Drivers & Software

[zedd]

I've been reading that the Pro graphic cards can be switched to Gaming drivers and that it is fairly straight forward process. I'm on Win 10 64bit.

Nothing worked with my FirePro W8100, and I feel stuck. Any help highly appreciated. Below just a very high level summary of my attempts to make it work:

1. Tried 20+ Pro drivers versions and 20+ Adrenaline version starting with 2016 drivers up to the very last one Pro 21.Q2. The Driver Option menu is not available anywhere in the app.

2. All uninstalls are performed with clean DDU utility. Also tried manual clean up - no difference. 

3. Followed the steps to install first the Pro drivers using Custom mode (like in the older documentation: https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/changing-your-driver-options-with-radeon-pro-settings-user-guide.pd...  &  https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/driver-options-user-guide.pdf) 

4. Also tried to install Adrenaline driver first -> no luck -> hardware not supported. 

5. I have another WX 8200 Pro card that is basically in the same situation, although I found solid evidence that people were able to switch at some point in time to the Gaming Drivers: https://community.amd.com/t5/drivers-software/new-radeon-pro-wx-8200-18-8-1-gaming-driver-incompatib...

6. Oh yeah and last but not least important ... even reinstalled Windows clean - No difference. 

Is it just me or the switch driver option is not working for W8100 or the entire Pro 8xxx series?

[elstaci]

AMD Moderator of  Professional GPU cards @fsadough next week can explain what is going on.

[fsadough]

FirePro cards do not support this feature. Please see below:
https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/driver-options-user-guide.pdf

[zedd]

thanks @fsadough 

What about the WX 8200? Is that considered FirePro or what category that fits in, as in the links above people have been able to change that before?

[fsadough]

WX8200 belongs to WX-Series. The documentation was prepared prior to the release of WX8200, that's why you don't see it listed.

[zedd]

I see. Can you help with some up to date steps to make my WX 8200 work? I already tried the steps in that document and doesn't work for latest drivers.

[fsadough]

I don't know what the problem is. Please provide detailed info.

[zedd]

The problem is that for WX 8200 (as for the firepro 8100) I can't see the option to switch to Game drivers. That menu doesn't show up with the latest Pro drivers. 

Followed the steps to install first the Pro drivers using Custom mode (like in the older documentation: https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/changing-your-driver-options-with-radeon-pro-settings-user-guide.pd...  &  https://drivers.amd.com/relnotes/driver-options-user-guide.pdf) 

Tried uninstalling all drivers with DDU, also fresh Windows 10 install - nothing works. 

[fsadough]

My apology, I hear from our driver team that this feature has been EOL'ed. You need to install Adrenalin drivers on ProGraphics GPUs for some of the game optimizations.

[zedd]

Can you please provide more details? What Adrenalin version? Is there any guide on what PRO cards are supported? Any particular order of the steps, like: install first Adrenalin and then Pro drivers? 

I've been trying a lot of combinations and nothing really worked, but it is just too time consuming to try random combinations.