PC Drivers & Software

[georgekps]

Hey guys

I'd like a favour. Ive been having huge problems with every driver following 22.5.1

I've been having slowdowns when the SSD/NVMe reads game content, i have stutter way more than before and i have a strange issue with Freesync.

I have a Freesync monitor with a range of 48-180Hz. Whenever i set maximum fps in FRTC to 178fps (keeping the game within the FS refresh range), with every driver after 22.5.1 the max in-game fps is 168-170. It's always about 10fps lower (it goes without saying that there's slowdowns and stutter that come along with).

So, what i' kindly ask people to do is, those with later drivers from 22.5.1 to set their FRTC to 2fps lower than their max and test their max fps in games. Looking at a wall should be pretty fine to hit the highest fps (it goes without saying that the game/games tested should be able to max out the monitor's refresh rate). And if you guys can hit the set fps, would you please post your configurations? I'm trying to isolate what could mess with AMD drivers.

Thank you in advance.

(my PC config is as follows)

AMD R7 5800X3D, Arctic Liquid Freezer 240, Asus ROG Crosshair VI Hero, G. Skill F4-3200C14D-16GTZ (2x8GB), XFX Speedster Merc319 RX 6800XT, Sound Blaster AE-5, LG Ultragear 27GP850-B (27" IPS 1440p 180Hz Freesync), Samsung 960 EVO 250, Samsung 850 EVO 512

[MADZyren]

Do you mean using radeon chill? I have 165Hz monitor, tried a couple of games and if you set lower limit to low and upper limit to Hz-2 then it gives all kinds of framerates, though gameplay was smooth. When I upped the lower limit to 163, that is pretty much where it stayed. I think some older version of driver some years a go had that upper limit selector, but now it's only Radeon chill or am I looking at the wrong place?

I had to lower resolution though to get fps to this high with my old machine. (3800X+5700XT) Using latest drivers. Did not notice issues. Played a short period running around in some games like Bullet Storm, Titanfall 2, Gears 5, Doom Eternal.

[georgekps]

No, actually i'm not speaking about Radeon Chill, i'm speaking about Frame Rate Target Control (FRTC). It's in graphics > advanced.

Idk if links work in here but here's what i'm talking about.

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[MADZyren]

Didn't realize it was only on global graphics and tried to find it under individual games.

So I tried setting it to 163 as I have a 165Hz monitor and ran different games. No stuttering, but what did surprise me at first was that it felt slow and realized that for some reason monitor refreshrate had dropped to 60Hz. Fixed that from Windows and everything was normal after that. FPS remained at ~163, but I had to lower settings quite a bit in many games to achieve that.

But if you have trouble when SSD does something, have you considered trying to update hard drives firmware? Many SSD's get firmware updates and that might fix it if it is somehow incompatible with new drivers. Typically just install SSD maintenance software from whoever made your drives and check if it offers firmware update. Win10, 3800X, 5700XT, 2x NVMe.

[georgekps]

My drives have the latest firmwares as well as the latest software and drivers.

I didn't look if the monitor refresh rate had changed, i should do that after reinstalling new drivers again. What driver version are you using?

Oh, and thank you very much mate. Much appreciated.

[MADZyren]

I currently have 22.10.3