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Mantle Feedback/Bugs

MyBrains said:
Well humbug ur suggestion has worked a treat but with a lot of fiddling and messing with the settings. Finally got it working on all High settings with 2xMSAA @ 1080p and wow it runs like a dream now. Solid 60fps with vsync enabled and thats even on a shanghai 64 player full round. With these settings im seeing around 2.4GB VRAM used and if i use 4xMSAA it'll be around 2.8GB VRAM and still a good solid 60fps with an odd dip in the high 50's :D

I have switched back to running my 2 1080p monitors from my 7950 and now the 300/150 idle clocks are back when in Extended Desktop Mode.

I cant believe how smooth Mantle is running even in the most intense dusty parts of Shanghai.

Thanks for this awesome tip humbug. I never thought lowering the settings would actually fix my issue. Cheers man :D

On a side note i was getting locks ups running dual monitors until i actually went into CCC and set up the AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display. I couldnt alt-enter before this but now its running peachy.

Happy chappy now :) Lets hope they fix the memory leak soon. I just know Ultra is gona run well on my system now :p
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Good to hear. :)

The 'Mantle effect' cannot be overstated enough.
 
MyBrains said:
Well humbug ur suggestion has worked a treat but with a lot of fiddling and messing with the settings. Finally got it working on all High settings with 2xMSAA @ 1080p and wow it runs like a dream now. Solid 60fps with vsync enabled and thats even on a shanghai 64 player full round. With these settings im seeing around 2.4GB VRAM used and if i use 4xMSAA it'll be around 2.8GB VRAM and still a good solid 60fps with an odd dip in the high 50's :D

I have switched back to running my 2 1080p monitors from my 7950 and now the 300/150 idle clocks are back when in Extended Desktop Mode.

I cant believe how smooth Mantle is running even in the most intense dusty parts of Shanghai.

Thanks for this awesome tip humbug. I never thought lowering the settings would actually fix my issue. Cheers man :D

On a side note i was getting locks ups running dual monitors until i actually went into CCC and set up the AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display. I couldnt alt-enter before this but now its running peachy.

Happy chappy now :) Lets hope they fix the memory leak soon. I just know Ultra is gona run well on my system now :p
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Good to hear. *Thumbs Up* :)
 
Diagro said:
Ok I found an odd one.

install 14.1, no restart, load bf4 and play for an hour fine.

restart pc

Load up bf4, play for 2 mins, game crashes. Can't alt tab force restart.
It seems one of my cards just goes to 0% use and then game crashes.

I have done this process three times, each time game worked fine upon playing after a fresh driver install, but after a reboot it just crashes.

I don't understand why mantle just won't work for me, I am.yet to try DX11 bf4 as I haven't got the time. I spent a few hours doing tests and now no time till end of week
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how are you reinstalling? Deleting the drivers then installing? I know I had issues with 14.1; until I deleted and reinstalled after rebooting....it was a mess; but yea that's an odd one big time
 
LtMatt said:
Good to hear. :)

The 'Mantle effect' cannot be overstated enough.
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well even if BF4 is a badly designed game and not what I payed to play for sure, Mantle allowed me to smoothen out the game and drop a bit of latency which helped as I play with Eyefunity at 5040x1050.
I like Mantle, its a big difference for me with my sensitivity for latency.
at age 50 I still hold my own vs todays adhd generation.
had a good round with 65kills and naturally with Mantle its a difference there for me. Using the acw-r also helps as it shots more straight than the ak5c I used previously. Mantle without doubt removed so much latency as 3 screens add a lot of latency to gaming for me, but good for kids I guess so they can even the playfield :p

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flopper said:
well even if BF4 is a badly designed game and not what I payed to play for sure, Mantle allowed me to smoothen out the game and drop a bit of latency which helped as I play with Eyefunity at 5040x1050.
I like Mantle, its a big difference for me with my sensitivity for latency.
at age 50 I still hold my own vs todays adhd generation.
had a good round with 65kills and naturally with Mantle its a difference there for me. Using the acw-r also helps as it shots more straight than the ak5c I used previously. Mantle without doubt removed so much latency as 3 screens add a lot of latency to gaming for me, but good for kids I guess so they can even the playfield :p

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The ACW-R is the best all rounder, my fav weapon, but i don't use it anymore. i don't want to be stuck to just one weapon, i unlocked all the Battle packs and moved on to the ACE-23, which a lot of peeps say is the best one, i don't think it is, i also use the AK-5C at the moment as an engineer, its not great, but not bad.

