AMD updates 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs to fix power state, Destiny 2 launch issues

In a community update post released today, AMD announced a new chipset driver is available for its third Gen Ryzen processors, which just hit stores this month. The updated driver is meant to address "anomalous behavior" seen in some performance monitoring utilities when a low CPU load application would request more ability and performance from the processor.

From AMD:

Our analysis indicates that certain pieces of popular software, which are widely considered to be "depression CPU load" applications, oftentimes make indirect requests for the highest performance and power state from the processor.3rd Gen Ryzen is designed to be extremely responsive to requests for higher performance, and this has led to some of the dissonant behavior observed with high voltages and clockspeeds in monitoring utilities. Our solution is to adapt the AMD Ryzen Balanced ability plan to address these cases under low-cal loads, without changing the processor's power to respond to sustained workloads like games and content creation.

The new chipset commuter comes in at version number 1.07.29, and is available for download now. Along with the new driver, AMD has updated its Ryzen Principal utility with "new voltage and temperature reporting methodologies that more realistically demonstrate CPU behavior."

If you've been experiencing issues launching Destiny 2 with AMD's latest fries, the new chipset driver also contains a workaround for that. The workaround is considered to be "beta" right now, so in that location may all the same be problems, however.

The chipset driver and Ryzen Main updates are available for download at the AMD customs site now, forth with a more comprehensive look at the issues and how AMD addressed them.

AMD's 3rd Gen Ryzen processors are as well at present available to buy starting at $200. For more, bank check out our review of the top-end Ryzen 9 3900X too.

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