Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.1

[_mulder]

New version out today

Support For

Monster Hunter World™: Iceborne

Fixed Issues

The audible beeps at game startup from Radeon Chill, Radeon Boost, and Radeon Anti-Lag have been removed. These features now offer audible indicators only when activated or deactivated via hotkey.
The Radeon ReLive on screen timer indicator during recordings has been disabled by default but can be enabled in Radeon Software settings.
Controls for vertical sync may be hidden or disappear when Radeon Enhanced Sync is enabled.
Radeon ReLive may experience freezing or pausing issues during recordings when a high resolution camera is connected and in use.
CPU usage may sometimes remain high once Radeon Game Advisor has been invoked during a game.
Some users may experience an error message “Another instance is running” during download of a software update through the Radeon Software home screen.
The DuplicateDesktop process may sometimes cause high CPU usage while a game is running.
Radeon Software may close or may experience a crash upon resuming from sleep.
The toast message detailing the hotkey to open Radeon Software’s Overlay may still show up in some games after Radeon Software Overlay has been disabled.
Lost Ark™ may experience stuttering intermittently during gameplay.
Using a custom stream key with Radeon ReLive may fail to stream your content.
The ‘Stream’ button may remain active when in the process of choosing a region to stream even when a region has not been selected or chosen.
Some Radeon R9 200, Radeon R9 300 and Radeon R9 Fury series graphics products may experience instability with a limited number of DirectX®9 or DirectX®11 games when using a high refresh rate 120hz+ display. A workaround if you are experiencing this issue is to lower your displays refresh rate.
Some mjpeg clips may experience a green tint on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products when using Windows® Media Player or the Movies & TV application.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries™ may experience a game crash and DXGI dialogue error when running the game using HDMI and Radeon FreeSync display configurations.
Live streaming using the DouYu™ application with hardware acceleration enabled may cause video corruption on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
Trials Rising™ may experience excessive fog/smoke in some areas of the game.
Missing text or corruption may be experienced in the right eye when playing the VR game Boneworks™.
Fixed result overflows that can be experienced with Radeon RX 5700 series when using SETI@Home.
The ‘Shop AMD Products’ button may open the AMD.com homepage instead of the proper shopping web link.
The scrolling arrow options may intermittently fail to work during Radeon Software installation.
Up and Down arrow keys don’t work when using the search bar in Radeon Software.
Enabling HDR enabled displays in Windows® may cause colors to become washed out.
Radeon Software sidebar appears behind the Windows® taskbar when the taskbar is set to the same side of your display.
Playing Tom Clancy's: The Division 2™ with HDR enabled and performing a task switch may cause display color corruption that persists even once the game is exited.
Mixed Reality Portal™ may experience color corruption or distortion near the edge of viewing areas on some headsets.
Resident Evil™ 2 may experience screen flashing when launching the game using DirectX®12 API.

Known Issues

The Radeon Software Overlay hotkey notification may sometimes be displayed during video playback in web browsers or launching some video player applications.
Integer Scaling option is not showing up or available on some Windows®7 system configurations.
Factory Reset install may keep previously configured Radeon Software game profiles. This can cause mismatch between global graphics settings and per profile settings.
Text overflow in some UI boxes or toast messages may be experienced in some language localizations.
Radeon Software may open with an inconsistent size or may not keep its previously set size when opened.
Some Vulkan® gaming applications may crash when performing a task switch with Radeon Image Sharpening enabled.
Integer Scaling may cause some video content to show flicker when the display resolution is set to less than native resolution.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-1-1

 

[Seyiji]

Ayy aboot tiem >:E

Hopefully these drivers fix the stuck cpu clocks I was experiencing with 19.12.2 and the .3 releases.

 

[pax]

Dang thats a lot of fixes...

 

[Seyiji]

Ayy aboot tiem >:E

Hopefully these drivers fix the stuck cpu clocks I was experiencing with 19.12.2 and the .3 releases.

Cursory glance after a bit of time and setup and it looks like this one is a success as far as fixing my cpu clocks going ham.

Now to test some games and stuff.

 

[Seyiji]

Cursory glance after a bit of time and setup and it looks like this one is a success as far as fixing my cpu clocks going ham.

Now to test some games and stuff.

