Greetings to all users and guests "Schools of computer literacy". This is the second time I've encountered the problem of translating the interface of AMD video card drivers. google search it turned out not so easy to find a solution to the problem, so I decided to fix the article "How to change AMD Crimson interface language?"
There are no standard tools to change the language in the settings, you have to go into the registry. I will describe in detail all the steps so that you do not have any questions.
1. Run the registry editor (Win + R and drive in the field to execute "regedit" without quotes)
2. Then in the registry tree we find the following path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AMD\CN
3. In order to change the interface language to English, you just need to remove
LastUsedQmFileName
4. In order to change the language to Russian, set the parameter LastUsedQmFileName value CNext_ru_RU.qm
5. For other languages, you first need to find the name of the language, for this we go to the Program Files \ AMD \ CNext \ CNext \ Localization folder and search, then follow step 4
AMD introduced the new generation of Radeon software, which is characterized by new features, high performance, as well as a level of stability. New software Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition includes power-efficient graphics with Radeon Chill technology, as well as a screen recording and streaming tool with Radeon ReLive
System requirements:
Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit version)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)
Support for Windows 8.1 has ended completely.
Torrent Driver - AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.7.2 DC 27.07.2017 WHQL in detail:
Radeon Software ReLive Edition offers the following:
·Radeon ReLive - a tool for video recording and online broadcasts with a control panel right in the game. Settings allow you to quickly select the scene recording format and much more;
·Radeon Chill is an energy efficient frame rate control system for Radeon graphics cards. It dynamically adjusts the frame rate and thus maintains the quality of the graphics while lowering the temperature and noise of the system;
AMD LiquidVR Technology - A set of technologies for high-quality virtual reality, which includes MultiView, MultiRes, and Asynchronous Space Warp for the Oculus Rift;
· Improved synchronization technology for Radeon FreeSync displays;
Supported video cards:
Notes:
During installation, you can find various hieroglyphs instead of the Russian language. After installation everything will be fine.
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Whatever technical specifications and power did not have a video card installed in a PC or laptop, its performance and demonstrated performance indicators directly depend on one of the most important software components any system - drivers. For graphics adapters manufactured by Advanced Micro Devices Inc, the most correct and effective method to resolve all driver issues is to use AMD Radeon Software Crimson.
Downloading and updating AMD drivers via Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition
Actually, keeping video adapter drivers up to date is the primary task assigned to software package AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition developers.
Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition- the name of the software that came to replace Radeon Software Crimson. It's the same app, but different generation. The Crimson driver is no longer up to date!
Automatic installation
The easiest and most correct way to get a fresh driver for an AMD video card is to install the manufacturer's proprietary software on the system. AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition contains the necessary components of the latest version at the time of download from the official website, so in order to install the latest graphics adapter driver, just follow a few simple steps.
- Downloading from the site technical support Advanced Micro Devices installer of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition by selecting the type and model line of the graphics processor on which the video card is based from the drop-down lists.
Find your version and bit depth operating system and expand the tab to the plus sign.
In the list of suggested software, find Radeon Software, click "Download". In some cases, there are 2 such files - start from the revision number of the application and the release date. A newer driver may be unstable on some PCs, for this reason the service offers a previous version that you can roll back to if problems occur.
- We start the installer. An automatic scan of the system's hardware components will begin immediately for the presence of an AMD GPU-based graphics card.
- After determining the video card, in the absence of the components necessary for normal operation
or the possibility of updating them, a corresponding message will be displayed.
- We press the button "Express Install" and observe the installation process of all necessary components.
- Final stage AMD installations Radeon Adrenalin Edition, which means all the necessary components for the graphics adapter to work, is a system reboot. We press the button "Reboot Now".
- After rebooting, we get a video card with the driver installed latest version.
During the installation of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition, the screen may go blank several times. Don't worry - this is how the graphics adapter is initialized with the new driver.
