Hi and welcome back to this bite for you today I have the pleasure of bringing you
the announcement that AMD has released the 21.4 driver set for their video cards now
unlike most drivers that is just a performance increase in some games
cool five to however many percent AMD is not only offering updated features but new features as well
so come over here real quick and let's get started let me show you exactly what those features are
alright so to start off with the features right at the very beginning AMD has updated their
AMD Radeon software installer with something people have been asking for, for quite some time
so if we go under additional options install type we see full factor reset but under install type we
have minimal and drivers only drivers only that way you guys don't run into some of the issues
drivers only is pretty awesome because you don't need to install the AMD software suite
you can just install the drivers alone this might help out a lot of you if you're running into any
issues with the suite the suite's awesome but we all don't need it right but anyway let me continue
so choosing the drivers only and of course factor reset option will do a reset cool that works
now factory reset what it does it resets your machine and then gives you a clean install path
that way you don't have all these other pieces of software running while it's installing and while
it's removing all that good stuff but we'll go ahead and skip ahead of this now pay close
attention here again we're going to go to the second of the software suites features
we're going to go under the minimal install now you have to pay close attention always select
factory reset but after restarting right click on the desktop and the Radeon software pay close
attention here we're going to have system graphics display video and preferences this kind of looks
similar right all right let's move on to the next install so coming back in after the uninstall now
we're going to select full install and then of course factor reset and then we install
for AMD intel NVIDIA anybody I always DDU the drivers first come back into windows then when
I come back I choose the custom and the full install that way if DDU didn't do something
the AMD GeForce intel will take care of the rest it's a great secondary option but always keep that
primary DDU in my opinion just make sure you run it right all right so coming back into windows
right click on the desktop and the Radeon software and we're presented with what we've seen before
but notice the new stuff so right here on this screen there's a little slight change is not much
again the current driver version 21.4 and pretty much everything we've seen before
now going into gaming we can see all the games I have installed and then we can see a bunch
of compatibility settings with those games or for those games processor video card everything
along those lines now recording stream was not there under minimal here we're given the option
to record or live stream which was there before but it's a little bit more streamlined hold on
I need to change something real quick I have my 1920x1080 on a huge monitor
all right so coming back into the software and full screening it we can get started or skip
this I’ll do a quick get started recording so now after clicking next we can see some of the feature
sets here and then some more on this screen and then here we're done we click finish and we're
presented with a new word layout and then just a lot better way of setting it up live stream back
to record it again we have a bunch of advanced settings a lot of this has already been there
but they changed the UI a little bit to make it more user friendly for you guys
So both recording and live streaming performance and then some preferences here
under performance here we have the metrics and then we have
some tuning for overclocking and all that good stuff there advisors some
of the settings advisors and don't worry guys we're getting into the good stuff in a second
just some more of the compatibility stuff that we've already seen okay so clicking on the gear
over here we have a bunch more features again a lot of this will look familiar to you guys
but under graphics you know like I’ve shown you before we have their anti-lag boost and
FreeSync that reduces overall input latency which helps a ton and they've updated as well and then
display now here we can see FreeSync I have it disabled because I’m going through a capture card
now under video pretty much nothing new here then under hotkeys a bunch of
the different hotkeys now accounts a bunch of the different accounts you can stream to
and then finally devices now this is where things start to get cool now you may have never used link
before it's not new but this is a new version this is AMD link 4.0 gives you a bunch of cool features
I’m going to go over some of them now so we'll go ahead and
enable the AMD link server this machine becomes the link server allowed through the firewall
and now we'll go ahead and link a device so AMD link 4.0 has come a long way
mind you AMD link has been there for a while a lot of us never knew what it was but I finally
got a chance to play with it today and it does a lot of cool stuff let me show you real quick
all right so I am currently recording my screen so now I go over here to the gear and then I click on
devices now here we can see I’ve already connected with my pixel 5 but I’m going to show you
like it was new so first off on my phone I’m going to go to the play store and download AMD link and
I already have it on here so then on my device I could click here but I’m going to show you like it
was new I’ll click link a device then on my phone I’ll click scan qr and then I’ll scan this over
here and now we're linked to the pc so here you can see a bunch of the videos I’ve recorded before
I’ve tested this a lot and then a bunch of the games installed so I’m going to click on shadow
of the tomb raider and launch now we can see on my phone there's a controller and then the background
cool so on here I click play I’m going to raise the volume on my phone
So like this was a controller for your console or for your pc you can see
It's moving and I’m clicking here so
I’m making all the changes here I’m going to go ahead and continue where I was
Loading, Loading, Loading