Basically what i'm doing is working my way through all weapons until i have all the unlocks, i do like the ACW-R, i'm trying hard to stay away from it.
 
humbug said:
For you Mantle is causing a memory leak, same with me. turn your settings down. it will work at lower settings.

Or just wait for the Driver / BF4 to evolve more.
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This works :D cheers mate ;)

It's the first 3 settings that affect my set up, everything else is on ultra and pulling 100-170 fps in Shanghai. FOV 90.

Edit,

It's not Lighting quality (that's enabled now).

So it's got to be Texture quality or Texture filtering.
 
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Is that with crossfire enabled chief? I thought mantle was working on ultra with my 7970s but as a lot of people have found out it starts out great and gets worse and worse...
 
unfortunately for me, the 7970 seems very stuttery when going from DX11 to Mantle. (without altering any visual settings.)

Have to say its lovely to see the perfect CPU usage over my cores but its quite unplayable. I've got the intel display chip disabled of course.

Is there still only 1 14.1 driver out just now or are there other beta revisions.

Any tweeks or particular settings people reccomend?

Saphire 290 triX arrives mon/tues so hopefully wont be a problem for long :)

For now DX11 works fine but i'd naturally like to get more if there are any good ideas floating about? kind hard to dig through all these threads
 
Change the 2 settings chief barker recommends. Worked for me and my 7970s. If AMD fix it properly I might even consider putting them under water...

Edit - didn't play long enough performance degrades quickly over time. Guess the H20's gonna have to wait...
 
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Did so, got texture quality high, and filtering ultra. seems smooth. im actually using the settings from the AMD evolved app. and its going good in DX11 now.

Are you guys running with mantle still? Or avoiding it for normal gaming?
 
I need to test it after setting from evolved app and see if it fixed the hitching I'm still getting.......its really weird. I'll get it sometimes for a sec....then game play smooth for like 5 minutes.......and bam again lol.......it makes things interesting :D
 
jakspyder said:
Did so, got texture quality high, and filtering ultra. seems smooth. im actually using the settings from the AMD evolved app. and its going good in DX11 now.

Are you guys running with mantle still? Or avoiding it for normal gaming?
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Those were settings to get it working in mantle (though after testing this doesn't now appear to work so sorry for the misinformation) ..do whatever you want in DX, dunno if the hitching in win7 is still there. I upgrading to win 8.1 cos it was doing my head in
 
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My initial huge CPU spikes in BF4 have disappeared. They were smaller after the recent BF4 update. The only changes to my PC since were to add an after market cooler to my Sapphire 290 so no more GPU throttling and I moved my page file to my SSD rather than my mechanical storage disk.

The in game crashing which I attributed to my overclock have also disappeared. I am running with it fine now.
 
hmmm......might try turning down from ultra to high; still getting weird hitching in mantle. I've also been getting seriously weird lag on the servers; normal ping should be 40s-60s; lately it will spike up to 250 to 8000 LOL......only in BF4; titanfall ran fine; bf3 runs fine; defiance; lfd2 ...

Damn game is wacked
 
BF4 online has been very laggy over the past few days no matter what server ive been playing on. People from our community reporting the same. Not a gpu issue. Must be a Dice/EA backend issue. They get DDOS'D a lot.
 
LtMatt said:
BF4 online has been very laggy over the past few days no matter what server ive been playing on. People from our community reporting the same. Not a gpu issue. Must be a Dice/EA backend issue. They get DDOS'D a lot.
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Nope, EA back end has been fine the past few days. It's just a combo of game bugs and people not restarting their servers daily / placebo.
 
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