The AMD Driver Thread

nashathedog · 31 May 2015 at 00:14

LoadsaMoney said:
GTA V runs great for me on the 15.4s for it, so still on them, as don't have W3 or PCars.

Seeing as I'm on a 290x and I've yet to get either of these titles I think I'll stay on 15.4 as well.

So what's happening with driver nowadays, I wasn't using beta's just full drivers but I've had to change that since we haven't had a proper release yet this year.

shankly1985 · 31 May 2015 at 00:55

MyBrains said:
I got 16GB RAM with an 8GB pagefile, u think i need to increase it to 16GB?

Am running 16GB just set it to Windows managed and give it a try.

McShave · 31 May 2015 at 02:21

nashathedog said:
So what's happening with driver nowadays, I wasn't using beta's just full drivers but I've had to change that since we haven't had a proper release yet this year.

The beta drivers are pretty much full proper drivers. The only difference is that they're not certified by Microsoft. Every beta is a proper release.

Problem is they're never good enough. *cough* Crossfire profiles

BluD · 31 May 2015 at 02:24

CaptainRAVE said:
GTAV performance has improved for me with crossfire.

No noticeable difference here in GTA 5, don't play Cars but my friends are telling me to get witcher so i guess ill take a look at that next.

phatboy · 31 May 2015 at 07:04

MyBrains said:
And GTA V performance had dropped for me, single 7950 too! Now i get stuttering pretty bad when driving fast, never had that before on the previous Beta's.

Jeez AMD, you really know how to **** people off!

My 7950 is suffering in Xfire and stuttering like a nut job but single card is really fly's on the 15.5 package. A few little stutters but i think that's the dual core rather than the cards.....Only 2 months until my birthday and a Quad lol

bloodkil · 31 May 2015 at 15:37

All I'm concerned about is Elite Dangerous, all I got from AMD was 'thanks for the feedback'

TNA · 31 May 2015 at 15:44

bloodkil said:
All I'm concerned about is Elite Dangerous, all I got from AMD was 'thanks for the feedback'

Sounds to me like it will be a few more months before you get a crossfire driver for that game.

Crossfire support is just not up there with SLI unfortunately.

JediFragger · 31 May 2015 at 15:46

TNA said:
Crossfire support is just not up there with SLI unfortunately.

Damn ****ing shame imo, they have kickass hardware!!!!! It's just that the support isn't there for 2 cards+

mmj_uk · 31 May 2015 at 15:48

TNA said:
Sounds to me like it will be a few more months before you get a crossfire driver for that game.

Crossfire support is just not up there with SLI unfortunately.

It used to be when they did monthly driver releases and Catalyst Application Profiles, they've just let themselves go.

Superpatsy · 31 May 2015 at 15:51

What's The Witcher 3 like now with the new profile?

TNA · 31 May 2015 at 15:52

JediFragger said:
Damn ****ing shame imo, they have kickass hardware!!!!! It's just that the support isn't there for 2 cards+

Agreed. Only way I would go multi gpu is if I get it at the right price. Willing to give a 295x2 a whirl as I never tried crossfire, put a request in the wanted section in members market, but no one willing to sell me one for the price I am offering. Lol. I would offer more, or even buy brand new, but not with the driver support AMD are giving crossfire at the moment.

How are you finding your SLI setup? Can you tell the difference between a single card and sli?

JediFragger · 31 May 2015 at 16:09

TNA said:
How are you finding your SLI setup? Can you tell the difference between a single card and sli?

Tbh I haven't tried single card, just whacked 'em in for SLi. It's great, all the games I play are SLi compatible so I get the benefits

I *am* pondering switching to a Ti though, but only because I can add another after the Summer :cool:

Minstadave · 31 May 2015 at 16:25

Superpatsy said:
What's The Witcher 3 like now with the new profile?

I had a quick play and it was stuttering badly, will try again later.

Also if I alt tabbed my second GPU would be stuck in 2D clocks until I exited and restarted W3.

Minstadave · 31 May 2015 at 17:59

Actually I take it back, running lovely and smooth when limited to 60fps.

Devrij · 31 May 2015 at 18:03

Superpatsy said:
What's The Witcher 3 like now with the new profile?

Scales very well. I get bad flickering in some situations (eg when you have selected something in your inventory/skill tree), but mostly it's good. Definitely needs frame limiting to be smooth though.

Ovr · 31 May 2015 at 19:41

Potential random question - people with Crossfire, do you keep Frame Pacing on? Do you see a reduction in FPS?

Final8y · 31 May 2015 at 20:11

Ovr said:
Potential random question - people with Crossfire, do you keep Frame Pacing on? Do you see a reduction in FPS?

Because i keep Frame Pacing on i would not know

Type_R · 31 May 2015 at 22:16

After many hours of testing..I think I have finally found a compromise in the visual setup for pcars, which means it both looks pleasing and runs smoothly.

These are the settings I am using:
My rig: i7-4770k @ 4.5Ghz, 16 GB 1866 Mhz RAM, Sapphire 290 Tri-X OC x2 in CrossfireX:

pgi947 · 1 Jun 2015 at 07:38

mmj_uk said:
It used to be when they did monthly driver releases and Catalyst Application Profiles, they've just let themselves go.

They actually improved a great deal shortly after ditching caps, as it meant the whql drivers were no longer a 3 month old beta, merging to one team was a smart move. iirc Matt said after driver profile patching was no longer possible, but if it gives a short term fix maybe they should look in to reintroducing it.

What's happening now I don't know, I'd like to think it's a number of other things holding up the release schedule, like cf freesync and the new hbm cards.

LtMatt · 1 Jun 2015 at 08:21

Ovr said:
Potential random question - people with Crossfire, do you keep Frame Pacing on? Do you see a reduction in FPS?

Absolutely, yes. Always recommend to keep it on unless you're benchmarking. Frame pacing may cost 1 fps or so. Very small performance hit.

There is the basic Frame Pacing option that is available in the 3D Applications aspect which is independent of CrossFire Profiles. However, the introduction of Catalyst Omega also added specific Frame Pacing improvements for certain games in Dual Graphics (APU + dGPU) and those are enabled through game profiling. If you were to override that internal profile you would lose that improvement. Conversely if you were to profile a game which doesn't have that improvement with a game profile that does, it will gain it. However, the optimization is profiled per application on purpose as it may not always result in smoother game rendering if the engine isn't compatible.