AMD Adrenalin Driver Has Issues With Older DX9 Games
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warlord
Fender178
Way to go AMD way to go. Break the most important thing that some gamers want being able to do. Play older titles. Heck not only break older titles but break a popular title like Starcraft 2. The only workaround for this is not to update the Drivers. AMD needs to fix this.
waltc3
I can confirm that Witcher EE, even downloaded and installed through GOG Galaxy, will not run under the Adrenalins. However, Ray_M, the person who commented in the thread, is really a PR person--more than an active engineering person with AMD--so I would take his comment there tongue in cheek, at least for the moment. He simply put his foot in his mouth, more than likely. I've got games that are 30 years old I still play and which are still important to me. Game runs fine under the 17.11.4's and earlier--no problems. A ten year old game is not an old game at all--especially considering how often and frequently CDPr has updated the game since that time.
My take is that it's the Radeon overlay in the Adrenalins that is the problem with some software. I looked at it--wasn't impressed--and would prefer the drivers not overlay *anything* on top of my software. Backwards compatibility is extremely important--even Microsoft proves it--it's what keeps Windows relevant today. AMD cannot adopt a cavalier attitude about that. If it's a choice between game compatibility and the overlay, I'll take the game, any day. I feel certain this will be fixed.
schmidtbag
JamesSneed
I wonder if dropping some legacy code in the drivers is what got them the performance boosts?
JamesSneed
waltc3
People panicking here is really sort of hilarious...;) This will be fixed, rest assured. It would make little sense for AMD to simply stop supporting certain games that worked fine prior to the Adrenalins, would it? My experience is sort of the opposite--I won't buy nVidia because of these exact kinds of problems--up until the recent Adrenalins I don't have any games that don't run under AMD drivers (or Win10x64)--and I have ~350 games *installed*, actually, many of them 20-30 years old. But that's neither here nor there. People trying to turn this into some sort of brand repudiation are being ridiculous--today is New Year's day--most everyone is off today. Meanwhile, the solution is roll back to the 17.11.4's as I did, make a driver-bug report, and await the fix. Simple.
warlord
Starcraft II and Starcraft Remastered are working with latest drivers, I've tested them minutes ago. This game should not be on the list.
schmidtbag
warlord
@schmidtbag Well, old games, opengl games, old dx games, 3dfxglide games etc whatever is aged performs better and more stable with Nvidia.
Newer DX ones (except tessellated ones) and vulkan are better with AMD.
It is tiring for us to force an option depending on game we play.
The only game from the list I can confirmed broken is witcher EE. C&Q I am gonna check them later. Skyrim SE is playing smoothly, perhaps old skyrim is broken but i cannot find any reason to play it anymore to be honest.
Fender178
teleguy
Fender178
teleguy
scoutingwraith
And this is why i left my old Core 2 Duo rig completely intact. I put my old 670 there with older revision drivers so i am able to play some older titles if necessary. Still Running Windows 7 there as well.
Michal Turlik 21
Are there still people using and buying Radeon cards nowadays?
user1
I would wait for an offical response from amd, this so called "amd rep" doesn't seem to understand the implications of his statement, seems like he just gave a lazy answer so people stop asking questions about it, probably gonna be fired for this lol.
I bet if the game was halo 1 his response would have been much different, unless hes out to lunch 🙄.
Gaidax
Bad news: I bought C&C Red Alert 3 just now from steam with 75% discount.
Good news: I bought GTX 1080Ti instead of R290X I had recently, so I'm peachy. Guess it's good Nvidia somehow supports "outdated APIs".
Some of the games in that list are outright iconic, Red Alert 3 for example is something I wanted to play a long time and Witcher 1 is self-explanatory.
Honestly, I like(ed) AMD, but they seem just to not be able to stop screwing up with DoA GPUs and now this... one thing if it was just a bug, but official "FU" to people over huge classics? Heck, I'd say ok if it were some ancient games, but these are not THAT old - it's not bloody Quake 2 there kk.
Whiplashwang
I've considered buying AMD gpus in the past, but I always tell myself their driver support is awful. This just re-enforces that opinion. I'd love for there to be competition, but this is just bad PR and bad support period for their customers. Shame on AMD!
Agonist
What a bunch of whiney ass cry babies you 'guys' are.
Triggered fanboy gathering in here just about.