Configuring an AMD graphics card for gaming. AMD says goodbye to Catalyst: new Radeon Software Crimson launches amd radeon setting new

In 2018, many owners of Radeon graphics cards were faced with an unexpected surprise from AMD programmers, in the form of an error message: Radeon Settings version and Driver version do not match... Please try again after updating to the lastest version (s) , which is displayed when you try to open the control panel to change certain settings of the video card.

Service Google translate helpfully suggests that the problem lies in the mismatch of the driver version with the software settings and suggests updating the video driver to the latest version.

I will say right away that no actions aimed at updating the video driver will fix the error. The author of this guide has personally tried multiple complete removal video driver in safe mode using the Display Driver Uninstaller utility and then installing more early versions Line 18, up to 18.2.1 - the error persisted. I consider it impractical to install older versions of drivers, so I propose to spend a small amount of time and eliminate this error once and for all.

0. Updating the existing driver

Before all the "dancing with a tambourine", I still recommend downloading the current version of the video driver for your video card model from the AMD website and operating system and update the existing one.

Deep down, I am still hoping that the developers will come to their senses and fix this error. On the other hand, if it persists, then it is better to fix it in the most recent version than to try to fix an outdated driver.

1. Launch the registry editor

To do this, simultaneously briefly press the key combination Win + R (if you don't know, Win is the key that has the Windows logo on it).

In the opened window Execute, enter the command regedit and press the button OK.

2. Correct the incorrect value in the registry.

In the registry editor, sequentially open the branch (folder):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE → SOFTWARE → AMD → CN

Inside this branch (folder) we find the parameter DriverVersion from which you want to remove the value. To do this, double-click on the parameter name, delete the value in the window that opens, and save the changed (empty) value.

After that, close the registry editor.

3. Apply fixes

In order for the fixes to take effect, you must restart the RadeonSettings.exe process. The easiest way to do this is to restart your computer.

After rebooting, right-click on the screen and select the item AMD Radeon Settings, the video card control panel will open without errors.

For some games, for example, for network shooters, it is not so much the quality of the picture that is important as the high frame rate (the number of frames per second). This is necessary in order to react as quickly as possible to what is happening on the screen.

By default, all settings AMD drivers Radeon are exposed in such a way as to get the highest quality picture. We will configure the software with an eye to performance, and hence speed.

AMD graphics card settings

Optimal settings help to increase FPS in games, which makes the picture smoother and more beautiful. You shouldn't expect a big performance gain, but you will be able to "squeeze out" a few frames by disabling some parameters that have little effect on the visual perception of the image.

The video card is configured using special software included in the software serving the card (driver) with the name AMD Catalyst Control Center.

1. You can access the settings program by clicking PKM on the desktop.

   

2. To simplify the work, we include "Standard view" by pressing the button "Options" in the upper right corner of the interface.

   

3. Since we are planning to adjust the parameters for the games, we proceed to the appropriate section.

   

4. Next, select a subsection with the name Gaming Performance and click on the link "Standard 3D Image Settings".

   

5. At the bottom of the block, we see a slider that is responsible for the ratio of quality and performance. Decrease given value will help you get a small increase in FPS. Remove the checkbox, move the slider all the way to the left and press Apply.

   

6. Go back to the section "Games" by clicking on the button in the "bread crumbs". Here we need a block "Image quality" and link "Smoothing".

   

   Here we also uncheck all the boxes ( and "Morphological filtration") and move the slider "Level" to the left. Select the filter value "Box"... Click again Apply.

   

7. Again we go to the section "Games" and this time click on the link "Anti-aliasing method".

   

   In this block, also remove the slider to the left.

   

8. The next setting is "Anisotropic filtering".

   

   To configure this parameter, remove the checkbox next to "Use Application Settings" and move the slider towards the value "Per-pixel sampling"... Don't forget to apply parameters.

   

In some cases, these actions can increase FPS by 20%, which will give some advantage in the most dynamic games.

Hello everyone. So guys, look, I'm a little confused here. There is an AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition video driver. But Radeon Settings is like new user interface... I read that they redesigned the Catalyst Control Center (CCC) utility at AMD, and so they changed that they decided to give a new name, that is, Radeon Settings. And this new program has a much higher speed of work, everything is conveniently done and works smoothly =)

The Radeon Settings program starts quickly, the video processor settings are conveniently made, there is some kind of new settings manager. They also improved the vidyuhi overclocking options there. In short, everything was done well, now the program works quickly and has a new name.

