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Caporegime
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Look at those charts I posted. None of them are using a R9 290 or R9 290X. There are gains to be seen with a R7 250X/HD7770 in Thief.
Edit!!
Are you referring to the improvements or is it very buggy?? Not sure.
Thank you
Happy birthday mate.
Try sticking this into your User.cfg file or typing it into the console. Improve things?
RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod 0
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Why so? Runs great on my 7950 and with latest patch they've greatly improved the memory footprint as well.
less cluttered??
bunch of tosh - have you not seen the "start menu", squares all over the place...The only good thing 8.1 has over 7 is that you can shortcut some system programs....
BUT THIS IS ONLY HELPFUL TO THOSE THAT USE THEM
the majority of "normal" users would find it more cluttered and more confusing to find everything they need.
You have to spend ages setting settings that no one of average computer use will ever find and putting short cuts all over the place to make it more user friendly...Why MS didnt make a proper desktop version instead of putting hidden settings all over the place and get rid of the stupid tablet style start menu i will never know...
anyway back on topic
I feel AMD just don't get that they aren't leading the industry. They can't change the big monopoly company's from their path without some serious $$$ for them to do so.
Mantle is obviously purely an AMD product use and since they don't have the support of MS like Nvidia has then it's not going to go mainstream...
...Whether or not the current mantle produces some extra FPS
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My GF's Dad still can't use Mantle on the same IQ he does DirectX without it spiking all over the place in BF4, so for him, it's certainly shot to bits in comparison to my smooth sailing with my R9 290 
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He hasn't tried Thief yet, apparently it's using more VRAM, which again limits how many people can successfully use Mantle.
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Happy birthday bugofhums! - Bah
Anyone own a 260x post if it's "shot to bits"?
Anyone own a 260x post if it's "shot to bits"?
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Cant be bothered to be honest, shouldn't have to mess around to make things work
Dices implementation of frame pacing is bugged so needs to be disabled for now.
P.S this "shot to bits" is also true for single gfx setups.
I'm leaning towards if you have one of the 7 series refresh/renames (270X/280X) then you may as well stick to DX.
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280/X may not encounter as many problems due to that extra GB VRAM.
Not disputing your issues but plenty of people are using it fine now since the patches and with disabling this frame pacing. Mybrains (think he owns a single 7950) reported similar and disabling the frame pacing fixed it for him afaik.
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Thought frame pacing was meant to be the be all - end all in Mantle 
Thanks again guys ^^^
I have a 2GB Tahiti LE, i can't see any change since the patch, its as good as ever.
'ever' also being that 2GB vRam isn't enough to run it on Ultra, at least not Ultra Texture Quality or any MSAA, the vRam soon hits the 2GB buffers and begins to stutter.
If you keep it at or below these settings its perfect, ordinarily with 2GB cards, like a Pitcairn 7870 / R9 270X you wouldn't want to run higher setting than that anyway if you want to maintain 60+ FPS.
I have a 2GB Tahiti LE, i can't see any change since the patch, its as good as ever.
'ever' also being that 2GB vRam isn't enough to run it on Ultra, at least not Ultra Texture Quality or any MSAA, the vRam soon hits the 2GB buffers and begins to stutter.
If you keep it at or below these settings its perfect, ordinarily with 2GB cards, like a Pitcairn 7870 / R9 270X you wouldn't want to run higher setting than that anyway if you want to maintain 60+ FPS.
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Thought frame pacing was meant to be the be all - end all in Mantle
Its really not needed in Mantle but nonetheless Dice are trying to implement it. They have it working, the rendering lines are so thin now, the problem is its not working properly as it causes a rather regular stutter/cpu spike. Disable it and it remains as smooth but fps shoots up a bit higher so still work to be done it seems. The amazing thing is, obviously Mantle is running smoothly without any sort of frame time management and it still provides considerably lower/tighter frame times than DX.