Afterburner can no longer adjust clock speeds

[Vegasus]

For a long time I've been using Afterburner to adjust my GPU's and video memory's clock speeds, usually down to save power. I'd typically keep the core clock at 650 MHz and the memory clock at 1000 MHz. (Amazingly, that's all that's needed to run Doom at 1080p60 with ultra settings most of the time.) Recently Afterburner has lost this ability. Both clock sliders go to 0 MHz after I click the check box, and when a graphically demanding program is running the core goes to 1300 MHz and the memory goes to 2000.

When did this happen? I recently updated the Crimson Relive drivers to 17.7.2. Then I played Overwatch for a few minutes and heard the PC's fans spin way up, more than they usually do when I play games. I closed Overwatch and the fans slowed down, but Afterburner could no longer adjust the clock speeds. In Addition, Afterburner also lost the ability to adjust the core voltage, power limit and temperature limit, although I don't adjust those often or at all. Interestingly, Afterburner is still monitoring the voltage, temperature and both clock speeds.

System specs:
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
graphics card: Radeon RX 480, 8 GB
driver version: Crimson ReLive 17.7.2
Afterburner version: 4.3.0.9267

 

[EXCellR8]

download beta 15... a lot of people reported the same, including myself with the same GPU

here you go: Beta 15 (guru3d)

Unofficial overclocking API is currently broken in 17.7.2. drivers (applying the clocks with it makes GPU stuck in lowest P-state till reboot) so MSI Afterburner is forcibly disabling unofficial overclocking mode and always using official ADL overclocking codepath on 17.7.2 and newer drivers.

hopefully this changes

 

[thilanliyan]

Yep, happened with 17.7.2 drivers.
Hope theres a fix soon because I had to downgrade drivers. I need to be able to overclock in unofficial mode, which is not possible with the newest drivers and the beta afterburner.

 

[Vegasus]

I got Beta 15 and now I can adjust clock speeds again, but the minimum memory clock setting has risen from 1000 MHz to 1750 MHz. What made it go up?

On the other hand, I've started adjusting the power and heat sliders, and by lowering the heat slider I've kept power consumption down to where it was when I was lowering the clock sliders. Is that a preferred way to do it, since maybe the software knows better than I do what the best clock speeds are?

 

[Vegasus]

It's been a couple years but I'm getting a similar problem again. I'm now on Adrenalin 2019 19.6.2 and Afterburner 4.6.1.15561. Afterburner doesn't let me adjust the max temperature. It lets me adjust the clock speed but it often modifies it after I change it.