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chiter
Journeyman III

Is there a lightweight AMD "adrenaline" console that uses built-in GUI controls?

I respect the work that AMD have put into their driver GUI console - it's certainly very well animated and very flashy however as a power user, I find it slow, heavy and kinda bloated.

It feels and performs like an poorly optimised electron application and I dread interacting with it despite both wanting and needing to use the features on it.

I would love there to be a simplified control panel for power users that uses the built in OS GUI widgets. Think WinForms, QT, GTK.

I think there are things we can learn from the NVIDIA control panel as I feel like it took some sensible design choices, though there are areas to improve like an indexed global search for settings and more advanced features.

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In terms of UI responsiveness, the Adrenaline software seems to block the UI when probing for settings. Adding settings caching and user indications of loading (done on a separate thread) to avoid blocking/locking up the UI would go a long way towards helping the experience of using the driver software.

If the software was open source, I would be happy to discuss these things there and potentially contribute an advanced control panel GUI. I had considered making a third party option, however I am unsure how to actually set settings programmatically - is there simply a registry entry or config file for Radeon graphics settings?

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Axton
Challenger

I'm all for this idea but I doubt it will go anywhere.  I find the Adrenalin menu items confusing, there's two Performance tabs for crying out loud.  I loved the nvidia control panel, plain, simple, easy to find what you need.

You'd probably have more luck with a Linux AMD driver(?)

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