AMD promises that OEMs will issue more driver updates for Ryzen Mobile

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#5610016
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AMD and it's own demons...
#5610030
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IMHO AMD is doing rather great considering it is fighting two tech giants. Let's give AMD 2 more years and it will all click.
#5610049
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That's kinda stupid that the drivers must be "approved". If the drivers are known to fix issues, why wouldn't the OEMs approve them ASAP? It's their product that gets negatively reviewed, too, so you'd think they would get moving on that.
azraei97:

This AMD problem not OEM because OEM still use same chipset, same APU (not the custom one). I still remember at the time I own AMD APU laptop (A8 5000 series ago). Driver support really good because no get from OEM website. Just direct use from AMD website. No problem with any latest stable and beta. That make the laptop get proper driver even in latest games.
Because the average consumer doesn't know what they're doing and think they should just get the drivers from the OEM instead.
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As one of those who wrote the thread that actually triggered AMD's response, I would've prefered at least a little credit from all the news outlets and YouTube channels covering this story, but I digress. Important thing is that by mid-2019 I expect good and stable drivers from AMD for Raven Ridge Mobile and by end-2019 at least two drivers from the OEMs. As the response shows, everything we wanted is technically possible and AMD was seemingly just too incompetent to do so.
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Dan6erbond:

I would've preferred at least a little credit from all the news outlets and YouTube channels covering this story, but I digress.
The news item links and sources to the appropriate Reddit thread, not once .. but twice. Do you really expect I write down all names of those involved in a Reddit thread and pat you on the back? Next time perhaps thank the media for making this noticed which helps you in your effort, much like we did here: https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-raven-ridge-(ryzen-3-2200g-and-ryzen-5-2400g)-to-be-added-to-adrenalin-drivers.html
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Dan6erbond:

As one of those who wrote the thread that actually triggered AMD's response, I would've prefered at least a little credit from all the news outlets and YouTube channels covering this story, but I digress. Important thing is that by mid-2019 I expect good and stable drivers from AMD for Raven Ridge Mobile and by end-2019 at least two drivers from the OEMs. As the response shows, everything we wanted is technically possible and AMD was seemingly just too incompetent to do so.
AMD does provide drivers to OEM's every 3 months it's just that almost all of these OEM's are lazy or save money by not integrating them into their own drivers. The only thing AMD should do here is to force these OEM's to upgrade their drivers. The same story goes on for my own Laptop where manually installing the Intel or Geforce driver always causes some sort of problem so i stopped updating those.
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Dan6erbond:

As one of those who wrote the thread that actually triggered AMD's response, I would've prefered at least a little credit from all the news outlets and YouTube channels covering this story, but I digress. Important thing is that by mid-2019 I expect good and stable drivers from AMD for Raven Ridge Mobile and by end-2019 at least two drivers from the OEMs. As the response shows, everything we wanted is technically possible and AMD was seemingly just too incompetent to do so.
Have your 5 minutes of fame anon, then go back to being the unknown anon.
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Been raging about their drivers for the HP ENVY x360 that i have had for a year, they were sooooooooooooooooooo bad even playing something like youtube would result in driver 0x800 blue screens, and you know what? Thats still the latest driver, it says it's Jan 2018 but the driver is infact from sept 2017 i.e ALPHA driver because it was even available then. After 4-5 months i gave up and started to use what ever AMD driver i could get my hands on that would work, i have tried dozens of them. Some of the later ones i.e the first desktop APU driver of when AMD committed to the 3 month cycle and that works really well i do have one issue with it in that if it goes to sleep and you wake it up the screen flickers, so now i don't have it go to sleep i just hibernate as a work around.
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K.S.:

Couldn't be happier with Ryzen Mobile. Just need to go straight to AMD for the Vega APU drivers and manually install the Desktop APU ones onto the Mobile APUs. No reason for freaking out, in the end all AMD did was re-enforce what was to begin with - that's my take after reading all of the posted material by HH. They don't want to post direct they want the OEMs to distribute "modified Unified" drivers. What you to fail to realise that the shipped drivers and even the ones on their official web sites are so bad they should not have them or even shipped the products with them, and the OEM's have made zero attempt to update them, Mr and Mrs bloggs an't going to go round installing drivers manually with Vega 8 because the GPU name means zilch to them. I have seen on soooo many forums even AMD's one that people have sent their laptops back for repair because of the driver issues, a BSOD = major issue = RMA for 99% of the people out there. you are the first i have seen with a Huawei but HP, Dell, Acer and lenovo's i have seen so many complaints about.
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honestly this is news how? OEMs have since the dawn of time have always been LagTards when it comes to releasing "OEM approved" drivers for their systems, this isn't a AMD specific issue, it affects all hardware manufacturers.
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holler:

honestly this is news how? OEMs have since the dawn of time have always been LagTards when it comes to releasing "OEM approved" drivers for their systems, this isn't a AMD specific issue, it affects all hardware manufacturers.
True but at east with other products you are not running alpha drivers a year after release. Also i should not that the ones provided by HP and the others are not adrenaline drivers yes thats right they pre-date adrenaline something thats been around for a year!
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Dazz:

True but at east with other products you are not running alpha drivers a year after release. Also i should not that the ones provided by HP and the others are not adrenaline drivers yes thats right they pre-date adrenaline something thats been around for a year!
Yes, that bit is unfortunate. I was happy that many manufacturers started to offer good APUs in acceptable notebooks (configuration wise). because prior to Ryzen APUs, one would have to wait good year since official release of given APU and then it would come in horrid configuration. This is just another kind of obstruction created by some people who do work for those manufacturers. (I call that sabotage.) I remember ridiculous configurations like E2-1800 (2C/2T 18W) in 15.6'' notebooks. Or bit stronger ones in 17''. It was miracle to get top of the line 25~35W APU in under 15,6''. And then they configured it to 15W just to screw it. (Or not to make 14'' gaming ultrabooks with intel 35~45W + nVidia/AMD 45~65W GPU look bad.)