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Boost your graphics performance in Elite Dangerous Odyssey using these simple tricks
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Been using a macbook pro radeon 5500m to play elite...
Went from adrenaline 2021 April.. it looked like phoenixdfires footage from his streams... Many speckles and possible observations about no anti aliasing.
Just upgraded to 2021 September.. looks almost like vajeros footage. First time ever i've seen anti aliasing functional in odysee. Much lower gpu usage in every scene to achieve the capped 30.
This is the first game / dlc i've played which has been so night and day based on driver version. Saw dramatic performance differences with nvidia as well (for pascal i like 466.27 the best).
Went from adrenaline 2021 April.. it looked like phoenixdfires footage from his streams... Many speckles and possible observations about no anti aliasing.
Just upgraded to 2021 September.. looks almost like vajeros footage. First time ever i've seen anti aliasing functional in odysee. Much lower gpu usage in every scene to achieve the capped 30.
This is the first game / dlc i've played which has been so night and day based on driver version. Saw dramatic performance differences with nvidia as well (for pascal i like 466.27 the best).
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So you’re installing the AMD drivers directly - not the BootCamp drivers?
Using the drivers from https://www.bootcampdrivers.com/
Quite impressed with the results from the 5500m 4gb. Probably worth a quick tale..
1. Started the day with everything working okay on the latest official bootcamp drivers (august 2021). Using a hand crafted set of graphics settings. The performance was playable, but it looked like
2. Turns out the load of odysee is just right for power deficient laptops, a lower average with huge spikes. However playing shadow of the tomb raider and eso on the same setup quickly hit the well documented vrm overheat issue for macbooks. Finally decided do something about this, and eventually followed the contents of this guide.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/opum9t/some_tweaks_regarding_macbook_pro_16_5500m_gpu/
The above link is an enhancement to another guide, so its a little fierce at first glance, but turns out quite mild. The key thing i wasn't sure of was the more power tool utility and whether that could permanently damage the machine.. turns out the changes it makes are overwritten every time you install a new driver even so it can't be that bad. Its worked great.
Also being able to take control of the gpu means my macbook runs cooler in windows now than macos when the thunderbolt display is connected.. go figure.
What i ended up doing was both turning off turbo boost on the cpu, and with unlocking the performance tuning feature in the amd drivers, set the upper limit of the gpu to 1280 mhz / 730mv. The combined power draw of this was just under 55w in games, and now the vrms don't trigger the gpu to throttle anymore.
The other thing from this was i went back to the last good bootcamp video drivers i used, which by chance was april.
The above link is an enhancement to another guide, so its a little fierce at first glance, but turns out quite mild. The key thing i wasn't sure of was the more power tool utility and whether that could permanently damage the machine.. turns out the changes it makes are overwritten every time you install a new driver even so it can't be that bad. Its worked great.
Also being able to take control of the gpu means my macbook runs cooler in windows now than macos when the thunderbolt display is connected.. go figure.
What i ended up doing was both turning off turbo boost on the cpu, and with unlocking the performance tuning feature in the amd drivers, set the upper limit of the gpu to 1280 mhz / 730mv. The combined power draw of this was just under 55w in games, and now the vrms don't trigger the gpu to throttle anymore.
The other thing from this was i went back to the last good bootcamp video drivers i used, which by chance was april.
3. With great joy it was all working even better. While having a youtube break catching up on SFL, skimmed though the comments for later drivers... concluded it was worth trying september... and now anti aliasing is working in odysee for me.