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[Anakleto]

I have ryzen 3200g with readeon vega 8 graphics and every game ask me to update my adrenalin drivers 24.7.1 to 24.8.1, and when i go to uptade them it says that there is not other version.
i recently reinstall the drivers just to discover that it dowgrade itstelf to the 24.3.1 a version from february

I need help guys i cant play nothing that realease this year

[FunkZ]

The Vega graphics family is on limited support and thus far this year has only received sporadic driver updates. Then during the snafu with 24.8.1 release the drivers were reverted to 24.3.1 as you note. However 24.7.1 does work, you can re-download it from the link in the release notes. Am currently on 24.7.1 on my 5700G and have been since June.

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-7-1.html

[elstaci]

All Vega Chip Graphics has "Limited Support" from AMD. The last official AMD driver for Vega is 24.3.1 which is why it keeps reverting to that one driver.

This previous AMD thread that also links to another previous AMD Thread that I copy & Pasted 2 articles explaining about AMD's "Limited Support": https://community.amd.com/t5/community-resources/my-rx-480-not-updating-from-24-3-1/m-p/713587#M1357

elstaci

In response to jacquelline

MVP

Saturday

I have tagged this thread where I uploaded two articles that explains what "Limited Support" means by AMD concerning the Polaris & Vega (RX 400, 500, 600, & Vega GPUs): https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-drivers-software/rx580-24-8-1-driver-automatically-downgrades-to-24-...

Part of the article in the above link:

. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well.

Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced to security updates and “functionality updates as available.”

For AMD users keeping a close eye on their driver releases, they’ll likely recognize that AMD already began this process back in September – though AMD hasn’t officially documented the change until now. As of AMD’s September Adrenaline 23.9 driver series, AMD split up the RDNA and GCN driver packages, and with that they have also split the driver branches between the two architectures. As a result, only RDNA cards are receiving new features and updates as part of AMD’s mainline driver branch (currently 23.20), while the GCN cards have been parked on a maintenance driver branch – 23.19.

At present, AMD has not published anything about this change in driver support to their website. But, responding to a request for a comment on Windows driver support from AnandTech, the company provided the following statement:

The AMD Polaris and Vega graphics architectures are mature, stable and performant and don’t benefit as much from regular software tuning.  Going forward, AMD is providing critical updates for Polaris- and Vega-based products via a separate driver package, including important security and functionality updates as available.  The committed support is greater than for products AMD categorizes as legacy, and gamers can still enjoy their favorite games on Polaris and Vega-based products.

[elstaci]

I have tagged this thread where I uploaded two articles that explains what "Limited Support" means by AMD concerning the Polaris & Vega (RX 400, 500, 600, & Vega GPUs): https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-drivers-software/rx580-24-8-1-driver-automatically-downgrades-to-24-...

Part of the article in the above link:

. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well.

Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced to security updates and “functionality updates as available.”

For AMD users keeping a close eye on their driver releases, they’ll likely recognize that AMD already began this process back in September – though AMD hasn’t officially documented the change until now. As of AMD’s September Adrenaline 23.9 driver series, AMD split up the RDNA and GCN driver packages, and with that they have also split the driver branches between the two architectures. As a result, only RDNA cards are receiving new features and updates as part of AMD’s mainline driver branch (currently 23.20), while the GCN cards have been parked on a maintenance driver branch – 23.19.

At present, AMD has not published anything about this change in driver support to their website. But, responding to a request for a comment on Windows driver support from AnandTech, the company provided the following statement:

The AMD Polaris and Vega graphics architectures are mature, stable and performant and don’t benefit as much from regular software tuning.  Going forward, AMD is providing critical updates for Polaris- and Vega-based products via a separate driver package, including important security and functionality updates as available.  The committed support is greater than for products AMD categorizes as legacy, and gamers can still enjoy their favorite games on Polaris and Vega-based products.