I’m pissing myself laughing over this driver. With my RX 480 I had a cursor corruption on one of my 2 screens that the only work around I had found was to launch the windows magnifier function. Well about a month ago the cursor corruption magically cleared itself. And I see that the latest driver states that they fixed the cursor corruption issue.
Well I’ve updated to the latest drivers & guess what - the corruption is back! Not major as I was working around it, but it’s funny seeing how the issue was supposedly fixed.
Additionally I went ahead & ran some benchmarks here on my work PC to see if there were any improvements over the older drivers & I’d say they’re there, but minimal - but I’m likely to be bottlenecked on my CPU (FX-4100 AM3+), so I’m planning on swapping the RX 480 out for either a GTX 950 or an HD 7950 & seeing how it runs with an i7 4770 at home.
There’s a bunch more fixes listed in release notes linked in original post ^
Unless someone tells me otherwise, AMD’s new term for “beta” is “optional”. It used to be “hotfix”. So I have listed this on as beta.
I think this a better swap in terminology. As far as I know Beta drivers still exist & the “optional”/“hotfix” ones are primarily to combat the “AMD drivers suck” mentality that still persists. This allows them to update regularly for new games & bugs without overhauling everything. In my opinion they’re doing it the right way. A full driver overhaul (like they did for ReLive) should be major & infrequent.
Also naming it “optional” is a step up from the competition whose driver updates are constant & in your face. I got rid of GeForce Experience for that, amongst other reasons. Happy to simply look through driver updates when I need to as opposed to being bashed about the face with requests every time I start the PC.
There’s a bunch more fixes listed in release notes linked in original post ^
Unless someone tells me otherwise, AMD’s new term for “beta” is “optional”. It used to be “hotfix”. So I have listed this on as beta.
I think this a better swap in terminology. As far as I know Beta drivers still exist & the “optional”/“hotfix” ones are primarily to combat the “AMD drivers suck” mentality that still persists. This allows them to update regularly for new games & bugs without overhauling everything. In my opinion they’re doing it the right way. A full driver overhaul (like they did for ReLive) should be major & infrequent.
Also naming it “optional” is a step up from the competition whose driver updates are constant & in your face. I got rid of GeForce Experience for that, amongst other reasons. Happy to simply look through driver updates when I need to as opposed to being bashed about the face with requests every time I start the PC.
They didn’t change anything in how they develop drivers. They just call “beta” “optional” now. There’s no “overhaul” when they make “official” drivers. It’s all incremental. “Official” just means they beta tested it enough that they feel safe in calling it “official”.
gord0 Yeah - I just thought the Beta’s still existed & the they changed the name of hotfix, because you “fix” something that is broken hotfixes used to be game dependent, so you could choose not to implement? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
gord0 Yeah - I just thought the Beta’s still existed & the they changed the name of hotfix, because you “fix” something that is broken hotfixes used to be game dependent, so you could choose not to implement? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
At one point they had both “betas” and “hotfixes”, then they stopped using the term “beta”. Either way in any piece of software something is always “broken”, and all updates are “fixes”. Either way they’re both betas as they won’t call them “official”.
New one! Fixes for Conan Exiles Beta, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta, Diablo III, FIFA 17, Watch_Dogs 2, Paragon, and Forza Horizon 3. Also a handful of other general fixes. See release notes ^
I’m also now going to start putting two links, one for beta and one for official. AMD has started declaring old betas as new officials, so this way we’ll also be able to track the official in addition to beta.