Sudden MAJOR drop in performance after downloading AMD drivers

[Booker T-Witt]

This is basically a call of desperation, as this problem completely baffles me, and I'm thinking I might have to reinstall windows. For the most part, my pc is pretty solid, could handle pretty much any game short of raytracing. but it did have one weird issue where it would have a kernel power failure with specific games, long story short, never figured it out, according to my pc there's nothing wrong. For the most part I've figured out a way to get around it so games don't cause my PC to hard boot. Until I got to Skyrim VR. now I got the best mods for it and it worked well for a time. And then it started happening consistently, and nothing I did helped. So after that I went to the AMD website to see if installing drivers would do anything. installed them, restarted, put on my headset. major stuttering, even with audio. I think wtf that's weird. I boot up valheim, which beforehand had zero problem. all of a sudden it takes FOREVER to load up and same thing. Its stuttering. Even the audio is stuttering. and it's every game. And steam all foa sudden takes a long time to boot up. Wtf did I do wrong? I downloaded official amd drivers?

[emoticorpse]

引用自 Booker T-Witt：

引用自 emoticorpse：

what exact amd install file did you download and run?

I'll give you the rundown:

First ran the auto detect from the official AMD site. Did the recommended "repair" option. Clean install as far as I know, restarted like it should have. This is when my problem started right here.

Second I went back in, and instead hit the optional, which was their most updated version (The recommended version give you the most widely tested version not the latest). No change

Third I manually installed the drivers for both my 5700 XT and my Ryzen 7 2700. No change

Fourth went thru the auto detector again, hit the latest option, did factory reset. Went through, uninstalled, started. Drivers gone, AMD installed new drivers, restarted. NO CHANGE

And here I am.

I'd run ddu and completely uninstall the drivers, then manually get the install file and install it after a series of reboots of course.

[Booker T-Witt]

引用自 emoticorpse：

引用自 Booker T-Witt：

I'll give you the rundown:

First ran the auto detect from the official AMD site. Did the recommended "repair" option. Clean install as far as I know, restarted like it should have. This is when my problem started right here.

Second I went back in, and instead hit the optional, which was their most updated version (The recommended version give you the most widely tested version not the latest). No change

Third I manually installed the drivers for both my 5700 XT and my Ryzen 7 2700. No change

Fourth went thru the auto detector again, hit the latest option, did factory reset. Went through, uninstalled, started. Drivers gone, AMD installed new drivers, restarted. NO CHANGE

And here I am.

I'd run ddu and completely uninstall the drivers, then manually get the install file and install it after a series of reboots of course.

Gotcha will try and get back thanks for the suggestion

[Booker T-Witt]

Alright, well, that helped a LOT but I'm still getting stuttering issues. They're just not nearly as bad

[FireGryph]

引用自 Booker T-Witt：

引用自 emoticorpse：

what is your ram clocked at?

1066

Definitely a flag for me. Look into that ram speed. Based on the validation link, your ram should be closer to 1800.
Would go into bios and enable the XMP profile for your ram, that might help you get the proper speed and timings.

[_I_]

freq = ddr speed / 2
1066mhz = ddr 2333
hes using a ddr 3600 kit (1800mhz cl18)

enable xmp/amp/docp in bios and pick the 3600(1800mhz) profile

[Booker T-Witt]

Okay thanks guys I'll try that with my ram. I ended up reinstalling windows, and that worked for me, but I will still enable xmp for the ram

[UserNotFound]

I've been using AMDCleanuputility instead of DDU to uninstall the Adrenalin driver, works similarly to DDU but I'd figured that since it was created by AMD, it should be more compatible with AMD GPU's.

Edit - at OP, I'm glad that you have resolved the issue with a Windows reinstall, but installing/updating drivers should NOT have to involve a Windows reinstall. I've been updating drivers on my main rig (18 months already) and my 2nd rig (even swapped between nVidia and AMD driver, depending on the GPU used obviously, and it's been many years since I'd built this rig).

[_I_]

yes you should still emable the xmp profile in bios, so you can get the ram performance you paid for

[Booker T-Witt]

I appreciate everyone who gave me tips and tried to guide me through diagnosing what happened, because it was baffling. So thanks all

[Booker T-Witt]

引用自 mikey：

I've been using AMDCleanuputility instead of DDU to uninstall the Adrenalin driver, works similarly to DDU but I'd figured that since it was created by AMD, it should be more compatible with AMD GPU's.

Edit - at OP, I'm glad that you have resolved the issue with a Windows reinstall, but installing/updating drivers should NOT have to involve a Windows reinstall. I've been updating drivers on my main rig (18 months already) and my 2nd rig (even swapped between nVidia and AMD driver, depending on the GPU used obviously, and it's been many years since I'd built this rig).

I know this is old but to get back to you, I've had a root problem with my PC crashing with a Kernel Power failure with specific games. It was super frustrating and I've tried literally every trick and diagnostic to try and fix it, so I was initially trying to fix that problem. So though I could possibly have reverted the performance issues by just updating or fixing my drivers, that first problem was my real one. And that's why I decided to just reinstall it.

[UserNotFound]

引用自 Booker T-Witt：

I know this is old but to get back to you, I've had a root problem with my PC crashing with a Kernel Power failure with specific games. It was super frustrating and I've tried literally every trick and diagnostic to try and fix it, so I was initially trying to fix that problem. So though I could possibly have reverted the performance issues by just updating or fixing my drivers, that first problem was my real one. And that's why I decided to just reinstall it.

I gotcha, just as long as you don't have to keep reinstalling Windows whenever you install a new AMD driver. Now that your issue's been resolved, it's time to start gaming! :D

[A&A]

Make userbenchmark test

I don t know why, before 2 weeks ago l installed New adrenalin driver and l noticed drop in performance too and l made userbenchmark test and l noticed that my CPU is not using full potential and l checked with Quick CPU v 3.2.0.0 (if l m not wrong) everything was ok, but when l updated with v. 3.5.0.0 l noticed that CPU performance was 50% and l chaged it to 100% and l started using their maximum performance power plan and now everything is running like before.

[Booker T-Witt]

引用自 ⚒A&A✠(✠Ghost✠Warrior✠)：

Make userbenchmark test

I don t know why, before 2 weeks ago l installed New adrenalin driver and l noticed drop in performance too and l made userbenchmark test and l noticed that my CPU is not using full potential and l checked with Quick CPU v 3.2.0.0 (if l m not wrong) everything was ok, but when l updated with v. 3.5.0.0 l noticed that CPU performance was 50% and l chaged it to 100% and l started using their maximum performance power plan and now everything is running like before.

I've already solved my issue, but I was using the Adrenalin drivers so I dunno. But I made a major breakthrough with my first issue with my PC hard booting. I was still having issues with certain VR games crashing the PC. Then I turned off supersampling. No more crashing. And I heard that supersampling is very strenuous on your GPU. So maybe in the end there's something wrong with my graphics card. the 5700 XT. I'm going to buy a 3080 when it's available anyway so hopefully that would solve the issue cuz lemme tell you, it is so frustrating.