In general, guys, to be honest, it is vaguely written on the Internet what AMD Radeon Settings is. As I understand it, these are AMD vidyuhi settings, but to be more precise, that is how they named the new shell or even a new program for setting, in short, it is not entirely clear and write so abstruse .. Of course, you should not delete AMD Radeon Settings, because these are settings.

Well, look how this program looks like (here is only part of it, because all of it is too big):

It's not entirely clear what's what, a bunch of settings, I hope that there is Russian here, because without it it will be very difficult to figure it out. At the bottom of the program there are Gaming buttons (I don’t know for sure, but like overclocking settings), the Video button, Display (here, for example, settings for changing the screen resolution), there is also an Eyefinity button (this is like a setting for multiple monitors to work).

So, here I found another picture and I again show only a part of it, because it is large:

Here the Gaming tab is open and we see the settings for overclocking. Although this tab is also open in the first picture, something else is shown there ...

I found another picture like this:

And I also found:

Guys, that's all, I hope we somehow figured out what AMD Radeon Settings is =) Good luck and health!

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition- a comprehensive package of drivers for Windows designed to improve graphics capabilities video cards from the well-known AMD company. By installing them, you can significantly improve the performance of your video card, provide extended control over its functions, and at the same time make the playback of videos and games smoother and more smooth. Additionally, AMD Radeon drivers contain useful utilities that provide convenient control of the multimedia capabilities of your computer. A 64-bit version of Windows 10 is available.

Purpose of the program:

• Improving the performance characteristics of AMD graphics cards.
• Improving the quality of 2D and 3D graphics.
• Flexible configuration of screen parameters: change resolution, color, refresh rate, orientation, etc.
• Configurable up to nine desktops.
• Saving individual parameters for each screen.
• Support for VSR technology - rendering images in more high definition than the one set in the display settings.
• AMD CrossFire support - combining two or more video cards to increase overall performance.
• Smoothing video streams in games using AMD FreeSync technology.
• Manage different applications through a specific desktop.

Among other features, AMD Radeon utilities can assign hotkeys for easier operation and provide settings for some parameters of 3D applications, viewing the characteristics of the hardware responsible for the video.

Installing AMD Radeon Drivers

Installs the package as regular program, v fine settings does not need. Determination of equipment (video cards) on a computer is performed automatically using the Autodetect utility. Download AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition free in Russian is available on this page, all popular versions of Windows are supported.

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, friends, readers and other personalities! Let's try today configure the video card.

We have already talked a lot about drivers, ranging from that and ending with all sorts of, and all sorts of other differences. Today we will continue this topic and talk about more detailed settings.

It's about picking driver settings using the example of AMD Radeon (ATI) video cards using the utility built into them. Here we will not talk about temperatures (because they talked in), overclocking of the video card (because they talked) and the rotation speed of the fans (because they also talked about), but we will consider the functionality of the software that comes with the kit and a bunch of all kinds of settings (which , including, are found in games-applications).

By the way, even if you have a card not from this manufacturer, you should read the article in order to know and, by analogy, be able to configure all sorts of anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, morphological sampling and filtering, triple buffering and much more.

So, the key to the start, moved.

Introductory verbiage

Attention ! Hereinafter, part of the meaningless (water) text, when the article was updated, was retained insofar as there is a lot of it, and there is no desire to rewrite (or delete) entirely for various reasons, and the original author had a different text. Please bear this in mind. For the rest, - the content to help you (it is clickable).

I think I’m not deceiving if I assume that many who read the site "" of the project, no, no, and they sin in their free minute to sit down at their favorite igrulyu in order to plunge into the colorful world of virtual reality.

But that's not a problem, our Wishlist (hardware under the hood of a PC) does not always coincide with the system requirements of newly released toys. And you still want to play poker, and not anyhow, but so that something even moves and speaks on the screen, and does not slow down and lag. What to do in this situation?

Not to buy with every release of a modern toy a new filling for your computer, and, in particular, as the most important component of modern video games? I don’t know about you, but I have no desire to give my hard-earned money in just 1-2 hours of virtual pleasure a week.

