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hitbm47
Forerunner

OpenGL appreciation post

Hi community,

If an AMD moderator reads this, I please want you to tell the OpenGL driver team that I am very thankful for the performance optimizations, I have been wishing for them for years.

I must note, that just today I have finished installing my new Ryzen 5 5600 after swallowing the hard pill to take out extra savings to order it last Thursday, but I must admit thus far it might be one of the smoothest experiences I've had since my first PC.

First of, I was experiencing even worse FPS (random 37FPS lock) in Wolfenstein the Old Blood with 22.6.1 on this R5 5600 than my FX 8350, but after doing a clean install of 22.7.1, I have been getting consistent 60FPS even in areas I have never before on my RX 480.

To top this off, I also tested "Return to Castle Wolfenstein"(~2002); both of which use different versions of OpenGL; which dips to 56FPS even on this R5 5600 on 22.6.1, but after applying 22.7.1 it reached the games built-in 92FPS cap in the same area.

Therefore, I am positive these OpenGL optimizations are relevant to the RX 480 as well, unlike the DX11 optimizations that is only relevant to the RX 6000 & RX 5000 Radeons from my previous testing exclusively on my RX 480.

I am really thankful for this AMD, and it gives me hope that you might fix the Unreal Engine 3 DirectX9 issue for people that are on Polaris or Vega and whom cannot be fortunate enough to get either a Ryzen 5000 or Navi 6000 GPU.

Amazing job OpenGL team, experiencing Wolfenstein the Old Blood at 60FPS in OpenGL doesn't put the graphics experience that far of from the Vulkan implementation from Wolfenstein II, and this is why we need these optimizations!

So glad to finally experience what my RX 480 should've been like in 2016.

Kind regards

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blazek
Volunteer Moderator

New features, API optimizations, bug fixes.

Great driver!