WTF......Wattman......

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Ok, I have a fairly old system that has Crossfired R290X GPUs.

I was going to use it to run the new mMod in HL2 to see how it looks.

I guess when I loaded new drivers a while back, I clicked and accepted Wattman.
Now I guess it is directly conflicting with MSI Afterburner, my GPUs wont ramp up to the usual gaming clocks. The GPUs have always responded normally to Afterburner.

Both GPUs are stuck at 300 MHz. Usually they will run all day OC'd at 1000 MHz.

Of course the game runs like shit.

How do I disable Wattman? Or do I have to uninstall the drivers and reload then ignoring Wattman this time around.

Disabling Afterburner has no effect on my clocks.

Input appreciated.
 
first i have heard this happen before.....i dont usually bother with DDU but in this case i would.....are you using the newest 19.1.1 driver?
 
I got home and uninstalled t he AMD drivers and ran DDU. ( I was using the most recent driver set)

I reinstalled the driver set and also updated Afterburner.

I didnt go any where near Wattman.

Everything is now normal again.
 
wattman doesn't do anything if you don't have any customer settings enabled. if you did Just hit reset settings and leave it.
 
NKD said:
wattman doesn't do anything if you don't have any customer settings enabled. if you did Just hit reset settings and leave it.
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If I'm not mistaken, all I did was accept the terms on the disclaimer page.
I didn't touch any settings, but still the program interferred with my Afterburner.

It's all good now, but I wish AMD would simply drop this kind of software. Just my 2 cents worth.
 
Could not agree more, Afterburner and Rvia tuner generally are "good enough" and the extra settings that used to be driver specific to control GPU setting for games, online video etc were in the driver control panel, worked plenty fine.

If they want to use Wattman for the CPU overclock stuff, so be it, but the GPU side, nope, give full ability back to Afterburner or at least unbundle Wattman from the base drivers, it is nice to be able to control 2-3d/video settings without having a clock controller interfering with things constantly ala Wattman with GPU stuff
 
I have no issues with Wattman and for me is my preference since I can go to each powerstate and adjust. Plus each game can automatically have a good setting if you do profiles. I have had more problems with 3rd party OCing software than with Wattman.
 
While I agree that Wattman should be an option I like it more than Afterburner.

Much cleaner layout and the ability to monitor from your phone is pretty handy.
Overlays suck in general imho.

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To add another nugget of info to this thread, I just updated to 19.1.2 from 18.something. On restart, Windows comes up and immediately I get 2080ti levels of artifacting, the screen then flickered for a moment and then let me into windows. Knowing that I just installed the new drivers, I attempted to come here and see if anyone else reported the issue. Before I could, the screen starts flickering again, but this time I completely lose the display. While I am thinking about how I want to fix this, the computer reboots on its own, and comes up normally. Once in windows, I get a notification that Wattman has reverted settings due to an issue. I exclusively use MSI Afterburner to tune my gpu, so I am pretty upset and curious what caused Wattman to do what it did. I remember seeing in the driver notes that 580s should see a 7% improvement in most games, do you think that means they overclocked all 580s on their own?
 
Cactusj said:
To add another nugget of info to this thread, I just updated to 19.1.2 from 18.something. On restart, Windows comes up and immediately I get 2080ti levels of artifacting, the screen then flickered for a moment and then let me into windows. Knowing that I just installed the new drivers, I attempted to come here and see if anyone else reported the issue. Before I could, the screen starts flickering again, but this time I completely lose the display. While I am thinking about how I want to fix this, the computer reboots on its own, and comes up normally. Once in windows, I get a notification that Wattman has reverted settings due to an issue. I exclusively use MSI Afterburner to tune my gpu, so I am pretty upset and curious what caused Wattman to do what it did. I remember seeing in the driver notes that 580s should see a 7% improvement in most games, do you think that means they overclocked all 580s on their own?
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I don't think AMD would be overclocking anyone's hardware without their permission. Performance improvement is typically just through driver optimization, and 7% isn't out of the ordinary in that realm.

Having multiple programs accessing the voltage and clock speeds is generally a bad idea. You should do what the OP did and DDU the drivers then reinstall the drivers without Wattman.
 
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