Not sure which company to report to AMD or Blender?

I downloaded the latest official “Bootcamp AMD” drivers from the AMD site, last night.
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/apple-boot-camp

Apple actually directs Mac/Bootcamp users to the AMD site as they no longer provide updated drivers with a Bootcamp installation.

The latest drivers (10/06/2020 Unified R4) which includes the for 2017 iMac, breaks Blender from 2.83 to 2.91.
With the new drivers you can no longer select a mesh object with the mouse pointer, in the viewport.
***Reverting to the previous drivers from march resolves the issue.

I know it’s not your area at AMD, but I was hoping @bsavery could do a quick read of this post and give some guidance on who I should report to.

Thanks,
Tim

I would say AMD. If you changed a driver, and the previous one works, then the issue is in the driver.
Now you could also file a Blender bug report, knowing that it will most likely end up getting closed, just so it is searchable on the tracker if anyone else has the same issue.

Question: Does the issue occur when using both macOS and Windows?

Random thought @ AMD: it would be nice if there were release notes on the download page for Bootcamp drivers, like there are for other drivers… I downloaded the .zip to check if they are included. They aren’t as far as I can tell.

Only Windows. But saying that, I have no idea what version driver is on Mac OS since Apple only allows drivers to be installed with OS updates.

Cool, I’ll track down AMD’s bug reporting process. And then do the later that you suggest.
Thanks

You should always report issues to the application developers, in this case Blender. They may either figure out they introduced a bug, or understand what needs to be done to reproduce the issue with the driver, such that they can report the issue to AMD.

That’s what I was sorta leaning towards with my original post. I just wasn’t sure if cluttering up the bug tracker with AMD’s issue was no-no or not.
I’ll definitely let the Blender Foundation know.

Thanks.

The other thing I’d note is there are a few OpenCL fixes in 2.91 and some more in upcoming drivers from AMD.

Great! Thanks for the heads up.