IT has been 1 YEAR and two months and this was the first and only driver with Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling from AMD….21.5.1 beta

Yeap, obvious mistake. Soz

Soz

i was actually trying to make it sound more dramatic

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Beat me too it.

Here is a link to download them. They also support WDDM 3.0.

You can also get the software directly from Microsoft Store.

I have the version 30.0.13000.22008 driver installed through Windows Update on the latest Windows 11 build (used with a 5700XT). The driver itself may support hardware accelerated GPU scheduling but it doesn't show up in the Windows settings under Display/Graphics and GPU-Z shows it as off, even if the registry value for it is set manually.

works for me on win10

Because windows 11 i think, same issue here.

Sounds like a bug, mine shows fine.

What are uwp drivers?

Universal Windows Platform. It's the version of the drivers you can get through the Microsoft Store.

Nvidia GPUs since the 900 series are lacking a hardware scheduler though, so I don’t think it would have done anything no matter what…

This is different feature. Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling and Hardware Scheduler for the GPU are not the same.

Not sure what its like on AMD, but on Nvidia its pretty hit or miss. It either does nothing real (maybe can measure if you spend all day comparing benchmarks) or your game crashes now. Inconsistent about it, too.

Or in the case of batman Arkham Knight causes the game to have horrific stuttering.

werd. im on a 3090, mine didnt have crashes by a 1% or so difference means nothing.

The thing that bothers me . .is that people have this impression that it was ever intended for games .. its not.

AMD already uses hardware scheduling and thus this did nothing for them, nVidia does or at the time didn't and so it does fix multi display issues or any other issues where the GPU is forced by windows to run Vram clocks lower than is required by a multi display setup.

Eg windows forces Vram clocks to the lowest required by the slowest refresh rate panel so on 60hz/144hz setups the 144hz panel would cause crazy amounts of stuttering on the 60hz panel and vise a versa, the cause .. the windows scheduler for the GPU was forcing the Vram to a clock speed to support only the 60hz panel. This of course caused issues when the 144hz panel was used for an application not in fullscreen exclusive and tried to change the Vram clocks.

HW GPU scheduling solves this problem by allowing the GPU to set its own Vram and core clocks rather than having the WDDM do it.

I know im glossing over some details here but with out HW GPU scheduling turned on my multipanel setup is a stuttering mess, personally if I had known about the 60+144hz issues I would have bought two 144hz panels over a 60hz 4k and 144hz 1440p.

The 4k is pretty much a pointless panel ..its not even good at movies and its HDR is .. fucking horrible, waste of money, another 144hz panel would have been better.

Edit - so many people in this thread complaining it does nothing for games .. well duh, it wasn't for games.

I wonder how Linux drivers handle this kind of stuff. Obviously talking only about AMD and Intel here, Nvidia has its own non standard secret sauce.

No, just no.

It's not hardware scheduling, it's hardware memory management.

Out of curiosity what is your 4K panel you are so unhappy about?

if only you had a CX lg tv instead. not 144hz but the hdr is lovely

FYI the differeing monitor hz was a separate fix and not related to the hardware scheduling option. It was just in the patch that added the option to windows. But people had tested and found it fixed without hw scheduling enabled.

Microsoft themselves say that for now nothing changes, but the feature is important for how Windows will interact with the GPU in the future.

It also seems to lower the CPU overhead in games,which is always a good thing.

in some cards it gave a bit of a boost (even on my 5700xt). Being it good or not, the option should be there. They just released a beta driver more than a year ago and called it a day....not cool

I mean, if it was ready for prime time it would be out in a normal release.

Or maybe it is cool? b e t a

This is a placebo effect, same can be said in the case of people trying to run SAM on anything earlier than RDNA2.

AMD has a different scheduler compared to Nvidia. They already do a ton of scheduling on the HW side and if I remember Microsoft's feature, it basically is barely more than AMD does already.

Yet again a misconception about how scheduling works between AMD and Nvidia.

I don't want to explain it again. But the differences aren't anything to do with hardware scheduling.

Yeah I was super disappointed on my 3090 due to overzealous hype.

Yea clickbait YouTubers had a field day with it.

"Faster gaming for FREE - Hardware GPU scheduling explained"

~ Linus Tech Tips

I use it on my 1080, no difference whatsoever

What is this exactly ?

Universal Windows Platform drivers