AMDs graphics cards could crash less often in the future thanks to this new tool

Date:
Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:04:59 +0000

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Heres why Radeon GPU Detective could be great news for PC gamers with AMD graphics cards.

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AMD has released a new tool called the Radeon GPU Detective (RGD) which
allows for the capture and investigation of crashes relating to Team Reds graphics cards.

Toms Hardware reports that RGD has just been released and it picks up crash dumps following an event, allowing the developer to trace and hopefully diagnose the problem.

So yes, this is not a tool for consumers to use its a techie utility that goes into all sorts of fine detail.

It provides troubleshooting goodies such as page fault details, and lets the developer comb through events leading up to the crash in whats called an execution marker tree. Thats basically a list of all the GPU tasks and what was going on leading up to the crash.

This is just version 1.0 of RGD, so it may still need a bit of fleshing out.

At any rate, at this point, you may be asking: why should I care about this anyway? Lets dive into that next. Analysis: The game is afoot

While you wont want to use the Radeon GPU Detective, developers will (hopefully) find this a very useful tool (certainly if it works just as AMD
is promising in the launch spiel for RGD).

Itll let developers of games and software address the root cause of crashes
in a swifter manner, and quite simply, thatll lead to faster fixes and more time to work on other (speedily applied) fixes.

In short, with RGD assisting in the squashing of bugs causing crashes, over time, we should in theory see AMD graphics cards crashing less often. A
case in point is that weve heard a lot about problematic TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) errors that are the bane of PC gamers of late, and as Toms points out, RGD could be a useful extra weapon in the troubleshooting armory to stamp out these persistent problems.

So, for those with an AMD Radeon GPU, all this is something to look forward
to though we should note its only contemporary graphics cards that are supported (RX 6000 and RX 7000 models ). Whether older GPUs will have support added in the future, we dont know, but it seems unlikely. You might also like Check out all the best cheap graphics cards Need a 1440p graphics card? These are your best options Laptop graphics cards explained



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/amds-graphics-cards-could-crash-less-o ften-in-the-future-thanks-to-this-new-tool


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