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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Ian Cutress - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
That's OK, I install one version and use it for 10+ systems. It evens out.SydneyBlue120d - Friday, December 9, 2016 - link
Is VP9 GPU decoding finally enabled with this release? Thanks.overseer - Sunday, December 11, 2016 - link
Warning! I got black screen right after installing of the ReLive driver. Was running ok with RX 480 and 16.9.2 whql driver and chose clean install with the new one, then desktop went black upon the last bit of installation. Tried reboot and recovery, no use. Now I have to reinstall my Win 10 - what a ReLive for the computer, oops..darkvader75 - Sunday, December 11, 2016 - link
This driver causes my screen to go black randomly like my card is turning off. I have 2 AMD Fury's in crossfire. I reverted back to the 11.5 and have no problems.profdre - Thursday, December 15, 2016 - link
Same black screen problem here: Win 10 boots, but at the exact time I try to right click on the desktop, screen goes black. Win 10 64 bit Pro, R9 290X. This is crap, AMD, test your drivers. I had to safe boot and uninstall with AMD Uninstaller and then installed the second newest version.twtech - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Who comes up with these names for AMD? I cringe reading some of them from the corniness. "ReLive"? "RyZen"? Sounds like MMO handle names of a 14 year old.IntoGraphics - Tuesday, January 3, 2017 - link
"Supported operating systems for this are Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04, RHEL 6.8 / 7.2 / 7.3, and SLED/SLES 12 SP2."This should be written on the boxes of AMD based graphics cards. But AMD cock suckers prefers to take your money for nothing in return. Well to be honest you do get a lemon for your money. AMD, there are more Linux distros than Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLED/SLES. If the green camp can release a common Linux driver for all distros ...
Furzeydown - Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - link
That's .... just for the AMDGRU-PRO drivers. The open source Mesa drivers (which are arguably better, for gaming at least) are available as part of the Linux Kernel. Sheesh.