Driver update
Over time, any software becomes obsolete and requires updating. FROM with the help of AMD Radeon Software Crimson updating the system components necessary for the proper functioning of the graphics adapter is carried out very simply, because the developers have provided all the possibilities.
Reinstalling the AMD driver, "rollback" version
If it becomes necessary to reinstall the AMD graphics card drivers, removing all previously installed components and clearing the system of data accumulated during the operation of Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition, you will need an application installer. In addition, by following the steps below, you can return to previous version driver if the updated one does not work correctly. It is not necessary to remove already installed software and driver before reinstallation! The installer will do this automatically.
Thus, we can state that all issues with the drivers of modern AMD video cards are quite easily solved using the manufacturer's proprietary software. The process of installing, updating and reinstalling Advanced Micro Devices graphics adapter drivers is almost completely automated, which gives the user the opportunity not to waste time and effort searching for the right solution.
One of our readers asked for advice, and the editors of Tom's Hardware discovered a very unusual problem. At first glance, it is unlikely to seem serious, but the frequency of its occurrence is still somewhat annoying. After browsing several forums on the Internet about this problem, we came to conclusion that it is not private to our reader. This fueled interest in the issue, especially since we did not find any reasonable explanation for the problem. The problem itself is that the Device Manager / Device Manager and the Catalyst Installation Manager cannot agree whether the northbridge driver is installed or not.
The reader has already contacted AMD support, but since the computer worked without any obvious problems, he received the answer that everything should be in order. But such an answer did not satisfy the reader - and us too. We intentionally went through the process of installing the Catalyst drivers on three different Windows systems 7 and were able to replicate the problem in all cases. In the end, it turned out that our reader was right.
The problem manifests itself under the following circumstances.
- Windows 7 (x64, x86);
- motherboard based on AMD chipset;
- drivers from Catalyst 10.2 to 10.5 ( latest version at the time of testing)
- installation in Custom mode (not in Express/Quick mode).
We hope that the article will be useful, because the old but very effective trick, which we will talk about a little later, turned out to be the solution to the problem. In addition, it has the potential to eliminate other pitfalls that may arise during installation. AMD drivers/ATI. We'll also take a quick look at a hidden option in the Catalyst installer that can also be useful.
To eliminate all possible sources of errors, we used a "clean" Windows installation 7 with no drivers or updates installed, except for updates to Windows 7 itself.
In the Device Manager / Device Manager in the System / System devices section, we selected the item "AMD PCI Express(3GIO) Driver", which found the files atipcie.sys (x86) or atipcie64.sys (x64). These drivers are installed by default. We recorded the version of the installed drivers before further installation.
We then unpacked the current version of the Catalyst drivers (at the time of testing) to a directory of our choice, then ran the installation, leaving it at the initial stage, where you can choose to install or remove the drivers.
We chose "Uninstall" followed by "Custom Uninstall" to get a list of the components that the installer recognizes. And the result confirmed the problem we identified earlier: the Catalyst installer did not recognize any installed components, although the driver was already installed with Windows 7 and updated via windows update.
After restarting the installation, we selected "Installation" followed by "Custom Installation".
In addition to USB drivers, we now have the option to install northbridge drivers. Interestingly, the proposed version was the same as the one already installed. We chose to install the drivers anyway to avoid confusion. Installation completed successfully.
After a mandatory reboot, we reopened the Catalyst installer to see what options would appear in the uninstall drivers section. With the exception of USB drivers, we found no other options. Then we launched the installer again to install the drivers, after which we found that the driver was offered to be installed again, that is, it says nothing about the fact that it has already been installed!
Even though this problem can only be detected in the Custom installation mode (in Express / Quick mode, there is very little information about the installation process), we were puzzled. Well, let's identify the cause and present a possible solution.
Possible reasons
After some experimentation and brute-force removal (with the Cleaner utility and manual deletion of registry entries), we came to the conclusion that the AMD Catalyst installer and drivers obtained via Windows installation and/or Windows Update do not interact with each other. Although manual installation and removing the driver through the Device Manager / Device Manager works fine, the Catalyst installer "forgets" about the installed driver, offering to re-install already installed drivers, not exclusively supplied by AMD (that is, they are already offered by Microsoft).
