PC Drivers & Software

[ardankyaosen]

Next week will be 5 months since the WHQL Adrenalin drivers have been updated.  And, just today, we got yet another update to the "Optional" non-WHQL version:

Adrenalin 22.10.1 Optional

File Size

539 MB

Release Date

10/4/2022

vs

Adrenalin 22.5.1 Recommended (WHQL)

File Size

544 MB

Release Date

5/10/2022

People have commented on it here with no official response.  I've written AMD's support and asked about it and gotten a scripted non-answer that essentially says dey don't know nuttin (and don't care).

AMD:  are you aware that occasionally you're supposed to move stuff into your stable branch and make that a baseline (in loose terms)?  By failing to do so, are you saying the "Optional" branch is so unstable that Microsoft won't let you apply the WHQL label to it?

[georgekps]

Aaaaaaaaaand, yet ANOTHER Adrenalin driver with the SAME problems. 

Max in-game fps is always ~10 lower than what is being set in FRTC. Slowdowns and stutter are also STILL here.

As i said before, i believe that AMD will make one of "these" drivers the "recommended" one (replacing the 22.5.1 which works problems free!) even though there STILL are problems unsolved. I guess that DX11 optimizations brought unfixable bugs that are here to stay.

Good job AMD, you're turning happy customers unhappy ending up thinking of buying nVIDIA or even Intel.

[ardankyaosen]

According to the description, Release Notes and URL (as of 11/22/2022), it looks like the Optional Adrenalin 22.11.1 drivers are now WHQL certified.

"Adrenalin 22.11.1 Optional (WHQL)"

"WHQL Results
Status
WHQL Test Suite Results Passed
WHQL Microsoft Certification Passed"

https://drivers.amd.com/drivers/whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-22.11.1-win10-win11-nov22.exe

[ardankyaosen]

And another Optional update without a Recommended one. For all intents and purposes, the Recommended Adrenalin drivers are now 7 months out of date.

Anyway, as with the previous Optionals, this one's WHQL certification is pending. As to what's changed (and thus is added to the LONG list of things not included in the Recommeneds):

MD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.11.2 Release Notes
Article Number
RN-RAD-WIN-22-11-2

Highlights
Support for:
The Callisto Protocol™
Need for Speed™ Unbound
The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt Next-Gen Update

Fixed Issues
During video playback and window switching, an intermittent driver timeout or black screen may occur on Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs using some 240Hz refresh rate displays or high refresh rate primary display plus low refresh rate secondary display configurations.
Stuttering may occur during video playback using hardware acceleration with Firefox on Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs.
AMDRSServ.exe may cause GPU utilization to remain at 100% after closing games on some AMD Graphics Products such as Radeon™ 570.
An intermittent driver timeout or black screen may occur while videos are playing in VRChat™ on Radeon™ RX 6000 series GPUs.

Known Issues
Intermittent system stuttering or UI flickering may occur when two videos are simultaneously playing using chromium-based browsers.
During video playback and gameplay, frame drop may occur in chromium-based browsers with variable refresh rate enabled extended displays.
Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
Texture flickering or artifacts may occur during Warhammer 40,000: Darktide™ gameplay.

Important Notes
AMD is working with the game developers of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide™ to resolve issues with texture flickering and artifacts seen during gameplay.

[ardankyaosen]

It looks like 22.11.2 Recommended has now been WHQL certified.

[Nagrenol]

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.11.2 Release Notes

Known Issues

• Intermittent system stuttering or UI flickering may occur when two videos are simultaneously playing using chromium-based browsers.

• During video playback and gameplay, frame drop may occur in chromium-based browsers with variable refresh rate enabled extended displays.

• Brief display corruption may occur when switching between video and game windows on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.

• Texture flickering or artifacts may occur during Warhammer 40,000: Darktide™ gameplay.

• Some laptops using hybrid graphics and AMD Ryzen™ 5000 series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics may have no sound output using certain Realtek Audio versions.

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AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.12.1 Release Notes
(no fixed issues listed)

Known Issues

• Corruption may be encountered when using Virtual Super Resolution with multi-display configurations [Resolution targeted for 22.12.2].

• A system crash may be observed when changing display modes with 4 display configurations [Resolution targeted for 22.12.2].

• High idle power has situationally been observed when using select high resolution and high refresh rate displays.

• Intermittent app crashes or driver timeout may occur when using Radeon Super Resolution with some extended display configurations.

• Video stuttering or performance drop may be observed during gameplay plus video playback with some extended display configurations.

• Stuttering may be observed in UNCHARTED™ 4: A Thief’s End during the opening game sequence.

• While loading Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales™ an app crash or driver timeout may occur after enabling ray tracing settings [Resolution targeted for 22.12.2].

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This is my on going issues with amd.. when known issues just magically get removed from the list without being fixed. Or they say things are fixed but they do something totally unrelated which the issue continues to occur.

All the previous known issues from the 11.2 update are gone from the list and replaced with even more.

Takes forever to get them to even list issues as known and then they just knock them off and hoping people won't notice. 

[goodplay]

Don't see the point of your ref. to the rx79xx series only driver.

[Nagrenol]

The email came out saying it was a new update for the 6000 cards and this is what it was showing under the 6000 series drivers

Shortly after it was removed now its just under the 7000 series cards so yes its not valid now. 

Looked like they had gone above and beyond with what they have been doing on many other updates

[Vynski]

That's odd.  I was just on the AND support for driver downloads and 22.12.2 is available for every 6000 series card out there.

[KabouterPlop1]

windows 10 is defiantly more stable with drivers then windows 11 when it comes to MPO, makes me wonder if they test only on windows 10.