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AMD Catalyst Control Center
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Nvidia Control Panel

The current control panel for AMD's graphics drivers (known as AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition as of 2022), allows users to have control over anti aliasing, anisotropic filtering, tessellation, framerate capping and voltage adjustment either globally or on a per-game basis.

If you are looking for the (2016) Catalyst Control Center, it can be found here.
As of June 2022, AMD has stopped supporting their older GCN 1-3 GPUs with game optimisations and features. Final legacy driver is released here.[Note 1]

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.[2]
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.[2]
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
  1. Under Settings (gear icon) > Graphics > Advanced
  2. Enable Anisotropic Filtering and set the value to 16

Enable GPU color space conversion

Can help with oversaturated colours on non-sRGB displays[3][4]
May interfere with other monitor control applications[5]
  1. Under Settings (gear icon) > Display
  2. Enable Custom Color
  3. Disable Color Temperature Control

Enable Radeon Super Resolution (RSR)

Requires at least Adrenalin version 22.3.1.
Requires RDNA-based and newer discrete GPUs (RX 5000 (as of 22.7.1) and RX 6000).
Driver-level spatial upscaling feature that is built on the same algorithm as AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 1.0 technology. It delivers near-native resolution and increased performance across thousands of games.
Supports exclusive and borderless fullscreen.

Radeon Image Sharpening (RIS)

Similar to NVidia's Image Scaling (NIS).
Requires at least Adrenalin version 22.3.1.
Driver-level sharpening filter to enhance visuals in any application (games, video playback and productivity applications).

Issues Fixed

Install Adrenalin 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 June 21 2022 the final Windows 7 compatible driver released is [1]
Manually install drivers without the auto-installer
  1. Download and extract the latest AMD Software drivers for your Graphics card
  2. Once the installer fails and says your operating system is unsupported, navigate to where you extracted the driver (usually C:\AMD\).
  3. Navigate to C:\AMD\driver version\Packages\Drivers\Display\W76A_INF\B381983\. The last 2 folders will differ based on the driver version you download (if you need an older version).
  4. Depending on the executable that's available, run ccc_install.exe or ccc2_install.exe

Use SAM with every card still supported by the latest drivers (GCN4+)

This assumes a system (motherboard) that already has it enabled to begin with
Force Resizable Bar[6]
  1. Run regedit.exe.
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
  3. Search and open the registry key with the DriverDesc string corresponding to your GPU
  4. Create three DWORDs named KMD_EnableReBarForLegacyASIC, KMD_RebarControlMode and KMD_RebarControlSupport
  5. Set each of them to 1.

Prevent downclocking/poor performance in older titles

Disable ULPS in registry
  1. Run regedit.exe.
  2. Search for EnableUlps key.
  3. Set its value to 0.
  4. Restart PC to apply the change.
Use ClockBlocker

GPU profiles modify Ryzen CPU settings

Create a new tuning profile in place of the default ones[7]

Issues unresolved

Corruption in OpenGL titles on driver 22.7.1 and later

Rollback to an earlier driver 22.6.1 or before.[citation needed]

Ultra low latency encoding is broken on pre-RDNA cards

Rollback to an earlier driver 23.5.2 or before.[8]

Useful Links

AMD's official website where you can find support and download drivers.

Notes

  1. ↑ Note that despite what the release version number may suggest, this is only pretty much equivalent to the codebase that shipped as 21.5.1 for newer cards.[1]

References