AMD 13.2 Beta Driver

weehamish · 30 Jan 2013 at 21:40

gregster said:
I tend to ignore anything you have to say

You tend to ignore everyone and only u is right lol :\

Like u just said u recommend 7950s but have no idea about AMD cards, u havent even had one yet recommend? This is where you fail my friend.

Still im happy with the first hour of these drivers i will test as much as i can the rest of the week but its looking much better!

Yaayuh! · 30 Jan 2013 at 21:44

gregster said:
Don't take this the wrong way and I am not pointing fingers at the people I have quoted (far from infact) but I do wish people would say about these things.

It would help tremendously when suggesting a GPU for someone that the games quoted (very often Skyrim and BL2 is the games perspective buyers are interested in) are not as smooth as should be.

I say this because quite often in the past, I have recommended a 7950/7850 for Skyrim on the assumption that it plays just as well on both manafacturers and then when a new driver is released, you find out that it didn't but does now.

Sorry again to quote you guys and rant over.

By smoother, I mean I can run PhysX on medium now without the frames dropping all over the shop like crazy. I have mentioned this recently regarding hybrid PhysX on CPU and AMD, usually runs like a bag of balls.

Gregster · 30 Jan 2013 at 21:55

weehamish said:
You tend to ignore everyone and only u is right lol :\

Proof of this please. I am not getting into a suspension argument because of your accusations. I try to give help and unbiased opinions to all. If Nvidia have been poor (which they have with recent drivers) I have told people this on numerous occasions

Like u just said u recommend 7950s but have no idea about AMD cards, u havent even had one yet recommend? This is where you fail my friend.

I rely on user feedback to go with recommendations and this is where I base my opinions. I know more about GPU's than you think and this is why I don't fail. I only fail when feedback is short of certain elements.

Still im happy with the first hour of these drivers i will test as much as i can the rest of the week but its looking much better!

Good for you.

Rossi~ said:
By smoother, I mean I can run PhysX on medium now without the frames dropping all over the shop like crazy. I have mentioned this recently regarding hybrid PhysX on CPU and AMD, usually runs like a bag of balls.

Ahhh fair play. I assumed it wasn't smooth regardless of PhysX. I always like your honesty and this is a rarity with some users.

tommybhoy · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:04

pgi947 said:
If you can tommy that would be awesome as I doubt I'll get back to my pc before Friday

Afterburner and trixx are the main ones I need to test.

All fine on W7 ulps enabled/disabled, zero hangs.

Darksiders 2 artifacting though, I'm sure I saw some on DMC4 too.

pgi947 · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:19

That's great news

Shame about the artifacts, though it is a beta and hopefully be sorted in the next release.

No more system reboots before benching/monitoring yey!!!

RageQuit© · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:20

Borderlands 2 and Skyrim - smooth like butter!

weehamish · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:44

pgi947 said:
That's great news

Shame about the artifacts, though it is a beta and hopefully be sorted in the next release.

No more system reboots before benching/monitoring yey!!!

What artifacts?

DOTA 2 is cured.

I hope Darksouls is then i will just keep the 7970 and not get the 680

borley · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:56

Caps are built in from what i gather in this driver for the people asking

stephenb · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:58

Fingers crossed but it looks like the fix for texture artifacts on dx9 engines has finally cured this little evil from iracing

rids57 · 30 Jan 2013 at 23:28

[gregster]

I assumed that the micro-stuttering and certainly the artifacts were common knowledge, I first read about it months ago on guru3D - they have a 37 page thread covering it. It's also covered on Anandtech and probably a host of other places.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=368290

weehamish · 30 Jan 2013 at 23:31

I just played over 1 hour on dota 2 and no artifact/glitches.

Does anyone here play Darksouls?

Rusty0611 · 30 Jan 2013 at 23:36

weehamish said:
You tend to ignore everyone and only u is right lol :\

Like u just said u recommend 7950s but have no idea about AMD cards, u havent even had one yet recommend? This is where you fail my friend.

Facepalm.gif

Please, please stop.

weehamish · 31 Jan 2013 at 00:07

Rusty0611 said:
Facepalm.gif

Please, please stop.

Yet again trying to derail a thread! Begone!

Orcvader · 31 Jan 2013 at 00:57

So these are already better than the 13.1 drivers? Will give these a go, my 7950 just returned from RMA

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Final8y · 31 Jan 2013 at 06:35

These are an improvement on my 5970s than the 13.1.

~Mike~ · 31 Jan 2013 at 07:31

Can people stop trashing threads please, it's so boring and childish.

Keep it on topic or don't comment.

Rusty0611 · 31 Jan 2013 at 08:43

weehamish said:
Yet again trying to derail a thread! Begone!

Look what you said that I quoted. I'd say you were being hypocritical but you probably don't understand what that means

On topic: I'm waiting for 13.3 to come and then I'm going to reinstall windows and lap it up

Rezident · 31 Jan 2013 at 13:14

weehamish said:
+1 for Skyrim being much smoother, i still think Radeon Pro makes it even smoother though.

Gonna test more games, i hope the random glitches are gone.

Overall its looking good and some progression

rids57 said:
Just finished a session in Skyrim and it's now smooth as silk with no stuttering when turning or moving sideways and I've not seen any texture artifacts either - both of which were an annoyance with the previous drivers.

Sounds great for Skyrim, I will check when I get home.

Cheers for the heads up.

PaulyD · 31 Jan 2013 at 13:31

Looking forward to testing these myself, happy with 13.1 for the games I play at the moment but improvements are always appreciated.

finalcloud · 31 Jan 2013 at 13:52

I can also confirm that Skyrim is feeling smoother, no more of those annoying little pauses.