Whatever technical characteristics and power a video card installed in a PC or laptop possesses, its operability and demonstrated performance indicators directly depend on one of the most important software components of any system - drivers. For graphics adapters manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices Inc, the most correct and effective method to resolve all driver issues is to use AMD Radeon Software Crimson.
Download and update AMD drivers via Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition
Actually, it is precisely the maintenance of the video adapter drivers that is the primary task assigned to the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition by the developers.
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition- the name of the software that replaced Radeon Software Crimson... This is the same application, but from a different generation. The Crimson driver is no longer up to date!
Automatic installation
The easiest and most correct way to get a fresh driver for an AMD video card is to install the manufacturer's proprietary software on the system. AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition contains the necessary components of the latest version at the time of downloading from the official website, so in order for the current graphics adapter driver to be installed, it is enough to follow a few simple steps.
- Download the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition installer from the Advanced Micro Devices technical support site by selecting the type and model line of the graphics processor on the basis of which the video card is built from the drop-down lists.
Find your version and bitness of the operating system and expand the tab to the plus sign.
In the list of suggested software, find Radeon Software click "Download"... In some cases, there are 2 such files - start from the revision number of the application and the release date. A newer driver may be unstable on some PCs, for this reason, the service offers a previous version to which you can roll back if problems arise.
- We launch the installer. Immediately, the system will automatically scan the hardware components for the presence of an AMD GPU-based graphics card.
- After determining the video card, in the absence of components necessary for normal operation
or the possibility of updating them, a corresponding message will be displayed.
- Push the button "Express installation" and observe the installation process of all the necessary components.
- The final stage of installing AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition, which means that all the necessary components for the graphics adapter to work, is a system reboot. Push the button Restart Now.
- After rebooting, we get a video card with the latest driver installed.
During the installation of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition, the screen may black out several times. Don't worry - this is how the graphics adapter is initialized with the new driver.
Updating Drivers
Over time, any software becomes obsolete and requires updating. With AMD Radeon Software Crimson, updating the system components required for the graphics adapter to function properly is easy, with all the features included.
Reinstall AMD driver, "rollback" version
If it becomes necessary to reinstall the AMD graphics card drivers, removing all previously installed components and clearing the system of data accumulated during the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition operation, you will need an application installer. In addition, by following the steps below, you can revert to the previous version of the driver if the updated one does not work correctly. There is no need to remove the already installed software and driver before reinstalling! The installer will do this automatically.
Thus, we can state that all issues with the drivers of modern AMD video cards are quite easily solved using the manufacturer's proprietary software. Installing, updating and reinstalling drivers for Advanced Micro Devices graphics adapters is almost completely automated, which allows the user to avoid wasting time and effort in finding the right solution.
AMD unveiled next-generation Radeon software featuring new features, high performance and stability. New Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition includes power efficient graphics with Radeon Chill technology, and Radeon ReLive for screen recording and streaming.
System requirements:
Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit version)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)
Windows 8.1 has been completely retired.
Torrent Driver - AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2 DC 07/27/2017 WHQL in detail:
Radeon Software ReLive Edition offers the following:
Radeon ReLive is a video recording and online streaming tool with a control panel right in the game. The settings allow you to quickly select the scene recording format and much more;
· Radeon Chill is an energy efficient frame rate control system for Radeon graphics cards. It dynamically adjusts the frame rate and thus maintains the quality of the graphics, while reducing the temperature and system noise;
AMD LiquidVR Technology - A suite of high-quality virtual reality technologies that includes MultiView, MultiRes, and Asynchronous Space Warp for the Oculus Rift;
· Improved sync technology for Radeon FreeSync displays;
Supported video cards:
Notes:
During installation, you can find different hieroglyphs instead of the Russian language. After installation everything will be fine.
Digital signature:
The last major update of this kind was released at the end of 2016. The new version received a large number of additions and improvements, but AMD decided to keep the extremely long name unchanged.
