If you have a gaming PC and decided to go down the less-trodden (but still scenic) AMD path for your graphics card, then you’ll be familiar with the Radeon Settings – formerly known as AMD Catalyst Control Center. For most people, this is probably a no-go zone, and you’re quite happy to let each individual game decide what graphics settings are best for you.
Use it wisely, however, and this tool can take your gaming up a few notches. So to help you, here’s a list of all the main features you’ll find in Radeon Settings, with a particular focus on the “Gaming” and “Display” sections.
Radeon Gaming Settings
The settings under here will have the most direct impact on your gaming performance. Click Gaming, then Global Settings. Let’s talk about the three headings you see on this screen.
Global WattMan
Under Global Settings, the middle tab at the top of Radeon Settings is Global WattMan – a tool which lets you overclock your AMD graphics card. Click it, and you’ll see a slider at the top that lets you choose from several overclocking presets.
Turbo will push your GPU to run at higher clock speeds, improving game performance but also heating up your GPU more. Power Save, meanwhile, underclocks your GPU, cooling it down at the expense of performance. If you find that high-spec games are crashing too often, try selecting “Power Save” here to see if that helps.
If you scroll down, you’ll see that you can have much more granular control over your overclocking, letting you adjust your card’s memory and GPU clock speeds and voltage. If you’re not familiar with overclocking, we recommend reading a guide before dabbling with anything here.
Performance Monitoring
This easily overlooked feature in Global Settings lets you bring up a little performance-monitoring overlay any time using a quick keyboard shortcut. Click this, and you’ll see that you can make various adjustments, such as what info is displayed in the overlay (frame-rate, GPU temperature, VRAM usage etc.), and what keyboard shortcut you want to use to open it.
Global Graphics
Anti-aliasing Mode
Particularly on screens with lower resolutions, diagonal lines in video games (which are made of individual square pixels) may look jaggy and “staircased” rather than smooth. Anti-aliasing (AA) resolves this by effectively filling the gaps in these staircased lines to smooth them out.
If you choose the “Enhance application settings” option, it will utilize something called “Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing,” which layers over your AA in-game settings to further smooth edges. If you choose “Override application settings,” it will use the settings outlined below.
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