At the same time, the reverse scenario is not possible, because the drivers are not detected by the installer during installation or removal. In principle, only AMD can answer whether this is due to a protection mechanism or an installer error in detecting drivers.
But we would like to note once again that the identified problem does not lead to any computer failures. It can be called an annoying oversight that causes confusion for those users who regularly monitor driver versions so that the computer is always running with the latest drivers. But our little research showed that this situation has existed for quite a long time, and so far there has been no explanation or fix from AMD.
The Catalyst installer starts by extracting the files to the specified directory. We need it to perform the trick.
We moved to the directory with the unpacked files, after which we selected the "Config" subdirectory. It contains the "InstallManager.cfg" file. We opened it with the right text editor Notepad/Notepad. The contents of the file are shown below.
Pay attention to the item "WorkaroundInstall". It is set to "false" by default. We activated the item by setting the value to "true", after which we saved the file.
We then launched the installation from the directory by executing the Setup.exe file. Pay attention to the installation options that we have agreed to.
The situation, as we can see, has changed: now only exclusive AMD driver packages are saved after the Catalyst installer is executed.
Additional Benefits
This trick also helps in situations where the Catalyst installer refuses to install the driver for some reason, despite the hardware being connected and the old driver working perfectly. So the next time you run into a strange installation problem, remember that modifying the installation file can work wonders. We used a similar trick when Current version Catalyst 10.5 refused to be installed on systems with already installed versions 10.2 or 10.3.
As we have already described just above, we moved to the directory with the unpacked files. Then to the "Config" directory, after which we opened "InstallManager.cfg" in Notepad / Notepad. However, in this file we also found a "Show Update" item at the bottom. It is set to "false" by default. We activated this item by setting the value to "true", after which we saved the file.
Then after running the installer, a new option appears.
If you select the "Update" option, previously hidden, a new wizard will start.
Here you can update individual components without having to remove them. As far as we understand, the Installation option performs only limited or no removal procedures, while the Update option combines a complete removal and installation of selected components in the same reboot cycle. This saves on one reboot cycle, which is required when complete removal drivers. This step is also useful after uninstalling the drivers and rebooting, because Windows can automatically replace the removed drivers against your will.
If you are a user of Catalyst drivers, then take the identified problem calmly. At first, it may seem strange, but this problem will not lead to serious crashes. In addition, if you know some tricks, you can solve many similar problems more easily and simply than you might think at first.
Manual editing configuration file Catalyst can help solve similar problems to the one we described. In the article, we have described in detail the steps that will help inexperienced users. Perhaps AMD will somehow react. The more features a software package contains, the more complex it becomes. And mistakes will inevitably occur. In fact, the question is how timely errors will be detected and eliminated. All this should be taken into account when filing complaints.
The last such major update was released at the end of 2016. The new version received a large number of additions and improvements, but AMD decided to keep the extremely long name unchanged.
With this release of Radeon software, AMD is trying to focus on three main priorities: functionality, performance, and stability. Concerning functionality, AMD has streamlined the Radeon Settings interface by moving all configuration options into a single pane. Users will now have to make fewer clicks, and as stated AMD, the software also includes a Switchable Graphics mode and better control over pixel format and color depth.
The latest driver version can also be checked and installed using the AMD Driver Autodetect application. If necessary, you can use official utility remove drivers AMD Clean Uninstall Utility .
Radeon ReLive
An important feature of the latest Radeon Drivers is the upgrade to Radeon ReLive. As we have seen over the past 6 months, the company has managed to resolve a wide range of issues related to software for video game streaming. As a result, AMD increased top speed recording from 50Mbps to 100Mbps and improved transmission stability. Also added a transparency option for the camera so that your face doesn't block all the action on the screen.
