I have been using AMD hardware encoding (AV1) for a while (a year or two) with MCEBuddy.
No issues, it just works.
It recently broke, it will work for a while, like 1 or 2 videos and then it defaults back to software encoding. That is REALLY slow. A video that would take 10 minutes with hardware encoding will take multiple hours.
I don’t know if it was Windows update or updating the AMD drivers. I’m leading towards it being an AMD driver issue.
Is there any suggested AMD driver version that is known to be stable?
I wish I knew what driver version I was running before I upgraded
Driver 99% of the time. Try rolling back the driver from device manager which should be the easiest option or check out this topic for links to recommended drivers
So the driver I am having issues with is 25.9.1, which I installed on Oct. 4th.
I don’t have the option to rollback, BUT I did find in my download folder driver version 24.7.1 which I suspect is what I was probably running for just over 1 year and it was stable.
For now, I have installed 24.12.1 and will see how that goes. It if still has issues, I will roll back to 24.7.1 that still exists in my download folder - it is too old and not available from AMD anymore from the looks of things.
