Afterburner and Wattman, how do I utilize only one?

[Mister Lemons]

I can't find an appropriate answer to my question so I'm starting this thread.

I recently clean installed radeon crimson from 17.5.1 to 17.6.1 and of course, immediately ran into the issue of "what the hell am I doing" that comes with all new software.

Now, I have MSI afterburner installed and constantly running and I love the fan curve that I have set up with it. The issue is that upon the radeon settings install, MSI seems to have wiped my core clock and memory clock settings. Both bars for some reason have been lowered to 490 (previously 1000) and 685 (previously 1400) respectively. Now, I have no idea if these are the actual clocks being implimented or if MSI has defaulted to some sort of recessive state that Wattman is now holding the dominant place over.

My question is How would I revert my GPU OC settings to rely entirely on what MSI Afterburner is providing (I have an MSI R9 380 2G, but the chip is obviously AMD). I have not touched any settings on either program yet, I'm not looking to crash this thing. If I set my MSI afterburner settings back to the way they were, will Wattman keep adapt to these settings?

 

[Tolis_GR]

Normally the Afterburner will override Wattman settings, so whatever clocks you are setting to Afterburner should be seen to Wattman too without a problem. Try it first.
If you are having an issue with this, you can uninstall AMD drivers and upon re-install, refuse to install AMD Settings, therefore you are actually getting only the needed drivers and not the Wattman- AMD Settings at all.

 

[Mister Lemons]

Normally the Afterburner will override Wattman settings, so whatever clocks you are setting to Afterburner should be seen to Wattman too without a problem. Try it first.
If you are having an issue with this, you can uninstall AMD drivers and upon re-install, refuse to install AMD Settings, therefore you are actually getting only the needed drivers and not the Wattman- AMD Settings at all.

Sometimes a bit of encouragement is all it takes.
I've set my core/memory clocks back to my previous settings and applied them in Afterburner. After checking Wattman, it appears that the two are playing well together for the few minutes its been going.

In the mean time, assuming I DO have an issue with this that is going to rear it's ugly face when I really don't want it to, I'd like to clarify the uninstall option. You're saying that if I do a clean install of radeon settings that I can leave out AMD's ability to control the clock of my GPU? Or are you saying that I'd have to leave the radeon settings out of the deal all together and from now on manually install my driver packages?

 

[Tolis_GR]

Normally the Afterburner will override Wattman settings, so whatever clocks you are setting to Afterburner should be seen to Wattman too without a problem. Try it first.
If you are having an issue with this, you can uninstall AMD drivers and upon re-install, refuse to install AMD Settings, therefore you are actually getting only the needed drivers and not the Wattman- AMD Settings at all.

Sometimes a bit of encouragement is all it takes.
I've set my core/memory clocks back to my previous settings and applied them in Afterburner. After checking Wattman, it appears that the two are playing well together for the few minutes its been going.

In the mean time, assuming I DO have an issue with this that is going to rear it's ugly face when I really don't want it to, I'd like to clarify the uninstall option. You're saying that if I do a clean install of radeon settings that I can leave out AMD's ability to control the clock of my GPU? Or are you saying that I'd have to leave the radeon settings out of the deal all together and from now on manually install my driver packages?

You have to ignore Radeon Settings during installation, after clean install. Than means that you lose both Wattman and Radeon Settings, i.e overriding gaming options such as anti-aliasing, shadow cach, fps limit etc. Therefore you cannot control clocks through AMD and you do not use Radeon Settings.
Personally i don't really care about Radeon Settings because i am overclocking with Sapphire Trixx, similar to Afterburner, but i have no problem at all paired to Wattman/Radeon Settings so didn't have to uninstall anything.
If you can use Afterburner, and it works fine, just don't worry about it

 

[Mister Lemons]

You have to ignore Radeon Settings during installation, after clean install. Than means that you lose both Wattman and Radeon Settings, i.e overriding gaming options such as anti-aliasing, shadow cach, fps limit etc. Therefore you cannot control clocks through AMD and you do not use Radeon Settings.
Personally i don't really care about Radeon Settings because i am overclocking with Sapphire Trixx, similar to Afterburner, but i have no problem at all paired to Wattman/Radeon Settings so didn't have to uninstall anything.
If you can use Afterburner, and it works fine, just don't worry about it

That's what I'm looking for. Thanks for the input.