AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition: Streaming for Videos, Games, & VR
by Nate Oh on December 13, 2018 9:01 AM EST"Hey Radeon, Start Streaming": AMD Link's Voice Control and More
Like Radeon Overlay, AMD Link was introduced with the original Adrenalin Edition, and similarly brought together a lot of Radeon Software settings, offering a different kind of accessibility.
For Adrenalin 2019, AMD Link finally integrated WattMan controls, as we saw earlier. Aside from the game streaming functionalities, the other improvements look towards enabling it as a useful PC peripheral rather than just a tool for remote management, as it needs to be on the same wireless network as the paired PC.
The most interesting change is the new voice recognition, supporting English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin). With natural language commands, AMD Link will listen for certain keywords for select actions, which currently includes streaming/recording controls and displaying metrics.
The drawback is that a long-press on the app’s bottom navbar is needed to bring up the voice recognition screen in the first place, upon which instructions need to be prefaced with the word “Radeon.” Given the sometimes frenetic nature of streaming though, this might counteract the hands-free advantage of voice recognition.
There was also the new capability to remotely update Radeon Software to a new version with 'Express Upgrade', though because both mobile device and PC still need to be on the same wireless network, the applicability is somewhat limited in scope.
Otherwise, the new version of AMD Link sees improvements to connection reliability, where original AMD Link had a somewhat clunky reconnection process upon re-opening the app. For one, recently connected PCs are now listed on the Welcome screen rather than elsewhere in the settings. There is also an ‘Automatic Reconnect’ option as well, attempting to connect to the last known PC.
Performance metrics have also seen enhancements, now able to capture average/min/max framerates at a button press.
ReLive on AMD Link can now view screenshots and playback videos, as well as crop and save videos to the mobile device. These were not possible in the previous AMD Link versions, where the files were permanently on the PC with Radeon Software.
And more directly applicable for streamers using multiple devices, ReLive on AMD Link can now view the comment feed while streaming to YouTube, Twitch, or Facebook.
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limitedaccess - Thursday, December 13, 2018 - link
Are there any plans to bring Gamestreaming to desktops? Preferably via a portable style implementation?Despoiler - Thursday, December 13, 2018 - link
Not sure what you are referring to. You've been able to stream from desktops using AMD Relive since last year's driver update.limitedaccess - Thursday, December 13, 2018 - link
Actual remote game streaming? I don't mean streaming game play to watch but to actually play the game on another machine like the mobile streaming and VR streaming implemented in this release. But in my case I'm looking for a solution in which the client is a Windows PC and does not require any installation of software (preferably fully portable leaving nothing behind).SetiroN - Friday, December 14, 2018 - link
Actual remote game streaming. Even in vr now. They have an android app.limitedaccess - Friday, December 14, 2018 - link
I know they have it now for mobile and VR. What I'm asking about is plans for PC to PC (desktop/laptop) preferably with a fully portable client app.Targon - Friday, December 14, 2018 - link
That's the whole point of ReLive. If you mean running the game on one machine and being controlled by another, that is another story.Rocket321 - Saturday, December 15, 2018 - link
I came here to say the same thing. They put in all this work to allow remote gaming on a phone but still no first party solution for PC to PC remote gaming. Those of you willing to do a third party tool check out Parsec. Still hoping AMD will fix this for PC as well as FireTV/Android TV/ etc.Targon - Monday, December 17, 2018 - link
You need to understand that there is the whole issue of complexity. Streaming video is fairly simple with a 720p data stream, but trying to have anything complex that requires more CPU/GPU power is going to be more difficult. I don't consider most phone/tablet games where remote gaming is possible to really be able to compete with ANY game that is actually running on that device.Rocket321 - Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - link
I totally agree - it was basically a waste of time to bring game streaming to mobile phones. On the other hand, bringing remote play capabilities to laptops/desktops would be super useful for quite a few people.Steam streaming was awful the last time I tried it. Parsec works pretty well, but I'd sure prefer a first party tool from AMD to give parity with the green team.
abufrejoval - Thursday, December 20, 2018 - link
I was going to say that Steam already offers that for Steam titles, but this leads me to believe that the experience may be different with AMD GPUs. I've only ever tried this on Nvidias, where it works extremely well as long the network is good enough.So much so that I've actually upgraded my 24x7 box with a very quiet GTX 1060 and then have people wonder how my Chuwi Atom notebook plays ARK Survival Evolved at great resolution, detail and speed.
But Nvidia has put highly latency optimized x264 encoding block into the GPU hardware specifically to support that use case, which incidentally even works with Android tablets and a beta Steam client (as well as the recently discontinued Steam link box).
One of my kids still has a Radon 290X, perhaps I'll run a Steam test with that to compare.