38 AM

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Same as the 18.4.1 the driver didnt go live after the weekend...

So 18.5.1 Monday night/Tuesday!

#5548196 Posted on: 05/19/2018 10:50 AM

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i play with R9 290 bf1/rise of tomb raider/deus ex mankind/ashes of singularity with Q2 2018 just fine !!!

#5548205 Posted on: 05/19/2018 11:24 AM

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Gotcha thx

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Q: Why does AMD cards take such a large hit in BF1 when flip queue size is set to 1? I'm talking around 30-40%. Fury wasn't the only card. In BF1 you have to add the binary

Right click on desktop
Select AMD Readon Settings
System
HW AMD Radeon...Primary/Discrete
Copy 2D Driver File Path
Paste in NotePad
Open Registry (regedit) and navigate to that section of the registry
Add Binary: FlipQueueSize 31 00
Reboot

Go into BF1 folder and create a file called User.cfg then add
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 1

Play BF1 with reduced frame rates.

I'm starting to believe that FQS was set to either 3-4. There use to be a way to check the to see what the FQS was set to in a game but that was sometime ago.
In hindsight I see how a "youtuber" was able to get such low results in BF4 comparison.

This is CPU dependant.
I have 3 and in BF1
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 3

If you have good CPU then 2-3 is a must.... rest will get better FPS in 1

#5548343 Posted on: 05/20/2018 12:19 AM

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Driver had a last min bug which cause delay for Friday but resume for Monday time of launch for State of Decay 2.

#5548354 Posted on: 05/20/2018 04:38 AM

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This driver update can't come soon enough.

#5548407 Posted on: 05/20/2018 11:28 AM

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Have u joined the Software Vanguard program?

They have invite me, but i havent joined the discord yet lol.

#5548575 Posted on: 05/21/2018 07:30 AM

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Somebody woke up. There's no longer error message upon loading link, but nothing shown.

#5548591 Posted on: 05/21/2018 08:38 AM

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Isnt to early for them to wake up?
But yea its just blank page now.

#5548660 Posted on: 05/21/2018 01:52 PM

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Yes i'm in the Software Vanguard program but early driver are buggy and crash my system so I stay with the stable ones that come out from AMD. also yeah the web page show a blank page which means today the driver comes out.

#5548745 Posted on: 05/21/2018 06:32 PM

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All those "Not Authorized" hits get logged and the Website Manager prolly got sick of his Error Log getting pounded with hits to that page, so he stuck a blank page there so that there is no error generated.

#5548782 Posted on: 05/21/2018 08:18 PM

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I'm a bit worried about this driver. It took a long time to show up and now they're having last minute issues with it, it's probably going to be released with a ton of issues but with the State of Decay 2 support.

#5548785 Posted on: 05/21/2018 08:23 PM

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Well hopefully the known issues are listed in the release notes, having some AMD engineer popping up on the Reddit section or AMD's own forums and chirping in "Known issue!" when someone asks about something with the driver and it's nowhere to be found in the release note documentation is never fun.
(Updating said notes until the next driver rolls around as more problems are identified wouldn't hurt either.)

#5548802 Posted on: 05/21/2018 08:55 PM

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Well hopefully the known issues are listed in the release notes, having some AMD engineer popping up on the Reddit section or AMD's own forums and chirping in "Known issue!" when someone asks about something with the driver and it's nowhere to be found in the release note documentation is never fun.
(Updating said notes until the next driver rolls around as more problems are identified wouldn't hurt either.)


That used to bother me a lot -> issue never get listed under KNOWN ISSUES, so you are left thinking you're the only idiot in town, and then BAAM - it gets listed under Resolved issues