AMD AGESA 1003ABB to fix a bunch of Ryzen 3000 series issues

New products often have certain issues and AMD's Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 series isn't any different. In a new blog post on the AMD website, marketing guy Robert Hallock explains the progress AMD is making towards solving various issues that are reported by Ryzen 3000 series owners.

In particular, users are complaining about high voltages and clockspeeds seen in monitoring solutions, issues with launching Destiny 2, and WHEA errors appearing in the Windows Event Log.

The voltage and clockspeed issue was apparently caused by the way Zen 2-based Ryzens react to application requests for the highest performance and power state from the processor. This causes some tools that aren't CPU intensive, like monitoring tools, to spike the CPU's voltage and clockspeed. AMD solved this by tweaking the AMD Ryzen Balanced power plan, this is fixed in a new chipset driver (version 1.07.29). The same driver also features a beta workaround to get Destiny 2 running.

A more comprehensive fix for the Destiny 2 problem will be part of the upcoming AGESA 1003ABB CPU microcode update. AGESA 1003ABB will also have a fix for the "Event 17, WHEA-Logger" warnings appearing in the Windows Event Log.

AMD says the new AGESA version is still being validated. Motherboard makers will likely roll it out over the next couple of weeks.