I'm running a Ryzen 3 3200G with Vega Gfx 8 on Win10 21H2 (no dedicated GPU, I just use my Ryzen). I was on the 22.6.X driver, and everything was working fine. Updated to 22.7.1 yesterday and noticed several games (that I already had and played before just fine) now sporting intense lag or not starting at all. Some examples:
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Complete Edition, while running in Fullscreen, as soon as you enter any wide area, EDEN server area, or enter combat just lags intermittently. Character and NPCs just walk like they're dragging in mud. It feels like the game is trying to load assets, then restores regular speed for a moment only to lag again as soon as you pop up the menu or do something different. I thought "maybe if I run around enough this'll all load and stay fast" but it keeps doing it no matter how long I run around, the areas and characters never fully stabilize. The AMD performance however doesn't report a drop in fps while running. However x2, the game also runs normally while windowed (but window is locked on 720p).
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered: Doesn't even start past the launcher, gives me an "unable to load shaders" error.
Some other games, like FromSoft stuff (Dark Souls III, DS1 Remastered, even Elden Ring) ran fine though. They just did the regular shader/asset loading that happens after updating drivers and then were stable all around. Skyrim SE (with mods) also ran fine.
I honestly dunno what's going on with 22.7.1 and this weird spectrum of functionality I'm getting here. Tried some tweaking and solving on my own and then just had enough of it and rolled back to 22.5.X (can't find the 22.6.1 anymore ). Tried all the problematic games again just to make sure and they run fine now, just as before updating. Curses dedicated towards AMD's 22.7.1 driver launch were and will be performed. Hope they fix this by the next recommended update. God knows I'll only update into stable releases from now on. Had enough of this "Optional" nonsense.
