PC Drivers & Software

[RushV8]

Hello, recently bought my first Gsync/Freesync/Adaptive Sync monitor, Nilox NXM272K14401 27" LED QHD 144Hz, and the first thing I did was test Adaptive Sync Compatible (it's as shown in the menu), but "Adaptive Sync" doesn't work properly, I have a lot of flickering in some games and a lot of stuttering, even with frames locked at 144 fps or 141hz (-3hz). I tested with HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2(current) cables.

I read a lot about how Gsync/Freesync/Adaptive Sync works, how to enable it, that I should limit the frames to 141 frames with RTSS or AMD Chill, but in all games I have flickering when my Fps drops to 80 frames in some games while loading or running within the range of my 48/144 Hz monitor.

I was about to give up and disable Adaptive Sync to avoid at least minus the annoying flickering, so I'm installed an old game, Escape From Bucther Bay/Dark Athena GOG, I was using the latest Adrenalin 24.9.1 driver, and my fps was 60~90 with a bit of stuttering even with v sync, not great and not terrible, I used DDU to uninstall the driver for a fresh install, I decided to go to the AMD driver website to get the latest 24.10.1 and 22.Q4 Pro Edition(which i never used before) driver, which was listed and available for download. I tried 24.10.1 first, and things are the same: terrible FPS, stuttering and no Adaptive Sync working.

So I installed 22.Q4 and magically everything works great, I managed to get 200+ FPS, the stuttering disappeared and when a limited frame for my Adaptive Sync range monitor finally worked, I couldn't believe it, so I started testing some other games and everything (almost) works perfectly.

So I decided to test some PRO drivers with 2 of my games Escape from Bucther Bay and Ghost of Tsuhima, in Ghost of Tsuhima all games with PRO drivers freeze and close when one goes to display the menu (in game) except the latest driver 24.Q2, with some drivers I have a warning to run an old driver before starting the game at startup, the freeze only occurs if I try to access the display settings in the menu when the game is running, I can change the settings in the launcher without problems. But FPS with 24.Q2 is not good in Escape from Bucther Bay, so I decided to keep 24.Q1 for now.

I ran a little with EFBB and Tsushima test with PRO driver to se diference betwen then:

24.Q2 LASTEST

+/-Good FPS / but a lot Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
+No freeze in display menu Ghost of Tsushima.

24.Q1.1

+Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Warning version driver open Ghost of Tsuhima.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

24.Q1 Best/New

+Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

23.Q4

-Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

23.Q3

-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.
-BAD FPS/Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.

23.Q1.1

-Good FPS / but a lot Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Warning version driver before open Ghost of Tsuhima.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

22.Q4

-Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Warning version driver before open Ghost of Tsuhima.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

22.Q3 Best/OLD

+Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

22.Q2

+Good FPS / No Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

21.Q4

+/-Good FPS / but a lot Stutering in Escape From Bucther Bay.
-Freeze in Ghost of Tsushima menu display.

My question is: why is the Adreanalin driver not working properly? Nothing works: bad FPS, no Adaptive Sync, bad frame times. I been tried some old Adrenalin Drivers from 2020/2021/2023 and none of this drivers work properly too.

Xeon 2680v3 2.5Ghz
5700XT 8GB
16GB RAM
SSD Nvme 512GB

Thank you for any help.

[RushV8]

After weeks of searching for a solution i found some aswers.

As I said, I had two problems, FreeSync does not work correctly with all games with the latest drivers(24.10.1 current) and it keeps flickering (blinking white when the fps drops, even in the monitor range). The first thing to do is to configure freesync/adaptive sync correctly. Many tutorials just say: install the latest driver, enable freesync/adaptive on the monitor, enable Enable Freesync/Adaptive Sync in Radeon settings, put the game with v-sync turned off and limit your fps to work in the monitor range. But this alone does not work for me, I found the solution on BLur Busters for Nvidia GPU, but I follow the same pattern for AMD Radeon and it really works!

Enable Freesync/Adaptive correctly.

1- Enable Freesync/Adaptive Sync/VRR on your monitor.

2- Change the refresh rate of your monitor in Windows: Start > Settings > System > Display > Advanced display. And change it (144 in my case).

3-Open the AMD Radeon driver menu, go to Settings > Display: Enable Freesync/Adaptive Sync.

4-In the AMD Radeon driver menu, go to the Gaming > Graphics tab
-In Wait for vertical refresh, set *Always on
-In Frame rate target control, **Enable and set your refresh rate minus -3 (in my case 144Hz-3Hz = 141Hz).

5-Open your game and disable V-Sync (in some cases it is good to disable/enable double/triple buffering too, depending on the game and specs).

*Note: this will apply globally (for all games), some games can't handle Wait for vertical refresh set to Always on very well, so you need to go to the AMD Radeon driver menu for Gaming > Gaming. Choose the game you want (if the game is not there, click on ... vertical, find .exe and add the game) and change "Vertical Refresh - Always On" to "Vertical Refresh - Off, unless the application specifies it"

**Note: This will limit your overall fps (all games will run at 141 fps) for Freesync/Adaptive Sync to work, it needs to operate within the range of your monitor (48hz~144hz in my case).

My second problem is that when I use Freesync/Adaptive Sync, my monitor starts flashing a white light when my fps drops below 85, I don't know why this happens, because my game never goes below 48 fps (48hz~144hz is the range of my monitor), in theory it is within the parameters of Freesync, maybe it is a setting that I did not try or my monitor maybe has a bad panel. One thing I noticed was that when my game runs above 90+/100/120/140 fps consistently, the monitor never flickers, maybe it's just my old PC that needs an upgrade.

I tried changing the range with CRU, but it disables Fressync and I end up with vertical tearing.

The partial solution I found to use Freesync and not have the flickering was to create a custom resolution.

1- In the AMD driver menu, go to Settings > Display under Colors.

- Custom Resolutions > Create New > just change Refresh Rate, set it to 141 and click Create.

* Don't change anything in Windows: Start > Settings > System > Display > Advanced Display, leave it at 144 Hz.

The trick to get it to work is to go to the game menu and set the Hz to 141. In some games you can't change this, so if anyone knows another method, please share.