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Post by pepinobrasil on Apr 14, 2020 21:38:33 GMT
I’m already playing it on the base 16” MacBook Pro with 5300m graphics. I’ve been getting stable 72fps 90% of the time (at low settings), but I do get performance dips to 60 fps or even less sometimes. I was hoping the March drivers could fix that. Are they compatible with the 5300m yet? Do you play SteamVR with the 5300 ? yep
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Post by veenk on Apr 15, 2020 3:47:01 GMT
First time caller, long time listener. I'd like to thank Matt for all the work he's done over the years. Please take care of yourself, sir.
I tested the latest drivers on an iMac Pro with a Vega64. The installation sometimes failed and sometimes succeeded. When it succeeded, the screen messed up, the computer restarted, the screen messed up again, the computer restarted again, and then finally I was able to log in. AMD's control panel did not automatically load as it normally does after the login. I also tried the old method of updating the drivers, which succeeded in installing the driver. I did have the same experience of a few other Vega users who received error messages after trying to install the driver the first time.
However, the March driver, along with the previous January driver, cause games to suddenly drop from 60 fps to 23-30 fps momentarily. This stutter can happen at any time and it is not linked to graphically demanding moments in games. It's like the GPU suddenly cuts out, or, for a lack of a better description, gets confused. This happens in games like Gears 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and My Time At Portia. Using DDU 3x and reinstalling old drivers doesn't fix this problem, oddly enough. Even after doing DDU and a reinstall, the fps drop problems persisted. I pulled up the overlay, and it seems like power to the GPU momentarily drops when these fps problems occur. (I hope that makes sense.) The temperature of the card was not excessive, either, when these fps drops occurred.
I ended up wiping the partition and reinstalling Windows 10, and I'm now using the January driver from AMD's site (26.20.13001). AMD's official driver does not exhibiting the same fps drop problem, but it certainly does not yield the same performance as Matt's Red drivers: certain games will barely run, while others will run smoothly at reduced settings or a lower resolution.
Hopefully this information is helpful. Thank you again for all the work you've done for the Mac community, Matt.
Thank you for posting! I have an iMac Pro as well and it's great to hear what other people are experiencing. I was unable to get any of the BCD drivers to work, and I'm currently running 19.30 from AMD's website. Sounds like you got farther than I did with the BCD drivers! I think I tried every blue and red version from January and March, with no luck. Sometimes, the install looked like it was going to work: the computer would reboot and then the drivers would install and everything looked like it was about to finish up when the screen would scramble and then the computer would reboot with no new drivers. I truly appreciate Mat's efforts, and hopefully I'll be able to run the BCD drivers in the near future, but Doom Eternal is running great on the official 19.30 drivers, so I'm happy! Not sure why Steam warns me that I need 20.3 to run DE, unless I'm missing out on something that I'm not aware of...
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Post by fabz on Apr 15, 2020 7:00:54 GMT
I am having the same issue flagged by other users on a MacPro 2013 with dual FirePro D700 on it.
Blue/green screen with lines at logon and no mouse , nothing. Totally frozen.
Like other users I had success only with Nov 2019 or older drivers but nothing recent.
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Post by johnalan on Apr 15, 2020 12:24:09 GMT
Do you play SteamVR with the 5300 ? yep This is with the headset right? How much did that cost?
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Post by kutuzvden on Apr 15, 2020 13:51:09 GMT
Im playing in VR games on 5500m too with Samsung Odyssey (HL Alyx is great).
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Post by paulhook on Apr 15, 2020 14:35:32 GMT
Work well on the iMac 2019 with Radeon 580X. I played Doom Eternal and Monster Hunter World Iceborne. I use the red edition. Thanks for your hard work. Hey tvius, I have the same Mac but can't get any bootcampdrivers.com drivers to work. Glad you got it working though!
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Post by shamatar on Apr 15, 2020 21:51:03 GMT
Following the thread I couldn't quite figure out the following: - Does any new bootcampdrivers.com version work with 5500M (MBP 16)? - Does a vanilla AMD driver work with MacBooks? I can select 5500M card on AMD web site and download version 20.4.1, but don't want to remove/install them for nothing.
Thank you in advance.
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Post by viamusic on Apr 15, 2020 22:10:41 GMT
Following the thread I couldn't quite figure out the following: - Does any new bootcampdrivers.com version work with 5500M (MBP 16)? - Does a vanilla AMD driver work with MacBooks? I can select 5500M card on AMD web site and download version 20.4.1, but don't want to remove/install them for nothing. Thank you in advance. None of the March drivers work with the Navi cards in the 16 in and the drivers off AMD’s website don’t work with them either.
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Post by geppo65 on Apr 16, 2020 7:12:08 GMT
Hi Mat, thank you very much for your work. I’m very happy to donate GBP by PayPal.
Your Beta drivers, March Edition on my iMac 27 ”2019 i9900 Vega 48, work great. I'm not a Windows expert but, with Radeon Pro global preferences, I added 10-15fps on X-Plane besides Vulkan.
Can you suggest me a Radeon Profile Game for best performance ?
take a beer to my health Gianluigi
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Post by geppo65 on Apr 16, 2020 7:24:37 GMT
5K iMacs have a display issue. Use the blue drivers. with the January drivers, even the blues didn't work For this I asked if for now I should install the most updated apple drivers and wait for a more stable and secure version of the Mat drivers, or leave my current Mat drivers of December. Hi Cuppino83 and Goldmaster11, I have the same congpfiguration and March Edition for me work very well. I followed the video instructions from Mat and all run very well.
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Post by cuppino83 on Apr 16, 2020 13:03:21 GMT
Hi geppo65, do you use red or blue drivers?
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Post by ozz on Apr 17, 2020 15:47:18 GMT
I am having the same issue flagged by other users on a MacPro 2013 with dual FirePro D700 on it. Blue/green screen with lines at logon and no mouse , nothing. Totally frozen. Like other users I had success only with Nov 2019 or older drivers but nothing recent. I feel you fabz Looking forward for the new driver version. And hoping that Mat will sort out the issue with MacPro's It is quite frustrating that my main game is updating its engine for Vulkan, but I can't use it due to my drivers are just 1 month older than the required version I am considering selling my MacPro and reversing my approach. Instead of trying to play video games with my work computer, I might build a proper game rig with a hackintosh partition for work.
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Post by playerunkown on Apr 18, 2020 7:51:58 GMT
I am having the same issue flagged by other users on a MacPro 2013 with dual FirePro D700 on it. Blue/green screen with lines at logon and no mouse , nothing. Totally frozen. Like other users I had success only with Nov 2019 or older drivers but nothing recent. I feel you fabz Looking forward for the new driver version. And hoping that Mat will sort out the issue with MacPro's It is quite frustrating that my main game is updating its engine for Vulkan, but I can't use it due to my drivers are just 1 month older than the required version I am considering selling my MacPro and reversing my approach. Instead of trying to play video games with my work computer, I might build a proper game rig with a hackintosh partition for work. Thinking of doing the same, check this out:
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Post by steelewski on Apr 18, 2020 9:25:11 GMT
Hi, Mat any info about next testing?
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Post by chris06 on Apr 18, 2020 16:19:04 GMT
Are you a close friend of Mat ?
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