Radeon RX 7900M Alienware m18 R1 bugs addressed via display driver workaround

[Redaktion]

If you're experiencing display issues, Dell recommends rolling back your driver to v31.0.14076.3, A01. And if you're not, then don't update your display drivers at all even if AMD Adrenalin says otherwise. The latest drivers should be avoided for now until they are properly optimized for the Radeon RX 7900M.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Radeon-RX-7900M-Alienware-m18-R1-bugs-addressed-via-display-driver-workaround.775442.0.html

[Lucas]

AMD driver support has not changed since ATI X1400/X1600 times it seems..

[Frans]

AMD driver support has not changed since ATI X1400/X1600 times it seems..

This kind of thing in laptop is not exclusive to AMD since you can also face all sorts of weird problem on laptop with Nvidia GPU. The thing with laptop is that sometimes manufacturer put a lot of customization in it that in turns can cause compatibility issue with the reference driver (driver that you download from AMD or Nvidia official site). This driver problem is not limited to GPU but can also happen to other component.

Basically what I'm saying is that this is not just an AMD thing but more of a laptop thing.

[Lucas]

@Frans

Nope, this is the way it has been for years with AMD. Sometimes there was a problem with Intel but those almost never needed updating and I haven't seen this with Nvidia.
AMD has always been pushing their drivers onto OEMs.

[NikoB]

NVidia drivers also have a lot of problems. Today, reliable drivers simply do not exist. If you start checking them across the entire range of software available on the x86 platform.

But I have known one super advantage of AMD drivers for more than 15 years - auto-calibration of wide gamut panels for the sRGB color space. What is still missing in drivers for NVidia/AMD video chips.

Hardware calibration does not always save the entire range of software with such monitors and laptop panels (and there are now a lot of them under DCI-P3/AdobeRGB).

Stupid Windows (or rather, its developers for more than 20 years) cannot do normal color management. Even W11 does not have it, as people who have encountered this problem report.

AMD drivers have an instant way to correct oversaturated colors (usually toxic reds and greens) on such screens - just check one box (although in Adrenaline, they actually hid this functionality from users, since in Catalyst, the old drivers, it was clearly indicated in the Color tab for each monitor individually).

Owners of NVidia and Intel will be forced to constantly struggle with this on such screens, i.e. There is no universal way. They will have to (if the manufacturer has not carefully taken care of this in the monitor firmware or in the driver for the laptop panel) do at least hardware calibration on their own, and still this will not be a universal solution. There will still be problems in some software with oversaturation.

[NikoB]

for NVidia/AMD

Sorry typo - Nvidia/Intel, certainly.