verifiable (ble?)

AMD adrenalin 24.8.1 runs decent 

24.9.1 and 24.10.1 are turtles by comparison.
Why??

I speak mostly of the CPU-Test inside Timespy in 3dmark

Nobody reads these but I want it written somewhere that the newer drivers slow my card down, at the same settings using the same test.

The 24.8.1 isn't running superfast, exactly, I've seen it run at 16700 on a rare blue-moon day. Plus, I should point out that this is only one part of one score.
But I've been able to prove to myself that the latest drivers slow the card down, and my only question so far is,
"Why?"

Taking copious notes and tweeeeking NB/SOC from a few reddit articles, and VDDP, I find that I already had optimal (for this PC) settings and my tweaks just slowed them down.
Me-in-the-future, ignore the internet, read your notes. (1.1 and 0.855)

I don't know right now what new feature they added to the drivers, but it slows my hoary card down. 

No one asked, but my "Power plan" seems to be stuck on "Balanced"

It took a video to type one line?
Bombastic.

It's worth a try, I just feel despondent. It should work.

"Device security" is ignoring me too.
What should I think??

Suddenly it's all decorative, non-functional

If some new setting broke my menus, or a service I used to use got switched off,

or it's because I'm using WiFi?

Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Anyway the long line in Powershell to restore app settings seems to have worked.
So if it's innocent, the fix should be long-lasting.
If on the other hand something is messing with the menus, this problem will return soon.

QOTD:

https://hackread.com/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-tells-users-to-die/

In related news, Musk has something nasty to say about Google AI.
I'm not absolutely sure this isn't just propaganda.

My Atari 400 could run tiny programs in basic (Built-in or add-on, I don't remember)
And one of the programs was an 8-ball type program you could use like a calculator to get it to answer questions. 
The religious-type girl I knew then warned against letting computers answer questions, and someone with her scoffed that it was only some game (that I wrote, most amateurishly) but she was adamant, it smacked of satanic influences.
I also remember a Danny Dunn book from way before that, and the consequences of letting a computer do homework and especially, write speeches.

(The book had a happy ending though; The kid worked so hard programming the computer that he became smarter without meaning to.)
Switch to today, when AI programs will decide our right to be citizens.

Or expensive NAS projects and their Rube Goldberg setups.

It's a train of thought, go with it.

One of today's headlines, VC's (whatever they are) (A vc?)

 have judged engineers to be obsolete because they are non productive.

They must think up shit or be discarded.

I'm still looking for a photo of engineers being watched by their VC overlords.
The pinnacle of AI in a picture is still super-creepy (look at her hands!)

Her hands! (omg)

Work from "home" engineering?

1. H2b visa employees are the backbone of the tech industry (for alternative viewpoints please see reddit, Quora or Fox).
2. Forbidding them will doom the future to AI (and the VC overlords) (See picture, see #1)