Radeon-Software-Crimson-ReLive-Edition-17.9.2

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http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...mson-ReLive-Edition-17.9.2-Release-Notes.aspx

Article Number: RN-WIN-RADEONCRIMSONRELIVE-17.9.2
Radeon™ Software Crimson ReLive Edition is AMD's advanced graphics software for enabling high-performance gaming and engaging VR experiences. Create, capture, and share your remarkable moments. Effortlessly boost performance and efficiency. Experience Radeon Software with industry-leading user satisfaction, rigorously-tested stability, comprehensive certification, and more.

Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.2 Highlights

Support For

• Radeon RX Vega Series
  • Up to 2x Multi GPU support
• Project CARS 2™
  • Multi GPU profile support added

Fixed Issues

• Hearts of Iron IV™ may experience a system hang when the campaign scenario is launched.
• Radeon Software may display an erroneous "1603 Error" after installing Radeon Software. This error will not affect your Radeon Software installation.

Known Issues

• The drop-down option to enable Enhanced Sync may be missing in Radeon Settings on Radeon RX Vega Series Graphics Products. A clean install of Radeon Software can prevent this issue.
• Unstable Radeon WattMan profiles may not be restored to default after a system hang. A workaround is to launch Radeon WattMan after reboot and restore settings to default.
• Radeon Settings may not populate game profiles after Radeon Software's initial install.
• Overwatch™ may experience a random or intermittent hang on some system configurations.
• GPU Scaling may fail to work on some DirectX®11 applications.
• Secondary displays may show corruption or green screen when the display/system enters sleep or hibernate with content playing.
• Bezel compensation in mixed mode Eyefinity cannot be applied.
• When recording with Radeon ReLive on Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products GPU usage and clocks may remain in high states.

Package Contents

The Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.2 installation package contains the following:

• Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.9.2 Driver Version 17.30.1091 (Windows Driver Store Version 22.19.677.1)

 

[Shmee]

Pitty they will not support 3x or 4x Vega GPUs in crossfire. That was the one thing that AMD could have over Nvidia, was the possibility of decent scaling over say, 2x 1080Ti. But with less and less resources going to CF, and lack of 3x or 4x support, who knows if 2x vega will even beat 2x 1080Ti, even considering how horrible the 1080Ti scaling is?!

With that said, good for them to support 2x Vega CF. Hopefully they can get scaling decent. Better late than never.

 

[Shmee]

Just as a side note I noticed after reading my post, I wanted to make sure it is not misinterpreted as an NVIDIA vs AMD rant. My point was more on the lines of I wish AMD would continue to offer great CF support such as they did starting with the 290 series. The bridge-less design was brilliant. A pitty they are moving away from that.

 

[DaQuteness]

Just as a side note I noticed after reading my post, I wanted to make sure it is not misinterpreted as an NVIDIA vs AMD rant. My point was more on the lines of I wish AMD would continue to offer great CF support such as they did starting with the 290 series. The bridge-less design was brilliant. A pitty they are moving away from that.

I wouldn't kick the multi-cf design yet and I don't know where you got the "moving away from bridge-less". Nothing on Vega, nothing on others. I think more than 2x in a single system will sky-rocket power use, that's not to say they should limit at 2x Vega in CF. It's just a matter of splitting the new shaders and primitives discard implementation over 3+ cards that's the difficult part. Besides, they will have more than 2x cards at some point, otherwise the x399/TR wouldn't have 64 pci-e lanes.

It's just the first kick in the puddle, much more to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xT3TepCRCY check this guy out for more info on Vega.

 

[Shmee]

Hey, I do hope they do put more effort into improving CF configs with new drivers. I do hope you are right. I should have been more clear, I did not mean to say they are moving away from bridge-less, but rather away from promoting CF as a whole with Vega, as I was reading in a recent interview, I believe linked somewhere on AT forums. I do hope that is wrong, and that they continue improve CF support.

 

[DaQuteness]

Hey, I do hope they do put more effort into improving CF configs with new drivers. I do hope you are right. I should have been more clear, I did not mean to say they are moving away from bridge-less, but rather away from promoting CF as a whole with Vega, as I was reading in a recent interview, I believe linked somewhere on AT forums. I do hope that is wrong, and that they continue improve CF support.

I don't even think they need to promote CF anymore at this point, it's been theirs and present for the past decade or more, and with Infinity Fabric voodoo going on it's kind of implicitly there, albeit far more relevant for production environments than gaming. Releasing at least 2x CF was necessary, as their biggest gamer market is based on ryzen, i5 and i7 and therefore no need to chuck away at 3+ CF, because PCIe lanes...

On TR you mix and match cards and use them for compute power, not necessarily gaming so no need to rush to 3+ CF yet. Although I do giggle when thinking what a 4x nuclear-powered Vega crossfire will look like =)) I did the math, full load is 1700W+

EDIT: I have read on a few other forums a lot of people bashing "only" 2x CF for this new driver... yet, funny enough, as Ryzen owners (and even Intel) they don't understand the limitations of these systems before going ahead and bashing AMD. Not to mention I can't remember hearing anyone complain about nVidia's decision to drop 3-way SLI, everybody got a bit annoyed and then accepted it... a bit of hypocrisy floating about various forums.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Does this driver release fix the "no wake from monitor sleep", that the previous 17.9.1 drivers seem to have on my RX 570 machine? And my A8-9800 machine too, with 17.7.2 on that machine, I think.

 

[EXCellR8]

looks like the Wattman reset is still listed under the Known issues section... kinda wish they'd sort that one out.