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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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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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[–] kmartburrito 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My 7900xtx is also working flawlessly.

I've not had an Nvidia card since the 8800gts and have never really ever had issues with my AMD cards. Their drivers are generally very stable and the cards always seem to have more longevity.

I also never had the high wattage issue you experienced.

Works great for VR too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I also never had the high wattage issue you experienced.

It's a weird bug that only happens with certain system setups. It typically only happens when you have 2 or more monitors, one of which is 1440p or higher and has HDR turned on. A setup I unfortunately have.