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.
AMD drivers have been way better than the proprietary Nvidia shit for almost a decade now. I guess Nvidia is finally giving up on their bullshit, but I still won’t even bother considering Nvidia for my builds any time soon.
On Linux, for sure. But OP hasn’t mentioned using Linux, I suppose they use Windows. I don’t think AMD offers an Open-source driver for Windows.
As someone who does not play VR or any very specific emulation I have had 0 issues. Thus said you maybe should have look into your very specific use cases and driver support on whatever card you purchased before getting it. I have the 7900xt and adrenaline is not bad it’s got all the features I want because I don’t really play any raytracing games or cases like you are describing.
Are you on Linux, or Windows? If you’re on Linux, which driver are you using?
With an AMD GPU on Linux you shouldn’t be using any driver, because it’s in the kernel.
Been using AMD cards since 2008 and never had problems with the drivers. It has some nice features and the only thing I’m struggling with currently is that my undervolt/overclock settings that I figured out back in 2017 don’t work all that well anymore on my Vega 56. That can probably be solved by some tweaking and testing and maybe it’s just a faulty PSU that I’m going to replace soon anyway. I’m eagerly awaiting the next round of cards because I’m definitely getting what will be the 7800 XT successor.
Have you wiped your nvidia drivers completely with ddu and then installed amd drivers?
