The AMD Driver Thread

eyetrip · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:39

Guess for FC4, will just run lower settings and use vs and tb. If that still not smooth enough, will just abandon it.

But first I guess I should finish Advanced Warfare. I know I need to disable crossfire for that.

Elite.... well, yeah, i will hope.

Might go back to a run through of Inquisition after that - the only other game besides BF4 that runs better on the 290x's than sli 970's.

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:44

eyetrip said:
I tend not to follow game performance too strongly on cards I am not using.

Well its wise too as then you know where to put a more informed blame when it comes to specific titles and less of an assumed one.

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:46

eyetrip said:
Guess for FC4, will just run lower settings and use vs and tb. If that still not smooth enough, will just abandon it.

But first I guess I should finish Advanced Warfare. I know I need to disable crossfire for that.

Elite.... well, yeah, i will hope.

Might go back to a run through of Inquisition after that - the only other game besides BF4 that runs better on the 290x's than sli 970's.

Its about time that Elite-D out some love as i may be getting that soon

Ayahuasca · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:47

Was it Elite Dangerous that was supposed to get Mantle support then the devs dropped the idea?

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:47

Final8y said:
And that's why the lack of Profiles for those games have not bothered me in the slightest as im not buying them at anytime.

The only recent game i can think of is maybe Dying light if and option to turn off chromatic aberration gets added at some point.

After putting up with it in payday 2 and i still need to get my moneys worth out of that game im in no hurry to go through with it with another game.

Dying Light is a little bonky especially in SLI/Crossfire with the settings cranked up.

I actually played (roughly 10 hours of it I think) on a single GPU (GTX970) at 1440p (not my native 4K) with most of the settings cranked to the lowest possible.

I would have put in quite a few hours more but I had to take frequent breaks every 15-20 minutes for some odd reason (eye pain - headaches) . This hasn't happened to me on other games and I'm not sure what the reason is.

Other than that the only thing I found to be somewhat of a problem is, while using multithreading and multiple cores well you need good single core performance. (OCing your CPU will help in this one)

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:50

eyetrip said:
Guess for FC4, will just run lower settings and use vs and tb. If that still not smooth enough, will just abandon it.

But first I guess I should finish Advanced Warfare. I know I need to disable crossfire for that.

Elite.... well, yeah, i will hope.

Might go back to a run through of Inquisition after that - the only other game besides BF4 that runs better on the 290x's than sli 970's.

Why disable crossfire ? Not working for you or some other reason ?

I put in 30 hours with 2xR9-290s with not many problems other then stinky p2p lag (if your talking about MP).

Try alt+tabbing in and out on the loading screen prior to the game it helped me a little.

BTW what res you running eyetrip ?

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:54

africanos23 said:
Dying Light is a little bonky especially in SLI/Crossfire with the settings cranked up.

I actually played (roughly 10 hours of it I think) on a single GPU (GTX970) at 1440p (not my native 4K) with most of the settings cranked to the lowest possible.

I would have put in quite a few hours more but I had to take frequent breaks every 15-20 minutes for some odd reason (eye pain - headaches) . This hasn't happened to me on other games and I'm not sure what the reason is.

Other than that the only thing I found to be somewhat of a problem is, while using multithreading and multiple cores well you need good single core performance. (OCing your CPU will help in this one)

Chromatic aberration is very likely the reason why, it hurts my eyes too.

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:56

Final8y said:
Chromatic aberration is very likely the reason why, it hurts my eyes too.

Actually googled that

Found this link : https://photographylife.com/what-is-chromatic-aberration

The uncorrected image looks like Dying Light :eek:

LtMatt · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:57

Not a fan of that effect at all and wish you could disable it.

Even turning it off using The Dying Light manager mod tool does not properly get rid of it.

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:59

AMDMatt said:
Not a fan of that effect at all and wish you could disable it.

Even turning it off using The Dying Light manager mod tool does not properly get rid of it.

Look at the far left and shelters on the top from Dying Light , movement makes it more visible (something like motion blur)

Final8y and AMDMatt I had no idea about this !

No wonder

eyetrip · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:07

I hate lens 'effects' in games... Don't know why they do it...

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:09

BTW Be The Zombie actually makes my eyes hurt even more. That's green-yellow and purple colours most of the time.

Puzzle solved... thanks

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:11

AMDMatt said:
Not a fan of that effect at all and wish you could disable it.

Even turning it off using The Dying Light manager mod tool does not properly get rid of it.

What really bothers me is there are many effects that i dont like, purely preference which i can turn off, but the one that i dont like and that actually hurts me i can not in an increasing amount of games with a few exceptions like Alien: Isolation which it can be turned off, Oh that's GE title ain't it,,, save you the plug.

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:16

If you do spectator mode in BF4 you will see how crap in my opinion Chromatic aberration degrades the look of the game.

LtMatt · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:18

Final8y said:
What really bothers me is there are many effects that i dont like, purely preference which i can turn off, but the one that i dont like and that actually hurts me i can not in an increasing amount of games with a few exceptions like Alien: Isolation which it can be turned off, Oh that's GE title ain't it,,, save you the plug.

Alien Isolation is a shining example of how you optimise a game to run perfectly on all hardware. Was a pleasure to play that game and did not encounter any issues on day 1.

Scary as hell!

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:29

Ayahuasca · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:29

I can't play games like that, I end up alt+f4'ing when the tension becomes too much.

LtMatt · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:32

Ayahuasca said:
I can't play games like that, I end up alt+f4'ing when the tension becomes too much.

Haha. My girlfriend kept laughing at me as I'd jump out of my skin and as i was wearing headphones, she could not hear anything other than me gasping for breath.

eyetrip · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:35

It was an awesome game, and ran brilliantly.

Would love to go through it again.

LtMatt · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:39

If anyone plays it again, make sure you use the modified improved image quality settings here and enable HDAO+ (AMD's version of HBAO+) in the video options before starting. Looked wonderful at 4k.