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AMD's Major Radeon Software Graphics Driver Update Goes Live With Gameplay Capture, More (venturebeat.com)
Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD is launching an update for its Radeon graphics drivers that will help PC gamers enjoy more power-efficient gameplay during the holiday season. Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition offers high-performance gaming and better stability for consumers, professionals, and developers. From a report on VentureBeat: The new edition enables power-efficient gameplay with Radeon Chill and seamless in-game screen capture and streaming with Radeon ReLive. For designers, content creators, and game developers, Radeon Pro Software Crimson ReLive Edition delivers productivity and stability with up to 30 percent performance improvements in key applications. With Radeon ReLive, gamers can "relive" their gameplay by capturing, streaming, and sharing recorded gaming sessions. Highly efficient with minimal impact to gameplay, Radeon ReLive enables seamless playback of ReLive recordings via an easily accessible in-game toolbar, and offers quick and convenient customizable settings, custom scene layouts, and more, AMD said. With Radeon ReLive, gamers now have a way to capture gaming highlights, and share their gaming exploits and conquests with online friends and competitors -- all integrated within Radeon Software.
I have 2 AMD cards on a windows 10 and windows 7 machines, never had any of these issues. Sounds like you just suck
And went with Nvidia. Cheaper, more stable, better bang for the buck, and much better Linux support.
I have 2 AMD cards on a windows 10 and windows 7 machines, never had any of these issues. Sounds like you just suck
I've never not had these problems. I've never had AMD drivers work properly without being hacked up by DnA. AMD has been crashing Windows for me since the Mach32 and Windows 3.1. (Don't even get me started on all the different Mach64 chipsets with different drivers.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Say what you want about nvidia's bloatware, the driver installs are smooth as silk. AMD sends me to a browser page where I must try and figure out what download to select (considering the version numbers never match), then I have to download and install manually.
Ugh. It's 2016, right? AMD's driver updates make me feel like I've timewarped to 1997.
I don't understand AMD. Their drivers and software are bloatware and at the same time they don't allow you to tweak many settings by hand. Isn't it obvious that the vast majority of people who are willing to spend a lot of money on a high-end graphics card want the exact opposite? At least that seems obvious to me, and I've been gaming for more then twenty years.
What year it is, you fucking paid shill?!!
As of 2016, AMD drivers are better than nVidias.
Crimson is rock solid and we'll see how Crimson ReLive will go.
No they aren't. From the major gaming forum:
WARNING: Don't update your NVIDIA drivers, breaks memory speed, more
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh...
Nvidia 372.54 drivers are bugged (video, games, textures, etc)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh...
Nvidia drivers 375.70 killed HDMI
http://neogaf.site/forum/showt...
Is the latest Nvidia Driver still fucked?
http://assets.neogafllc.netdna...
the latest:
NVIDIA drivers are disappointing.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh...
We'll see how it goes! I just had to downgrade from a GTX 970 to a pair of old Sapphire 6950's Crossfired. First AMD/ATI card since my old 9800 I had to buy to run Neverwinter Nights. At least they're old and I wont have to worry about new drivers every day? Wish me luck! (I haven't really had issues with AMD or Nvidia though, so perhaps I'm lucky, or AMD sees that I'm running an AMD CPU in this machine, and decides to play nice)
I do not have problems with AMD drivers (Win7, HD7970). Though I did not update them for a long time. But I never had the strange problems with AMD drivers people seem to report.
For, after many attempts, I have yet to get any AMD binary blob to work under Linux for any AMD card.
that's because they don't exist.
Except when it doesn't, and your card re flows the soldier holding it together because the drivers suck. There's a reason nVidia was synonymous with house fires for about 5 years.
Uh yeah Ok.
Also the 7890 uses the older better catalyst drivers
http://saveie6.com/
Same here. This was the year I bought my first nVidia card (a 970) and have not looked back.
I was always suckered in by the fact that generally the AMD drivers are a few dollars cheaper. Never again.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Says the guy who still hasn't figured out how to make a Slashdot account.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh yeah, nVidia drivers:
Install 'nVidia Experience' to download them smoothly, but have to sign up with nVidia to use it and then get your privacy shredded as they harvest pretty much anything they want (seemingly) from your computer and its activity to do (seemingly) whatever they want with your data.
Or don't install the nVidia Experience software and download the drivers yourself (searching their website for the right version and installing it manually ... in 2016!!) and have to hunt around your computer to turn off their spyware telemetry ... just to get the harware you bought (and when you thought nVidia weren't pulling shady shit) to function.
Oh yeah. That smooth as silk nVidia experience. Must be the lube they use as they probe your private areas.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
Why are you buying drivers?
In this day and age, any hardware causing a BSOD or freeze, I will assume faulty and remove.
I can't honestly remember the last time I saw one that wasn't caused by that.
The last BSOD I saw was 3 years ago while building a set of IBM BladeCenter blades. Their RAID card crashes if the default MS driver loads on 2012R2. 2012R2 wasn't officially supported at that point, so it was fair enough, but even then all I had to do was create an install disk with the IBM-supplied drivers (many YEARS ahead of the default MS ones) and it's worked flawlessly for years since on a number of BladeCenters without a problem under 2012R2 and heavy load.
As a programmer, I can justify that - literally the MS driver is so out of date it can't have been written when that hardware was made, and it's not as "compatible" as the 2012 driver, or the 2008 driver but advertises itself to be and the vanilla Windows Setup (which has nothing else compatible with that hardware) tries to load it but BSOD because the hardware isn't what it was expecting. It was instant (on loading the driver via Windows Setup), reproducible, and obvious.
