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AMD Beta Drivers

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Hi All,

Are AMD going to continue to support fully the R9 280X?, my card was only released in January this year!
To me it appears because of the re-brand (Tahiti XTL GPU - Southern Islands) which to be fair, are a few years old now, supporting GCN architecture 1.0. It appears most of the newly released drivers, especially betas are only supporting the Tonga Pro and Hawaii Pro and XT GPUs running GCN 1.2 and 1.1 respectively.
All recent AAA games released this year, I have had nothing but bother with Crossfire profiles for games. For instance it took AMD until the 14.9.2's to get a fix for the flickering on LOTR:S0M this was quite a few weeks after release.
COD:AW appears to be fixed crossfire wise, from what people are reporting on GCN 1.1 and 1.2, but I can tell you first hand it is still scaling negatively on me crossfire setup and will only run smoothly on a single GPU, with Crossfire disabled.
AAA future releases are beginning to worry me!, AC:U is running like s*it from what I have read, even with the betas! I have pre-ordered this!
GTA V, well!, we will have to wait and see!
If I install the latest beats, not only do the drivers see my cards as a HD 7970! but LOTR:SoM is broken again, constant flickering making the game un-playable!
This cements the fact to me that no effort for beta release drivers from AMD is going into properly supporting GCN 1.0 architecture, for crossfire anyway!
I understand this is not all AMD's fault and some responsibility has to go to the game developers, I feel, they could work more in tandem with the GPU designers to ensure a more hassle free release of new titles.
I have to admit, I fell a bit annoyed, that after only 10 months, and £512 lighter a the time, my video cards are not going to perform to their true potential, and look they could go legacy in the very near future, especially with the new generation of cards on the horizon!
I really did not plan in having to update my cards, after less than a year! I expect them to do me 2 years anyway!
I will be very interested on other peoples' thoughts on this matter.
 
They will support the 280X for a while yet id have thought.

They are only beta drivers your 280X is basically a 7970 anyway :)
 
Fantastic, so are there fixes on the horizon for COD:AW, and AC:U I presume for Crossfire? 14.11.2 perhaps?

See my previous post in the AMD drivers thread.

AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Beta Driver for Windows

Hello everyone,

Click here to visit our Graphics Drivers and Software page and click on “Latest Windows Beta Driver” to download the driver.

For instructions on how to uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, you may refer to the following support resources:

· How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
· How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Beta Driver for Windows® - Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and Assassin’s Creed® Unity Performance Driver!

This release enables peak driver performance optimization for AMD Radeon™ graphics

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Windows® Beta Driver

Performance Improvements

· Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
- Up to 30% performance increases with FXAA and lower game resolutions
- AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
· Assassin’s Creed® Unity performance optimizations
- Single GPU performance improvements
- AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance

Known Issues

•Occasional stuttering in Assassin’s Creed® Unity in CrossFire mode under specific game settings
•Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode
•Quad CrossFire AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 may sometimes black screen when loading a game in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare
•AMD Radeon™ R9 280X/280 may experience a crash when playing Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and a video at the same time. If you experience this issue a work around is turning off the video while playing the game.
•CrossFire users may experience intermittent flickering in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare menus. As a work around if this issue is seen restarting the game may cause the issue to disappear.

Important Notes

AMD is currently working with Activision to resolve the following issues in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare:
• Users in AMD CrossFire™ mode sometimes experience texture corruption
• Negative scaling sometimes being observed at specific resolutions with AMD CrossFire™

AMD Issue Reporting Form
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the AMD Issue Reporting Form.

We'll continue to improve COD:AW in future drivers.
 
Thanks Matt! I will install these then for Unity! SoM however is flickering badly, I have reported this through the driver bugs form! It was OK with the 14.9.2's.
 
Shadows especially, flickers when you come out of Wraith mode. Green line across screen and black flickering lines on cut scenes.
All OK with the 14.9.2's.
 
Was at my mates playing Cod-AW last night. We installed the 14.11.1 drivers and it was a stutter fest. His machine is using 7970cf at stock with an overclocked 3770k. Everything was fine on single card. Still some work to be done by the driver team for Cod-Aw.
 
Was at my mates playing Cod-AW last night. We installed the 14.11.1 drivers and it was a stutter fest. His machine is using 7970cf at stock with an overclocked 3770k. Everything was fine on single card. Still some work to be done by the driver team for Cod-Aw.



Same here, sutter like crazy, absolutely unplayable.



You are on GCN 1.0 mate! Hawaii (R9 290 and X) are GCN 1.1 and Tonga (R9 285) are on GCN 1.2!


OH thanks!
 
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