That doesn't mean that I too won't vote with my dollars. I have been and still am wanting to be a very loyal AMD user.
With consoles, processors and even the non gaming pc market their job is much more simple. The other possibility and likely more accurate is that in reality the PC gaming part of their business is a small focus for them, and is frankly a headache.
Having rock solid drivers is the only way you gain favor in the PC community. I don't know if it is a money / payroll thing if they just can't afford more help? If it is I think I would find a way to get as many people on the driver team as possible. So I go back to thinking AMD simply doesn't have enough boots on the ground. Months later and FreeSync is still a mess, and has been since about 4 or 5 drivers before the Adrenaline release.
When Windows 1803 came out it broke FreeSync and GSYNC equally, weeks later NVIDIA had the a new driver out and GSYNC working. I just don't know however why those changes can't be compensated for in the drivers or overcoming the Windows side issues is so impossible. Now in all fairness though to AMD in many cases like on my RX 580 a couple of changes in Wattman and some changes to Windows settings and I am rock solid. It should be rare cases of true incompatibilities with a MB bios for instance, etc that require some hassle to get stable. NOBODY IMHO should have to go through the crap you have to do to get things working. I was pretty unhappy when I bought my RX 580 as an improvement over my HD 7950 and could not get a single game to run! Luckily I came here and Kingfish told me just what to do to get it working.
New features are nice but only if they work and don't break what used to work great. Then they could have concentrated on making VEGA actually work correctly too. They would have been better to add none of the new features to the older cards and just left them stable.
IMHO they should have split the drivers at the RX series and again at VEGA. Top that off with trying to make one driver work with really 3 different pieces of technology. Top that off with trying to add too much new tech at the same time.
My guess for a while now has been that they just don't have enough people working on the problem. As that saying goes, " I think what you meant to say was, Thank you.
This world has more than enough "ugly" without our contributions. These forum conversations turn ugly way to fast, and we all can be better people than that. If you don't need or use someones advice just simply disregard it and move on. There is no situation that is a bad thing. I can tell you for a fact goodplay is a good helper, if he offered you advice he thought it might help. Some times they get my brains wheels running on track. I have gotten good fixes from seemingly unrelated topics many times. I would ask you to remember that even when someone elses advice seems off topic they are TRYING TO HELP YOU. Lets remember those helping you are just users like you, not the AMD employees you may be wishing to hold accountable for you aggravation. It is easy to get emotional over these issues, they effect our quality of life and pocket books. Although I have frequented other tech sites for years and still do. It's why I was never a part of this forum. Granted until a year ago March never had issues with the other AMD cards either. For me having aquired to current gen Nvidia cards as well in the last 6 months and not because of the AMD issues more price and availability, but realizing the currently just seem to be plug and play and have had none of the headaches I had getting my RX 580 stable. It is very troubling to me as having been such a huge AMD support since their first 486 processors, and on the graphic side since them buying ATI. I have always though the AMD hardware good, and history supports this as the just keep getting better with age, until recently. I never have believed it is the hardware. To me I have to think it's time to not do a unified driver for them maybe the need a separate driver for the different series? Maybe they just don't have the manpower to fix it. The other three I can't even run the last 3 drivers in any capacity. I have 4 AMD cards in use right now, one is current gen RX580 and the driver updates seem to be making it better in general.