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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone i'm dmitri with Huracan arcs and i am wearing red on purpose because today we'll be taking a look at an overview of a m-- these new driver software that promises better user experience more stability in the future and everything in between sort of improved and they've added several cool infrastructure additions within the software so here's everything you need to know about aim the crimson software so the first feature is low framerate compensator or LFC and these adding this features to compensate for judder and tearing if your framerate goes below the minimum of fresh rate of a free sync monitor so some of the first generation free sync monitors had a minimum refresh rate of 40 Hertz with free sync enabled and therefore if your frame rate dropped below 40 fps in-game you'll encounter stuttering and just unplayable non fluid motions so LFC will tries to compensate for that with this new panels that have a lower refresh rate not at 40 but now will be at 30 Hertz which means that the LFC will adapt the GPU output versus refresh rate of a monitor so you have more fluid experience even if you drop below the minimum refresh rate of a free sync panel so the next feature is frame pacing in crossfire micro stutter was a very common issue in dx9 games but now with crimson that is all solved and you should experience much more fluid gameplay with the x9 titles with crossfire so now let's talk UI see how pretty this new software is from AMD and see also if there is any performance benefits with AMD crimson and so first you can see that AMD has done a fantastic job with the driver user interface it's easy to navigate it's very fast and provides a solid foundation for all user interactions with the drivers so the first gaming tab will detect all the games installed on your system it will detect them from Steam origin you play the time doesn't take this GOG galaxy games yet but you can manually add them with this settle and function here under the global settings you can adjust multiple image qualities this is where you can also enable global graphics for framerate target control which will be applied throughout the board so what this will allow you to do is set a frame rate target for a specific game anywhere from 30 fps to 200 FPS that would allow your GPU to work only up to a certain point so for example if you have a fury X and you want to play a less demanding title you can set a frame rate target so that your GPU can run at a much higher efficiency lower temperatures and lower fan noise in order to reach that specific target and you can also see shader cache here that can be enabled or disabled so in order to offer seamless transition between areas of open-world games like Far Cry for Fallout 4 dragon age and you know Skyrim and all those stuff the game engine has to store compiled shaders within the graphics driver and it becomes very inefficient when you have to revisit that area of the game again as it has to compile the shaders it has to load them and has to discard them once again so what they what aim the crimson will try to do is redirect those compiled shaders onto the area of the users disk so a hard drive or an SSD in order to offer much reduced loading times in games and therefore may potentially reduce CPU overhead and so the CPU doesn't have to worry about those resources the global overdrive hasn't changed at all it's still the same way you cannot adjust voltages and it's very easy to visually see what type of overclock and power limit percentage that you will be working with if you want to or a clock but the cool thing is you can enter each single game and you can adjust the same image controls per game and adjust the frame rate target control per title which is really cool and you can also set different profiles overclocking profiles per game as well which is nice if you want to have a little extra power and one and less on the other so moving on to the video tab this is where you have local playback color presets for anything that's playing locally so these presets will not apply to the video playing on the web so these are color profiles are not specific to anything that's playing on YouTube or anything like that but as you can see here I have a file right now it's in the default if you go and cinema classic notice that it does change the color profile and color preset of that video moving out to display tab here I was hoping to see you know at least commands for resolution and refreshed rate and all that jazz that you'd what you'd like to see on the display settings unfortunately that's not available here you do however it can enable free sync virtual super resolution GPU scaling and scaling note all of which are important but you will have to go into additional settings which is right here so clicking that will pop up this window that we're so familiar with in which you can see the model the GP the monitor resolution refresh rate and all that stuff and you can go into custom resolutions here if you want to change the refresh rate or custom resolutions of this panel now MD crimson brings multi-monitor setups a lot easier I don't have triple monitor setup or Multi multi setup but in here you'll be able to adjust where each panel is and how it is aligned and it's supposed to bring multi monitor configuration setups a lot easier to set up now with AMD crimson and finally the system tab gives you all the software and hardware information about your system that you know is great to have in case you want to double check on something that is is whether or not it's updated or something being detected and so the last thing to cover is performance and through our our tests only two games saw good improvements for lot four and Star Wars Battlefront while on the other hand hitman and shadow of mordor saw a large decline in performance with the rest of the titles hovering around the margin of error so I think will be just a matter of time until we see performance improvements rhasta board with indy crimson versus previous catalyst software in our 30 hours of testing with four GPUs we have experienced no abnormal abnormal behavior with the GPU while some people have reported to have low fan profile so GPU faint profiles to be way too low the cards would get hot with this driver software but not in our experience and so at the end of the day what AMD has here is a solid software foundation that will definitely be complementing their future hardware with beautiful UI and hopefully further refinements in how we interact with the driver and if you want more information on a in the crimson it will be linked in the description below we have a full article on Hard Knocks comm make sure to give the like button a virtual high five on your way out so that we can feel appreciated we hope you enjoyed this little overview video I'm Dimitri with Hard Rock Canucks thanks much for watching 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