Topic-Free Mega Thread - v 1.1.2021

Aemony · August 21, 2021, 1:04pm

trowgundam:

Do I need to do something special with FFXV in HDR with SpecialK? Withough SpecialK in HDR, its fine, non-HDR with SpecialK it is fine. But if I use SpecialK with HDR turned on, everything is way brighter than they possibly should be. You can really tell with the moon as it is basically a bright white circle, you can 't see any details what so ever. Another telling indicator is when you are starting up the red parts of the Square-Enix logo are red as they fade in, but becomes orange quickly, and as it fades goes back to red. I tried messing with options. This is without even having SpecialK’s HDR stuff turned on. Turning that one doesn’t really help. I tried all the tone mapping options, and the worse is by far the Native HDR, where the bright highlights just go black. I was able to get sorta normal with Passthrough and then setting my Peak and Paper White brightness both to 80nits. Some things are still overly bright and washing out details, but is much, much better.

Ctrl+click on the sliders and try 70 nits instead. That was what worked for me in the remastered Mass Effect games.

As for why this happens, it’s usually because SK sorta expects broken HDR.

trowgundam · August 21, 2021, 1:26pm

I’ll try that. I sorta worked around it by just going in and setting the Hide HDR option in SpecialK, so that FFXV’s HDR didn’t kick in. But to be honest, I kind of preferred FFXV’s native HDR over what SpecialK does. I know that technically SpecialK’s HDR is probably “better” since there is a greater contrast, but some of the blacks seem slightly crushed. I can still see the details, if I look closely, but it is really hard to see from my normal distance from my monitor. It just looked better overall with FFXV’s native HDR. I’m sure I could dial it in with SpecialK, but I’ve never really understood how to do the HDR tuning with SpecialK. I normally just messed around with the sliders till I found something I thought looked decent.

Aemony · August 21, 2021, 1:39pm

FFXV’s HDR implementation is, if I remember it correctly, one of the better ones on PC, so that it would be superior to Special K’s retrofit doesn’t surprise me.

JonasBeckman · August 25, 2021, 6:47pm

Another AMD driver this time 21.8.2
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-8-2

Support For Myst™ Up to 6% increase in performance in Myst @ 4K Medium settings with Raytracing enabled, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.8.2 on the 16GB Radeon™ RX 6800XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver edition 21.8.1.RS-398 Aliens™: Fireteam Elite(edited)

Fixed Issues Users may experience difficulties ending a recording session on Open Broadcaster Software™ when recording in H265/HEVC codec on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800 XT. While playing F1® 2021 in Split Screen mode, image corruption may be observed on one of the players’ screens. Radeon software application may become unresponsive when some users attempt to launch the application. While playing Control™ using DirectX® 12, users may observe corrupt light rays on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6600 XT. Upgrading to the latest Radeon™ graphics driver may cause the auto update feature on Ryzen™ Master to stop working.(edited)

Known Issues Open Broadcaster Software™ may continue to run in the background after a user ends a recording session and closes the application. Visual artifacts in PAYDAY™ 2 may be observed during gameplay on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800 XT. AMD is investigating a black screen issue that may be experienced while playing Myst™ or Kingshunt™ on some Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics products. A temporary workaround is to disable Performance Metrics Overlay or Radeon™ Image Sharpening in Radeon Software. Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 Series Graphics. Radeon Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode. Playing Horizon Zero Dawn™ for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT. 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. Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products. Radeon performance metrics and logging features may intermittently report extremely high and incorrect memory clock values.(edited)

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.(edited)

Footnotes RS-398 – Testing conducted by AMD as of August 18, 2021 on a test system comprised of a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 16GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU with Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.8.2 and 21.8.1 on Myst. Game tested with Medium preset at 4K with ray tracing enabled. Performance may vary.

JonasBeckman · August 31, 2021, 2:01pm

Via the Discord channel discussion and a link to VideoCardZ

NVIDIA 471.96 is out.

Windows 10 Issues

[Deathloop][HDR]:TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.