At first glance, it may seem that there is no way out, except for throwing money into hardware, but it is, and it is very free and quite effective and it is called - setting up video card drivers for maximum performance... From you, as a user, only straight hands are required :) and this note.

So, good gentlemen, let's get down to squeezing all the juices out of your vidyahya by adjusting its hardware. First of all, I would like to say that this particular article will be devoted to users who have a video card from AMD under the hood of their PC, i.e. radio operators. However, those readers who have given their vote to NVIDIA's piggy bank should also not worry for you, we will prepare an even more delicious article.

Actually, let's get to the point.

Introductory topic and article

Due to the fact that the article is periodically updated and kept up to date (as far as possible), but not completely rewritten, here you can find two versions of the described drivers and settings for.

One of them is talking about "old" drivers for the corresponding cards and software, as well as for the internal layer and interface (sometimes you can dial up to it on certain systems, types of drivers, etc.), that is, we are talking about which you can see on above.

The second version (under a different subtitle) describes the visual and logical appearance more new version, namely AMD Radeon Software (aka, in different periods of time, - Crimson, Crimson Relive, etc., etc.). You can see it below (clickable):

One way or another, regardless of the type of software used (both the first and the second, this is just the driver's environment), settings (they mean the same samples, shader cache memory, anisotropic filtering, and much more), according to their semantic content , are similar and they play a key role.

Therefore, the latter are placed in a separate subheading, the content after which is the most general (including for all video cards) and relevant.

Settings of video card drivers separately from versions and interfaces

What you need to understand here (and further) before setting up:

• If you cannot determine the difference by eye, then you do not need to set the maximum value for anything or look for which one is better, etc. and so on, because these will be letters for letters, numbers for numbers, and so on;
• If everything works quickly and you do not meet corners and irregularities, then no more high values You just don't need it;
• If everything works slowly, then even then and only then is it worth picking out the settings, methods, degrees and methods;
• What is slow and fast, corners and roughness, everyone determines for himself, because it depends on the resolution of the monitor, the speed of its response, application and subjective feelings (for some, "ladders" seem to be the norm, for others, on the contrary, 16X MSAA is not enough).

Now about the settings themselves.

Anti-aliasing mode

determines the levels, degree and method of smoothing surfaces in 3D applications:

• Eliminates ladders (corners) on screens for various models;
• A driver (not in an application) usually has three global meanings: use application settings, improve them, or override;
• When redefined and improved, it allows you to select the degree of anti-aliasing (2X, 4X, 8X, etc., etc., in particular values ​​like 2xEQ, etc.) on which the quality and performance directly depend (stronger anti-aliasing -> requires more resources ->
• In the applications themselves (not the driver), you can often (for some time now) choose a method (type, variant, method, call it what you want), - SSAA, MSAA, CSAA, NFAA, FXAA, DLAA, MLAA, SMAA, TXAA etc;
• The difference in degrees and methods is quickly and easily found in search engines (it is better to immediately search by pictures) or you can determine by eye in a particular application.

Anti-aliasing method

Defines the method (technology, type, variant, method, call it what you want), which is used for anti-aliasing:

• Conventionally, it has three gradations (in the driver settings), - multiple sampling, adaptive sampling, oversampling (the application settings are described above);
• The quality and performance directly depend on the method (anti-aliasing is stronger -> it requires more resources -> if they are not enough, then the performance is lower);
• It is recommended to use the adaptive option, change it in case of performance problems and / or insufficient anti-aliasing when using degrees smoothing.

Morphological (not to be confused with anisotropic) filtering

An additional method of smoothing and filtering the image. "Little known", rarely used, redundant:

• In theory, should improve image quality, but in practice often negatively impacts performance at the cost of a dubious improvement in anti-aliasing;
• Very crookedly speaking, it is engaged not so much in anti-aliasing, but in blurring the final image and its additional filtering, after applying the methods described above, for a more complete understanding (not sure if you need it), you can try reading (English);
• For the above reasons, as well as in connection with often, rather, negative consequences (loss, brakes, etc.), it is worth leaving it off (in fact, it has two positions (on-off).

