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haha looks great!
addictive? ><
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Second Iteration of Special Edition Drivers Incoming from AMD in November – Will Include Significant
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haha looks great!
addictive? ><
I've owned AMD cards for a grand total of about three weeks this year, so it doesn't bother me. They're definetly releasing plenty of drivers though. As for what constitutes a "proper" or "worthwhile" release, you could argue about that all day. Most of Nvidia's driver releases seem largely pointless to me, beyond adding SLI profiles and fixing the odd bug. The vaunted "Game Ready" performance improvements seem unreliable at best, and more a marketing-oriented placebo. Certainly I haven't noticed the grass being all that much greener over here since getting my first ever Nvidia card about a year ago (and owning several since then).
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Good for AMD, these sites must be desperate for clicks to put an article up about a driver that's not yet released..
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What would be really really awesome is if the omega drivers enable voltage adjustments on the fury cards some how
Voltage control isn't and never been controlled by drivers.. Voltage control for GPUs is a user made hack from software like MSI AB etc
If the guys behind MSI can't hack voltage control then they will be no control.
AMD will never support voltage control in there drivers for safety reasons.
Am hoping this release adds most of the requested user features. with new stuff also would be nice.
Lol...get a grip. He feels a lot better about posting that than you do! Rage.
Nvidia don't release any more drivers than AMD, proper or otherwise.
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Having had experience on both sides recently neither are better to be honest, Both have times of suckage.
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All I want is AMD to come up with a ShadowPlay alternative that works flawlessly with crossfire as well. Raptor is total donkey balls
Same here and yes, agreed.
Those arguing about "who makes the most drivers" is more than a bit Ridiculous, its pretty extreme brand loyalty IMO.
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To be honest I'm not interested in what Nvidia are doing and don't care unless it's affecting performance with my AMD card, Which sadly seems to happen more and more often nowadays because of there gameworks box. It's simply been a poor year for drivers on AMD's side. As for what constitutes a proper or worthwhile release it only has to fix one thing to be worthwhile and wanted. I don't think you can look back at a list of drivers and say there's been plenty of them this year without knowing what they actually did for the user.
Since Omega there's only really been 2 or 3 good driver updates. The main one was 15.7 which gave me the 300 series driver optimizations for my 290x. I think it also gave freesync to crossfire users as well (They had a long wait). It's been a really bad year for crossfire users from what I've been seeing. For example it took 3 months to get the Dying Light profile working properly. In one driver update they removed the DL profile because of the problems with it and then in another update they fatten up the changes made list by adding the DL profile back with a little side note saying how they haven't actually fixed it yet. It's not been a good year if you actually lived it with an AMD card or two. Hopefully this next one will make up for it though.
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Honestly Shadowplay was one of the major reasons for me moving to Nvidia as I uyse it a lot, AMD really need to pull their finger out when it comes to this type of software and not depend on some piece of junk software like Raptr.
Also interacting more with the community would help, Even their "new" forums seem quite sub par which is something they need to sort out.
Same here and yes, agreed.
Those arguing about "who makes the most drivers" is more than a bit Ridiculous, its pretty extreme brand loyalty IMO.
Sadly there'll always be people who have extremist type loyalty to something, It's sad and pathetic IMO.
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Again what has Nvidia got to do with this.
I don't care what Nvidia do or what Nvidia users get. I'm talking about AMD.
Why do people always bring them into the conversation? This is a thread about AMD and AMD drivers.
As I've already said I don't care about Nvidia or what they do Hembog, This is a thread about AMD and AMD drivers. Try and keep on subject please we don't need it turned into another petty brand argument thread.
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I was half expecting to be somehow blown away by Drivers going from a 290 to a GTX 970 with all the talk of how fantastic Nvidia's are compared to AMD's, Nvidia's drivers are exactly the same. Bug frequency, Release frequency, Stability..... the same. They both even have the same tired decades old UI, well, at-least AMD re-skinned theirs a couple years ago.
what's different is the GeForce Experience app, that i like a lot, it is good and AMD should do it too.
what's different is the GeForce Experience app, that i like a lot, it is good and AMD should do it too.
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Exactly this. I made the thread because it was good news for AMD users and not for 'tit for tat' arguments over Nvidia.
Please keep Nvidia out of it and discuss AMD drivers
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I hope this driver means AMD users get a proper version of Shadowplay and not that janky garbage from Raptr.
The Last Omega Drivers were a very nice little present from AMD to its users, i still had the 290 at the time, they had some solid performance optimisations and some much wanted new features, it felt a bit like you got a GPU upgrade for free.
The 13.12 Wonder Drivers were also something a bit special, some of the performance gains with that driver were truly massive.
AMD do have a history of coming good when they do Special Edition Drivers, i have no doubt these will be good and with a bit of luck they will have listened to their user base in what they really want, a GeForce Experience like app, the AMD Skinned Raptr app started out in life as a pretty good thing, as good as the GeForce Experience app, and AMD's VCE Recording is actually much better quality than Nvidia's, but the app its self now is bloated commercialised junk, AMD need their own in house app.
The 13.12 Wonder Drivers were also something a bit special, some of the performance gains with that driver were truly massive.
AMD do have a history of coming good when they do Special Edition Drivers, i have no doubt these will be good and with a bit of luck they will have listened to their user base in what they really want, a GeForce Experience like app, the AMD Skinned Raptr app started out in life as a pretty good thing, as good as the GeForce Experience app, and AMD's VCE Recording is actually much better quality than Nvidia's, but the app its self now is bloated commercialised junk, AMD need their own in house app.
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Agreed.