Upgraded from a rx 480 to 5700xt ...splat

[FlyingTaco21]

Well when it runs it is better. I managed to undervolt it successfully... sort of. The pc works fine in dcs and then stops after about 45 minutes mentioning something akin to driver timeout or driver lag. I've never really tried to tune a gpu before primarily because I've never had one that presented me with so many options as the AMD software does.  Are there any 5700 xt users out that  that have settings that work for them? ( ie settings for the card and dcs itself)Think the first thing I will do next is turn off the card provided enhancements that are activated by slider.  The Temps are actually very good for this card so I don't think it is throttling. But it is crashing none the less. I'm such a neophyte to all these options that I don't know where to really start outside the card voltage and speed settings. I've tried to adjust mine in like with what everyone on yt says for undervolting. 

[AlpineGTA]

I have a 5700XT but I'm not at home at the moment to check all my settings. I do know that I have the automatic under-volting selected in the Radeon software though. I find that most reliable, rather than trying to manually tweak the voltage graph myself.

[LucShep]

I had an RX5700XT 8GB (Sapphire Dual Fan).
A pretty darn good GPU in all aspects (comparable to RTX2070 and even GTX1080Ti), if somewhat quirky. Still awesome for 1080P, though it starts to show limitations at 1440P.
It's very underrated due to AMD's messy launch of this GPU model, with buggy drivers at that time (utterly broken for months). Later it was all fully corrected and fixed (became very good actually) but, unfortunately, it was a bit too late to clean the bad taste it left for consumers and tech reviewers.

Undervolting is a must on the RX5700XT.  Best combo I've found was 1999 core / 1800 mem @ 1060mv, after gazillions of benchmarks, stress tests and long gaming sessions.
Then it became supremely stable, flawless really (at least mine was), and very good temps, more so after creating a custom curve for the GPU fans as well.
Had no performance issues with any other games but, ultimately, the Nvidia bias was still very notorious with DCS (still doesn't work as good with AMD as it does with Nvidia) and that forced my hand...  I went for an RTX3060Ti 8GB right after selling the RX5700XT to a miner.

If it can help, these are the settings I was using on the RX5700XT....

RX5700XT Undervolt settings in AMD Adrenalin (1999 core / 1800 mem @ 1060mv) :

DCS specific profile in AMD Adrenalin (driver settings) :

 

DCS 2.7 system settings (1080P resolution) for RX5700XT :

NOTE: if you use 1440P screen resolution (instead of the 1080P shown there), try changing the MSAA to "x4" and SSAA to "OFF".

NOTE 2 : the monitor used there did not have Freesync VRR, hence using VSYNC "ON" (game then locked at 60FPS as per 1080P/60Hz).

NOTE 3 : I also strongly recommend to try SIMPLEX for DCS 2.7:  https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3317762/

 

Edited August 23, 2022 by LucShep