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Post by gimlionroad on Aug 30, 2020 14:51:27 GMT
Does anyone know if blue or red works best on games for MBP 15" 555X with the current situation
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pdzero
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Post by pdzero on Aug 30, 2020 15:02:12 GMT
To finalise my findings Mat; - DDU in safe mode x3 - Boot back in to normal mode, and install the official AMD Bootcamp drivers - Don’t restart, and update through device manager to August Red. - Restart, and then install the Adrenalin August red software (don’t tick factory reset) - Everything works great. Mac Pro 7,1 - W5700X Yep. Same for me. Finally works now! Could you explain which file from the custom driver folder to point to from the device manager?
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Post by 2tlavenue on Aug 30, 2020 15:16:16 GMT
So the steps I took to eventually get it working: Ran DDU in Safe Mode 3 times without restarting just to get literally every trace of anything possible. Installed the January Red drivers which worked fine prior. Updated to the August Red drivers via Device Manager Reinstalled the August Red drivers with the Setup.exe but did not do a clean install/factory reset to resolve the version mismatch error with Radeon settings Everything seems ok now? Did a bunch of 3DMark runs without errors or crashes and higher scores than on the January Blue drivers. Played Need for Speed Heat for about an hour to test power draw from the GPU and CPU as that game is unusually CPU heavy. Shout out to the Frostbite engine I guess. Anyway, everything seems ok. There is still throttling but it looks more like power throttling versus thermal. After a certain point the CPU sits on about 20w power draw at about 2.1ghz occasionally spiking higher and the GPU stays between 45-50w (these readers are through MSI Afterburner using the RivaTuner overlay). This is just a general curiosity question but why are the Blue drivers recommended for the MBP 16? The Red drivers are showing solid performance - reasonably better than the 1650 in my old XPS 15. Could you explain how you updated from January Red to august via device manager please !
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ovale38
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Post by ovale38 on Aug 30, 2020 15:46:18 GMT
I am pleased to report that the August 2020 Red drivers installed flawlessly on my iMac Pro (iMac Pro 2017, 3GHz 10 core, 64GB RAM, Radeon Vega 64 16GB). I haven't tried the August 2020 Blue drivers.
The install was performed as per the regular recommended routine, safe mode, DDU x3, restart, start installer (did not check "clean install"). No flicky screens or half screens during the install. Fans seem to be behaving themselves, and I have had to limit the frame rate as it was far too high at 180fps (I play sim games).
These are the first Red drivers that have worked since the middle of last year. I haven't had much success with the previous Blue drivers either, the last one's which worked for me were the September 2019 ones (from my memory). I had gone back to using the stock unified drivers as per AMD BootCamp off the AMD site.
Thanks Mat
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Post by arjunchawda on Aug 30, 2020 16:01:08 GMT
Yep. Same for me. Finally works now! Could you explain which file from the custom driver folder to point to from the device manager? If you extract the red august drivers with 7Zip to its own folder, and just call it Red (for example), and then when you’re in device manager, update the display adapter and point to the red folder you created, and allow subfolders to be searched (there’s a tick box)
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Post by xzorekx on Aug 30, 2020 16:14:23 GMT
16 inch 5500M 4GB here. August red drivers working, April working as well. I had no issues yet with any of the drivers. I haven't noticed any major improvement over April or 5600M official drivers. Perhaps a bit more consistency in frequencies but that is all.
Installation through the usual steps, Radeon software working.
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Post by wdahab on Aug 30, 2020 16:17:10 GMT
The manual installation of the 20.8 drivers followed by installing August Red second worked great for my Pro 5700XT. Performance is measurably better. Passmark score jumped immediately to 14779 (up from 13578 with 19.50). The real change was in the DirectX 9 performance, interestingly, which jumped from 163 to 218. Though interestingly, the GPU Compute score dropped from 6152 to 6051.
Edit: Spoke a bit too soon. Playing Witcher 3 (which I'd been playing pretty great the past few days with the default drivers) runs great for about a minute or two, then crashes out. Since the only thing that's changed is the graphics driver, I'm assuming it's the culprit. Tried a couple times, the final time it crashed out and corrupted the display buffer with artifacts (fixed on reboot). Reinstalled the Apple default drivers which are pretty damn good, if not as good as possible.
