Mantle Feedback/Bugs

pprest123 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:25

Gregster said:
84c is fine. 120c I would worry

Good. Other than that, I'm very impressed. Never expected to see much gain since sitting on a 4930K. But definitely feels smoother. My minimums are up for sure (don't believe I saw it go any lower than 100 in a huge 64 server)!

Good work AMD

Gregster · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:30

pprest123 said:
Good. Other than that, I'm very impressed. Never expected to see much gain since sitting on a 4930K. But definitely feels smoother. My minimums are up for sure (don't believe I saw it go any lower than 100 in a huge 64 server)!

Good work AMD

Good stuff

Mantle is looking good for sure. A few bugs but to be expected from the off.

I am surprised people with 7 series cards are reporting gains though, as Mantle isn't optimised for those cards yet.

BS Dave · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:32

chief barker said:
I am to put simply blown away by Mantle.

I've gained about 50 FPS

Exactly the same settings as last night/same clock speeds.

The only issue i've got is all of a sudden my FPS drops to 30 (hitching) but I'm sure it will get fixed with a future driver update.

Edit.

My 7970s are working harder too, the fans are going crazy

Edit again,

IT'S BEAUTIFUL

So are you saying crossfire is working for you chief?

And have you tried the core unparking app?

chaosophy · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:35

Liking it so far!

Just had a quick round of BF4 and boy does it feel smoother, FPS seems a bit higher but I was happy with the FPS I was getting before so not taken too much notice of that yet. Did have a couple of spikes on the perfoverlay graphs but literally only the two I saw and only one was big enough to be felt in game for a fraction of a second.

One thing though it seemed awfully dark, had to ramp the in game brightness up to 100% to be able to see properly in some places. Though this might just be me needing to recalibrate as I've just moved, have no curtains in the place at the moment and it's a sunny day here this morning.

Currently running at High settings, x2 MSAA, deferred off as I game on a 120Hz monitor but will try ramping some back up to Ultra, see what the perf hit is like now with Mantle. But if I can keep it above 60 fps and still feel this smooth I will be happy.

Might put off that upgrade to a 290 a while longer, though still interested in trying TruAudio in Thief if it turns out to be any good.

Win 7 x64, 7970 1050/1500, i7 3770K @4.4GHz, 8GB @2133Mhz

andybird123 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:36

ICDP said:
Scenario A: Oxide decided to deliberately cripple DX on a game engine they are using for their own games? Knowing full well it would render Nvidia cards worthless thus alienating the majority of their potential market.

Scenario B: Oxide used Mantle to enable a level of detail and graphical quality that is just not possible on DX?

I'm going with scenario B thanks.

Theyve created an engine and demo in DX, then converted it to mantle... Have they implemented command lists in their DX version? No? Then it IS scenario A

jrodga2k5 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:36

Ok so fraps doesn't work...will need to try something else

a66as · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:37

downloading drivers now, will post some benchies when i get around to doing them

kronos13 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:38

Got BF4 running with mantle on the test range, but all subsequent attempts to launch BF4 has caused it to crash. Now cannot get it to start up at all.

chief barker · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:40

jrodga2k5 said:
Ok so fraps doesn't work...will need to try something else

Download realware's settings editor and enable the FPS counter under console settings.

andybird123 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:48

Anyone else noticing loss of colour and detail with mantle?

kronos13 · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:48

Anyone got any idea on how to disable Mantle in the game if I cannot get the game to start up at all?

Frenzy · 2 Feb 2014 at 12:56

This is a nice thing to come back to after my short break

pprest123 · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:01

andybird123 said:
Anyone else noticing loss of colour and detail with mantle?

I hadn't... but this is an interesting find. I'll see if I can get in-game and compare screenshots or something.

ICDP · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:08

andybird123 said:
Theyve created an engine and demo in DX, then converted it to mantle... Have they implemented command lists in their DX version? No? Then it IS scenario A

Citation required. Link to proof please?

Rasch · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:13

Anyone else notice that Core clocks stays in 3D on the new driver?

flopper · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:17

4670K + 290 5040X1050 all low settings fps limit 125.
had 115fps limit previously.
played a few rounds works well.
125fps stable and only a few fps drops and much better than previously.

ICDP · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:19

Rasch said:
Anyone else notice that Core clocks stays in 3D on the new driver?

I just checked and it is fine here. 300Mhz in 2D clocks are per design on R9 290X.

TheRealDeal · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:22

andybird123 said:
Anyone else noticing loss of colour and detail with mantle?

That photo looks like somebody turned up the contrast and brightness to full on the mantle screen especially looking at the color of the sky which is just about white.

Rasch · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:25

ICDP said:
I just checked and it is fine here. 300Mhz in 2D clocks are per design on R9 290X.

Fixed had an issue with old AB profile.They fixed the powerplay btw in driver now.Dont need to use the radeonpro or AB trick.

bru · 2 Feb 2014 at 13:25

Couple of things that I would like to see tested if possible.

Can we have some benches of the previous catalyst drivers vs the new ones in DirectX please, as I have seen a couple of reports that performance has dropped a bit purely on the directX side of things.

Can we have some full resolution(in spoiler tags obviously) screen shots so we can see for our selves if there is any difference in image quality between mantle and directX as andybird has already noticed one instance of this.