AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 driver download and discussion

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  1. MerolaC

    MerolaC Ancient Guru

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    AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 Release Notes
    https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-preview-may2022

    Highlights
    • Radeon™ Super Resolution
      • New “Sharpen Effect” slider that allows you to fine-tune the sharpness effect of RSR to your own desired settings.
    • DirectX® 11 optimizations for Radeon™ RX 6000 series
      • Up to 8% increase in performance in DirectX® 11-based games, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus the previous software driver version 22.5.1 RS-470
    • AMD Smart Access Memory optimizations for Death Stranding™ and Watch Dogs™: Legion
      • Up to 10% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 13% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-471
      • Up to 12% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 24% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-472
      • Up to 6% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Death Stranding™ @ 1440p Very High settings and up to 6% increase in performance with new SAM optimizations in Watch Dogs™: Legion, using AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 on the Radeon RX 6950 XT, versus AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.5.1RS-473
    Known Issues
    • Visual corruption may be seen in-game menus on Age of Empires™ II: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires™ III: Definitive Edition using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
    • Some textures may flicker during movement in War Thunder™ using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
    • Foliage corruption may be seen in The Elder Scrolls® Online with ultra pre-set settings using Radeon™ RX 6000 Series.
    • Performance drop may be experienced while playing Fortnite™ with Multithreaded Rendering and DirectX® 11 API on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon® RX 6900 XT Graphics.
    • GPU utilization may be stuck at 100% in Radeon performance metrics after closing games on some AMD Graphics Products such as Radeon™ 570.
    • Display may flicker black during video playback plus gameplay on some AMD Graphics Products such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
    • Using Radeon™ Super Resolution on 2560x1600 resolution displays may produce a system hang. A temporary workaround is to set the display Scaling Mode to Full Panel.
    • Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
    • Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.

    If are on Polaris/Vega or anything that is NOT RDNA 1/2 and you see no improvement, this could be why:

     
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  2. JerseyDevil24

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    Driver May :)
     
  3. Cryio

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    Wait, what is this? Is it like a 22.5.2 preview?

    The SAM changelog makes no sense.
     
  4. JonasBeckman

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    SAM is ReBAR plus AMD driver optimizations so they could have tweaked things a bit allowing per-game optimizations in addition to a whitelist and blacklist system.
    I am fairly certain NVIDIA has a similar function though more than that I do not know.

    This also follows the earlier Zen3 mobile SAM optimizations so this is not the first time for AMD though those could have been something like enabling SAM for Zen3 AMD 6000 series laptop CPU's with the RDNA2 iGPU chips since the cited performance figures were similar to the initial ones AMD used for this.

    EDIT: Ah.
    Those are probably meant to be 1080, 1440 and 2160 not all 1440's :D
     
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  5. Strange Times

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    Dx11 fixed now? wow
     
  6. CPC_RedDawn

    CPC_RedDawn Ancient Guru

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    Just played around 30 minutes of Witcher 3, at least 10fps more and zero hitching too. I used to use DXVK to run in vulkun but this driver has made DX11 not a lot better but a nice improvement.
     
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    [ati2mtag_Navi31]
    FeatureScore=CF
    CopyFiles=DS.Graphics
    CopyFiles=DS.System32
    CopyFiles=DS.SysWow64
    CopyFiles = R300.AMDKMPFD
    AddReg = ati2mtag_SoftwareDeviceSettings
    AddReg = ati2mtag_NAVI_SoftwareDeviceSettings
    AddReg = ati2mtag_Navi31_SoftwareDeviceSettings
    AddReg = ati2mtag_Desktop_SoftwareDeviceSettings
    AddReg = ati2mtag_Post_EG
    AddReg = ati2mtag_Proxy
    AddReg = ati2mtag_Navi31_PX
    AddReg = ati2mtag_PX_DGPU_Only_2ID
    AddReg = ati2mtag_DSUMD
    AddReg = ati2mtag_DSUMD_GFX10_3Plus
    DelReg = ati2mtag_RemoveDeviceSettings
    AddReg = MFTENCRegister
    AddReg = MFTDECRegister
    AddReg = MFTMJPEGRegister
    AddReg = MFTHEVCRegister
    CopyINF = .\amdafd\amdafd.inf
    CopyINF = .\amdxe\amdxe.inf
    CopyINF = .\amdfendr\amdfendr.inf
    ExcludeID = PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7340&SUBSYS_020F106B
    ExcludeID = PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7340&SUBSYS_0210106B
    ExcludeID = PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7310&SUBSYS_0212106B
    CopyINF = .\amdpcibridge\amdpcibridgeextension.inf
    CopyINF=AMDwddmE.INF

    Hmm.
    Maybe part of the ongoing code cleanup and driver optimizations that have slowly been ongoing and while a separate driver also something that has been seen from the AMD Linux driver and commits that have landed recently for Navi30 GPU driver support.

    EDIT:
    ativvaxy_vcn4.dat

    And that's Video Core Next 4.0


    This is a interesting little driver, not just a 22.5.2 preview then but a bit more advanced still. :)
     
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    AMD Software Preview Driver May 2022 is compatible with the following AMD Radeon products.

    Radeon™ RX 6900/6800/6700/6600/6500/6400 Series Graphics
    Radeon™ RX 5700/5600/5500/5300 Series Graphics

    Seems no polaris anymore?
     
  9. Krteq

    Krteq Maha Guru

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    Weird, Vega also not listed there but installed and working perfectly fine
     
  10. Spider-Vice

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    This driver has all the same bugs as the Windows 11 "insider" driver, including random stuttering when hovering over links or clickable surfaces in Chrome, or the "typing" indicator becoming white in text editors. Slowdowns with window animations as well such as minimising windows.
     
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  11. X7007

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    Nice drivers, nothing special about them just the newest.

    I've managed to OC to 2600Mhz and 1.70 Offset voltage so it's fine


    Can you show a video for that? I don't notice that when hovering in guru links and such
     
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    Hi @Hilbert Hagedoorn can you please host this driver by chance :D, as it's really slow from the AMD site for some reason. Verry odd.
     
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    Idk if its me but this driver feels really good, no issues so far and performance seems good.
     
  14. Krteq

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    Same here, pretty solid driver for me on Vega. No issues experienced so far
     
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  15. The Creator

    The Creator Ancient Guru

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    The installation on Win11 22H2 (22616.100) finishes with this:

    smthwrong.jpg

    But after the restart, everything looks to be installed correctly and works fine:

    ccc.jpg
     
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  16. Krteq

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  17. Chastity

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    I'll have to try this later with DA:I
     
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  18. Cryio

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    Is that Crysis performance boost like a GPU bound boost or a CPU bound boost?

    I played Crysis Remastered earlier this year after its final patch hit and I was 100% GPU bound on my 5700 XT (at 900p).
     
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  19. PhazDelta

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    man wtf i am confused two driver at same time ?

    and Adrenalin 22.5.1 Recommended (WHQL) include this optimizations ?

    Sans titre.png
     
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    No, 22.5.1 has the older DX11 library. The May Preview driver has the newer components and driver.
     
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