With this release of Radeon software, AMD is trying to focus on three main priorities: functionality, performance, and stability. In terms of functionality, AMD has optimized the Radeon Settings interface by moving all configuration options into a single pane. Users now have fewer clicks, and AMD claims the software also includes Switchable Graphics mode and better control over pixel format and color depth.
The latest driver can also be checked and installed using the AMD Driver Autodetect application. If necessary, you can use the official AMD Clean Uninstall Utility.
Radeon ReLive
An important feature of the latest Radeon Drivers is the upgrade to Radeon ReLive. As we have seen over the past 6 months, the company has managed to resolve a wide range of issues related to video game streaming software. As a result, AMD increased the maximum write speed from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps and improved the stability of the transfer. Also added a transparency option for the camera so that your face doesn't block all the action on the screen.
In Radeon ReLive, AMD performed memory optimization work during the video streaming recording process. For example, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has reduced frame rate losses by 33%. In v17.7.1, the loss reached 6.3 frames per second, and with the new Radeon drivers - only 4.2 frames per second. This essentially means that AMD has reduced the number of extra frames required to render overlays while keeping the output at a constant frame rate.
In terms of other enhancements to Radeon ReLive, AMD has improved the notification system, such as adding an Instant Replay Saving card, a card for network connectivity issues, and more. In addition, enhanced audio controls have been added, which include adjustable microphone and volume levels, push-to-talk functionality that can be controlled by a mouse or keyboard, and audio volume boosting.
Radeon WattMan
When installing the new Radeon ReLive drivers, users receive an updated Radeon WattMan utility. The options are now available to increase (or decrease) the timings of the memory installed on Radeon graphics cards to safely overclock the processor without affecting the stability and overall power consumption of the PC. Radeon WattMan also provides options to manage GPU power status for maximum performance or maximum power savings.
Radeon Chill
Radeon Chill is a power saving feature that dynamically adjusts frame rates in games based on built-in motor mechanics. Radeon Chill now supports gaming profiles. Currently supported by over 30 PC games, this feature provides an average of 31% power savings when playing World of Warcraft and a 13% drop in graphics card operating temperatures in the same game. Other supported games include Prey, Quake Champions, Battlefield 1, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Resident Evil 7.
An even more important improvement is support for Radeon Chill to work with systems with multiple GPUs (multi-GPU). The technology allows you to achieve 29% energy savings in Overwatch. It also supports external graphics cards that support Radeon XConnect technology, as well as integrated and discrete notebook cards, and AMD estimates that this feature extends laptop battery life by up to 30% when playing League of Legends at 1080p.
Another power optimization feature, Frame Rate Target Control, promises energy savings of up to 26% in Battlefield 1 with DirectX 12 enabled. With the feature enabled, the game can still run at 60 frames per second, while the GPU draws only 150W of power. When disabled, the GPU draws 203 watts.
Advanced sync
This new feature is not intended to replace AMD FreeSync technology, but provides a better viewing experience for users of unsupported monitors. Enhanced Sync sits between VSync and FreeSync and delivers reduced jitter at 60fps on a 144Hz monitor. It also provides low latency with minimal tearing at 150fps or more.
For example, when VSync is enabled, the response time can be around 128.8 milliseconds, while the frame rate is higher than the panel refresh rate, resulting in minimal screen tearing. Thanks to Enhanced Sync, this response time is reduced to 84.7 milliseconds, while maintaining minimal screen tearing. If you disable VSync, the response time drops to 72.7 milliseconds, but you will see a lot of annoying screen tearing. Enhanced Screen provides a stable picture with low tearing when the frame rate drops below the monitor's refresh rate. If VSync is enabled, tearing can be very noticeable.
Internal changes
Finally, AMD has also worked a lot on the internal platform. The company has improved the performance of updating Radeon drivers since the launch of the Crimson ReLive Edition and has increased performance on a number of games such as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Metro Last Light Redux running on Linux. AMD also developed a way to speed up the load times of older PC games such as StarCraft 2 and reduce the driver warm-up time between the CPU command to draw the frame and the final rendering of the frame by the GPU.
