kingfish wrote:
Nothing has been removed from mobility drivers...ReLive has never been available for laptops. If you knew anything about laptops, you would know that the features are chosen and designed for the particular laptop (and it's capabilities) by the manufacturer....not AMD.Reading the driver notes:
Important Note for Laptop and All-In-One (AIO) PCs
AMD recommends OEM-provided drivers which are customized and validated for their system-specific features and optimizations.
If you experience issues using the Radeon™ Software Adrenalin Edition driver package downloaded from AMD.com, please install the OEM-provided drivers for full support and compatibility.
Nothing removed -> Never available. Just contradicted yourself. I know ReLive was never available, and that is on AMD for not making it available. AMD's APUs fully support encoding in hardware, but the driver doesn't include it. OBS probably works, although I haven't tried it. That said, I bet some driver modders could enable ReLive.
OEM drivers are a joke, and OEMs don't care to keep up to date. There are no "system specific features", only features specific to the APU. This policy has been a severe problem for APU users, made worse for Ryzen APU users.
That said, AMD does not require users to install OEM drivers, and has made promises to directly support APUs outside of OEM. This is pretty obvious, since you can directly download APU drivers from AMD. The only real problem with OEMs are features like APU memory cache, which are bios disabled, and should have much higher default settings. This isn't something an "OEM driver" can address, and there is no OEM driver that adds functionality that AMD already supports.
AMD likes to play stupid feature segment games with it's customers, and that's a problem. When AMD released the 390, the release 390 driver had exclusive optimizations that made the 390 faster than the 290 with tessellation. Driver modders ported it to the 290, proving that AMD was playing shenanigans, and AMD later backported those optimizations. AMD also played optimization games with Windows 10 getting exclusive speed boosts over Windows 7. We all know windows 10 has a faster driver model, but these optimizations weren't fully dependent on it. Driver modders ported the windows 10 drivers to windows 7, and shortly after windows 7 users finally got access to the optimizations. Radeon Image Sharpening also started out as a 5700 exclusive feature, even though it was a glorified reshade shader. After someone ported CAS sharpening to ReShade, AMD unlocked it in the driver for everyone else. THIS IS A LONG GOING AND REPEATED SCAM that AMD keeps playing on it's users. It also makes driver programming more bug riddled, when you have multiple artificial segmentation lines. AMD/ATI used to have 3 driver release teams, beta, release, hotfix, and they ROYALLY FUBAR'D THE RAGE (id) LAUNCH by releasing the wrong and broken driver multiple times. This caused AMD to consolidate the driver teams into one release like Nvidia, which helped A LOT. Now, it seems AMD is back to segmenting it's drivers so bad that there is a massive amount of bugs which is screwing everyone over, especially 5700 users.
AMD has no legitimate excuse for doing this. OEMs are not a legitimate excuse for mobile either. AMD needs to drop all artificial segmentation of it's driver, and work solely on performance/bug fixes/real features.
