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The AMD Driver Thread

dasimpse said:
Hey guys long time nvidia owner here. Really tempted by a 290x or do you think it's worth waiting for the 3 series now? I'm hearing amd has really stepped up performance with driver updates? Looking forward to keeping an eye on updates here :)
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The AMD Omega drivers are brilliant IMO, although personally I never really had an issue with AMD drivers previously.

The 290X is fantastic value for money right now, what res do you game at? The 3XX cards will be awesome I would think, but will obviously be fairly expensive at release.
 
AMD drivers are excellent. Their multi GPU support is slow, but I think recent games like Far Cry 4 have conspired to make them look worse on that front than they really are.
 
eyetrip said:
That's all I need it for. 4K on a 40 inch screen needs it.

Especially in this game with all it's straight jaggy lines!

Why do I get the feeling I am going to be disappointed?
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Sorry Eyetrip, i don't think there will be an Elite Dangerous profile in these drivers. I've personally requested it myself though, so this may get added in a future driver update.

I'm not familiar with that game, but do any of the custom profiles work in the meantime? I'm told that AFR Friendly works quite well in terms of FPS and scaling, but some of the game menus and planet textures can flicker a little bit.
 
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dasimpse said:
Hey guys long time nvidia owner here. Really tempted by a 290x or do you think it's worth waiting for the 3 series now? I'm hearing amd has really stepped up performance with driver updates? Looking forward to keeping an eye on updates here :)
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if you can snag on cheap I would........I love my pcs+ 290..its a beast :D building a semi new machine around it as it doesn't completely fit in my old case LOL.......old system will goto the boy...
 
AMDMatt said:
Sorry Eyetrip, i don't think there will be an Elite Dangerous profile in these drivers. I've personally requested it myself though, so this may get added in a future driver update.

I'm not familiar with that game, but do any of the custom profiles work in the meantime? I'm told that AFR Friendly works quite well in terms of FPS and scaling, but some of the menu and planet textures can flicker a little bit.
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Ha! hahahaha! Hhhahhahahahahahhaahhahahahahaha!

What a bloody joke!

May as well have stuck with the 3.5GB 970's. At least they worked together, even if settings had to be dropped a fair bit.

I now have two 8GB 290x's which have pretty much just been bricks in my system - apart from the occasional game of BF4.
 
AMDMatt said:
I found Dying Light to run nicely on a single 290X on 14.12, so long as you disabled the Nvidia effects.

Were you having any specific issues?
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night time sucks for me on the 290 it goes all contrasty as soon as you turn your torch on it fixes it doesn't happen for the entire night either. For most of the night its fine but for parts i can barely see for just black clouds of contrast
 
TwsT said:
night time sucks for me on the 290 it goes all contrasty as soon as you turn your torch on it fixes it doesn't happen for the entire night either. For most of the night its fine but for parts i can barely see for just black clouds of contrast
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Could you get me a screenshot of that please TwsT, that would be really helpful as I don't see that on my setup.
 
AMDMatt said:
I found Dying Light to run nicely on a single 290X on 14.12, so long as you disabled the Nvidia effects.

Were you having any specific issues?
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You may do. But I just tried to add it and it hasn't got a profile! and if it hasn't got a amd profile how will amd make the game\app run better on their cards?

Sorry Matt but the AMD drivers are a joke. We never know what profiles are active until we try to add a game\app.
 
deuse said:
You may do. But I just tried to add it and it hasn't got a profile! and if it hasn't got a amd profile how will amd make the game\app run better on their cards?

Sorry Matt but the AMD drivers are a joke. We never know what profiles are active until we try to add a game\app.
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A Crossfire profile has nothing to do with single gpu optimisations deuse.

We're right where we should be in this game single gpu performance wise, considering it's a Nvidia GameWorks title. :)

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deuse said:
You may do. But I just tried to add it and it hasn't got a profile! and if it hasn't got a amd profile how will amd make the game\app run better on their cards?

Sorry Matt but the AMD drivers are a joke. We never know what profiles are active until we try to add a game\app.
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Profiles should have no bearing on a single card, they are for multi GPU setups.
 
slick rick said:
Profiles should have no bearing on a single card, they are for multi GPU setups.
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So how come NV can use their profiles to get games working better?

Mei said:
deuse have you put the view distance down?
there use to be a dying light thread with some tips :)
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Unless these 3-4 month in the making Catalyst Drivers offer something good I'm off back to the Green team.
 
Mei said:
deuse have you put the view distance down?
there use to be a dying light thread with some tips :)
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I am waiting for the crossfire profile before playing DL but have heard that maxing the view distance has a significant impact on performance. Do you see much visual difference between having it set at 100% vs say 50%?
 
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