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Discussion: AMD graphics drivers, what's your experience with them? (lemmy.spacestation14.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I decided to upgrade from an ancient gtx 1070 to an rx 7700 xt.

At first I was very excited about the upgrade... However I experienced something that is becoming a huge turn off for me. The drivers seem to just... Suck... To the point where I'm considering returning the gpu and going back to an nvidea gpu. And I don't want to be the guy to be a gpu brand shill.

I had done my research, I did hear the drivers used to suck. And people claimed it no longer sucked. Just within a day of having my new card I feel like I was lied to.

Granted yes, the hardware itself is amazing and I definitely experienced huge improvements already. But having to juggle around an older driver so I can have a stable encoder to stream VR games to my quest (which now that I'm thinking of, if the encoder crashes so easily then OBS must experience issues to), but then need to upgrade my driver version cause otherwise my switch emulator times out the driver and causes it to crash the PC, and even when upgrading the driver again I expirience artifacts in emulation (ok granted it's EMULATION so I can't really blame amd on that one). I feel like I made the wrong decision and I'm not excited to see what bugs feature drivers may come with.

Anyway malding post is over. I wanted to make a discussion on this thread to ask about your experience with AMD. Maybe I am overthinking this. Or maybe this is a more widespread issue that needs to be talked about more still.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got an AMD GPU two years ago on Windows. I had zero problems with the drivers. Did you use DDU to remove the Nvidia drivers?

When updating your drivers use AMD Cleanup Utility to remove the old drivers. After you download the new ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

AMD drivers have been way better than the proprietary Nvidia shit for almost a decade now. I guess Nvidia is finally giving up on their bullshit, but I still won't even bother considering Nvidia for my builds any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Crashing during installation. fans turning off during use. chunks of the screen randomly turning green after an update but it's fixed in the next. the fancy new upscaling feature breaking the very next update. opengl support disappears in another update. and comes back downgraded in the following. For the next update: it disabled the and control panel.

oh yea, the super resolution works too! But we got an update and... it's clipping off the screen rather than scaling down to fit :/

They're not competitive in price anyways, I'm sticking with Nvidia/intel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

screen turning green isn't really a bug, they're just advertising nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If you're on Windows, you should return it before it's too late. It isn't going to get better.