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You have it backwards. The GPU fan bug is in the stable driver, and the fix is in the beta driver. While a lot of teams are moving to a more frequent release s

by Strom 11y ago

You have it backwards. The GPU fan bug is in the stable driver, and the fix is in the beta driver. While a lot of teams are moving to a more frequent release schedule like Chrome, AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year. The 2016 big stable release is the one with the horrible bug.

fnordsensei 11y ago
One big release a year? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why that would be a good idea. Also, I'm not too impressed with the UI change. It looks like they sourced their graphic design from 2008.
- sethhochberg 11y ago
  I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Gigabyte et al, even Intel's tweak tools are all awful. Gaudy, nonscalable, and bitmap-heavy is the name of the game.
- kllrnohj 11y ago
  One big feature release in addition to 6 WHQL driver updates in addition to random beta drops.
Alupis 11y ago
> AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year That's not really true.[1] They release "as needed", which varies in cadence. This is normal for a lot of software. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-driver-updates-releases-catalyst-126-beta http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-...
- Strom 11y ago
  That's outdated info. A newer article, also from AnandTech, nicely goes into detail. "in essence putting major feature updates on a yearly cadence" [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overvi...
  - kllrnohj 11y ago
    From that same link it's 6 WHQL drivers a year, at least that's the plan. Major features on a yearly cadence is not really that big of a change. Major feature here would be things like Eyefinity, FreeSync, etc... This is very different from the monthly/bimonthly updates for performance improvements and bugfixes which is the real reason people update GPU drivers frequently.
jordanthoms 11y ago
AMD used to do monthly updates, but they were too buggy so they moved to updating less often so they could spend more time testing, but the drivers are still buggy. Rapid releases can help but you can't really solve testing problems with release schedules.

by Strom 11y ago

fnordsensei 11y ago

One big release a year? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why that would be a good idea. Also, I'm not too impressed with the UI change. It looks like they sourced their graphic design from 2008.

sethhochberg 11y ago
I can't think of very many hardware vendors (especially in the enthusiast space) who seem to have done much UI design work past 2008 or so... AMD, Realtek, Gigabyte et al, even Intel's tweak tools are all awful. Gaudy, nonscalable, and bitmap-heavy is the name of the game.
kllrnohj 11y ago
One big feature release in addition to 6 WHQL driver updates in addition to random beta drops.

Alupis 11y ago

> AMD for some reason has decided to go for the Apple model of one big release per year That's not really true.[1] They release "as needed", which varies in cadence. This is normal for a lot of software. [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-driver-updates-releases-catalyst-126-beta http://www.anandtech.com/show/5880/amd-discontinues-monthly-...

Strom 11y ago
That's outdated info. A newer article, also from AnandTech, nicely goes into detail. "in essence putting major feature updates on a yearly cadence" [1] [1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overview http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd-crimson-driver-overvi...
- kllrnohj 11y ago
  From that same link it's 6 WHQL drivers a year, at least that's the plan. Major features on a yearly cadence is not really that big of a change. Major feature here would be things like Eyefinity, FreeSync, etc... This is very different from the monthly/bimonthly updates for performance improvements and bugfixes which is the real reason people update GPU drivers frequently.

jordanthoms 11y ago

AMD used to do monthly updates, but they were too buggy so they moved to updating less often so they could spend more time testing, but the drivers are still buggy. Rapid releases can help but you can't really solve testing problems with release schedules.