AMD adrenaline

[Odoylebeard]

So if you have AMD adrenaline, for some reason it recently stopped updating drivers automatically back in February. the newest update was on April 22 and it caters to Oblivion RE. Go to the AMD driver website and install it manually, your welcome.

*EDITED results may vary lol

[Supernautilus]

AMD does updates really slow and spread out. Not like NVIDIA at all. And the new update is optional, which won't be included in an auto-update.

[Odoylebeard]

Yeah I kind of picked up on that. The newest optional update does have support for Oblivion however. Also, since the update in February, Ive noticed some weird behavior. Thanks for the clarification!

[Kernspalter]

I guess the reason why the drivers are not installed via autoupdate is the missing WHQL certification.

[Liquid Inc]

Never use auto updating with AMD. You never know what the driver will do, or it's condition, so you should always manually update.
Unless your having issues or extremely low performance compared to others with the same card as you, you should leave the driver as is.

I tried 25.3.1, and it was terrible. I use a 7900XTX, and the moment the card hit 100% usage in Cyberpunk = driver timeout.
Any game that reached 100% usage would instantly timeout the driver, and force Adrenaline to recover.
It's a driver i would not recommend using if you also have a 7900.

I went back to 24.7.1, and have had no issues since, even in Oblivion.

[Odoylebeard]

Well im eating crow right now.. having to retort back to a different driver, bc the optional driver has Oblivion running terribly. God I hate UE5

[Supernautilus]

Originally posted by Odoylebeard:

Well im eating crow right now.. having to retort back to a different driver, bc the optional driver has Oblivion running terribly. God I hate UE5

I’ve been using AMD exclusively for about 20 years. The “optional” releases are hit or miss. I usually skip them unless I’m desperate lol.

[Odoylebeard]

Well, update.. Retorted back to previous driver. Oblivion is crashing now LOL

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by Odoylebeard:

Well im eating crow right now.. having to retort back to a different driver, bc the optional driver has Oblivion running terribly. God I hate UE5

Need to clear your shader cache because this game won't be doing it for you.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Need to clear your shader cache because this game won't be doing it for you.

That's why you do it manually, clearing everything with DDU before installing a new driver.

[Odoylebeard]

Thank you I will try that.

[Shout Out To Ground Pound]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by AmaiAmai:

Need to clear your shader cache because this game won't be doing it for you.

That's why you do it manually, clearing everything with DDU before installing a new driver.

No need to use DDU for Clearing Cache, you can do that in the AMD driver, okey for Nvidia it is a little bit BS but doable.

Why on Earth you will use DDU a 3rd party Programm to mess with your Drivers ? To get all Drivers off your System is one thing but stop using 3rd party programms to change programms for your hardware this will lead just for Unstable systems and cause Crashes / and many other problems in the future if you keep doing that.

This is the best To how not to do things with your system if you want it Stable and Clean.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Shout Out To Ground Pound:

No need to use DDU for Clearing Cache,

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

clearing everything with DDU before installing a new driver.

Please note the "installing a new driver" bit, which you seem to have not bothered to read at all.

Originally posted by Shout Out To Ground Pound:

Why on Earth you will use DDU a 3rd party Programm to mess with your Drivers ? To get all Drivers off your System is one thing but stop using 3rd party programms to change programms for your hardware this will lead just for Unstable systems and cause Crashes / and many other problems in the future if you keep doing that.

This is the best To how not to do things with your system if you want it Stable and Clean.

You use it so it gets rid of all traces of the previous driver, such as registry entries, of which doing it manually is a much more time consuming (but still doable) process. It will not "lead just for unstable systems"; What you suggest by *not* clearing those old registry entries can very much do that though.

Originally posted by Shout Out To Ground Pound:

This is the best To how not to do things with your system if you want it Stable and Clean.

Your definition of "stable" and "clean" must be entirely different to everyone else. Clearing registry entries and folders that come with a different driver is a good thing, and left over files can cause (potentially major) issues. That is not stable nor clean.

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Originally posted by Shout Out To Ground Pound:

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

That's why you do it manually, clearing everything with DDU before installing a new driver.

No need to use DDU for Clearing Cache, you can do that in the AMD driver, okey for Nvidia it is a little bit BS but doable.

Why on Earth you will use DDU a 3rd party Programm to mess with your Drivers ? To get all Drivers off your System is one thing but stop using 3rd party programms to change programms for your hardware this will lead just for Unstable systems and cause Crashes / and many other problems in the future if you keep doing that.

This is the best To how not to do things with your system if you want it Stable and Clean.

As someone that used AMD with Windows for a very long time, I can tell you that DDU is a mandatory tool for rooting out driver issues before reinstalling fresh ones. It's especially mandatory if you plan on switching from Nvidia to AMD, or vice-versa on the same Windows install.

I've never heard someone try to dissuade someone from using DDU. What an odd morning this has turned out to be.