Anisotropic filtering mode

Improves the quality of textures and images in general by filtering texture images on surfaces that are strongly (and not very) tilted relative to the camera:

• A driver (not in an application) usually has two global meanings: use application settings or override;
• As in the case of anti-aliasing, there can be 2X, 4X, 8X, etc., which determines the quality of the filtering;
• The principle is based on using several copies of the same texture with different details and building the number of texels (the minimum texture unit of a three-dimensional object, if you like, a texture pixel) along the viewing direction and averaging their color. Loads video memory heavily (requires high bandwidth, which in turn is determined);
• Since certain years (from about 2007), it has almost no negative impact on performance, but has a positive effect on image quality, so X16 and older are used everywhere.

Optimizing surface format

As in the case of morphological filtering, it is an additional filtering method, only in this case, not antialiasing, but textures.

• Theoretically, it should, like anisotropic filtering, improve image quality by additionally filtering textures;
• Practically (and visually) it is noticeably small, it usually affects the performance questionably, but it can affect the stability. Recommended to avoid once again resort to this setting.

Wait for vertical update (aka vertical sync, aka V-Sync)

Synchronizes frame rate (FPS) with monitor refresh rate:

• The driver (not in the application) usually has four global values: always disabled, disabled (if not specified by the application), enabled (if not specified by the application), always enabled;
• In rare cases, it allows you to avoid rare, fast, visually subtle "stripes" that seem to break the image into two components, which flow quickly and are even familiar to someone (some do not meet them at all or do not notice them);
• Sold by marketers as a miracle of miracles, smoother images and everything else;
• In fact, due to the FPS limitation (especially if it is below the monitor frame rate as such), it usually negatively affects performance with extremely dubious benefits;
• Statements about reducing noise, energy consumption, etc., by limiting this performance value, are sucked out of the finger, because in the modern world and under normal conditions, the video card itself changes frequencies, power consumption, rotation speed and much more, without artificial restrictions. Double V-Sync is generally gibberish, but that's not what we're talking about now;
• In view of the above, it is recommended that you keep it off at all times. If you really, by eye, in this particular game-situation-configuration see the visual benefit after turning it on and off, then it is turned on.

OpenGL triple buffering (and more)

Exaggerated, it is an I / O buffer that accelerates the speed of access to the generated data:

• Frames are drawn with a frequency lower or higher than the refresh rate of the screen, ready-made (formed by the equipment before the program that sent them back for formation requested them back) are placed in a buffer (storage, so to speak), and the next frame is given for calculation, thus reducing the delay + the program does not need to poll the equipment to receive screen update events and the algorithm can be freely executed as quickly as possible;
• Accordingly, there is double buffering (it is usually used), there is triple (just what we are describing now), double uses two buffers, triple three (maybe more, but this does not make a tangible difference);
• Double: if the system has two buffers, A and B, it can display buffer B while simultaneously generating a new image in buffer A, but you need to wait for the buffers to change due to the imaging delay;
• Triple: if the system has three buffers: A, B and C, it does not need to wait for the change of buffers. It can display buffer B, forming an image in buffer A, in a little more detail.
• What to do: it is worth including, despite the restrictions.

Shader cache

Allows you to store compiled shaders in the cache, which can sometimes significantly speed up processing, reduce the load on the CPU and GPU, operating immediately with ready-made data without unnecessary compilation and taking them from storage.

• Is the value "off" or " AMD optimized"(in other cards the settings may not be, be named differently or enabled by default), it is often not recommended to disable it, because this allows you to achieve smoother footage without unnecessary rendering delays, that is, leave the optimized or enabled position.

Tessellation mode and tessellation as such

This is the thing responsible for the global improvement of the picture. On basic level Is a method of dividing polygons into smaller pieces.

Applying tessellation to the rough model (left) creates a smoother model (in the same picture, but in the middle), using displacement maps (in the same picture, but to the right) gives the characters a cinematic realism.

• Within the driver, it has three options: AMD optimized, use application settings and override application settings;
• Most often, you should leave it as it is, but more often, if for some reason FPS in a game with lower requirements (with more powerful map) small, as well as strange slowdowns, freezes (freezes) and drawdowns where they should not be, it makes sense to use the application settings and / or even manual mode overrides;
• Overriding allows you to set levels from 2x to 64x and higher, or disable it altogether. The level sets the very fragmentation and directly affects the performance and quality of the picture. With this value it makes sense to play with this parameter if something goes wrong. And so too.

