Yesterday, I discovered the manufacture of my video card no longer updates software for my specific AMD video card model. I was shocked and appalled.
It first started with games of OW2 crashing randomly. Usually, the game would crash, but this was different. My whole video feed crashed! I couldnt see my desktop after it happened. Couldnt figure out what was going on until I looked at my video card software. The last software update was released back in August! I couldnt believe it. No updates all the way thru till today. I did some research online and I figured out that AMD stopped updating my Vega 56 video card. That is messed up.
In a panic, I went thru all my stored stuff and I found my old XBOX One S! Just bought a 2-prong power cord for it (I could not find it!) and I bought some Game Pass (2 by accident, did you know theres a “Core” version?). Now all I got to do is hook it up, update the XBOX, update Overwatch 2, then I should be ready before the 6v6 trials on December 17th!
I dont understand… did your drivers just suddenly stop working? That doesnt make a lot of sense.
Also here are drivers for your GPU from October: https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/graphics/radeon-rx/radeon-rx-vega-series/radeon-rx-vega-56.html
Vega 56? geez i thought i was running old gear with my 3090 ti. Time for a upgrade id say the new intel cards are looken real good at a decent price 250.00 ish.
That’s only 2 years old, 3 years in about 4 months. Still not THAT old. It’s still only 1 generation behind. We’re still only able to buy the 40 series cards currently. The 50 series should come out in early 2025 though.
Yeah, 2017 Vega 56 is kinda old huh. Well, I should have saw this coming.
More bad news, my XBox One S doesnt work! I forgot that it stopped working.
Time for plan C: I actually own an Xbox One X that is in pawn right now. I am going to try to get it out of pawn jail by pawning my Numark TTXUSB Turntable. Its all or nothing here!
Plan D is my Switch. I dont want to resort to playing OW2 on a Switch but it IS is option!
For me it is i try to never stay more then 2 generations behind at most. I use to let my gear age but i found tech is just advancing to fast and if you upgrade regular you can re sell your old gear for atleast a decent amount.
Yes, the B580 “Battlemage” is a 12 gb card, that competes with the lower end AMD and Nvidia GPUs (6700xt and 4060 iirc) are coming soon at about $250 USD. They are beating those two cards by about 10-15% and for HALF the price.
Not really. With newer GPUs comes better architecture, faster clocks, and overall less bottle necking between the CPU and GPU. They are supported by drivers to keep them running optimally until they drop support, and that’s just scratching the surface.
Take for example the drastic difference between say a 5700x3D paired with a 4060 ti+, with the same CPU but a weaker GPU, like say a 2060. That GPU is going to cause a bottle neck.
Your CPU would be too strong for the GPU, and it could be vice versa too. It’s good to look for optimal pairings, and keep in mind… That just because you can run it, doesn’t it mean it will do it well. OP’s GPU is the literal example of that.
And it is also false. New drivers are intended to bring better performance but in many cases they also can also cause issues in some games (AMD for example has more “known issues” listed in release notes than the things that a driver is supposed to improve).
Also older games usually doesn’t benefit that much from new drivers since optimizations for specific game is usually done around its launch and never looked again. If they get a performance boost it will be because of some general improvement but in some cases a newer driver may actually break compatibility with older games.
Also if you mismatching CPUs and GPUs on purpose, no driver is going to fix your bottleneck.
