xxela:

There are two processes - AMD ReLive: Host Application and AMD ReLive Desktop Overlay, which start with Radeon Settings that trigger this behavior. If you stop them from Task Manager gpu clocks will drop down after you don't watch the video. It only happens on Firefox. I don't know watts up with these processes since I didn't install Relive anyway.

They get booted up by a new startup task and even if you remove this when you start CNext it'll still call dvrcmd.exe so if you don't intend to use ReLive or any features like the overlay you can go to "C:\Program Files\AMD\CNext\CNext" and rename the file. 🙂 (And then the two processes won't come back and can be shut down if wanted.) As for Firefox I keep hardware acceleration off since it's still not 100% reliable, media intensive sites can be a bit slow but other than that I don't really have any problems with the browser though v57 and v58 beta (RC6 as of today.) both consume a fair amount of RAM now. EDIT: Credits to whoever named that exe and what it did in I think it was the 17.12.1 driver thread?

warlord:

Driver seems fine more than ok. There is also an updated chipset driver 16/1 for those interested.

Good, updated chipset driver is: 17.40.Jan16 (was Dec 27)

JonasBeckman:

And as usual this too for the driver profile file. 🙂 Atiapfxx.exe -r -sys -s test.xml

Out of curiosity, what is this file and where did you find it? There's nothing like that in the driver package.

Yeah I think AMD removed it from the files a few driver releases back, initially it was from the stand-alone profile packages when AMD had those but then it made it's way into the driver itself and is stored in .\Windows\system32\ The file I have is from October 6th so it must have been removed in the early 17.11.x drivers somewhere. Since it's no longer listed in the .INF for the current drivers removing the driver files will not remove the file thus it remained even if I did a more thorough uninstall when 17.12.1 was released and we went from Catalyst Crimson to Catalyst Adrenaline. You can get it here if you need it: atiapfxx.rar http://www81.zippyshare.com/v/gjJkxeyy/file.html The arguments above makes a copy of atiapfxx.blb and converts said copy to atiapfxx.xml which I then move from syswow64 to another folder where I keep the file from the previous driver and then a simple comparison via Notepad++ and the Compare 2.0 plugin is how I track changes. 🙂 EDIT: I often compare the actual driver files too though a .INF comparison will also reveal any changes when compared against a older driver since AMD occasionally trims files. coinst_17.50.dll is probably a common one, for driver branch 17.40 it would have been coinst_17.40.dll though a uninstall software like DDU probably keeps track of legacy files like this, me? I prefer to do it manually and thus keep track of files and registry changes mostly from the .INF though it doesn't contain everything. (CNext is a separately installed software package with it's own settings and files for example not part of these driver files directly.) EDIT: As for the .INF file and the files it uses that would be under the [SourceDisksFiles] section in there. 🙂 coinst_17.50.dll=1 for example, you can see atiapfxx.blb but the .exe is nowhere to be found now.

Coming back from sleep mode somehow crashes things and results in a black screen so back to previous driver it is.

^^ P.S. Profiles still don't survive reboot Hmm, mine do 😀 -> Simple solution? Open Task Sheduler -> set Start CN with Highest Privileges (double click on Task) Then always open CN with Admin rights -> I have so much profiles with Tweaked Chill etc. All working as intended 😛

^^ OK C:\Users\*name*\AppData\Local\AMD\CN\gmdb.blb All is there (YES when i edited Game it is visible in Adrenalin Profile also) When you have >40 Games in it -> it is usefull & faster maby it will help you? And Yes no matter the Win version Old school is always in Win Position 😀 (Pun intended)

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OnnA:

Good, updated chipset driver is: 17.40.Jan16 (was Dec 27)

Didn't go looking to deep into it, but the only change I can see in the Jan. 16 release over the previous Dec. release is they put the AHCI folder (hseries) back, which missing/removed from the Dec. release.

18.1.1 on top of 1.1A on top of 17.12.1...working smooth af (way better than 17.12.1). Haven't upgraded like this for almost 1.5 year (always DDU, restart etc). Very happy!

Dekaohtoura:

18.1.1 on top of 1.1A on top of 17.12.1...working smooth af (way better than 17.12.1). Haven't upgraded like this for almost 1.5 year (always DDU, restart etc). Very happy!

I've upgraded 12.1 to 18.1 😀 And i never use DDU, always have my Profiles ready 😉 So my Line of drivers? << and 17.9.3 WHQL then 17.10/11 reverted to 17.9.3 >> Adrenalin then 12.2 reverted to 12.1 >> 18.1.1 WHQL Now 😱 😛 😕

LocoDiceGR:

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I miss "make the damn program window remember it's dimensions" 🙁

LocoDiceGR:

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Thx, voted

Octopuss:

I miss "make the damn program window remember it's dimensions" 🙁

What exactly are you talking about?

Problem described in this thread has yet to be acknowledged or fixed by AMD: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/driver-issues-since-17-4-2-on-two-different-systems-and-video-cards.415251/

LocoDiceGR:

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I wouldn't mind seeing the limits increased but for now VSR for ultra wide-screen has been a long time coming so I guess that gets my vote out of these choices.

Krteq:

Thx, voted What exactly are you talking about?

Have you ever tried resizing the AMD settings program's window?

LocoDiceGR:

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OMG, 21:9+ VSR..... Voted.

The performance metric that comes with AMD's Adrenalin has a performance hit to it, ranging from 2%~5% depending on the game and your configuration. If you have that running, with ReLive, the performance hit increases. Some may say this is negligible, but I say that there's room for improvement. MSI AB doesn't have any performance penalty at all. Great drivers. It's good to see that AMD is finally opting to listen to the community. I hope they'll keep this initiative up.

Didn't Unwinder say that there's a hit to performance the more monitoring options you enable in Afterburner / Rivatuner? The more things the software has to poll adding a light hit to CPU usage although 3 - 5 percent seems a tad high for AMD here. EDIT: 1 - 1.5 FPS apparently after a quick lookup. (Or 20 - 30 FPS, ah modern games and modern framerates on old hardware. 😛 ) Though of course settings can be turned down as required should FPS drop too low. 😀

ObscureangelPT:

How the hell this is WHQL?

WHQL is a driver signed by both hardware vendor (AMD) and Microsoft. The Microsoft sign is obtained after paying and passing a series of semi-automatic tests by Microsoft. WHQL drivers can be distributed via Windows Update, while non-WHQL cannot. Outside particular sysadmin scenarios WHQL does not improve anything in term of stability and performance. Unfortunately AMD marketing sucks and they misuse the term "beta" for non WHQL drivers, which does only confuse users.