Nerp back to using up cpu cycles for some reason even tho I changed nothing. All I've done is reboot my computer a few times since this report.

Does AMD telemetry hog cpu cycles or something? I noticed even after opting out of telemetry after the driver install it's still sending data somewhere >:E

AMD plz you jacked my pickle last month with 19.12.3 for over 465 GB! Now you've dinged me for another 20 GB. If I had a data cap I'd be pissed off right now.

 

[pax]

Im seeing a bunch of things on 0.1% cpu usage under TM. probably telemtry. 3% total on Cats 12.12.2. Is it that much for you? Doesnt seem to be a big deal.

 

[DarkFoss]

Just ran the upgrade from 12.1 told me it was unable to continue due to windows update.(there was none)After rebooting the upgrade process went smoothly. Windows Settings no longer crashes the desktop due to dx11 errors Yay!
Rebooted out of habit time to try some video and games. I'm not seeing any network activity through the task manager so far either.
* These are also the first drivers in a while to not reset my sound output device from the default Realtek(motherboard) to Amd High Def(monitor). Nice touch.

 

[NWR_Midnight]

Nerp back to using up cpu cycles for some reason even tho I changed nothing. All I've done is reboot my computer a few times since this report.

Does AMD telemetry hog cpu cycles or something? I noticed even after opting out of telemetry after the driver install it's still sending data somewhere >:E

AMD plz you jacked my pickle last month with 19.12.3 for over 465 GB! Now you've dinged me for another 20 GB. If I had a data cap I'd be pissed off right now.

How can AMD fix game developer bugs via drive fixes if they can't increase the package size?

 

[DarkFoss]

Nerp back to using up cpu cycles for some reason even tho I changed nothing. All I've done is reboot my computer a few times since this report.

Does AMD telemetry hog cpu cycles or something? I noticed even after opting out of telemetry after the driver install it's still sending data somewhere >:E

AMD plz you jacked my pickle last month with 19.12.3 for over 465 GB! Now you've dinged me for another 20 GB. If I had a data cap I'd be pissed off right now.

Are you desktop streaming constantly? That usage is insane. My RadeonSoftware.exe shows 23 MB Hell RadeonInstaller.exe is my highest usage at 211 MB ,radeonsettings.exe at 72 MB,Radeoninstaller 8 MB. I didn't opt out of anything either.

 

[Seyiji]

Are you desktop streaming constantly? That usage is insane. My RadeonSoftware.exe shows 23 MB Hell RadeonInstaller.exe is my highest usage at 211 MB ,radeonsettings.exe at 72 MB,Radeoninstaller 8 MB. I didn't opt out of anything either.

Nope no live streaming or desktop streaming to another device.

How can AMD fix game developer bugs via drive fixes if they can't increase the package size?

Giga
bytes

not

Mega
bytes

This isn't me bitching about the size of the driver package this is me bitching at the RadeonSoftware.exe telemetry dumping 30GB before I blocked it in my firewall both inbound and out bound since I installed these drivers. I didn't opt into the telemetry yet its still transferring data.

Before the driver install I checked and with 19.11.3 had only transferred 2GB since i nuked 19.12.3 from my system in the past 30 days. Now with these drivers I dumped 29 gb to amd.

Even now with it blocked in the firewall its transferring data!

Also its constantly using up to 3% cpu

 

[NWR_Midnight]

Nope no live streaming or desktop streaming to another device.

Giga
bytes

not

Mega
bytes

This isn't me bitching about the size of the driver package this is me bitching at the RadeonSoftware.exe telemetry dumping 30GB before I blocked it in my firewall both inbound and out bound since I installed these drivers. I didn't opt into the telemetry yet its still transferring data.

Before the driver install I checked and with 19.11.3 had only transferred 2GB since i nuked 19.12.3 from my system in the past 30 days. Now with these drivers I dumped 29 gb to amd.

Even now with it blocked in the firewall its transferring data!

Also its constantly using up to 3% cpu

Sorry, I misread/misunderstood what you meant. I would do a virus/malware scan, if you don't find anything you may want to wipe and start over. The reason I say this is a few years ago, i had an issue with some software (i believe it was Microsoft mail) that would chew thru gigabytes of data. Tried everything, including removing it, no change, still showed the program chewing thru data. I had to pave and re-install. I learned later that it was windows screwing up and causing it. Showing wrong application and trying to continue to transfer Data to the same IP's even when it wasn't installed.

