Hi, just got this notice popping up on Steam. Although it is for another game (SpaceEngine) this may be of interest, as from time to time AMD users report issues. This is a WARNING to users of AMD graphics cards NOT to use the 22.7.1 optional drivers with SpaceEngine! These drivers break numerous things in SE and make it practically unusable. The worst issue is extremely slow loading of terrain textures on stars and planetary bodies. Auto exposure is also broken, as are bloom, glare, diffraction spikes, and any other feature that relies on the same low-res image buffer as those. The cause for the extremely slow terrain loading (up to 500 ms per tile on a system with a 6700 XT, Ryzen 5600, 32 GB of high-speed RAM, and NVMe SSDs) seems to be that this driver version reports the physical VRAM amount as being the sum of both physical AND virtual VRAM, and when SE runs, data is sent to both physical and virtual VRAM interchangeably, instead of only using physical VRAM until it's full. This means, instead of terrain tiles being stored only in the very fast memory directly connected to the GPU, data is ALSO sent through the PCIe bus to the CPU to be redirected to the virtual VRAM pool, which is dozens of times slower than just using the GPU's dedicated VRAM. The cause of the other issues requires further investigation. We still need to investigate and try to discuss with AMD why these issues are happening and how to fix them. In the meantime, do NOT use the 22.7.1 optional drivers, and instead use the 22.5.1 recommended (WHQL) drivers , which in our testing was actually the best driver for running SE that AMD has released in a long time, and seemed to fix at least 1 major causes of glitches, freezing, and crashing on AMD GPUs. We will keep you updated on this issue and will let you know when it's resolved.
The software always seems to be AMD's Achillies heel, shame because their hardware is usually pretty good, I remember a time when I'd always build with AMD gear, not for many years now though.
Always used Nvidia cards, never disappointed. I can remember a lot of issues on gaming forums even 20 years ago with ATI drivers.
