AMD Announces Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition

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The next generation of Radeon driver software arrives next month. Named after the flower Adrenalin Rose, Radeon Software "Adrenalin" Edition represents another entry in AMD’s now-annual cadence, joining 2014’s Catalyst Omega, 2015’s Radeon Software Crimson Edition, and 2016’s Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition.
 
Interesting. adrenalin (without the e at the end) is supposedly an alternate spelling of adrenaline. It also seems to be a trademarked name for some form of the drug. At least according to wikipedia and other sources. Wonder if AMD was aware of that and/or if they even care.
 
Interesting. adrenalin (without the e at the end) is supposedly an alternate spelling of adrenaline. It also seems to be a trademarked name for some form of the drug. At least according to wikipedia and other sources. Wonder if AMD was aware of that and/or if they even care.

They don't care is my guess. The names are used in to entire different business arenas. (Trademark classes)
 
Whats funny about thier software is it was apparently causing slow downs on my computer, mainly on bootups. I could never figure out why my gaming PC/htpc would take 30 seconds just to get past the windows logo (never use to be like this), uninstalled AMD 2 days ago to install my new GTX 1080 and suddenly I'm back to 3 second boot times, not sure what the issue was but the only change software wise was a full uninstall of amd drivers/software
 
They don't care is my guess. The names are used in to entire different business arenas. (Trademark classes)
Right.
Trademark is limited and only applies, for the most part, where overlap could cause consumer confusion (IANAL)
Copyright is the one where you couldn't use it w/o permission but since this may be a generic word it probably cant be copyrighted
 
Whats funny about thier software is it was apparently causing slow downs on my computer, mainly on bootups. I could never figure out why my gaming PC/htpc would take 30 seconds just to get past the windows logo (never use to be like this), uninstalled AMD 2 days ago to install my new GTX 1080 and suddenly I'm back to 3 second boot times, not sure what the issue was but the only change software wise was a full uninstall of amd drivers/software
You probably would have had the same result if you had put a clean AMD install on (if you weren't upgrading to the 1080). I don't think that is a common bug
 
You probably would have had the same result if you had put a clean AMD install on (if you weren't upgrading to the 1080). I don't think that is a common bug
Oh I'm sure your right, I just found it odd that it was the cause of my issues lol
 
Whats funny about thier software is it was apparently causing slow downs on my computer, mainly on bootups. I could never figure out why my gaming PC/htpc would take 30 seconds just to get past the windows logo (never use to be like this), uninstalled AMD 2 days ago to install my new GTX 1080 and suddenly I'm back to 3 second boot times, not sure what the issue was but the only change software wise was a full uninstall of amd drivers/software

My desktop with my Frontier Edition and Windows 10 takes less than 5 seconds to boot normally (Not during updates)
 
Nice to see AMD keeping up with their excellent driver work as of late.

I don't know about "excellent". Many people have been having crashes in BF1 for the past few driver updates. Then there's the Overwatch crash debacle (thankfully they announced that they're finally looking into it). The 17.2 drivers seem to be the most stable "recent" drivers.
 
Whats funny about thier software is it was apparently causing slow downs on my computer, mainly on bootups. I could never figure out why my gaming PC/htpc would take 30 seconds just to get past the windows logo (never use to be like this), uninstalled AMD 2 days ago to install my new GTX 1080 and suddenly I'm back to 3 second boot times, not sure what the issue was but the only change software wise was a full uninstall of amd drivers/software

Not sure if this is related, but one of windows 10 QOL implementations causes bugs with a number of startup processes resulting in duplicate instances of processes starting up. Radeon Settings was one of these, as instances would grow on every boot, even after complete shutdown.

I'm not too sure about how the Windows 10 startup thing works, but I believe it tries to preserve the previous snapshot of Win10 when it was shutdown, so tasks that are used often are kinda ready in memory to be restored.

The work-around is to force a complete shutdown (shutdown in start-menu no longer does this): shutdown.exe /s /f /t 0
 
so basically what you are saying is it could be a MSFT "engineered" oversight that caused/causes problems?

Imagine that o_O lol
 
I don't know about "excellent". Many people have been having crashes in BF1 for the past few driver updates. Then there's the Overwatch crash debacle (thankfully they announced that they're finally looking into it). The 17.2 drivers seem to be the most stable "recent" drivers.

When comparing to Nvidia it's excellent, comparing against prior AMD drivers then "well done"

Linux performance issue, mixed gpus with nvidia is still a nightmare they don't seem to care about or they have a piece of code that causes nightmares when AMD hardware is detected. If I didn't know better I'd think they were trying to make their cards the go to mining cards rather than the second choice when AMD stock is low
 
Whats funny about thier software is it was apparently causing slow downs on my computer, mainly on bootups. I could never figure out why my gaming PC/htpc would take 30 seconds just to get past the windows logo (never use to be like this), uninstalled AMD 2 days ago to install my new GTX 1080 and suddenly I'm back to 3 second boot times, not sure what the issue was but the only change software wise was a full uninstall of amd drivers/software

My guess... just another AMD UEFI issues.. a corrupted UEFI boot file (the one accelerated by GPU) can really hurt the boot times.
 
Not sure if this is related, but one of windows 10 QOL implementations causes bugs with a number of startup processes resulting in duplicate instances of processes starting up. Radeon Settings was one of these, as instances would grow on every boot, even after complete shutdown.

I'm not too sure about how the Windows 10 startup thing works, but I believe it tries to preserve the previous snapshot of Win10 when it was shutdown, so tasks that are used often are kinda ready in memory to be restored.

The work-around is to force a complete shutdown (shutdown in start-menu no longer does this): shutdown.exe /s /f /t 0
Good to know, now that I'm back to team green though my computer works great again lol
My guess... just another AMD UEFI issues.. a corrupted UEFI boot file (the one accelerated by GPU) can really hurt the boot times.

Ya not sure what the cause was, once I finish my sons first pc build I can see if the issue persists.
 
Pretty useless if after 4 months, the latest drivers are still producing crashes for Overwatch. I just want good driver support for one of the most popular games being played right now. Still a post in Blizzard's Tech forums telling players to use drivers from June or July.
 
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