AMD says it takes just 100 milliseconds to move the mouse in Prey and see the final action on the screen, up from 111 milliseconds using the Radeon v17.7 drivers. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, that figure is now 114 milliseconds (up from 131 milliseconds), in Tom Clancy's The Division, 112 milliseconds (up from 162 milliseconds), and in Honor, 130 milliseconds (up from 146 milliseconds).
Another notable feature of AMD's new Radeon driver update is a developer tool called Radeon GPU Profiler. This tool provides low-level, built-in hardware thread tracing that was previously only available to AMD console developers. This is great news for PC gamers because developers can now trace their code back to specific hardware events to eliminate potential artifacts and optimize performance. Developers get a clear visualization of the ongoing processes using wave charts.
One of our readers asked for advice, and the editors of Tom "s Hardware found a very unusual problem. At first glance it seems unlikely to be serious, but the frequency of its occurrence is still somewhat annoying. After browsing several forums on the Internet about this problem, we came to the conclusion that it is not private to our reader. This fueled interest in the question, especially since we did not find any reasonable explanation for the problem. The problem itself is that the Device Manager and Catalyst Installation Manager cannot agree whether the northbridge driver is installed or not.
The reader has already contacted AMD support, but since the computer was working without any obvious problems, the reply was that everything should be fine. But this answer did not satisfy the reader - and neither did we. We deliberately went through the process of installing Catalyst drivers on three different Windows 7 systems, and were able to repeat the problem in all cases. In the end, it turned out that our reader was right.
The problem manifests itself in the following circumstances.
- Windows 7 (x64, x86);
- motherboard based on AMD chipset;
- drivers from Catalyst 10.2 to 10.5 (the latest version at the time of tests);
- Installation in Custom mode (not in Express mode).
We hope this article will be helpful, as an old but very effective trick, which we will talk about a little later, turned out to be a solution to the problem. In addition, it has the potential to eliminate other pitfalls that may arise when installing AMD / ATI drivers. We'll also take a quick look at a hidden option in the Catalyst installer that can be useful too.
To eliminate all possible sources of error, we used a "clean" installation of Windows 7 with no drivers or updates installed, except for updates to Windows 7 itself.
In the Device Manager in the System / System devices section, we selected the "AMD PCI Express (3GIO) Driver" item, in which we found the atipcie.sys (x86) or atipcie64.sys (x64) files. These drivers are installed by default. We wrote down the version of the installed drivers before further installation.
Then we unpacked the current version of Catalyst drivers (at the time of the tests) into the directory we specified, after which we launched the installation, leaving it at the initial stage, where the choice of installing or uninstalling the drivers is made.
We selected "Uninstall" followed by "Custom Uninstall" to get a list of the components that the installer recognizes. And the result confirmed the problem we identified earlier: the Catalyst installer did not recognize any installed components, although the driver was already installed by Windows 7 and updated via Windows Update.
After restarting the installation, we selected "Installation" followed by "Custom Installation".
In addition to the USB drivers, we now have the option to install the Northbridge drivers. Interestingly, the suggested version was the same as the one already installed. We chose to install the drivers anyway to avoid confusion. The installation completed successfully.
After the required reboot, we reopened the Catalyst installer to check what options appear in the driver uninstallation section. Apart from the USB drivers, we found no other options. Then we ran the installer again to install the drivers, after which we found out that the driver is offered to be installed again, that is, it does not say anything about the fact that it is already installed!
Even though this problem can only be detected in the Custom / Custom installation mode (in Express / Fast mode, very little information is displayed about the installation process), we were puzzled. Well, let's find the cause and present a possible solution.
