AMD Adrenalin 2019 drivers

Something thats really been bothering me with AMD drivers recently is that they're leaving multi-gigabytes of old driver install packages clogging up the System drive.

In the system drive /AMD folder we have a folder for each driver, then even more within the /Packages/Drivers folder.
If you don't go & manually delete them every few months you wind up wasting tens of GB on System drive which is very problematic for those of us with relatively small SSDs.

I doubt many people even know this is happening let alone regularly cleaning out old versions.
AMD really needs to either clean up all but the previous edition Packages automatically or give an option in the installer to delete older versions.

 

Does disk cleanup get rid of them ?
ccleaner has an option remove old Nvidia install files, if ran on an AMD system if may have an option for old AMD files
At least AMD drivers are half the size of Nvidia drivers

 

I used to have the same problem with Nvidia drivers. One remedy is using DDU (display driver uninistaller) which does a pretty good joke cleaning the registry and removing package related stuff from your drive. Most tech review sites have it available in the download section or you can get from the official DDU website.

 

Speaking of which, 20.1.1 drivers released yesterday fixed all the HDR/SDR issues I had with previous 2020 Edition drivers (5700XT+Samsung C32HG70)

 

Yep, Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.1.1 did list some HDR fixes in the list of resolved issues.

Fixed Issues

• The audible beeps at game startup from Radeon Chill, Radeon Boost, and Radeon Anti-Lag have been removed. These features now offer audible indicators only when activated or deactivated via hotkey.
• The Radeon ReLive on screen timer indicator during recordings has been disabled by default but can be enabled in Radeon Software settings.
• Controls for vertical sync may be hidden or disappear when Radeon Enhanced Sync is enabled.
• Radeon ReLive may experience freezing or pausing issues during recordings when a high resolution camera is connected and in use.
• CPU usage may sometimes remain high once Radeon Game Advisor has been invoked during a game.
• Some users may experience an error message “Another instance is running” during download of a software update through the Radeon Software home screen.
• The DuplicateDesktop process may sometimes cause high CPU usage while a game is running.
• Radeon Software may close or may experience a crash upon resuming from sleep.
• The toast message detailing the hotkey to open Radeon Software’s Overlay may still show up in some games after Radeon Software Overlay has been disabled.
• Lost Ark™ may experience stuttering intermittently during gameplay.
• Using a custom stream key with Radeon ReLive may fail to stream your content.
• The ‘Stream’ button may remain active when in the process of choosing a region to stream even when a region has not been selected or chosen.
• Some Radeon R9 200, Radeon R9 300 and Radeon R9 Fury series graphics products may experience instability with a limited number of DirectX®9 or DirectX®11 games when using a high refresh rate 120hz+ display. A workaround if you are experiencing this issue is to lower your displays refresh rate.
• Some mjpeg clips may experience a green tint on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products when using Windows® Media Player or the Movies & TV application.
• MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries™ may experience a game crash and DXGI dialogue error when running the game using HDMI and Radeon FreeSync display configurations.
• Live streaming using the DouYu™ application with hardware acceleration enabled may cause video corruption on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products.
• Trials Rising™ may experience excessive fog/smoke in some areas of the game.
• Missing text or corruption may be experienced in the right eye when playing the VR game Boneworks™.
• Fixed result overflows that can be experienced with Radeon RX 5700 series when using SETI@Home.
• The ‘Shop AMD Products’ button may open the AMD.com homepage instead of the proper shopping web link.
• The scrolling arrow options may intermittently fail to work during Radeon Software installation.
• Up and Down arrow keys don’t work when using the search bar in Radeon Software.
• Enabling HDR enabled displays in Windows® may cause colors to become washed out.
• Radeon Software sidebar appears behind the Windows® taskbar when the taskbar is set to the same side of your display.
• Playing Tom Clancy's: The Division 2™ with HDR enabled and performing a task switch may cause display color corruption that persists even once the game is exited.
• Mixed Reality Portal™ may experience color corruption or distortion near the edge of viewing areas on some headsets.
• Resident Evil™ 2 may experience screen flashing when launching the game using DirectX®12 API.

Known Issues

• The Radeon Software Overlay hotkey notification may sometimes be displayed during video playback in web browsers or launching some video player applications.
• Integer Scaling option is not showing up or available on some Windows®7 system configurations.
• Factory Reset install may keep previously configured Radeon Software game profiles. This can cause mismatch between global graphics settings and per profile settings.
• Text overflow in some UI boxes or toast messages may be experienced in some language localizations.
• Radeon Software may open with an inconsistent size or may not keep its previously set size when opened.
• Some Vulkan® gaming applications may crash when performing a task switch with Radeon Image Sharpening enabled.
• Integer Scaling may cause some video content to show flicker when the display resolution is set to less than native resolution.

 

I just hate AMD's idiotic installer which just fails if you have Music, Pictures and whatnot mapped to a network drive.
Had a registry script that undid the mappings and one that restored them.

Turns out the newer drivers (2020) now do some additional checks and my scripts won't help any longer. this problem exists since at least 3 years

 

Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2 Release Notes
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-2-2

 

Wrote a quick e-mail to an old friend who works on AMD's graphic drivers about getting annoyed with my undervolting settings and memory timings resetting themselves, he CCed me in with a person who was working on that and he said he had a fix coming soon.

Now I wrote this letter 9 hours ago, can y'all understand why I just HAVE to love AMD? (I wanna name our new puppy Ruby now! )

Weirder still? They fixed my problem!

Link to the drivers, 20.7.1

 

Come back from last year dude! https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-software-driver-announcement-thread.61772/