Fix your Radeon GPU driver issues in Windows with this new ‘Detective’ tool
AMD launched the Radeon GPU Detective to fix your GPU driver woes.
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What you need to know
AMD has happily announced their latest Radeon GPU tool called “Radeon GPU Detective”, which is part of theirRadeon Developer Tool Suite. You can use this to do a post-mortem analysis of your GPU crashes which will definitely help in sorting out any issues you have.
There have been a number of GPU driver issues over the years with things like black screens. This has been an issue that has occurred multiple times even after so called fixes have rolled out. Recent Radeon Adrenaline driver updates were meant to fix the issue alongside others on more recent RDNA3 GPUs, but unfortunately the issue just continues to blight many users.
Radeon GPU Detective |Free at AMD
This diagnostic tool from AMD helps figure out why a GPU crashed or ran into issues. It provides information on why a crash was caused such as the offending virtual address and a timeline of memory events.
AMD had this to say on the GPUOpen announcement page:
This first version of the tool supports analysis of GPU crashes on Windows (“TDRs”) in Direct3D 12 applications and requires aRX 6000 series(RDNA 2) orRX 7000 series(RDNA 3) card, in addition to the latest public AMD Radeon Adrenalin Software.
The tool lets developers set the driver into Crash Analysis mode using the Radeon Developer Panel (RDP) before reproducing the crash. Upon crash, an analysis file is generated with details that can help shed light on the crash’s cause, such as:
If the crash was determined to be caused by a page fault:
As mentioned aboveRadeon GPU Detectiveis only available for RDNA2 and RDNA3 GPUs so all of you with Radeon RX 6000/7000 cards. All being well this should allow AMD to make their drivers more reliable by identifying issues faster through users.
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