Energy efficiency

Allows you to chew an order of magnitude less energy at the cost of productivity loss:

• Turn it off if performance is needed. Perhaps that's all there is to say here.

Frame rate control

Allows you to select and set a frame rate limit in the application, ostensibly, as in the case of vertical sync, to add smoothness to the footage.

• In fact, very few people need it and why, except for the opposite cases - when the frame rate is artificially limited in the application (by settings that cannot be changed), here you can try to override this value with the slider, which allows, in rare cases, to remove this limitation and work on full (or the value that you specified).

Perhaps, from the general settings, this is all there is to know. Let's go through the specific software interfaces, as well as Overdrive and Wattman.

How to configure a video card through the "old" software - Catalyst Control Center

In the process of installing / updating drivers (or, if you have already bought a ready-made PC with a pre-installed OS), in addition to the module itself, which is responsible for showing the picture on the monitor screen, an additional module is installed called Catalyst Control Center (ACCC).

This software shell is a control center for working with video adapters and allows you to perform any manipulations with both the settings of the card itself and the connected monitor.

By default, ACCC resides in the tray on the desktop as a small icon (see image).

However, for some reason, you may not find the icon of the control center in the standard place, then in order to start working with ACCC you need to update your graphics card.

There are many ways to do this, but I prefer to do it using a special free utility from AMD called amddriverdownloader (old name).

Who does not know, this is the technology of automatic detection (search and detection) of the latest driver versions from the manufacturer. Its advantages are in its clarity, convenience, free of charge and automation of the process of searching and downloading drivers. The disadvantages are that it does not always do it correctly, like any automated system.

Thanks to this, now you do not need to go to the manufacturer's website, look for the required video adapter model, drive in your OS and bit depth. You just download the utility, run it at any time, and it determines whether there is anything new according to your firewood and uploads the required distribution kit to your PC. So, to start working with ACCC, we update the drivers through the utility by going to the official website in the Download section and clicking on “Download”.

After downloading, you run standard installation firewood, along with which our today's hero of the occasion will be delivered to you - the control center. To enter it, click on the icon (AMD red-gray) of the desktop tray with the right mouse button and click on the corresponding inscription.

In fact, ACCC is nothing more than a user interface for installing, configuring and accessing the functions of AMD Radeon and Hybrid graphics cards. AMD processors... This app provides video settings for adjusting display settings, display profiles and picture quality.

ACCC plays a very important role in the functioning of your video card and allows you to add the necessary fps (parrots) in games. That is, with it you can run a game or an application that is initially more demanding on the characteristics of your PC at a decent flight level and, in particular, video cards.

Note:
ATI Technologies, known for making computer processors, has developed the Catalyst Control Center (CCC) to complement its Radeon line of graphics cards. The utility first became available for R series video cards. After AMD acquired ATI, the utility became (in old version) be called.

Immediately after starting the center, click on the "Options" button (above the question mark) and select the item - " Expanded view”(See image). Thus, we go into a more advanced mode with more settings and more user-friendly interface interactions.

In the parameters tab, you may also be interested in the item “ Enable taskbar menu"- is responsible for whether or not to display the tray icon and" Restore factory settings”- rollback to clean settings, in case you changed something in optimization :).

Also, by clicking on the question mark, you will call up an extensive help on the control center, where you can study all the settings of the utility up and down.

So, as the name of the utility suggests, " Control center"- it acts as a hub for all options and functions associated with an AMD graphics card. By running ACCC, users have access to various functions:

• Desktop management;
• Setting up digital panels / display;
• Configuring video clip parameters;
• Setting up 3D applications;
• Performance Management, AMD OverDrive - CPU Overclocking and GPU.

Let's take a look at the basics of the settings and walk through the most important tabs in the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

The first thing I would like to draw your attention to is the item “ Desktop properties"in the dropdown menu" Desktop management”. It allows you to change the size, refresh rate, color quality and rotation of the desktop.

Here we are interested in the settings under the numbers (1, 2, 3). It is necessary to set (if they were automatically detected incorrectly) the correct resolution, bit depth (color rendition quality), screen refresh rate, and also set the orientation (landscape or portrait).

