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AMD said last year with its big Crimson driver update and back-end restructuring, that its drivers would in future come more frequently and be better than ever before. It's looking to continue that practice now with the certified release of the 16.4.2 Crimson driver, bringing with it all of the same fixes and tweaks as the hotfix release, but with the official stamp of approval.
16.4.2, whether hotfix or approved driver, brought with it a number of fixes to specific issues in specific games. It solved the problem of flickering in Crossfire set ups when playing the Division, fixed a flickering issue in DotA 2 when switching between full screen and borderless window modes and now GPU clocks won't lock out in turbo mode when certain games crash either.
There were also new crossfire profiles created for those playing Elite Dangerous and Need for Speed, helping you squeeze a few extra frames per second out of your multi-card set up.
That's not to say this driver is perfect of course. It might have stopped a lot of the problems with Crossfire support in certain games, but it still maintains a number of issues. Some games are still crashing when the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled and The Witcher 3 has a persistent flickering issue when Crossfire is involved, but the list of outstanding issue is smaller than the ones that have been fixed.
So we're getting somewhere it seems.
You can grab the official AMD drivers from the official page, though it is (for now at least) still listed as a Hotfix for some reason. As usual, Softpedia recommends uninstalling all previous drivers before installing this one and rebooting after each part of the process.
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KitGuru Says: Do you think AMD is doing a good job with its driver releases since the big Crimson pledge?
CF/SLI seems to have reached its point in DirectX11 where it’s no longer beneficial, as inherent flaws in the API seems to come from issues of basic in-game effects, or even proprietary effects such as Gameworks, to properly utilize dual-card setups. As evident in past triple A titles where multi-gpu setup optimizations have either been delayed, abandoned, or ignored. This seems good, as it forces everyone to go from single-threaded directx11 to multi-threaded directx12 and Vulkan.
no sign of fixing afterburner problems prevents many from even bothering to try every new “version” if they were really smart, they would boil in a similar thing into Catalyst so 3rd party utilities no “needed” if AMD is going to be the leader for VR and such, they need to focus on squashing problems like that, and as far as CF/SLI, keep in mind with the new way they do CF support(over the pci-E) the problems with it are vastly reduced, in some cases eliminated completely.
To fix problems in the grand way, all players AMD-Intel-Nvidia etc need to STOP having proprietary BS as it ruins things, and MSFT needs to LISTEN to their customers so we can all feel comfortable using the latest and greatest.
Anyways, for me, only Radeon, no Geforce, so, drivers have to be well made and such, as far it stands, with my 7870, best drivers still are the 11.9 and 12.8 for performance reasons, I use 15.4 currently, have tried using Crimson first 2 versions blekkk, nothing like driver crash and constant warning that the driver was not functioning properly, and my system is anything but out of the ordinary or not running in a very straight and simple fashion
You do realise AMD Overdrive is part of the Crimson (and Catalyst) drivers? Not quite MSI Afterburner but it does the same job.
I have been using Radeon for decade at minimum, I do know about overdrive(and know how to manually adjust XML file as well) it does the job, but no is not same thing IMO, or I would NOT have said as much, similar yes, same job, in much more limited much more obtuse cruddy way, hence, if they modernize the control center, why not the “overdrive”
and as below does not count
(like that “modern” voltage/clock scale pie chart looking thing, the old CCC setup for this was better then more modern version which I believe they brought in 14.2 or something like that, many thousands have complained about it, we use it, does not mean we prefer it)
Hell they still have problems with that Raptor crud(neat program and all but is/was def not needed to boil in if it caused as many problem as it has, let alone security issues with it)
Anyways, love AMD, or I would not use them and recomend to everyone I can to use them(in the range of ~$100k minimum total now) they do however need look outside the box, and make sure what they are doing, works as good as possible, for the most part it does(though Crimson vs the “old” CCC” IMO and most people say, it absolutely does NOT, it just following with MSFT “metro” bs, it really offers nothing more then mobile support, more shiny looking, not better)
Simple things like temperature monitoring-more advanced fanspeed/profiles etc they either need to do a better version built in, that works PROPERLY OR ensure that their “new” software/drivers are not interfering with programs such as AB offering something they are not able or willing to do.
IMO Crimson is not intuitive design either, with CCC everything was like right there, easy enough to find, in many ways some things simply are anything but intuitive with Crimson(though it looks spiffy) there are of course some things it can do that CCC could not and vice versa(though the list of gains really is not as large as the list of “loses”
I hate when things chopped away we are used to using π
Crimson Drivers were shaky at first (although the start-up times were impressively fast if you had to go into settings) but over time they’ve gotten much better, and the releases (even the WQHL ones) are surprisingly fast.
I’m liking them the way they are right now. I hope they keep it up so that people will start spreading the word and get it into their heads that AMD doesn’t have terrible drivers anymore. Truth be told, since 2012 and Catalyst Omega, I feel like they’ve been on an upward track.
It’s not the same as ATi in the past.
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Overdrive is limited by factory limits.
Afterburner and other software go higher than those limits.