Slipstream the Windows install and supplement the MS driver with anything written SINCE then and it picks the better driver and just works. That's fine by me. And an issue you'd only experience when doing major system upgrades or first-installs.
But a BSOD other than that? I can't even remember. Had a couple of client drive failures and still no BSOD (wouldn't boot, but you'd expect problems beforehand). I would have to say it's been probably 8-9 years since any BSOD that wasn't obviously explainable (hardware obviously failing, computer overheating, or problems like the above).
But a BSOD just because you updated a driver and reboot? No way. Why would you tolerate that on even a personal machine? That's data loss just waiting to happen.
BSOD my machine without an obvious reason why (and not just "it's a new driver" or "it's not the latest driver") and your hardware will be replaced.
I have a gaming laptop. I update the nVidia drivers precisely "when required" (i.e. a new game literally won't load without an update). That means I'm miles behind on versions. I kill all the taskbar apps and get rid of the dual-driver junk and whatever else, in any way I can. Still no BSOD. And when I update, the worst I expect is - very briefly - running on the internal Intel graphics until the new driver kicks in after a reboot.
BSOD died with Windows XP, and those were mainly because it was hard to isolate processes from each other etc. If you have ANY piece of kit that still gives you them in anything even approaching a reproducible or frequent way, ditch it and buy something else.
Same for kernel dumps (unless you've been fiddling with the kernel, they shouldn't happen) or whatever equivalent on Mac.
Bahaha
Go use Windows 10 and your opinion will rapidly change. Also video drivers run in ring 0 so yes they still can take down a system
http://saveie6.com/
The post above was originally written in 2002.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Turns out Nvidia takes those few extra dollars and spends money making drivers that work
Even on platforms that AMD won't touch like Solaris and FreeBSD. I just wish they'd port CUDA to FreeBSD.
Electric heaters are electric heaters.
Your GPU is just an electric heater that happens to do computation as well.
Genuine question - I don't know AMD products that well - My last 2 cards have been Nvidia and its time for an upgrade (I'm chugging on a gtx 780). Geforce Experience has a lot of these features that are being talked about - tied up in a ridiculous bloatware bundle - but they made it a sign-in service in the latest version. I've never seen such a stupid decision in my life. It was the easiest uninstall choice I ever make. Think about it.. they want you to login to a cloud service to use functions on your fucking graphics card. I couldn't believe it when I did the driver update and suddenly it wanted me to register my personal information. I will very seriously consider AMD the next time I do an upgrade -but I have to say that this news that AMD are going the bloatware route as well kind of alarms me because it sounds like AMD are looking at Nvidia's bloatware and thinking "Oh we should do that!" Are they? What's the difference between this and NV experience pre-signup.
I've had 2 AMD 4870 cards on Windows 7 and they kept blue screening on boot pointing to the driver as the problem in the dumps. Upgrading was fun as well including one upgrade that forced a reinstall of Windows 7 to recover. I finally replaced them with slightly less powerful nVidia 560 cards (which brand I was using prior to the AMD cards) and while there were driver issues (driver has been restarted), I never had blue screens. My current system has a pair of nNivdia 970's and no issues since I bought them.
[John]
Shit better not happen!
I avoid all of that trouble with this:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-367
Just the driver, no bloatware. Works great for my games.
but does it force me to create an online account randomly one day to use the app i been using and use the desktop recording? does the recording break ctrl 1-3 because if not screw that geforce experience for lyfe.
So while nVidia is working on Solaris and FreeBSD, their newest driver won't work for recent cards on recent kernels. Meanwhile their old cards get stuck without support in their problem, leaving you with nouveau (which is kinda like having a procotological exam with a glove dipped in wasabi).
I weighed heavily between both cards, and went with AMD since the OPEN SOURCE drivers have been given a *lot* of support by AMD, and work nicely without any third-party binary bullshit needed.
That was long ago.. with Windows far, far away.
Yes. And look how little has changed. ATI didn't know how to write drivers. Now, AMD doesn't know how to write drivers. So what's changed? Two letters.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You just circlejerk around for free?
You are welcome on my lawn.
BSOD my machine without an obvious reason why (and not just "it's a new driver" or "it's not the latest driver") and your hardware will be replaced.
Actually, when this happened to me with Windows 10 about a year ago, it was the trigger that woke me up and allowed me to honestly re-evaluate my life choices. I never tried to recover... upon reboot, instead of troubleshooting, I stuck in a bootable USB stick of Linux Mint 17.
The closest I get to Windows on my personal computers now is to play Skyrim under Wine.
I guess what I am saying is that I agree with your stance on BSOD; however, in this case, it was not hardware that was faulty but software. Windows 10 is terrible software regardless of the telemetry (which alone is reason enough to toss the garbage out).
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
They were? That sounds a lot like something you made up.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Not AMD.
ATI.
Yes yes, obvious mistake. I said when AMD acquired ATI and announced they would eventually bring the products under their name that it would be confusing, and it is.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So I built my first PC since 2006 this year using the new RX480 in my new build. I work in IT and we use generic AMD cards in Dell computers at work all the time and don't really see any issues with blue screens but I am assuming they are more stable than the new cutting edge cards are. After reading through these comments I can now understand why my computer has blue screened twice since its build back in September. The error points at the video card so I didn't doubt it was the problem but seeing how common it is is also kind of scary... These 2 blue screens are literally the only times I have ever seen a Windows 8 or 10 device blue screen so it was a shock to see. I guess ill have to get this update later tonight but seeing all these comments I guess I shouldn't hold my breath for a permanent solution to the cards stability. Guess next time I should save my money for the more pricier Nvidea card like I did in 2006 if I want to enjoy stability.