To do this, you need to get the documentation (specifications for the monitor) and find there the values ​​of the first and third characteristics in the section “ Technical parameters monitor”.

There are many settings here, and all of them, to one degree or another, are responsible for the beauty of the image, i.e. brightness, color, contrast and others like them parameters. I must say that in most cases standard settings centers are quite satisfactory and do not require any special custom tweaking.

Therefore, it is better not to change them, because changing one will lead to a violation of the general balance and a change in a bunch of related parameters. In other words, even minor adjustments can lead to the image “floating away”. Useful settings for us there will be a tab “Quality”: video quality and deinterlacing.

We need to set the following checkboxes (see image):

• "Dynamic contrast"Is an automatic brightness adjustment depending on the picture on the monitor. Responsible for better display of rapidly changing scenes, for example, when watching movies or playing fast-paced games.
• “Deinterlacing” is the removal of interlacing or “comb effect” when watching a video. To exaggerate, the comb effect is the driving away of a moving object, i.e. when there are two frame fields at once on the monitor screen, displaced relative to each other. Deinterlacing removes this effect.

Also, for a smoother video playback process, you must check the box for “frame change detection” in the video stream when using deinterlacing.

In the "Video" tab there are other settings that deserve our attention and these are:

• AMD Steady Video - shaky image stabilization;
• Global video quality;
• Faster video conversion.

If your home video shakes (as if after a big budun :)), then you need to check the box next to AMD Steady Video. Setting “ Global video quality” –> “Forced anti-aliased video”Allows you to ensure smooth playback of the video stream without dropping frames. We put a tick there.

Setting “ Faster video conversion”Allows you to connect your video resources to the video conversion process. graphics hardware... Check the box “ Enable hardware acceleration”, If you often encode video by means of various players and want to speed up this process.

So, now let's jump over two points "Games" and " performance”And stop at the“ Information ”tab. Actually, there is nothing unusual here, standard information from the manufacturer.

In the tab Homepage AMD is interested in the item “Check for driver updates”, which allows you to download the latest firewood to your computer, ie. update their version and the Catalyst Control Center core itself.

To download the “woodpile of firewood” you need to click on the blue arrow and the driver update process will start.

The next two tabs are Programs and Hardware devices”. Allows you to learn in detail about the hardware devices of the system, graphics adapter and generally get information about the system (button “ System information”).

WITH basic setting sorted it out. Let's now take a look at the performance and overclocking possibilities that reside in the OverDrive section.

OverDrive in the "old" version of AMD driver software

If you are an avid gamer and own a video card from AMD, then you can count on a slight increase in its power for free. Optimal and correct setting will help to squeeze the cherished fps in games and add speed in various 3D applications. Two settings are responsible for this in the control center: “ Performance”And“ Games ”.

Let's consider them in more detail and start in order.

AMD OverDrive Technology is an AMD development for overclocking graphics cards and GPUs at the driver level. To start using it, you must read and accept the terms license agreement(see image).

I think you have a question on your lips: “ What does AMD OverDrive do and how is it useful for me as a user?”. I answer, she:

• Has a set of preset parameters for beginners and overclocking enthusiasts. You can easily select a pre-configured memory profile for optimal performance of your DDR3 memory. You can also manually control performance parameters from the BIOS and create your own profiles for specific applications;
• Automatic frequency control makes overclocking even faster and easier;
• Allows you to control the fan speed to improve performance;
• Allows you to control all of your performance settings, including memory clock speed, voltage and timings.

After accepting the terms of the license and warning that if you have crooked hands better overclocking do not engage (:)), the next window pops up.

Here you can play with settings and add parrots to applications. This method works as follows. We change any of the parameters by several units, go into the 3D application, start the FPS-meter, and if there is an increase in parrots and everything is working stably, then we leave these parameters. Otherwise, we roll back to the default parameters (key E) and change the parameters more carefully, until we find a stable-increased combination of settings.

Note:
For the rolled-up changes to take effect and affect the performance of the system, you must check the box “ Enable Graphics Drive”.

Here are the results (in terms of performance gain) I was able to achieve simply by playing with the graphics card settings and (to a lesser extent) the processor frequencies.