[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After overinstalling the driver using express install when GPU scaling is enabled, the 0.59x upscaling factor is missing from the NVIDIA Control Panel scaling resolution list (Display > Change Resolution page).
To work around, disable and then re-enable GPU scaling. Alternatively, perform a clean driver installation.

[Battlefield V][DirectX 12]: The game may crash with HDR enabled. [3353767]
To work around, enable HDR from the Windows display settings before launching the game.

[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 may display graphical artifacts. [200754013]

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through
water. [3338967]

JonasBeckman · September 13, 2021, 5:51pm

21.9.1 AMD
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-9-1

Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.9.1 Highlights
Support For
Deathloop™
Call of Duty® Vanguard Open Beta
AMD Smart Access Memory on Radeon™ RX 5000 Series Graphics

Added Vulkan® Support
VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory
This extension allows implementations to use the null constant initializer on shader workgroup memory variables. This in turn allows applications that run untrusted content to defeat memory-scraping attacks.
VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
This extension adds support for the integer dot product SPIR-V instructions defined in SPV_KHR_integer_dot_product. The SPV_KHR_integer_dot_product extension allows dot product operations on integer vectors with optional accumulation. In addition to allowing dot product operations for all input vector types, it also allows integer dot product for 4-component vectors of 8-bit integers that are packed into 32-bit integers.
VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float2
This extension provides shaders with the capability to perform 16-bit floating-point atomic operations on buffer and workgroup memory. It additionally allows floating-point atomic minimum and maximum operations on buffer, workgroup, and image memory.
VK_EXT_load_store_op_none
This extension allows an application to specify the contents within the render area that will not modified or can be expected to be undefined after rendering.

Fixed Issues
Visual artifacts in PAYDAY™ 2 may be observed during gameplay on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800 XT.
Connecting two displays with large differences in resolution/refresh rates may cause flickering on Radeon RX Vega series graphics products.
On Radeon™ RX 5500 XT Graphics, higher than expected memory clock speed and power consumption may be experienced when idle and the display’s resolution and refresh rate are set to specific values such as 1080p @ 60Hz.
While playing Assassin’s Creed® Odyssey, driver timeouts or black screens may be experienced on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 480 Graphics when the user quickly navigates through the game menus or swiftly looks around an environment with their character.

Known Issues
Open Broadcaster Software™ may continue to run in the background after a user ends a recording session and closes the application.
Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 Series Graphics.
AMD Radeon™ Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
Playing Horizon Zero Dawn™ for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
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.

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues
Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.

JonasBeckman · September 20, 2021, 1:55pm

NVIDIA 472.12 via the Discord discussion again.

JonasBeckman · September 22, 2021, 3:55am

AMD 21.9.2
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-9-2

Support For
World War Z™: Aftermath
Diablo® II: Resurrected™
Up to 13% increase in performance in Diablo® II: Resurrected™ @ 4K Very High settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.9.2 on the 12GB Radeon™ RX 6700XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver edition 21.9.1.RS-403
New World™

Fixed Issues
In Radeon™ Software, the CPU Additional Metrics section within the Performance tab may be missing for some users.
Some users may receive a compatibility error message when they attempt to load a previously saved tuning profile.
While playing Hitman™ 3 on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800 XT, users may experience an issue where water along the shores becomes missing.
The Auto Overclock feature for CPU in Radeon™ Software may be missing for some users with an AMD Ryzen™ 5000 series processor and AMD Radeon™ 6000 series graphics card.

Known Issues
Open Broadcaster Software™ may continue to run in the background after a user ends a recording session and closes the application.
Driver timeouts may be experienced while playing a game & streaming a video simultaneously on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 500 Series Graphics.
AMD Radeon™ Software may crash or become unresponsive while playing some DirectX® 11 games such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode.
Playing Horizon Zero Dawn™ for an extended period may lead to a driver timeout or game crash on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.
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.

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues
Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.

