AMD Radeon drivers madness!!!

[jose-eduardo]

Hi there, the problem is the following: 

Installed the latest drivers I have available the 18.11.1, and felt a shitty performance, so without noticing installed the chipset drivers and it installed and older pack (17.2).

At first I thought it was the reinstalled OS (1809) but later testing (GR Wildlands benchmark) I noticed a 10FPS loss and a different CPU And GPU usage.

[SpencerC]

The latest drivers start with 19.x.x.x not 18.x.x.x

 

Also, I would advise disabling any prebundled software if your computer is a prebuilt (especially get rid of Norton Internet Security or McAfee Antivirus if those are on your machine. They do nothing but push ads and slow your system down).

[Stefan Payne]

2 hours ago, Strike105X said:

Welcome to the wonderful world of AMD drivers lottery, where one driver can be golden and the next can suction derriere.

Well, its not like its better on "the other side" either

[Kc7vwc]

I haven't had any issues with AMD's drivers for several years now. ReLive & it's overlay have given me issues, but never the driver itself. 

My MSI variant had a cooling issue a few years back, but that was thermal paste.

I'm quite happy with how far my R9 390 can push games.

I game on a 1080p@144Hz panel & the only games I see below 100Fps are World of Tanks & Warships - both of which are 70-90Fps max settings. 

Honestly, the last time I had an actual driver issue I was playing Wrath of the Lich King & I'd get driver restarts. Can't remember if that was a GTX 970 or Radeon HD 7xxx series chip...

[Mister Woof]

No issues myself, all three of my home computers are running AMD GPUs (570, 580, Vega 64)

[Stefan Payne]

9 hours ago, Strike105X said:

Yup, "the other side" from my experience with them don't screw up as often,

Yes they do.

And also they mess it up really awfully.

Problem is that people talk differently about it and fix their problems, instead of Flaming like its the case on the AMD Side so often.

 

Or you remember the Color Range/Palette on HDMI Output on nVidia Cards??
THAT was _NEVER_ an issue on AMD ever. You always had an option between full range or not.

YCbCr is also supported, both 4:4:4 and 4:2:2.

 

You can see it here as well: