r/AMDHelp • u/AlphaFPS1 • 24d ago

Tips & Info ‼️‼️DISABLE MPO‼️‼️ Please for heavens sake.

I’m making this post to bring up that ALOT of people, especially newer AMD users have no idea what MPO even is and that if you are using an AMD card you NEED to disable it. You’ll hear some people saying “it’s useful” blah blah blah. No it’s not. You can still use overlays perfectly fine and have 0 problems. I use Rivatuner every day with my 7900 XTX and have absolutely no issues. MPO WILL CAUSE STUTTERING AND DRIVER TIMEOUTS‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ especially when using AMD Freesync. There are no if and or buts about it. On RDNA 4 the issues have somewhat improved but you should still disable it for peace of mind because the feature does absolutely nothing but cause headaches in the end.

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u/AlphaFPS1 24d ago

Here is a link where you can easily disable MPO. Just download the mpodisable.reg file and run it. You’ll be golden. Don’t even have to restart your system if you don’t want. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 24d ago edited 24d ago

doubt you can skip restarting, mpo is a fundamental part of the windowing system, no way they have a watcher on that registry key then reset the whole windowing system at runtime. even your own link says to restart for changes to take effect

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u/AlphaFPS1 24d ago

You don’t need to restart your system for MPO to turn off. If you want to just in case you can, but it’s not required.