AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

LtMatt · 10 Apr 2014 at 19:57

MOOGLEYS said:
Are the Beta drivers the best to use. Tbh I tried mantle on BF4 but it just seems the same as DX to me ?

If you're going to use Mantle use 14.3 drivers and use this user.cfg. It will help highlight the differences between DX/Mantle by displaying the fps, rendering times and render overlay. Place inside your bf4.exe game folder.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7fhe05

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 19:59

LtMatt said:
If you're going to use Mantle use 14.3 drivers and use this user.cfg. It will help highlight the differences between DX/Mantle by displaying the fps, rendering times and render overlay.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7fhe05

Ok cool downloaded it but have no idea where to stick it... ?

LtMatt · 10 Apr 2014 at 20:03

MOOGLEYS said:
Ok cool downloaded it but have no idea where to stick it... ?

I just edited my post.

Place it in the main BF4.exe folder inside Origin Games. Then play DX for 10 minutes on a 64 man server. Then select Mantle (and restart the game) and see if you can notice a difference. The difference is massive on multi card, less so on single card.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 20:19

Both give pretty much 60Fps all of the time with occasional drops in the high 50's. Tried Rogue transmission 64 player. Like you say might need multi card to see the best but one card is doing fine for me at 1440p. Tbh it just seems the same as the 780Ti but half the price.... Nice..

LtMatt · 10 Apr 2014 at 20:22

MOOGLEYS said:
Both give pretty much 60Fps all of the time with occasional drops in the high 50's. Tried Rogue transmission 64 player. Like you say might need multi card to see the best but one card is doing fine for me at 1440p. Tbh it just seems the same as the 780Ti but half the price.... Nice..

Enjoy.

thefogo · 10 Apr 2014 at 20:24

Mantle is pretty helpful if you're running 120Hz.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:01

thefogo said:
Mantle is pretty helpful if you're running 120Hz.

Only 60Hz for me. Tbh it's more than enough for my rapidly decreasing gaming skills.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:16

thefogo · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:18

Looks good

What temps you getting?

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:19

thefogo said:
Looks good What temps you getting?

At 1150/1500 it tops 80.c with a custom fan profile as the stock one is just crap. Stock it barely goes past 70.c.

thefogo · 10 Apr 2014 at 21:23

MOOGLEYS said:
At 1150/1500 it tops 80.c with a custom fan profile as the stock one is just crap. Stock it barely goes past 70.c.

Yeah the stock profile on mine is crap too. The fan tries its best to keep the card under 60C which is ridiculous.

MOOGLEYS · 10 Apr 2014 at 22:05

I have noticed my GPU usage in BF4 goes up and down like a saw tooth in Afterburner. The game plays fine just weird its jumping from 0-100 constant.

Edit - I seem to be getting this with every game ? Even at stock afterburner shows it but everything runs ok.. Weird...

humbug · 10 Apr 2014 at 23:07

What is Aux Voltage and why is the memory Voltage locked?

Gregster · 10 Apr 2014 at 23:12

It is the PLL voltage, which basically gives a more stable OC.

Edit:

As for the Memory OC, I don't know sorry.

humbug · 10 Apr 2014 at 23:26

Gregster said:
It is the PLL voltage, which basically gives a more stable OC.

Edit:

As for the Memory OC, I don't know sorry.

Ok thanks.

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 07:37

MOOGLEYS said:
I have noticed my GPU usage in BF4 goes up and down like a saw tooth in Afterburner. The game plays fine just weird its jumping from 0-100 constant.

Edit - I seem to be getting this with every game ? Even at stock afterburner shows it but everything runs ok.. Weird...

Use MSI Afterburner beta 19 and tick enable unified gpu usage monitoring. Gives a more accurate and consistent reading of gpu usage with less fluctuations Moog.

humbug said:
What is Aux Voltage and why is the memory Voltage locked?

What Greg said. Using it can help you get a bit more stability on the core and memory when used in conjunction with core voltage. Memory voltage is tied into core voltage with Hawaii. So if you want to overclock the memory further, add more core voltage. For your gaming needs 1350 will be plenty.

Diddums · 11 Apr 2014 at 08:36

Hi all, I'd like to enter my solitary 290 Gaming if I may!

I've actually been having some issues with it lately, never experienced this before. Whilst playing WoW it will go "odd". It doesn't fit the bill of artifacts so allow me to explain. The screen gets what looks like sheets waving around as I look around. It's perfectly straight lines, lots of them, which seem to be fixed on certain objects and move around. When I keep my mouse still, they sit still too.

They're usually filled in in black, hence the "sheet" effect.

Is this artifacting? I get it in BF4 as well. Restarting the game usually clears it but it comes back eventually. Could be a minute, could be days.

Any ideas?

LtMatt · 11 Apr 2014 at 08:44

Screenshots and or videos required plox.

Diddums · 11 Apr 2014 at 08:46

Shall do matt. I'll try get some concrete info when I can. On nights at the moment though so gaming is out of the question unfortunately

Frenzy · 11 Apr 2014 at 10:13

I didn't get a chance to play yesterday, got back from work pretty late

TONIGHT WILL BE THE NIGHT!