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>Wish the Windows driver were a bit more stable I have an AMD 5700XT in my Windows games machine, and the driver is an absolute travesty. And looking over the

by encom 6y ago

>Wish the Windows driver were a bit more stable I have an AMD 5700XT in my Windows games machine, and the driver is an absolute travesty. And looking over the installed files is a horror show. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll and avcodec-58.dll, because a browser engine and ffmpeg are essential in a device driver. And why does FacebookClient.exe exist? Fuck knows.

qayxc 6y ago
It's even worse with NVIDIA - they ship an entire custom NodeJS with their drivers. Also don't forget that these are user-space apps that are simply bundled with the driver but not necessarily part of it. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll is most likely used by the UI portion of the driver (settings dialogs, radeon software etc.), same with the ffmpeg dll and the facebook client. NVIDIA does the exact same btw. - see [1] [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-updater-0-4-0-1-released-to-customize-nvidia-driver-installations/ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-u...
- encom 6y ago
  I think that crap is only included if you install "Geforce Experience". Nvidia parted off their garbage into an optional component, while AMD forces you to install it. For anyone using Nvidia on Windows, here's a useful tool to carve out most of the trash from the driver prior to installing. https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/ https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstal...
  - tracker1 6y ago
    Still nothing compared to typical RGB control software, that on Windows only runs while actively logged in (stops when locking the screen/desktop) instead of a tight/light service that uses the "last known" config that updates from the desktop/gui. Let alone painfully missing tecnical docs or support for Linux.
wj 6y ago
I have the same card and have issues with locking up and crashing in both Windows and Linux. It looks like the kernel in Ubuntu 20.10 might have a fix for some of issues.
bavell 6y ago
Does AMD make you sign in to open their locally-installed driver utility? Nvidia seems to have thought it was a good idea and went ahead and did that a year or so ago...
- encom 6y ago
  No, and neither does Nvidia. "Geforce Experience" is not the driver. It's just bloatware nobody needs.

by encom 6y ago

qayxc 6y ago

It's even worse with NVIDIA - they ship an entire custom NodeJS with their drivers. Also don't forget that these are user-space apps that are simply bundled with the driver but not necessarily part of it. Qt5WebEngineCore.dll is most likely used by the UI portion of the driver (settings dialogs, radeon software etc.), same with the ffmpeg dll and the facebook client. NVIDIA does the exact same btw. - see [1] [1] https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-updater-0-4-0-1-released-to-customize-nvidia-driver-installations/ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/13/nv-updater-nvidia-driver-u...

encom 6y ago
I think that crap is only included if you install "Geforce Experience". Nvidia parted off their garbage into an optional component, while AMD forces you to install it. For anyone using Nvidia on Windows, here's a useful tool to carve out most of the trash from the driver prior to installing. https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstall/ https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-nvcleanstal...
- tracker1 6y ago
  Still nothing compared to typical RGB control software, that on Windows only runs while actively logged in (stops when locking the screen/desktop) instead of a tight/light service that uses the "last known" config that updates from the desktop/gui. Let alone painfully missing tecnical docs or support for Linux.

wj 6y ago

I have the same card and have issues with locking up and crashing in both Windows and Linux. It looks like the kernel in Ubuntu 20.10 might have a fix for some of issues.

bavell 6y ago

Does AMD make you sign in to open their locally-installed driver utility? Nvidia seems to have thought it was a good idea and went ahead and did that a year or so ago...

encom 6y ago
No, and neither does Nvidia. "Geforce Experience" is not the driver. It's just bloatware nobody needs.