haxxiy said:
This is likely improper wording or they misunderstood AMD's comments. Ryzen Master works overriding settings at a software level, it can't alter the BIOS. I don't think even OEMs provide software with true kernel-level access to the BIOS anymore. That being said (if the reports are real) it's probably just some dumb kids that don't know to boot in safe mode and reset whatever settings they left in place. |
Well there were a lot of articles that essentially said the same thing which they got from AMD. You can always google "Radeon Drivers overclocking Ryzen" to find this out. From what I can find:
"A few days ago, a report published on Igors Lab revealed that the BIOS settings on computers that had an AMD processor and graphics card, were being reset automatically. The issue was narrowed down to be caused by Ryzen Master, which is integrated with the graphics driver. It changes the CPU settings when it loads a GPU Profile, followed by a reboot. It also modified the Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) values regardless of whether the user had set them or not. Igor mentions using Radeon Software Slimmer to get rid of bloat such as the AMD Ryzen Master SDK can help prevent the BIOS settings from being reset.
It is also mentioned as a known issue in the release notes for AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.4.1, that was released yesterday.
"Ryzen CPU Overclock settings may be changed after resetting or importing a profile from Radeon Performance Tuning Options.""
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/04/07/amd-gpu-drivers-are-overclocking-cpus-on-their-own/
Now whether or not it's easy or hard to fix is not really the point. The point is that a driver update shouldn't be causing instability issues to this degree especially if it's AMDs own software. There's a lot of new users that buy PC hardware and things like this can put them off of pc gaming entirely.
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