Compare these GUI layouts:
Is there any way to decrease the font size so I can fit the GUI into a 1080p screen without having to scroll to look at the mass of settings on one page?
Example
The layout and look is bad, and as you can see the settings tabs are not even spaced correctly.
Where has the frequency percentage Slider gone for overclocking?
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Starting with Windows 10 19.03 build up to date.
I just had the "usual experience" where trying to upgrade from Adrenalin 2019 (19.12.1, previous DDU and full clean install, working fine) -> Adrenalin 2020 (19.12.2) incremental install failed.
I get pointed to this in browser to Error 1604, yet it says 104 in the GUI.
The failed install messed up the windows desktop, I lost all menu text:
I managed to reboot into safe mode.
Following that, I ran latest version of (DDU v18.0.2.0) in safe mode followed by full install of Adrenalin 2020 (19.12.2) whilst disconnected from the internet.
That failed with the same error as before.
I reran DDU twice in safe mode and tried full install of Adrenalin 2020 again:
Running Microsoft Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter mentioned in the above AMD App note did not help at all.
I tried DDU again with full install and factory reset:
That failed as well.
I managed to get Adrenalin 2020 19.12.2 it install by running DDU in safe mode plus full install of Adrenalin 2019 19.12.1 followed by a clean install of 2019 19.12.2 with Factory Reset turned on.
All of the above took about 3 hours.
Incremental install from Crimson -> Crimson ReLive, Crimson ReLive -> Adrenalin, Adrenalin -> Adrenalin 2019 also failed for me on different machines and various AMD GPUs in the past.
I reported this at the time.
Since Adrenalin 2020 release notes say the installer is much better I tried it out.
It isn't.
Just tried running the new Adrenalin 2020 19.12.2 interface with Crysis 2 Maximum Edition on Steam and tried to use the new replacement for "Radeon Overlay". What I mean by that is the sidebar.
Here is my feedback summary.
1. Crysis 2 Game performance with this driver is terrible.
2. Trying to use the sidebar overlay to look at graphs whist gaming in fullscreen does not work.
for example:
Crysis 2 1080p fullscreen Ultra
as soon as I click the game the overlay disappears or Alt+Z/Alt+R acces to Radeon Settings stops (or crashes) and I have to drop out to desktop to relaunch it.
So what is the point of the sidebar at all if I cannot use it in fullscreen game?
3. How to I control the performance Metrics Advisor? I want to decide when to start it just like I am able to in Adrenalin 2019.12.1 Radeon Overlay.
It seems to run when I launch the game and then I cannot find how to rerun it to find out why Crysis 2 is running so badly at 1080p with this driver.
How do I turn this performance reporting off, how do I start the performance reporting caputure manually?
Can I prevent it from running?
Do I have to use AMD Link?
Also is the performance data stored somewhere or transferred to AMD?
Radeon Image Sharpening Slider Works on BF1 - this is a feature I previously requested so thanks to AMD for that. Previously I could not tell the difference between on and off in some games. ReShade with CAS.fx has a slider to adjust the amount filtering applied and it performed better than Radeon Image Sharpening in the driver:
Image upscaling and denoising appears to work fine.
Automatic GPU Overclocking - is it working at all?
Usually it crashes my PC on RX Vega 56 or 64 Liquid.
Last time I dared to try it managed to hose my Windows 10 OS and I had to do a complete reinstall.
Since I backed up my OS drive (cloned it) before even daring to try AMD Auto Overclocking in Adrenalin 2020 19.12.2 I may as well show the results with the PowerColor Vega 56 Red Dragon:
Wow looks great it didn't crash the PC and it appears to have worked.
It even says so:
But what happens when I switch to manual?
Where has that Automatic overclock gone if it even worked at all?
Here is another example trying to overclock the GPU followed by Overclock the VRAM - doesn't seem an unreasonable thing to do ...
Starting with a "completed GPU Overclock"
I then try to overclock the VRAM:
But ... look at this now:
This seems to indicate the GPU is not overclocked but the VRAM is.
looking at the new "Wattman" when I switch to manual:
My only conclusion as to why the PowerColor Vega 56 Red Dragon and my PC did not crash is the Auto Overclock is not applying anything at all.
