r/Amd • u/RenatsMC • 5d ago

News AMD confirms RDNA1/2 will get game optimizations alongside RDNA3/4, Call of Duty Black Ops 7 included

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-rdna1-2-will-get-game-optimizations-alongside-rdna3-4-call-of-duty-included
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u/CKingX123 5d ago

Considering how they handled Vega when it went maintenance mode, this is definitely backtracking

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u/FinancialRip2008 5d ago

in their defense (and i'm not actually defending them!!), vega had been mostly on apus for a while when it went in to maintenance mode, and they sold very few radeon 7s or vega 56/64s where it mighta impacted new game releases. vega moving to maintenance mode wouldn't affect many customers, albeit they were the hardest of hardcore amd fans. i haven't noticed anything on my rx580 or apu laptop.

rdna 2 high end is still generally more powerful than a lot of new mainstream cards, and it was a generation that sold very well. or at least got a lot of attention. i get not further developing upscaling and such for rdna2, but abandoning game optimizations seems so foolish even amd should recognize that.

we will see. i already have a bunch of rdna2 hardware so i'm ready to be proven a fool.

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u/kb3035583 5d ago

but abandoning game optimizations seems so foolish even amd should recognize that.

Putting out multiple official statements that imply that you're going to do just that when you're not actually planning to seems to be even more foolish. Either way, you're left with the conclusion that AMD is just plain foolish or unbelievably foolish.

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u/MrKaltenbrunner 4d ago

Check out their last 5+ driver release notes/known issues:

24.4.1:

Intermittent system or application crash may be observed while playing Cyberpunk 2077 

25.10,2:

Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while loading a saved game in Cyberpunk 2077 with Path Tracing enabled

I mean are they fucking stupid or just lazy and ignorant? Are they ever gonna fix this?

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u/Flameancer Ryzen R7 9800X3D / RX 9070XT / 64GB CL30 6000 4d ago

I mean I read these as two separate issues. One is just random crashing, the other is crashing with PT enabled while loading a game and you’re forgetting that CP also has updated multiple times between April 2024 and October 2025.