Post by slickshoes on Jun 3, 2020 12:40:30 GMT
wolfgang if you have Throttlestop installed I would get rid of it, it caused more issues than it helped when I tried it. Here's a verbatim step by step of what I did to achieve steady FPS and get everything going.
1. Install windows 10 via bootcamp and activate
2. Download April Adrenalin Red drivers from bootcampdrivers.com mega.nz/file/xBxxFaJC#lJNxFZ2ZuniGf-DO19dJDUDNJu6lMPDF2MSkbTGlUZw
3. Extract drivers to a folder you can easily find
4. Within the drivers folder, there's a tool called DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller), open the tool and update to the latest version
5. Boot machine into Safe mode
6. Within safe mode, run DDU tool (18.0.2.5 is latest currently)
7. In DDU go to options and check all the boxes under "AMD Specific Options"
8. Select GPU as device type than click "Clean and do NOT restart", once this finishes running run it again
9. Run "Clean and restart"
10. Boot into Windows and go to Device Manager
11. Right click your display driver and select "Update Driver" then select "Browse my computer for drivers"
12. Navigate to the folder you extracted the drivers to, then packages, then drivers and hit ok. This will install the Adrenalin Red drivers without the Adrenalin software (!! If you install them using setup.exe w/ the adrenalin software for some reason FPS in games in unstable !!)
13. Once the drivers are installed reboot the machine
14. Upon reboot download and install MacsFanControl : crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
15. Download QuickCPU: coderbag.com/product/quickcpu
16. Use MacsFanControl before playing games and set it to Preset: "Full Blast"
17. Load QuickCPU and click the third icon from the left "Max Performance"
18. Go to the Advanced CPU Settings tab in QuickCPU and set the following settings:
General:
- General: Turbo boost checked, Enhanced SpeedStep checked, Hardware duty cycling unchecked, C1E checked, Bi-Directional Prochot checked (you may get better perf unchecking this but it's not necessarily safe because it will protect your machine if CPU gets too hot)
- Turbo Power Limits: Make sure long and short duration boxes are checked, Clamp limit 1/2 are checked, set the watts down to 25 for each, Set turbo time limit long to 28, set turbo time limit short to .0024, click apply
- Performance / energy policy: set to Max Perf if it isn't already and hit apply
- Click all of the "Apply on application start buttons"
Speed Shift tab:
- Hardware Controled performance:
- Enabled checked, Apply for all cpu cores checked, apply speedshift settings on application start checked, Settings for: Cores
- Set minimum allowed performance to 30 (~3.0 GHz)
- Set maximum allowed performance to 38 (~3.8 GHz)
- Set Desired performance to 34 (~3.4 GHz)
- Energy performance preference: Slide the slider all the way left to "Max Performance"
- Check "Monitor and enforce my SpeedShift core settings"
- Click apply
19. QuickCPU will regulate your CPU speed, turbo boost, and keep the temperature down. Keeping the temp down allows the GPU to run more smoothly without running into throttling issues when the CPU spikes. It works surprisingly well.
20. DO NOT USE THROTTLESTOP - There's a lot of guides out there that say to use it and what settings to set, but I found it made things worse every single time.
1. Install windows 10 via bootcamp and activate
2. Download April Adrenalin Red drivers from bootcampdrivers.com mega.nz/file/xBxxFaJC#lJNxFZ2ZuniGf-DO19dJDUDNJu6lMPDF2MSkbTGlUZw
3. Extract drivers to a folder you can easily find
4. Within the drivers folder, there's a tool called DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller), open the tool and update to the latest version
5. Boot machine into Safe mode
6. Within safe mode, run DDU tool (18.0.2.5 is latest currently)
7. In DDU go to options and check all the boxes under "AMD Specific Options"
8. Select GPU as device type than click "Clean and do NOT restart", once this finishes running run it again
9. Run "Clean and restart"
10. Boot into Windows and go to Device Manager
11. Right click your display driver and select "Update Driver" then select "Browse my computer for drivers"
12. Navigate to the folder you extracted the drivers to, then packages, then drivers and hit ok. This will install the Adrenalin Red drivers without the Adrenalin software (!! If you install them using setup.exe w/ the adrenalin software for some reason FPS in games in unstable !!)
13. Once the drivers are installed reboot the machine
14. Upon reboot download and install MacsFanControl : crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control
15. Download QuickCPU: coderbag.com/product/quickcpu
16. Use MacsFanControl before playing games and set it to Preset: "Full Blast"
17. Load QuickCPU and click the third icon from the left "Max Performance"
18. Go to the Advanced CPU Settings tab in QuickCPU and set the following settings:
General:
- General: Turbo boost checked, Enhanced SpeedStep checked, Hardware duty cycling unchecked, C1E checked, Bi-Directional Prochot checked (you may get better perf unchecking this but it's not necessarily safe because it will protect your machine if CPU gets too hot)
- Turbo Power Limits: Make sure long and short duration boxes are checked, Clamp limit 1/2 are checked, set the watts down to 25 for each, Set turbo time limit long to 28, set turbo time limit short to .0024, click apply
- Performance / energy policy: set to Max Perf if it isn't already and hit apply
- Click all of the "Apply on application start buttons"
Speed Shift tab:
- Hardware Controled performance:
- Enabled checked, Apply for all cpu cores checked, apply speedshift settings on application start checked, Settings for: Cores
- Set minimum allowed performance to 30 (~3.0 GHz)
- Set maximum allowed performance to 38 (~3.8 GHz)
- Set Desired performance to 34 (~3.4 GHz)
- Energy performance preference: Slide the slider all the way left to "Max Performance"
- Check "Monitor and enforce my SpeedShift core settings"
- Click apply
19. QuickCPU will regulate your CPU speed, turbo boost, and keep the temperature down. Keeping the temp down allows the GPU to run more smoothly without running into throttling issues when the CPU spikes. It works surprisingly well.
20. DO NOT USE THROTTLESTOP - There's a lot of guides out there that say to use it and what settings to set, but I found it made things worse every single time.