AMD launched its newest chipset driver final month with model 7.02.13.148. It was a significant replace because the package deal accommodates a number of new functionalities together with improved help for Microsoft Pluton safety co-processor and a brand new “AMD Software Compatibility Database Driver.”

We speculated in our unique article that this might need to do with enhancing app compatibility throughout Home windows 11/10.

As we speak, alongside the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D (try our evaluation of the previous), AMD has additionally detailed the brand new options and capabilities of the chipset driver.

First up, the corporate talks about “up to date provisioning packages service.” AMD says that this “optimizes Ryzen 9 processor gaming with a mixture of energy/frequency optimization and core parking.”

For these not acquainted, a provisioning package deal (.ppkg) file is a container for a group of configuration settings that helps configure a PC with out the necessity for contemporary imaging. Thus with this new function, AMD makes it simple to alter and improve processors with out the necessity for an OS reinstallation.

This could assist system builders immensely as 16-core X3D processors have an uneven design whereby solely one of many two CCDs (Core Compute Dies) has the 3D V-cache and thus video games should be scheduled to run on this CCD solely. Up to now, for Home windows to know and perceive this, an OS reinstallation was needed.

AMD is looking this function “Automated Processor Detection” and it’ll run mechanically at each boot. It writes:

Automated Processor Detection

Mechanically checks the system at boot and modifications the provisioning packages if the processor has been modified. Due to this modification, customers are not required to re-install home windows when swapping out processors.

We talked about AMD Software Compatibility Database Driver above and the corporate has additionally defined what that’s.

Primarily, it is a whitelist of titles and video games that don’t work correctly with PPKG and AMD’s 3D V-cache efficiency optimizer. The Software Compatibility Database driver successfully works by lowering the thread pool dimension. The corporate provides that it already makes use of an analogous method for its Threadripper CPUs and it was developed along with Microsoft as a efficiency optimization technique for frivolously threaded purposes.

At present, it really works with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Dying Mild 2, Far Cry 6, Metro Exodus and the Enhanced Version, Whole Battle: Three Kingdoms, Whole Battle: Warhammer III, and Wolfenstein: Youngblood.