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My Frustration with AMD Drivers.

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I downloaded the new AMD "Gaming" Drivers because I thought that it wouldn't effect anything at all, yanno just updating drivers.

 

That is where I was Terribly Wrong.

 

When I downloaded the drivers it loaded all my steam games into the stupid GUI they have and optimized my games.

 

I thought "Okay, well maybe my games will run at a higher performance because they are now optimized!"

Nope, every time i tried to load a game, the driver would crash and the game would not load.

i tried re installing drivers and that didn't work, i tried disabling the optimization and that didn't work

 

it took me re installing windows and putting old drivers on my card for it to finally work

 

I honestly cannot stand AMD, the only reason I have an AMD card was because I got it for a stupid cheap price.

 

(I am not trying to start an argument about AMD vs NVIDIA I am just sharing my experience with AMD please refrain from going fanboy on my ass)

 

Has anyone else had these issue's with the drivers? Let me know

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I'm pretty sure you could've fixed that without reinstalling, like, rolling back? And getting rid of Gaming Evolved. Nobody should install Gaming Evolved

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No, the new ones I find great.

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Well my Geforce Experience is broken to the point where I have to kill the process and reopen it in order for it to come up from the taskbar, so Nvidia isn't much better.

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when i updated drivers i cant run 2 monitiors anymore cuz muy games keep freezing. even heartstone freez

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Gaming

"Evolved"

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Well my Geforce Experience is broken to the point where I have to kill the process and reopen it in order for it to come up from the taskbar, so Nvidia isn't much better.

Same here i DDU'd when i got my 580 and installed the latest driver naked except the HD audio.

 

I was never vocal about it as drivers are drivers, some though MUST be vocal.

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The app never optimized anything for me unless I clocked the button maybe you did something.

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The app never optimized anything for me unless I clocked the button maybe you did something.

When I installed the drivers it loaded my library and "optimized them"

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The app never optimized anything for me unless I clicked the button maybe you did something.

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When I installed the drivers it loaded my library and "optimized them"

well, Nvidia does the same thing, if you accept. Read before accepting stuff.

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The driver doesn't optimize games, that's the Gaming Evolved app. That app is optional, and it doesn't optimize games unless you tell it to. So your criticism seems a bit misguided on that count. As for crashing, well that's unfortunate. I haven't run into any such issues, in fact at any point since I switched from Nvidia to AMD (several years ago).

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well, Nvidia does the same thing, if you accept. Read before accepting stuff.

Really? 

 

I just installed the drivers

Also I fucked up when installing the drivers cause I didnt do a custom install (Cause I kind of did trust AMD) and it installed some raptr bullshit that records all the games  you play.

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Really? 

 

I just installed the drivers

Also I fucked up when installing the drivers cause I didnt do a custom install (Cause I kind of did trust AMD) and it installed some raptr bullshit that records all the games  you play.

raptr is AMD's version of Shadowplay.

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Gaming

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Even evolution knows when its made a mistake and its time to kill it off. --- a big reason behind me moving back to Nvidia from AMD was driver related issues (or lack of day-one drivers).

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Even evolution knows when its made a mistake and its time to kill it off. --- a big reason behind me moving back to Nvidia from AMD was driver related issues (or lack of day-one drivers).

I could sell my card and get a used 980 

 

I don't know at this point, my R9 390 serves my well when the drivers aren't shit

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When I installed the drivers it loaded my library and "optimized them"

You have to do a custom install on everything you download, including Windows 10, if you wear Tin Foil clothing

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I could sell my card and get a used 980 

 

I don't know at this point, my R9 390 serves my well when the drivers aren't shit

Stop blaming the fucking drivers, you even admitted to fudging the install so....  less crap and move on.

 

Do it correctly next time.

 

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Even evolution knows when its made a mistake and its time to kill it off. --- a big reason behind me moving back to Nvidia from AMD was driver related issues (or lack of day-one drivers).

You really don't need special drivers for every new release like Nvidia wants you to believe. I've seen before and after performance examples with Nvidia's Game Ready Drivers and a lot of the time it does little to nothing to help performance. 

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You have to do a custom install on everything you download, including Windows 10, if you wear Tin Foil clothing

I put too much trust in these companies lmao

 

I just watched that barnacles video about the spyware that windows 10 has built in and how to disable it so I just disabled it lmao

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-Sniperino-

But the drivers are shit :^) They are the ones crashing not "Gaming Evolved"

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Even evolution knows when its made a mistake and its time to kill it off. --- a big reason behind me moving back to Nvidia from AMD was driver related issues (or lack of day-one drivers).

 

I actually had fewer driver issues after switching from Nvidia to AMD. Worst thing on AMD was some artifacting I would get in Firefox while running Folding@Home. Scared the hell out of me for a while, but didn't actually indicate a problem or cause any other problems. Eventually it was fixed (took a while though).

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But the drivers are shit :^) They are the ones crashing not "Gaming Evolved"

Nvidia's really aren't any better. Are you going to try reinstalling like people have recommended or are you just keep bitching and doing nothing?

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