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AMD praises Microsoft as the two tag team to add Ryzen NPU support on Windows Task Manager

Sayan Sen — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:03:38 +0000

Microsoft recently added NPU reading support on Windows' Task Manager for Intel PCs. And for those of you wondering about AMD, the same will soon be happening on the Red team's side as well. Read more...

AMD finally brings Windows Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling to RX 7900, 7800, 7000 series

Sayan Sen — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:48:01 +0000

AMD has finally added Windows' Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling support to the company's latest RDNA 3-based RX 7000 series GPUs, namely, the RX 7900 series, 7800 series, and 7700 series. Read more...

AMD gets serious on fixing Windows driver timeout error (TDR), black screens, with new tool

Sayan Sen — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:26:02 +0000

AMD has launched a new tool called Radeon GPU Detective. This devtool is designed to detect and track TDRs which cause the annoying timeout detection pop-up and black screen on Radeons. Read more...

Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, are all sleeping on Windows 11 MPO display issues

Sayan Sen — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:34:01 +0000

Online forums are filled with users complaining about various display issues like stuttering, flickering, and white screens on Windows. A common suspect in many of these seems to be MPO. Read more...

VMware Workstation 17.0 Pro now live with Windows 11 guest OS and virtual TPM 2.0 support

Usama Jawad — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:54:01 +0000

Organizations, enthusiasts, and developers might be pleased to know that VMware Workstation Pro now officially supports Windows 11 via a virtual TPM 2.0 device present in version 17.0 of the product. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11 secrets, MFA exploits, and ad infestations

Usama Jawad — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:00:01 +0000

A lot happened in the world of Microsoft this week, but fret not, because you can catch up on anything important that you may have missed through our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly! Read more...

Leak shows Microsoft already working on WDDM 3.2 for next-gen Windows

Sayan Sen — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:52:02 +0000

Microsoft is already on working on the next WDDM version 3.2 for the next major Windows feature update. The Redmond giant recently introduced WDDM 3.1 with Windows 11 version 22H2. Read more...

AMD's Windows 11 22H2 WDDM 3.1 driver finally fixes Radeon's poor OpenGL performance

Sayan Sen — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:40:02 +0000

AMD's upcoming Windows 11 22H2 driver based on WDDM 3.1 will finally optimize the performance of OpenGL applications on Radeon GPUs, something which has been a problem for a very long time. Read more...