With Radeon ReLive, AMD has done memory optimization work during the video streaming recording process. For example, in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, frame rate losses have been reduced by 33%. In v17.7.1, the losses were as high as 6.3 frames per second, and with the new Radeon drivers it was only 4.2 frames per second. This essentially means that AMD has reduced the amount of extra frames required to render overlays while keeping the output at a constant frame rate.
As for other Radeon ReLive enhancements, AMD has improved the notification system, such as adding an Instant Replay Saving card, a card for network connectivity issues, and more. In addition, advanced audio controls have been added, which include adjustable microphone level and volume, a push-to-talk function that can be controlled with a mouse or keyboard, and a volume boost function.
Radeon WattMan
When installing new Radeon ReLive drivers, users receive an updated utility Radeon WattMan. Now there are options to increase (or decrease) the timings of the memory installed on Radeon graphics cards to safely overclock the processor without affecting the stability and overall power consumption of the PC. Radeon WattMan also provides options to control the GPU's power state for maximum performance or maximum power savings.
Radeon Chill
Radeon Chill is a power-saving feature that allows you to dynamically adjust the frame rate in games based on built-in motion mechanics. Radeon Chill now supports game profiles. This feature is currently supported by over 30 PC games and provides an average 31% reduction in power consumption when playing World of Warcraft and a 13% reduction in graphics card operating temperatures in the same game. Other supported games include Prey, Quake Champions, Battlefield 1, mass effect: Andromeda and Resident Evil 7.
An even more important improvement is Radeon Chill's support for systems with multiple graphics processors (multi-GPUs). The technology allows you to achieve a 29% energy savings in Overwatch. In addition, the function supports external graphics cards that support Radeon Technology XConnect, as well as integrated and discrete laptop cards. According to AMD statistics, this feature extends laptop battery life by 30% when playing League of Legends at 1080p resolution.
Another power optimization feature, Frame Rate Target Control, promises up to 26% power savings in Battlefield 1 with DirectX 12 enabled. With the feature enabled, the game can still hit 60fps while GPU consumes only 150 watts of power. With the feature disabled, the GPU consumes 203W.
Advanced Synchronization
This new feature not meant to replace AMD technologies FreeSync, but provides best quality viewing for users unsupported monitors. Enhanced Sync sits between VSync and FreeSync and delivers less stuttering at 60fps on a 144Hz monitor. It also provides low latency with minimal tearing at 150fps or more.
For example, with VSync enabled, the response time can be around 128.8 milliseconds, while the frame rate is higher than the panel refresh rate, resulting in minimal screen tearing. With Enhanced Sync, this response time is reduced to 84.7 milliseconds while maintaining minimal screen tearing. If you disable VSync, the response time drops to 72.7 milliseconds, but you will see a lot of annoying screen tearing. Enhanced Screen provides a stable picture with low tearing when the frame rate falls below the refresh rate of the monitor. If VSync is enabled, tearing can be very noticeable.
Internal changes
Finally, AMD has also been working hard on the internal platform. The company has increased the performance of Radeon Driver Updates since the launch of Crimson ReLive Edition and has increased performance in a number of games such as: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Metro Last Light Redux running on Linux. AMD has also developed a way to speed up the loading times of older PC games such as StarCraft 2 and reduce the driver warm-up time between the CPU's command to draw a frame and the GPU's final rendering of the frame.
AMD reports that it takes just 100 milliseconds to move the mouse in Prey and view the resulting action on the screen, compared to 111 milliseconds using the Radeon v17.7 drivers. Mass Effect: Andromeda is now 114 milliseconds (up from 131 milliseconds), Tom Clancy's The Division is 112 milliseconds (up from 162 milliseconds), and Honor is 130 milliseconds (up from 146 milliseconds).
Another notable feature of AMD's new Radeon driver update is a developer tool called Radeon GPU Profiler. This tool provides low-level built-in hardware thread tracing that was previously only available to AMD console developers. This is good news for PC gamers because developers can now trace their code back to specific hardware events to eliminate potential artifacts and optimize performance. Developers get a clear visualization of ongoing processes using wave charts.