AMD Drivers slow

[quinnyboy04]

Hello dear forum

I recently tried installing AMD ReLive, but it failed. After this, my FPS dropped about 4x (Terraria from 40/50fps to 10/20fps). So I tried DDU and the AMD CleanUp Utility. Does someone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

[Tad Bittoomuch]

Did DDU not work?  If it didn't, I'd suggest retrying DDU, in safe mode.

 

I'm presuming you're using Windows 10, so here's Microsoft's instructions on how to boot into Safe Mode.

If you're using Windows 7, restart your computer and mash F8 when the system posts.  Select 'Start in Safe Mode'.

 

Then reinstall the AMD drivers.

If that doesn't work by some terrible misfortune, it could be an issue with incorrectly configured video adapter settings within Windows itself:

 

Here's a solution that worked for someone else with a similar problem:

On 3/22/2019 at 11:48 PM, Tad Bittoomuch said:

This could be something as simple as changing the 'performance' and 'power saving' video adapter for each application, and I think you can do it on a Power Plan basis, whereby when you plug in your laptop, the 'performance' video adapter will be the primary adapter while when you're on battery it'll use the Intel integrated graphics.

 

Go to Settings -> Graphics Settings -> Select your games and choose 'Performance'

If your games aren't there, click browse and locate the .exe (If they're Steam games they'll be in STEAM_LIBRARY/steamapps/common/GAME_DIR) and change their graphics mode to performance.

If that still has not fixed your issues, try disabling Radeon Chill or the Frame Rate Target Control (Radeon Settings -> Gaming -> Global Settings). 

 

 

Radeon Chill is a setting within Radeon Settings that will limit your GPUs framerate to save power and improve thermals.  I tried it once, then disabled it immediately because any game I played resembled a powerpoint slide show.