AMD Delivers Crimson ReLive Drivers: Yearly Feature Update for Radeon Gamers and Professionals
by Ian Cutress on December 8, 2016 9:00 AM ESTReLive
The biggest part of the ReLive launch, despite the major amount of updates, fixes and new features, is actually the ‘ReLive’ itself, or ‘re-live’. Basically on our hands is an on-screen recording tool that implements integration to streaming services and offers options for professionals to demonstrate or promote with overlay and webcam features all while giving a minimal impact to performance.
So clearly there are plenty of gaming capture software suites already available on the market such as XSplit, individual webcam software, and even a Game DVR capture tool built directly into the latest editions of Windows 10. One of the key advantages AMD claims it has over all the others is that being a GPU manufacturer means they can interact with the hardware in ways the others cannot, leading to a much lower overhead and better experience than the rest. Also, it comes free with the driver software and doesn’t require a license.
Aside from the obvious game streaming aspect most users are familiar with, AMD is promoting ReLive as a professional tool as well, bundled with the requested versions of the Pro software set. The blurb from AMD states that using a tool such as ReLive can help with training and remote presenting, not to mention that AMD is also certifying the tool with commercial software packages as required.
ReLive will support direct streaming into many online video services such as YouTube and Twitch, as well as a gamut of popular Asian streaming websites (panda.tv, Douyu, Huya, Longzhu). Control for ReLive’s features will be via an in-app toolbar, offering instant replay of up to 20 minutes of onscreen footage and custom hotkey support for things like overlay images and webcam positioning.
Support for ReLive will be on all GCN enabled discrete graphics cards for Windows 7/8/10, and for Pro WX and FirePro W-series cards on Windows 7/10.
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valinor89 - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
I have tried the Relive recording and I get crashes on my Gigabyte R9 280x saying the vcore is unstable. My card has a 1100 factory overclock and the voltage is stuck at 1,200v. I have been using OBs with VCE and I have no problems, but seems like something in the new Relive feature doesn't like my card. Also, having the record logo all the time is anoying, specially as it also appears in the video.TLDR: Your mileage might vary
Senti - Thursday, December 8, 2016 - link
> At present the system does not offer recommendations as to what to buy (or where), or where to read reviews on potential upgrades. I highly recommend a site I know called AnandTech. I’m sure you’ve heard of it?Yeah, I've heard it used to be great hardware site. Now all it can do is fancy-print marketing slides. For example, Tom already posted benchmarks of Radeon Chill while we likely won't see anything substantiation for weeks.
Michael Bay - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
You forgot your 960 whine.Senti - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
You can write your 960 whine, don't be shy. Otherwise people would have no idea what it means.darckhart - Thursday, December 8, 2016 - link
then again, drivers are now 200 MB downloads where they used to be 25 MB at most...valinor89 - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
Mine was a 440 MB download with all the software... I guess those include the almost legacy CGN drivers for my 280x and they can streamline the ones for the new 400 series.Gigaplex - Saturday, December 10, 2016 - link
It's half a gig (499MB) on the AMD download site...Michael Bay - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
Presentation that by all rights should have been titled "look, our drivers are not as awful anymore!".Jesus christ.
AndrewJacksonZA - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
"H.265 encoding has been a part of GPUOpen, but with the new launch the tools are being expanded for in-game DX12 frame processing."Is that technology used while recording gameplay to disk, or else when is it used? BF1 was shown, which prompted me to think that it's for gameplay recording.
zodiacsoulmate - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
85M download... i have to download different version 10 times to get a working one. i guess i contributed