AMD Radeon Software
AMD Catalyst Control Center |
The current control panel for AMD's graphics drivers, allows users to have control over anti aliasing, anisotropic filtering, tessellation, framerate capping and voltage adjustment either globally or on a per-game basis.
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Simple Modifications
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
- Allows running games in higher resolutions (e.g. 4K Ultra HD) on lower-resolution displays.
- Currently requires a Radeon HD 7790 series card or above, or an A-Series 7400K APU or above.[1]
- Monitor's native resolution must be one of the following: 1366 X 768 @ 60Hz, 1600 X 900 @ 60Hz, 1920 X 1080 @ 60Hz, 1920 X 1200 @ 60Hz, 2560 X 1440 @ 60Hz, 1920 X 1080 @ 120Hz.[1]
- 4K Ultra HD VSR support requires one of the following cards: Radeon R9 285, Radeon R9 380 Series, AMD Radeon R9 Fury Series or newer
Enable Anisotropic Filtering
- Only works with DirectX 9 and OpenGL games
- Under Settings (gear icon) > Graphics > Advanced
- Enable Anisotropic Filtering and set the value to 16
Enable GPU color space conversion
- Can help with oversaturated colours on non-sRGB displays[2][3]
- May interfere with other monitor control applications[4]
- Under Settings (gear icon) > Display
- Enable Custom Color
- Disable Color Temperature Control
Issues Fixed
Install Adrenaline 2020 driver on Windows 8.1
- Unsupported by AMD, will not receive official support as they do not support Windows 8.1 anymore, although most non-DirectX 12 games will run fine.
- As of May 18 2021 the final Windows 7 compatible driver released is Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.5.2
Manually install drivers without the auto-installer |
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Prevent downclocking/poor performance in older titles
Disable ULPS in registry |
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GPU profiles modify Ryzen CPU settings
Create a new tuning profile in place of the default ones[5] |
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Issues Unresolved
Adrenalin 2020 UI forces enable ReLive
- The most essential graphical driver comes already with 300MB of cruft
- The control panel is constantly forcing DvrEnable to 1 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AMD\DVR
Hide the the executable |
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Useful Links
AMD's official website where you can find support and download drivers.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Virtual Super Resolution Technology | AMD
- ↑ What are the odds Dell adds sRGB mode to S2721DGF firmware? : Monitors - Reddit
- ↑ AOC PD27 Review | PC Monitors
- ↑ xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray: Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray | GitHub
- ↑ AMD Radeon Software Reportedly Alters CPU Settings Without User Knowledge | Tom's Hardware