Possible reasons
After some experimentation and straightforward removal (with the Cleaner utility and manual erasure of registry entries), we came to the conclusion that the AMD Catalyst installer and drivers obtained through Windows and / or Windows Update do not interact with each other. Although manual driver installation and removal via Device Manager works fine, the Catalyst installer "forgets" the installed driver, prompting you to reinstall already installed drivers that are not exclusively supplied by AMD (that is, they are already offered by Microsoft).
At the same time, the opposite scenario is not possible, since the drivers are not detected by the installer during installation or removal. In principle, only AMD can answer whether this is a consequence of a security mechanism or an installer error in determining the drivers.
But we would like to note once again that the identified problem does not lead to any computer failures. It can be called an annoying oversight that is confusing for those users who regularly monitor driver versions so that the computer always runs with the latest drivers. But our little research showed that this situation has existed for quite a long time, and so far there has been no explanation or fix from AMD.
The Catalyst installer begins by extracting files to the specified directory. We need it to perform the trick.
We went to the directory with the unpacked files, after which we selected the "Config" subdirectory. It contains the "InstallManager.cfg" file. We opened it with a suitable text editor Notepad / Notepad. The contents of the file are shown below.
Pay attention to the item "WorkaroundInstall". By default, it is set to "false". We activated the item by setting the value to "true" and then saved the file.
We then ran the installation from the directory by executing the Setup.exe file. Pay attention to the installation options we agreed with.
The situation, as you can see, has changed: now, after running the Catalyst installer, only exclusive AMD driver packages are saved.
Additional benefits
This trick also helps in situations where the Catalyst installer refuses to install the driver for some reason, despite the hardware being connected and the old driver working perfectly. So if the next time you encounter an incomprehensible installation problem, remember that modifying the installation file can work wonders. We used a similar trick when the current version of Catalyst 10.5 refused to install on systems with 10.2 or 10.3 already installed.
As we described just above, we went to the directory with unpacked files. Then to the "Config" directory, then opened "InstallManager.cfg" in Notepad / Notepad. However, in this file we also found a "Show Update" item at the bottom. By default, it is set to "false". We activated this item by setting the value to "true" and then saved the file.
Then after starting the installer, a new option appears.
If you select the "Update" option, which was previously hidden, a new wizard will start.
Here you can update individual components without having to remove them. As we understand it, the Installation option performs only limited or no uninstallation procedures, while the Update option combines complete uninstallation and installation of the selected components in the same reboot cycle. This allows you to save on one reboot cycle, which is required when completely uninstalling the drivers. Also, this step is useful after removing the drivers and rebooting, since Windows can automatically replace the removed drivers against your will.
If you are a Catalyst driver user, take it easy when you identify a problem. It may seem strange at first, but this problem will not lead to serious crashes. In addition, if you know some tricks, you can solve many similar problems easier and easier than you might think at first.
Manually editing the Catalyst configuration file can help solve similar problems to the one we have described. In this article, we have detailed the steps that will help inexperienced users. Perhaps AMD will react somehow. The more functions a software package contains, the more complex it becomes. And mistakes will inevitably arise. The real question is how quickly errors will be identified and corrected. All this should be taken into account when filing complaints.
Details Category: Customization Hits: 6308Greetings to all users and guests "Schools of computer literacy"... This is the second time I have encountered the problem of translating the interface of AMD video card drivers. Searching google turned out to be not so easy to find a solution to the problem, so I decided to fix it with an article "How do I change the AMD Crimson interface language?"
There are no standard tools to change the language in the settings, you have to go into the registry. I will describe all the steps in detail so that you do not have any questions.
1. Run the registry editor (Win + R and type in the field to execute "regedit" without quotation marks)
2. Then in the registry tree we find the following path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ AMD \ CN
3. In order to change the interface language to English, you just need to delete
LastUsedQmFileName
4. In order to change the language to Russian, set the parameter LastUsedQmFileName value CNext_ru_RU.qm
5. For other languages, you first need to find the name of the language, for this we go to the Program Files \ AMD \ CNext \ CNext \ Localization folder and look for, then perform step 4
