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***Official AMD Mantle Thread***

BS Dave said:
Great find humbug. This is really good news.
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Wouldn't put much stock in that at all, Crytek seem to be bleeding money. Have they even got any games in the works? I know the sold off rights to that Homefront sequel that was looking good. :(
 
shankly1985 said:
Not unless raptr as added it to its profiles..
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See AMD need to take a page from Nvidias book and interact more with the community through a properly laid out forum so we can give proper feedback on matters just like this instead of hoping that they might do something.

They need to have a proper AMD forum, The current forum over at AMD.com is complete dog skat and the Raptr one is just full of confused people and half the time you can't post because "Your account is awaiting activation".

AMD need 1 forum for everything from GPU's, CPU's, APU's, Motherboards, Raptr etc... instead of having it spread out across 2 sub par badly laid out websites.
 
Dicehunter said:
See AMD need to take a page from Nvidias book and interact more with the community through a properly laid out forum so we can give proper feedback on matters just like this instead of hoping that they might do something.

They need to have a proper AMD forum, The current forum over at AMD.com is complete dog skat and the Raptr one is just full of confused people and half the time you can't post because "Your account is awaiting activation".

AMD need 1 forum for everything from GPU's, CPU's, APU's, Motherboards, Raptr etc... instead of having it spread out across 2 sub par badly laid out websites.
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I do agree!
I find the issue with AMD forum is not everyone even knows they have one lol
It was only when I bought the 290 I even knew they had one, They should show users they is indeed a official forum.
 
Dicehunter said:
See AMD need to take a page from Nvidias book and interact more with the community through a properly laid out forum so we can give proper feedback on matters just like this instead of hoping that they might do something.

They need to have a proper AMD forum, The current forum over at AMD.com is complete dog skat and the Raptr one is just full of confused people and half the time you can't post because "Your account is awaiting activation".

AMD need 1 forum for everything from GPU's, CPU's, APU's, Motherboards, Raptr etc... instead of having it spread out across 2 sub par badly laid out websites.
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+1
 
Someone posted about mantle looking a bit washed out in bf 4 compared to dx so thought I would do a few screenies comparing and there definitely are differences in some areas on certain maps, other maps/areas, not so much :confused:

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I can now confirm Raptr now records mantle with Crossfire enabled :D

They still one issue though screen tear in BF4 is very bad.. But I have a work around :p
Don't record in 1080p record in 720p screen tear will be gone.

Raptr team are working on it, I found the work around from them..

Hardline beta tomorrow also with Mantle :D Happy recording!!
 
Right, I'll keep this in here, since it only happens when using Mantle.

System is as follows:

5960X @ 4.4GHz
SOC Force Motherboard
16GB DDR4 RAM
2x R9 290X 4GB

Everything is watercooled, if it makes any difference. All temps seem fine, and the system is stable.

When I play BF4 using DX, VRAM usage is not that high - around 3GB I think. However on 64 player maps in busy scenes, fps drops to an unacceptable level, so I want to use Mantle.

BF4 settings are all ultra and the res is 3440x1440.

Issue: when using mantle, every few minutes, FPS will drop to sub 10 for a second or two at a time. This happens around 4-5 times in a row, then goes back to normal. Now it feels odd, it doesn't feel as if FPS has dropped, if feels more like huge lag spikes.

Overall, the best playable experience is using DX, but by having two AMD cards I would obviously prefer to use Mantle.

What I have done: I'm using the latest drivers, I have cleared the cache folder and tried everything Matt has asked me to, which includes resetting game settings, restarting the PC, looking in task manager for anything odd. My CPU will generally have 1 of the 16 cores at 100%, but average which shows is around 20-30% when gaming.

Screenshot with the overlay when this happens:

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Any ideas guys? I think it is a VRAM issue however the max usage I have seen is 3880 so I am not 100% convinced; certainly enough to entertain buying two 290X 8GB cards and risking my waterblocks not fitting and dealing with selling my current cards.
 
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