so I’m looking around you can see it here and I’m controlling it all right here on my phone
you're not going to be able to see it too well but all the changes I’m making on here
are affecting that screen so I could be in the bathroom
I could be sitting on the couch with my family watching a movie and
Oh that was funny
spending good quality family time now they're going through the FMV both here and there but
obviously not a replacement for family time but every once in a while you want
a game you might be away from your pc and this is going to help you out a ton
but wait there's more all right so I’ve exited out of my desktop from shadow of the tomb raider and
unfortunately I can't record while streaming it doesn't want to work so what you saw on my phone
and actually what you saw my background is what was happening so and I wasn't using
my capture card at that time but another cool thing you can do let's say you have
a pc somewhere out in the house that has a huge monitor and you don't want to lug your pc around
or lug the monitor around this works on the pc too so I’m on the other side of my office this
is the pc I do all of my video editing on I don't install games on here but sometimes I want to play
actually I just thought of that that's actually pretty cool so on the screen now and I can't do
video recording and streaming at the same time unless I use maybe a separate app but I’m just
trying to stick to the AMD software suite but over here let me bring you in a little bit closer there
so if I come over here let's say to the gear and I click devices
Actually this I’ll record for you
okay I’m recording this beginning part for you one thing I just remembered I’ll click on start
aim the link for windows so that is also part of the software suite
then over here we can see this bytes4upc that pc over there I click on it
this is everything that's on that pc since I was already playing shadow of the tomb raider
You sure this is a path come on stay close to me this is definitely not a path
so that's pretty awesome right so aside from that feature now one feature I cannot test
actually there's two I can't test one feature I can't test a because I don't have those games
is the link part that sets up essentially Lan multiplayer games without you know they don't
have to be in your same house but you know so that you can play yourself someone can connect to your
computer and play with you against you or with you as long as that game supports you know two players
so that's pretty awesome like for example NBA 2021 again I haven't tested it so let me know
down in the comments if you have and how it works so another feature unfortunately I cannot test
because for this you require at least an AMD Radeon 6000 series card the latest and greatest
is the av-1 decoder now that is pretty awesome because as of right now no AMD card supported so
this driver enables you or gives you support for av1 decoding and that's pretty sweet
but still there's more all right so another cool feature that they've added to the software
is the bug report tool now this will open up if your game crashes or something along those lines
but you know if you see something weird the game hasn't crashed you can come over here and give all
your features and specs and everything and then report that if they don't know there's an issue
with something they're not going to fix it so any issue you have it's always best to report it
for anybody so that is a great feature as well now coming over here to display we have an awesome
feature we'll go under custom resolutions or actually we'll go under color deficiency
correction alright so this protanopia allows for adjustment for people with red color blindness
so you can see not just one particular color grade because
if you don't know that you're red colorblind and it looks off this might help you on that and then
this one right over here I’m not going to try to butcher that for green color blindness
and then this one over here for blue color blindness
so it's pretty awesome that they don't just go over a gradient scale and hear you figure it out
mind you I’m not saying that it's a bad thing that they're saying here go figure it out when there's
a color gradient and you get to select what looks better for you but if you don't know your
red color blind or blue color blind or whatever you set the color you think is good and then your
friend comes along that looks horrible why does that look purple that's not purple that's orange
I don't know the spectrum so I don't want to butcher that either but I just want to give
you an example of how that color blindness it's not only cool because it's there but
it gives the software a greater reach for the community and it allows for more people to be
able to play to have fun or to do regular work it allows more people to use the pc that they
want have their own personal experience so that is pretty awesome now mind you
I’ve discussed just about every single feature if not every single feature they've done
an amazing job with the 21.4 and of course this is just the beginning every day they're
improving performance and mind you I did see a performance improvement but it was really tiny
and I don't want to go over that because everybody else let everyone else handle that it was between
five and like eight percent what I saw but anyway I wanted to go over the bigger and better features
you can game on your pc on your phone on your tablet on your laptop from your desktop
old machine you know of course you will need an AMD Radeon card but it could be a really old card
that doesn't do much now it can as long as your desktop can then you know the color grading for
people that have different kind of color blindness the ability to mirror your pc onto a larger screen
and so many different things that they've added av1 decoder AMD’s really doing a ton
let me know down below what your favorite feature is that they've added and maybe let me know down
below if there's a feature that they haven't added that you would like to add maybe they'll come
around and look at that comment now I’ve worked with a and b on this release so definitely they're
going to look and of course you can always submit that either in the bug report tool or in AMD’s
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that's about it for now the 21.4 AMD driver set and Iggy with ThisBytesForYou out, see you guys