The AMD Driver Thread

nashathedog · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:11

This year isn't going great for AMD's gpu guy's is it. I'm really glad I haven't already made the monitor leap and gone with g or f yet.
I accepted the screwed up 290x temps issue and still planned/plan on going with a water cooled 390x (if that's what it is) but I'm starting to question it because even if the temps can be solved in that way the fact that I've currently got a handful of this year titles that have visible in game driver issues is annoying.

shankly1985 · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:13

Matt do you know the reason for the delay?

Born_2_Kill_83 · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:14

Or the 2nd half of last, haven't been on Nvidia for years as AMD supplies such good value for money, but as a 4K user you pay for what you get, think I'm going to make a move.

TwsT · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:17

VincentHanna said:
Eurogamer seemed to indicate it was a problem with the game, regardless of GPU.

EA would never do that to us.

Bonjour · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:18

290X crossfire is better than 980 for 4K, assuming a working Crossfire profile.

Asa · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:22

Bonjour said:
290X crossfire is better than 980 for 4K, assuming a working Crossfire profile.

But you don't really need crossfire for games that are old enough to actually have crossfire profiles from AMD

Ayahuasca · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:23

Asa said:
But you don't really need crossfire for games that are old enough to actually have crossfire profiles from AMD

There's multiple new titles that still don't have a profile.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:23

Not really, the below are using a O/C'd 8GB cards, the 980SLI are about equal with them give or take. O/C the 980's the result will be different.

For the most part, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980s (remember, they're only reference cards) against the SAPPHIRE Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X 8GB cards (which are factory overclocked) are pretty neck and neck for most of our testing.

Read more at http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedi...-radeon-r9-290x-8gb-4k-amd-fx-9590/index.html

opethdisciple · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:24

Bonjour said:
290X crossfire is better than 980 for 4K, assuming a working Crossfire profile.

Watlinguk · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:34

I think silence is the worst part, its a massive shame because my 295X2 is a wicked card but if the drivers are constantly lacking it doesn't look favorable!

opethdisciple · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:44

I left AMD due to software/driver support, way back when the 670 came out.

This was before they switched to the new driver schedule. I’m glad I did. What I noticed from looking over the fence from the green side was drivers that stayed in beta more than WHQL, and excessively long periods of time between driver updates beta or not.

Nvidia definitely have the better balance when it comes to drivers.

MeMeMeMe · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:45

Asa said:
But you don't really need crossfire for games that are old enough to actually have crossfire profiles from AMD

Very clever.

VincentHanna · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:48

Everyone's always banging on about AMD's poor drivers.

In my experience since owning a 6870, 290x and now a 295x2 the drivers have never been 'poor'

But this recent debacle means Crossfire gaming has been painful. However I still think the 14.12 drivers are pretty good really, AMD just need to do faster updates.

thebennyboy · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:50

Anyone noticed any improvements in the 15.3.1 press driver?

VincentHanna · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:53

I only played Far Cry 4.

Crossfire was certainly working, but the game had horrible stutters at 4k/Ultra (No AA). Memory usage didn't ever get near 4GB so I don't know what the issue was.

Playing at 1080p solved the issue completely, but that defeats the point of having a 4k screen.

Sort of reminded me of trying to play Watch Dogs with Crossfire enabled...

HEADRAT · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:54

The model for Crossfire support need to be urgently revisited by AMD

UTmaniac · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:57

Watlinguk said:
I think silence is the worst part, its a massive shame because my 295X2 is a wicked card but if the drivers are constantly lacking it doesn't look favorable!

But silence is golden and AMD do/did gold tickets with new card purchases.

TwsT · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:58

humbug · 20 Mar 2015 at 11:58

tommybhoy said:
If anyone cba waiting and wants a sneaky peek:

15.3.1 Beta Press Driver:

https://mega.co.nz/#!18QymYoT!DDinhPolyzFo7vJ30LIYqzaCeDjyHydVbrG9xTbbkno

Buy it and use the new driver, FC4 mgpu is lovelyjubbly on.

Thanks Tommy

Boomstick777 · 20 Mar 2015 at 12:00