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Post by mikethebigo on Aug 30, 2020 16:21:49 GMT
Could you explain which file from the custom driver folder to point to from the device manager? If you extract the red august drivers with 7Zip to its own folder, and just call it Red (for example), and then when you’re in device manager, update the display adapter and point to the red folder you created, and allow subfolders to be searched (there’s a tick box) Going to try this on a fresh W10 install on my 16" MBP today and will report back with results. So far nothing has worked with Apr and August, interested to see if this will.
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jkleee
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Post by jkleee on Aug 30, 2020 16:29:16 GMT
I am glad to report the red driver install flawlessly even without ddu on imac pro 2017 with vega 56. Windows version 1909 and I previously had official 20.7.1 installed. It seems that the screen tearing issues have been resolved. Thank you Mat.
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stenapp
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Post by stenapp on Aug 30, 2020 17:21:33 GMT
Hey Mat, thanks for the new drivers. What's the difference between the red and blue edition? What do you recommend for a MacBook 15,4'' 2017 Radeon Pro 560? Picked the Blue edition, like you said in your video: blue for Radeon Pro 500s. Works good, no problems.
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Post by charlesv on Aug 30, 2020 17:43:46 GMT
only posting to say thank you, there work wonderfully on my 16” 5300m and i’m playing horizon zero dawn without throttling !
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nnbveh
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Post by nnbveh on Aug 30, 2020 18:06:52 GMT
Hi, just registered to say that i've installed the drivers on my macbook pro 16 using the provided installed and the reset option, didn't do the DDU or any of that voodoo, and it seem to work fine. Oh, i was upgrading from the April drivers and it was blue edition. Thanks!
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Post by henni on Aug 30, 2020 19:10:49 GMT
Happy to report that the August 2020 drivers work flawless on my iMac Pro with Vega 56.
My workflow:
1. Boot in safe mode 2. Run DDU 1x 3. Restart in normal mode 4. Run setup.exe from Matts Driver package 5. Restart
Everything fine so far. Horizon Zero Dawn gains about 5% FPS and temperatures are ok.
Thanks again Matt, for your great work!
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Post by ngoryainov on Aug 30, 2020 20:30:07 GMT
Thanks for your work, Matt! Tried both new drivers on a new 27-inch iMac i9/Pro 5700XT. Used DDU multiple times & the guide extensively. Before that, I've successfully installed your 16-inch MacBook Pro drivers, and somehow even on the old December version I have incredibly good FPS (for a laptop) and no visible throttling on 5500M with charger attached.
So, here are the results for the new 27-inch iMac with nearly top specs:
- RED Version: got the same two-display mirror bug as someone else had in the thread. Fixed it by removing the second display in Radeon driver panel. Still, FPS had tanked everywhere by 60-80%, gaming became impossible. Multiple DDU runs and installs later, nothing changed for the better.
- BLUE Version: no display bug this time, but FPS are still nearly 1/6 of what I had with original drivers. Also re-run DDU and done everything again, no luck.
- BOTH Versions: as I start Windows, the only cooling fan immediately spins up to max technical speeds (3500/min, if I recall correctly) and stays like that until booting to macOS or in safe mode in Win10.
Reverted to Boot Camp drivers with DDU for now, everything is normal again. Would stalk this thread for new info and releases.
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Post by Mat HD on Aug 30, 2020 20:40:18 GMT
Thanks for your work, Matt! Tried both new drivers on a new 27-inch iMac i9/Pro 5700XT. Used DDU multiple times & the guide extensively. Before that, I've successfully installed your 16-inch MacBook Pro drivers, and somehow even on the old December version I have incredibly good FPS (for a laptop) and no visible throttling on 5500M with charger attached. So, here are the results for the new 27-inch iMac with nearly top specs: - RED Version: got the same two-display mirror bug as someone else had in the thread. Fixed it by removing the second display in Radeon driver panel. Still, FPS had tanked everywhere by 60-80%, gaming became impossible. Multiple DDU runs and installs later, nothing changed for the better. - BLUE Version: no display bug this time, but FPS are still nearly 1/6 of what I had with original drivers. Also re-run DDU and done everything again, no luck. - BOTH Versions: as I start Windows, the only cooling fan immediately spins up to max technical speeds (3500/min, if I recall correctly) and stays like that until booting to macOS or in safe mode in Win10. Reverted to Boot Camp drivers with DDU for now, everything is normal again. Would stalk this thread for new info and releases. have a look a few posts up -> try installing normal Boot Camp drivers then updating to latest by updating through device manager. then run August edition setup.exe without factory reset which will install latest Radeon software.
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