AMD HARDWARE ENCODING FIX!!!

[MasterMind]

THIS IS A TEMPORARY FIX UNTIL THEY FIX THE AMD ENCODING.

The following will allow you to disable AMD hardware encoder and use Intel Quicksync encoder instead.

Exit Steam.
Delete the contents of the amf folder in C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam.
Right click properties and goto the security tab.
Click Edit and click Add, type in this user "Authenticated Users" without quotes
Goto Security tab again, click edit, and select Authenticated Users.
Change permission to deny full control.
Then click apply.

To access these settings again in order to revert this change.
Right click amf folder again, click properties and goto the security tab.
Click advanced and change the owner to your user name.
Now you can access the security permissions to revert the change.

All credit goes to Makoto for finding this fix.

[Diogo_Invicto]

Care to elaborate?
I don't understand these steps.
Help?

"Click Edit and Add "Authenticated Users"
Change Authenticated Users permission to deny full control.

To access these settings again in order to revert this change.
Right click amf folder again, click properties and goto the security tab.
Click advanced and change the owner to your user name.
Now you can access the security permissions to revert the change."

[MasterMind]

Post edited to hopefully explain better...

[Bloodred]

Gave this a try and I'm glad to say it works! Thanks!

To anyone doing this, you may have to make sure your iGPU is enabled in BIOS/UEFI. It may be disabled by default with a dedicated graphics card, though I haven't tried I assume Steam would use software encoding then and kill your performance in CPU-heavy games. I set my iGPU to "multi monitor" mode and QuickSync works without plugging an actual monitor connected to the iGPU output.

[MasterMind]

I seen that posted somewhere, strangely enough my AMD dedicated GPU is working fine with it. I don't even have an integrated GPU at all...it may not be necessary, but obviously if problems do arise they can try that too...good to have as many options as possible

[Diogo_Invicto]

Right click properties and goto the security tab.

What program do I do this?
Steam.exe?

[MasterMind]

No in file manager after you delete the files from the amf folder, right click on the amf folder and follow the steps 1 by 1

[Diogo_Invicto]

So if I do these steps whithout reverting the changes to rollback "Deny full control" I should have my problem fix?

[MasterMind]

yes it should fix your problem, if not post back here and we can figure it out

[Diogo_Invicto]

Yes! Thanks a lot! This fixed my issue.
Now the only problem about this is that my steam is unable to update.
But i don't care since steam link works now.

But I'm only getting speeds of 21 mbs...is it normal?

[MasterMind]

np, it was bugging me too so i took the time to find a fix, i didnt figure it out someone else did, but they didnt explain how to fix not having access to the folder and how to revert it, so i posted this to help clarify things and not completely break updating steam...wait about a week or two, maybe even a month tops...and check around the forums to see if they've fixed it properly...if they have you can revert the change and update steam like normal again....good luck...btw i did all this on my host pc and my laptop as client, so obviously it works all around for the steam link and pc...the AMD encoder is obviously the problem....

21mbs isn't horrible but 30 is ideal, anthing less and you sacrifice quality, anything more and latency can cause issues, i've stablized mine at about 40, problem is you can't manually edit the link speed on the steam link, i don't think...check the settings and see what your at, you should be able to set it to 30 on the link, maybe even unlimited but i read somewhere they disabled unlimited for the link...and like i said latency may be an issue on unlimited....either way check it out and experiment...

[Baboo]

Denying permissions to the amf folder might prevent steam from updating. So you should revert the changes to the amf folder as stated in the first post, update steam, then deny permissions again.

[Diogo_Invicto]

引用自 MasterMind：

21mbs isn't horrible but 30 is ideal, anthing less and you sacrifice quality, anything more and latency can cause issues, i've stablized mine at about 40, problem is you can't manually edit the link speed on the steam link, i don't think...check the settings and see what your at, you should be able to set it to 30 on the link, maybe even unlimited but i read somewhere they disabled unlimited for the link...and like i said latency may be an issue on unlimited....either way check it out and experiment...

I think this issue might be because of my powerline or maybe the electric grid of my house.
Going to test it out directly to my main router.

[MasterMind]

yah if you can hardline it with ethernet that would quickly tell you if its your powerline or not...

[Xstilllovesyou]

I tried this and it may have fixed my encoding issue but it introduced a new issue. As soon as I started streaming with these changes made I started to get a "slow network" error and the performance graphs took on a sawtooth pattern. I thought it might have been a coincidental occurance so I reset everything and it went back to normal and then I tried this trick again and the slow network issues came back. Anybody else experienced this?

[MasterMind]

hmm thats what happens when the encoding isn't actually fixed can steam still update???