The actual default settings were as follows:

... and the number of fps in the Metro Last Light Redux game (1080p, the settings are very high) were:

And here is what they were changed to (on the map):

... and the number of FPS in the Metro Last Light Redux game with the same graphics settings is:

In total, we have 41 versus 44 - quite a decent result for a couple of gestures with the settings of the card and (to a lesser extent) the processor. If you sit thoroughly and twist the processor properly, then 5-7 extra parrots can be knocked out for sure.

Note:
In addition to the video card, you can with AMD OverDrive can be overclocked and the processor. However, it must be from AMD.

As you hopefully remember, there is one more item on the agenda, this is setting up 3D applications. To start working with them, go to the corresponding ACCC menu:

We see the attachment “ System parameters ”, And in it a table with two columns:“ Features ”and“ Settings ”. At the bottom, you can add a game application ("Add" button) .exe format and set the graphics parameters for a specific game (application), that is, the so-called profile.

You set the local settings (anti-aliasing, filtering, sampling and everything else) based on what is written below, that is, in the first half of the article under the appropriate subheading.

How to set up a Radeon video card through the "new" software - AMD (ATI) Software (Crimson and beyond)

If you have a brand new card, the latest system and drivers, then most likely you already have a fresh version of the software installed to work with the driver settings. It is much more visual, concise and contains very few tabs ( Games, Video, Relive, Display and System), each of which very clearly allows you to control the video card.

The Games section is responsible for managing the main performance settings that are listed above, that is, in the first half of the article under the appropriate subheading.

The "Video" tab is responsible for adjusting the color, brightness and contrast for video and everything that accompanies it. There are several preset profiles, the result of which is visible, as they say, on the fly (start the video and poke the profile with the mouse).

Relive, if installed, allows you to capture video and manage the settings associated with it. We will not comment on anything here, since we are not talking about that.

The "Display" section allows you to manage resolution settings, change the color temperature of the monitor, so to speak, programmatically, set ultra-high resolution, scaling, etc.

The last section, called "System" and contains the "Overview" tabs, " Software "and" Hardware ", will help you find out the current driver version, frequencies, the name of the video card, its detailed characteristics and some of the parameters of the computer.

As you can see, everything here is much more concise and convenient.

Configuring Wattman in the "new" version of AMD (ATI) driver software

In the section with games there are two subsections, one of which is responsible for global settings, the second for deeper (overclocking), which, the section is called (at the time of the article update) Wattman, which replaced Overdrive.

If you decide to overclock and change frequencies, then go to this section and agree with the warning, which informs you that everything you do, you do at your own peril and risk, you may lose the warranty and so on (in general, read the text ).

Next, you will see such a large sheet (you can stretch the window with the mouse), the first section in which is responsible for monitoring the state (frequency, temperature, cooler speed, etc.) over time (that is, at the first start it may be empty, you should wait).

The second section allows you to change frequencies simply and quickly by pulling the slider to the desired percentage and, at the same time, seeing how this affects different states and voltages. The voltage can also be set manually, but this is strongly discouraged. The interest should be increased slowly (preferably 1%), after each of which the video card should be tested for stability for a long time, trying to achieve the maximum gain with maximum stability.

The third section similarly adjusts the values ​​for the memory frequency and memory voltage (which also should not be changed manually if you are not an experienced overclocker), thereby overclocking it. It is worth overclocking the parameters in turn (separately the frequency and separately the memory), and then try to link them together, because one depends on the other (see).

The last section allows you to control the rotation speed of the coolers of the cooling system, depending on the temperature (right side) and in a given speed range (RPM) (from minimum to maximum + acoustic limit).

On this, perhaps, everything that is worth knowing here and can be known. We still recommend controlling speed and overclocking through Afterburner for a detailed article on this topic.

Well, that's probably all the settings that you can tweak to improve the "flyability" and better "demonstration" of 3D applications.

In order for you to have a clearer picture of all of the above in your head, I will give you a general memo titled “ How can I improve graphics performance for games?

Today we have fully figured out the topic of configuring video card drivers. I am sure that now each of you will be able to do it correctly and, if necessary, squeeze extra parrots out of your graphic babies :)

As always, if you have any questions, additions, thoughts, etc., then welcome to the comments on this entry.

PS: Thanks to team member 25 FRAME for the original existence of this article