16.101.X [Pre-GCN driver pack]

Does this work with a hd2900xt?

 

No, this is DX11 gens only.
I seem to remember FLEM was the thing for older cards, though I wouldn't know whatever advantage it could give you over the latest normal 13.9 drivers.

 

@user1 mr. ancient guru
hi, could my architecture be added to the inf file path?

AMD Apu A8-5557m
With Radeon HD 8550g (integrated) + HD 8750m

My current drivers are from the softwares: catalyst 15.7.1 and crimson 16.2.1 on top of that.

8550g driver: 15.3.xxx
8750m driver: 15.2.xxx
(Can’t remember full number, I can update this)

this is my laptop.
https://www.newegg.com/polar-black-acer-aspire-v5-552g-8632-mainstream/p/N82E16834314119

 

Use DDU and install only one driver, either one from this post or the 16.2.1 beta.

 

I'm using an HD 5670 again during Christmas season and apparently they're no longer allowing hardware acceleration in Chrome or Edge Chromium, and ignoring the blacklist eventually results in a non-responsive browser window that you'll have to terminate the process for. Doesn't matter whether it's the 15.7.1 or the last beta driver.
Firefox reports it as supported though and it seems to work without issues.


It's also damn annoying that all browsers seem to default to VP9 on youtube now, which takes up almost all CPU resources on this Core 2 Quad. This generation of hardware really is coming close to its end now.

 

ive noticed that my penryn xeon quad handles vp9 pretty ok , 1080p only uses about 20-30% cpu, unlike my older dual core conroe based system , which will max out before 720p , those sse4 instructions seem to be pretty important for decoding.

 

Ignore the blacklist and start Chrome with the following 2 parameters:

Code:

--disable_d3d11 --disable_d3d11_video_decoder

and see how it goes. You are basicaly making it fall back to dx9 that is in a better shape (still shitty starting with 15.7). Directx 11 and AMD is meh at best... (My HD 7750 with recent drivers has a passion to crash the driver when I watch videos h264 in Chromium based browsers, and it's not that it crash the driver it takes the OS with it also. Apparently with the 2 parameters above things are better. VLC with default settings has stutter, I have to change the Video Output to Direct3D 9 and Hardware Accelerated Decoding to DXVA 2.0 to get rid of the stutter.)
You can try to add this parameter too:

Code:

--disable_decode_swap_chain

but I doubt this one will do much.

For youtube h264ify is your friend.

Other things regarding this. All drivers AMD after 15.7 (including 15.7 here) are plain awfull. I believe they did some nasty hack to improve the draw calls/performance that is causing problems. They basicaly traded stability over performance something that you plain don't do (assuming you care, but then again I don't believe AMD cares about something else than money, main reason the HD 7750 and Athlon x4 640 were the last products I bought from AMD).
Older drivers proved to have less issues and be more stable but for some reasons those drivers ended up blacklisted in browsers.
The moment browsers moved to Dx11 things started to be meh at best for AMD due to the poor Dx11 implementation in AMD drivers. AMD useless pushed Mantle(Vulkan) and Dx12 cause those things won't shine soon in other places than games (games can afford to be Vulkan, DX12 only an OS can't afford and it's just cheaper to go with the lowest supported API than have 3 GUI renders...).
L.E.: Yes I know that I used the HD 7750, this is the only AMD/ATI that I still have access too. 12.12-15.7 Were used with the HD 5670 that I no longer had and problems were similar with HD 7750, probably I was hitting bugs in the code that was shared for all architectures...
L.E 2: My old GT 220 is in a better situation compared to my HD 7750. Hilarious.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/TechEpiphany/status/1410349823312662533

Can anyone test it ?

Edit: just a leftover mistake

 

I've been having to use my 6870 in my main PC. There appears to be a bug with the drivers where if I plug in my third monitor, my second 1440p display gets limited to 1920x1200 and I can't increase it, not even custom resolutions work. What got me my full resolution on my secondary 1440p monitor was downgrading my driver to 13.12.

 

I learned while ago that on 6000 series gpus, >1200p is only officially supported over display-port and dual-link dvi, if you are using hdmi or sl-dvi, 1200p is the max. and those cards only suport a max of 2 hdmi/dvi links at any given time. ie 2 1200p 60hz screens over hdmi/dvi.

You can however use the atikmdag patcher (https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher) to remove the driver imposed limits(effectively letting you overclock the display controller), might be a suitable solution for your purposes.

 

I own an amd 6770m laptop. I tried running bleach souls ressureccion through rpcs3 using opengl( Opengl is the only option allowed there for this my card) but everytime I do that, the PS3 emulator closes or gives the error "fatal error: failed to bind opengl" . I use 16.9.1 crimson mod

 

I've also been checking this channel out for 2 years, but decided to register today. I notice the non gcn cards can't render FIFA 19 field properly. Dunno if there's a fix for it. Which driver would you recommend as a good fix for this. I've tried the catalyst 15.7, crimson 16.2 then the crimson mod 16.9 but the field error still persists

 

I've also been checking this channel out for 2 years, but decided to register today. I notice the non gcn cards can't render FIFA 19 field properly. Dunno if there's a fix for it. Which driver would you recommend as a good fix for this. I've tried the catalyst 15.7, crimson 16.2 then the crimson mod 16.9 but the field error still persists

 

Use NimeZ.