 

[DarkFoss]

Nope no live streaming or desktop streaming to another device.

Giga
bytes

not

Mega
bytes

This isn't me bitching about the size of the driver package this is me bitching at the RadeonSoftware.exe telemetry dumping 30GB before I blocked it in my firewall both inbound and out bound since I installed these drivers. I didn't opt into the telemetry yet its still transferring data.

Before the driver install I checked and with 19.11.3 had only transferred 2GB since i nuked 19.12.3 from my system in the past 30 days. Now with these drivers I dumped 29 gb to amd.

Even now with it blocked in the firewall its transferring data!

Also its constantly using up to 3% cpu

Are you using AMD link?
When you purged your old drivers did you purge the contents in your C:>Users>Yourname>AppData>Local>AMD folder before installing the new driver? The DxCache folder cannot be deleted unless you've rebooted after uninstalling the driver.
Also what does your C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC\send folder look like? Mine is very small around 256kb with 6 files with dates 12/29/2019 1/04/2020 and /1/10/2020(2 each).Think they correspond with the date the driver(s) were installed nothing extra.
Just trying to think of things that could have gone sideways.
I wish AMD generated a sha number so anyone could rule out download corruption.

 

[Seyiji]

Are you using AMD link?
When you purged your old drivers did you purge the contents in your C:>Users>Yourname>AppData>Local>AMD folder before installing the new driver? The DxCache folder cannot be deleted unless you've rebooted after uninstalling the driver.
Also what does your C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC\send folder look like? Mine is very small around 256kb with 6 files with dates 12/29/2019 1/04/2020 and /1/10/2020(2 each).Think they correspond with the date the driver(s) were installed nothing extra.
Just trying to think of things that could have gone sideways.
I wish AMD generated a sha number so anyone could rule out download corruption.

Nope no amd link. Also C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC\send nor C:\ProgramData\AMD\PPC exist.

I went back to 19.11.3 and all is well again using a clean install.

Will wait until the next release and hope that that one doesnt have any tomfoolery.

EDIT:
Oi missed the part about the appdata clear. I'll do that and install the driver and see if that makes a difference and will report back ^_^

EDIT2:
Cleared out appdata and factory reset and installed shows no data usage or cpu usage. Lets see how long it lasts this time.

 

[Seyiji]

Here I am again after a couple reboots and the honk ass thing is uploading **** to AMD yet again and using up cpu >:E

I get none of this poop on 19.11.3

I even redownloaded the driver and its the same hash as the previous one.

Y do you hate me AMD !____! I hope to corn waffles this telemetry you're getting is gonna solve this issue else ima start blasting you driver devs in the pickle with a nerf ball shooter until you poop yourselves

DDU'd the whole shebang 2 times then reinstalled the drivers. Back to not being a dork ass poop nose eating through my upload. I'm afraid to restart my rig now.

 

[Trunks0]

Weird... have you tried blocking it's network activity so it can't send anything out?

 

[Seyiji]

Weird... have you tried blocking it's network activity so it can't send anything out?

Yep I blocked it in the firewall and it was still sending data.

And like clock work after a couple reboots its back and sending data to AMD.

As soon as I kill RadeonSoftware.exe with the task manager my cpu stops misbehaving and idles and the uploading stops.

 

[eNforcer]

AMD added this to the changelog Known Issues, post driver release.

Some Radeon RX 5700 series graphics users may intermittently experience a black screen while gaming or on desktop. A potential temporary workaround is disabling hardware acceleration in applications running in the background such as web browsers or Discord.

Thank the gods they are finally acknowledging it, getting really sick of black screen lockups.

 

[Seyiji]

I've taken to ending the radeon cp teask instead of reinstalling the driver after every reboot.

And to my surprise and in a m night shyaamalan twist I get ALL the cpu usage and none of the data.

 

[lmchv]

I keep getting the "Link failure" error for my display, this is happening since I installed my Radeon VII.

I'm using the original monitor mDP cable; I presume it's only DP 1.2, I have ordered a new DP 1.4 cable, hope this eliminates the issue.