JonasBeckman · October 5, 2021, 3:43am

AMD 21.10.1
Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.1 Release Notes | AMD

JonasBeckman · October 11, 2021, 6:57pm

AMD 21.10.2
Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.2 Release Notes | AMD

JonasBeckman · October 12, 2021, 4:22pm

NVIDIA 496.13

Windows 10/11 Issues
[Doom Eternal][HDR][FSR]: Eternal]: Texture across the game darkens and is unplayable after enabling HDR + FSR. [200776916]
[Rise of the Tomb Raider]: Characters and background disappear and corruption is prominent when Anti-Aliasing is set to SSAA 2X and SSAA 4x. [200777463]
[Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
[YouTube]: Video playback stutters while scrolling down the YouTube page. [3129705]
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 may display graphical artifacts. [200754013]
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through water. [3338967]
[HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few seconds before returning to normal operation.
[NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type to “dGPU”, the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
Windows 11]: Display goes blank when video is switched to full-screen with G-Sync enabled. [200778687]

JonasBeckman · October 26, 2021, 3:56am

AMD 21.10.3
Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.10.3 Release Notes | AMD

JonasBeckman · October 27, 2021, 12:23pm

NVIDIA 496.49
NVIDIA DRIVERS GeForce Game Ready Driver WHQL

BkNVR495_Win10.book (nvidia.com)

Game Ready for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
This new Game Ready Driver provides support for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which utilizes NVIDIA DLSS to boost performance by up to 2x. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest new titles and updates, including Age of Empires IV, Battlefield 2042 Early Access, Call of Duty: Vanguard, Chivalry 2, Forza Horizon 5, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, Jurassic World Evolution 2, and Riders Republic

Security:
NVIDIA Product Security | NVIDIA

Aemony · October 28, 2021, 6:09pm

Huh, I thought the GTA remaster would be released next year — not this one.

JonasBeckman · October 29, 2021, 4:12am

Yeah I assume Rockstar or the developer these were contracted to if that’s how it was done has been working on these up until QA testing and certification so the official reveal came up at the end of this development process.

Works pretty well I guess, just need some comparison images and a launch trailer the games are well known so extensive marketing isn’t required and instead it can seem like the game is almost ready immediately after being revealed.

JonasBeckman · October 30, 2021, 4:05pm

21.10.4 AMD
Small hotfix type driver.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-10-4
Fixed Issues
Visual corruption may be observed while playing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon RX 6800 Graphics.

EDIT: Don’t quite TM in the future I guess, that really stands out.

JonasBeckman · November 2, 2021, 12:45pm

Hotfix driver for NVIDIA
496.61
GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 496.61 | NVIDIA (custhelp.com)

JonasBeckman · November 4, 2021, 3:13am

21.11.1 AMD
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-21-11-1

Support For
Call of Duty®: Vanguard
Forza Horizon 5™
Up to 23% increase in performance in Forza Horizon 5 @ 4K Extreme Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.11.1 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.2RS-426.

Fixed Issues
Users may experience display corruption issues when they set their Samsung™ Odyssey G9 C49G95T monitor to 5120X1440 @ 240Hz.
While playing Call of Duty®: Warzone, some users may observe visual artifacts when moving the cursor in the in-game menu.

Known Issues
During Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 5500 XT Graphics. A temporary workaround is to disable the Radeon™ Anti-Lag feature in Radeon™ Software.
Some users may experience elevated disk space consumption by the Multimedia Athena Dumps folder.
Visual artifacts may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800M Graphics.
While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon™ Software may become unresponsive when the user is in the lobby and attempts to open Radeon Software on the secondary display via the context menu. A temporary workaround is to press the Alt + R keyboard shortcut if this happens.
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.

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues
Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.

JonasBeckman · November 12, 2021, 5:27am

21.11.2 AMD
Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 Release Notes | AMD

Support For

Battlefield™ 2042

Up to 14% increase in performance in Battlefield™ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6900 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-431

Up to 15% increase in performance in Battlefield™ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6800 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-432

Up to 11% increase in performance in Battlefield™ 2042 @ 4K Ultra Settings, using Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 21.11.2 on the 16 GB Radeon™ RX 6700 XT graphics card, versus the previous software driver version 21.10.4.RS-433

Known Issues

During Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy™ gameplay, some users may experience driver timeouts on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 5500 XT Graphics. A temporary workaround is to disable the Radeon™ Anti-Lag feature in Radeon™ Software.

