Alternatives for Radeon Settings?

tuskis

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Hi all,

Recently, after a couple of driver updates in, I've been having lot of frustrating issues with AMD's Crimson Radeon Settings so today I totally had enough and unistalled the whole thing. The issues I've had with it include totally unworking profiles for applications; no matter what custom fan profiles, forced VSync or 60fps lock I enable in the profile it just does not trigger after the application launches as it's supposed to, and before these issues when it did feel like applying my fan profile it didn't return to the default fan profile set in the Global panel and I had to manually set it back. More so after every reboot the settings manager kept rescanning my system for applications and kept adding back the automatic profiles I've deleted and restoring my own predefined Memory and GPU clocks to the default values. In addition to this it slowed down my boot time for a few seconds along with, I think, the Vulkan drivers, so I got rid of those too.

So now, unto the actual question: are there any alternatives for configuring AMD GPU driver settings, hopefully ones that work properly? I know of RadeonPro, but it's ancient and basically abandonware so I wouldn't trust it anymore, otherwise it was fine. I'm also familiar with MSI Afterburner, but it doesn't provide much in the options side and I also can't set it to run a profile on launching a application.

Thanks for your answers.
 
I don't know if anyone out there actually uses the profile system...

I know for certain it doesn't work for me most times.

That said my global settings do stick. Why don't you just use global settings for your OC, and in game settings for everything else?
 


Because it gets really bothersome to manually set everything up for different applications every time when I want to use them, eg. for some games I might want to force a constant high fan percentage. Also not all games have a working VSync control nor a FPS limiter, hence it becomes a giant pain in the ass to constantly set up my Global profile for everything which is why I wish I could automate the process per application.