AMD's Major Radeon Software Graphics Driver Update Goes Live With Gameplay Capture, More (venturebeat.com) 98
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.
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I have 2 AMD cards on a windows 10 and windows 7 machines, never had any of these issues. Sounds like you just suck
Re:God no (Score:4, Interesting)
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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Says the guy who still hasn't figured out how to make a Slashdot account.
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You just circlejerk around for free?
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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
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What year it is, you fucking paid shill?!! (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re: What year it is, you fucking paid shill?!! (Score:2)
Yep made it all up.
My Nvidia 770 gtx was solid. AMD is a nightmare of never ending driver problems. I have owned ATI 5750, 7850, and now an Rx 470. Drivers break is a fact of life and you need certain ones that never change for a stable system.
Yes, I reimaged my computer so it's not my system.
Looks like I got a -1 and hey it worked on my computer there you must be stupid replies from the ATI fanboys.
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Binary drivers break, but a lot of semi-recent and newer cards are actually supported by the in-kernel driver which should not break in most cases (usually the drivers breakage = won't build with current kernel or xorg).
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Existing games run fine. New drivers always are chock full of crap I don't want. No need to upgrade.
As far as preferences go, the AMD vs Nvidia fans trolling each other is just as moronic as the Democrat vs Republican fans trolling each other. Sure, buy and or vote for one, but don't make it your life's mission to attack someone with a different choice.
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Maybe you should stop living in a shack out there somewhere.
4 month after launch 480 pulled ahead of 1060:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com... [hardwarecanucks.com]
470 trounced 1050Ti (30% faster) from the very beginning;
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Re:God no (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re: God no (Score:3)
Uh yeah Ok.
Also the 7890 uses the older better catalyst drivers
Re:God no (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re: God no (Score:2)
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
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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
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The post above was originally written in 2002.
Re: God no (Score:1)
I give AMD credit. At least they don't install a bloated appstore and cloud streaming service like Nvidia. But Nvidia actually works!
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I gave up AMD... (Score:1)
Re:I gave up AMD... (Score:4, Funny)
And went with Nvidia. Cheaper, more stable, better bang for the buck
in what universe?
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NVIDIA wins in the universe where people treat the loss of freedom caused by a proprietary device driver as an acceptable cost of doing business.
Will it feature almost daily awkward updates? (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re: Will it feature almost daily awkward updates? (Score:2, Troll)
ATI catalyst has been replaced by Crimson. They auto update and break your system each update unless you turn it off manually.
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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... [neogaf.com]
Nvidia 372.54 drivers are bugged (video, games, textures, etc)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh... [neogaf.com]
Nvidia drivers 375.70 killed HDMI
http://neogaf.site/forum/showt... [neogaf.site]
Is the latest Nvidia Driver still fucked?
http://assets.neogafllc.netdna... [netdna-cdn.com]
the latest:
NVIDIA drivers are disappointing.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/sh... [neogaf.com]
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Re:Will it feature almost daily awkward updates? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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I avoid all of that trouble with this:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-367
Just the driver, no bloatware. Works great for my games.
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Electric heaters are electric heaters.
Your GPU is just an electric heater that happens to do computation as well.
Works under Linux? (Score:3)
Are they making the Nvidia Experience mistake? (Score:1)
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AMD is going the opposite of "bloatware". Crimson drivers are sleek and small.
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Oh, and 480 just took over 1060, 4 months after release:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com... [hardwarecanucks.com]
470 wiped the floor with 1050Ti (+30%-ish perf) upfront.
can they catch nvidia (Score:1)
Yah but (Score:1)
They turned all this crap on by default along with annoying auto-run apps. To say that I am unamused would be an understatement. However, I was able to fix the issue trivially by blowing away ALL of AMD's radeon junk, ripping out the radeon card, and buying a nice cheap little Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060.
Problem solved.
-Matt
Now It Makes Sense (Score:1)