Some users may experience elevated disk space consumption by the Multimedia Athena Dumps folder.

Visual artifacts may be observed while playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War on some AMD Graphics products such as Radeon™ RX 6800M Graphics.

While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds™ with multiple displays connected in extended mode, Radeon™ Software may become unresponsive when the user is in the lobby and attempts to open Radeon Software on the secondary display via the context menu. A temporary workaround is to press the Alt + R keyboard shortcut if this happens.

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.

AMD Link for Windows Known Issues

Intermittent grey frame corruption might be observed when streaming with HEVC on certain configurations via an Internet connection. A workaround is to use the AVC encoding setting instead.

JonasBeckman · November 16, 2021, 1:06pm

From:

496.76

https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/496.76/496.76-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

Fixed Issues in this Release
 [WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship/WRC 9 FIA World Rally Championship]: The games
crash on launch. [3409320/3409312]
 [Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint]: Textures in the game may flicker. [3410593]
 [Transport Fever]: The game crashes upon launch. [3411731]
 Transport Fever 2]: Null pointer exception occurs in the display driver. [3409614]
 [Quake 2 RTX]: Image corruption occurs in the blurred (bloom effect) background. [3410802]
 [Far Cry 6][DirectX 12][GeFOrce RTX 3070 Ti]: With ULTRA + DXR + HD textures set, the game
crashes at 4K. [3391784]
 [Detroit Become Human]: Random stuttering/freezing occurs in the game. [3389250]
 [Red Dead Redemption 2]: The game crashes with TDR or the system crashes while running
the game. [200766423]
 [Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War]: The game randomly crashes. [3413347]
 [Marvel’s Avengers Xbox Game Pass for PC version]: Game may randomly crash during
gameplay [3404644]

Windows 10/11 Issues
 [Supreme Command:Forged Alliance/Supreme Commander 2]: Performance drop when
there is mouse movement. [3405920]
 [Deathloop][HDR]: TDR/corruption occurs in the game with Windows HDR enabled.
If this issue occurs, toggle the Windows HDR setting.
 Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed may crash on courses where players drive through
water. [3338967]
 [HDR][G-Sync]: Mouse pointer gets stuck after turning on HDR from the Windows Control
Panel or after toggling G-Sync from the NVIDIA control panel. [200762998]
To work around, click the mouse (right or left button). The mouse cursor will be sluggish for a few
seconds before returning to normal operation.
 [NVIDIA Advanced Optimus][NVIDIA Control Panel]: After setting the display multiplexer type
to “dGPU”, the setting is not preserved across a reboot or resume from S4. [200779758]
 [YouTube]: The YouTube web site randomly displays extreme contrast/gamma while idle or
during video playback. [3420164]
 [NVIDIA Image Scaling][Desktop]: The screen moves to the upper left corner on cold boot
when Image Scaling is applied to the desktop. [3424721]
Do not apply NVIDIA Image Scaling to the desktop. It is intended only for video upscaling or for
games which do not run with a scaling resolution unless the same Image Scaling resolution is
applied on the desktop.
 [NVIDIA Image Scaling][DirectX 11 video apps]: With Image Scaling enabled, video playback is
corrupted or results in a system hang after performing an HDR transition. [3431284]
If HDR is required to be toggled from the Microsoft Control Panel, be sure to switch to a different
Image Scaling resolution
[NVIDIA Image Scaling]: After performing a clean install or over install over version 496.49,
NVIDIA Image Scaling resolutions do not appear in the game. [3434708]
To work around,
a. Disable HDR in case it’s enabled from the Microsoft Control Panel, enable Image Scaling and
apply the Image Scaling resolution on the desktop, and then reboot the system.
b. If the previous instructions do not work, upgrade to the hotfix driver 496.84.