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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the game-on! dept.

AMD's Latest Radeon Drivers Finally Bring Official Support to Ryzen Mobile

When Ryzen Mobile launched in October of 2017, most probably did not envision the poor state its drivers would be in for over a year. AMD never released an official driver for its Raven Ridge-based mobile APUs, so users had to rely on OEMs like HP that only released a single driver in November.

But at CES 2019, AMD promised to fix the situation with official support for Ryzen Mobile through its Adrenaline drivers. Those are the same drivers that already supported AMD's desktop APUs based on the same Raven Ridge architecture used for Ryzen Mobile. Today, AMD finally delivered on that promise with its newest 19.2.3 drivers.

According to AMD's release notes, the new driver offers an average of 10% more performance in gaming compared to the October Ryzen Mobile driver, and in eSports titles specifically, an average of 17% more performance. Of the games tested, most of them showed double-digit performance gains, especially Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds. These kinds of gains could easily turn an unplayable experience into one that is playable, and such extreme gains are seen because this driver is a year and a half newer than the launch revision.

Also at Engadget.

Related: AMD Finally Pushing Out Open-Source Vulkan Driver
AMD Ceases Graphics Driver Development for 32-Bit Operating Systems


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:46AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:46AM (#807381)

    I play TBS games like Civ or XCOM on my laptop. I've got a real numpad on it too (Thinkpad W540 I picked up used for cheap), so I play roguelikes as well. I could play most games reasonable well if I had a USB/bluetooth mouse, but that would just be one more thing to carry around and get tangled in with the all the other cords in my bag (does anyone know of any good bags/cases that have lots of pockets to store all the shit? I usually have a 2-foot ethernet, 20 foot ethernet, USB->Serial, USB hub, USB-C cable, MicroUSB cable, headphones, plus various needed devices and a laptop and all the assorted spare batteries, charging cables, etc).

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:07AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:07AM (#807393) Journal

    Just get a Logitech M705 wireless mouse. It just works, and the price can be as low as $15 (I think I got mine at Amazon but I have seen them at Costco and other places).

    If you don't have backpack phobia, a good one should be able to carry one or even two laptops and the rest of your equipment. I don't have a specific recommendation. If that's a no go, try a briefcase/messenger bag. They might have less space for your cables though.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:16AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:16AM (#807397) Journal

    Gotta love the numpad.

    In recent years, laptops have been shrinking the bezel (Dell brands this "InfinityEdge"), allowing a 15.6" display to exist in what used to be about a 14" laptop, and so on. Hopefully this doesn't result in models dropping numpads.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday February 27 2019, @02:42AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday February 27 2019, @02:42AM (#807435) Homepage

    I recommend Granite Gear's Campus series backpacks [granitegear.com] on account of them being cheap, well-padded and suited for the outdoors, pockets and compartments out the ass (mine has an internal zipper compartment designed to hold pens, and a compartment with an external zipper designed with a soft interior shammy texture specifically sized for cellphones, to prevent scratching.

    Any one of them with a dedicated laptop compartment will serve you well.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:25AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:25AM (#807466)

      Dedicated laptop compartments are racist, sexist, and homophonic. A macbook should be free to mix with the rest of your products and not segregated away like that.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:36AM

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday February 27 2019, @04:36AM (#807470) Homepage

        That's actually how I use mine. I dump my Dell lappy with numpad into the dedicated compartment along with the wireless mouse and charger. Put phone into the shammy pocket and cram whetever else into all the pockets in-between.