remotelove

Do you smoke the cig with the lit end in your mouth?

Some of the points in the meme do stretch across OS's.

Yeah, the GPU drivers haven't been stable. Hell, one time they just stopped working completely and failed to recognize the card. Wut?

I mainly bounce between Diablo IV, War Thunder, Fusion360, PrusaSlicer and sometimes Blender. It doesn't always hang, but when it does, it's because I have been moving the apps back and forth between monitors. Multi-monitor support is buggy and that is absolutely a combination of the GPU drivers and the apps.

Yeah, I paid some coin, that is for sure. It is frustrating in that regard but I knew what I was getting into with AMD drivers. The first few generations of drivers are almost always garbage with new cards and they are showing improvements over the last few iterations of drivers.

Also, yes. I am tempted to give my 7900XTX to my daughter when the NVIDIA 5000 series drops. For now, I am just tolerating the issues. (I rarely had an issue with my 3070.)

No excuses here! The CPU is gold but the GPU drivers are shite. I am an extremely patient person though, so that helps.

I have been thinking about that, actually. Adrenaline does have an undervolt option, so I'll give that a go first. If that doesn't work, I'll absolutely try More PowerTool.

TBH, higher voltages and clocks with the 7900XTX are only good for benchmarks and real world performance gains are not that noticable. (I could only get between 100-200 point gains on Kombustor) Undervolting is probably going to be good for the longevity of the card anyway.

Sleep mode is rough, for sure. It's also one of the reasons why I did a completely fresh installation of Windows. (Sleep mode was suicide.) Also, I had heard an obscure rumor that AMD chipset drivers could be picky for old windows installations. (Like, not enabling the 3D cache on the CPU kind of picky.)

But yeah, you aren't alone with the sleep mode woes.

To be honest, I only get the driver crash at the absolute worst times now. After I did the switch to AMD from Intel and Nvidia, I did do a fresh windows install and have only had to reinstall the AMD graphics drivers about 4 times in the last couple of months. (While true, the last paragraph is not as bad as it sounds. Annoying, yes. End of the world, no.)

There is a pattern to the madness though. If I go from gaming to other GPU intensive apps used across different screens, it's probably going to hang the driver. Not fatally, but I reboot anyway when it happens.

AMD is on the right track though. I think I have been through three different GPU drivers versions since I built the system and it is slowly getting better. I get a driver crash about once a week instead of once a day now.

I am super happy with my 7950X3D. However, their GPU drivers still need some work for the 7900XTX.

There are plenty of budding communities in the federation. The Reddit and X posts are slowing down, so that is nice. Not so long ago, Lemmy was absolutely flooded by /c/memes, but other activity has started to balance it out. The main problem is that it took years to build some of the niche subs on Reddit so it will take time to get those started again.

An even better sign is that OC NSFW creators are showing up here more and more. Where they go, people follow, no questions asked.

Yeah, ain't it great? :)

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