The AMD Driver Thread

Superpatsy · 16 Apr 2015 at 11:38

Clock speeds appear to be fine. It's definitely done it once but the other times may have been me not noticing them having changed in AB, so every time I started CCC they had reset to the slower speeds because of AB.

thebennyboy · 16 Apr 2015 at 11:45

Is that you manning the new AMDCare twitter, Matt?

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 11:50

Superpatsy said:
Clock speeds appear to be fine. It's definitely done it once but the other times may have been me not noticing them having changed in AB, so every time I started CCC they had reset to the slower speeds because of AB.

I noticed a bug whereby if you change Vsync settings while the game is running it causes the clock speeds to fluctuate. However if you restart the game, all works perfectly.

thebennyboy said:
Is that you manning the new AMDCare twitter, Matt?

Yes, I've got my finger in a few different pie's at the moment Benny.

thebennyboy · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:32

AMDMatt said:
I noticed a bug whereby if you change Vsync settings while the game is running it causes the clock speeds to fluctuate. However if you restart the game, all works perfectly.

Yes, I've got my finger in a few different pie's at the moment Benny.

Don't want to know what else you've had your finger in Matt.

Bonjour · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:34

Bowling balls. :eek:

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:35

thebennyboy said:
Don't want to know what else you've had your finger in Matt.

Bonjour said:
Bowling balls.

The less said about that the better. Efforts must be doubled on my part. Losing to women is a serious morale drainer.

pugheaven · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:46

AMDMatt said:
I've reported this issue, thanks Rick.

We decided to enable Crossfire in 15.4 for our customers in this title, but as you know we're still hopeful that Techland will release a patch to correct the unfriendly surfaces that are impacting our Crossfire performance in this title.

@Matt - Just as a note Matt, the weird surface issue has gone so acts like it does on a single card. However there is ZERO scaling at all in this game as in not even a single fps... I'm surprised at that... ALSO... when getting attackeded and grabbed by a zombie (when you have to hit "E" as fast as you can) now in CF it stops to 1fps with all sorts of weirdness happening... all in, not the best update tbh... looks like by fixing the texture flicker we've not got a mad step down in fps on certain scenes...

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 12:56

pugheaven said:
@Matt - Just as a note Matt, the weird surface issue has gone so acts like it does on a single card. However there is ZERO scaling at all in this game as in not even a single fps... I'm surprised at that... ALSO... when getting attackeded and grabbed by a zombie (when you have to hit "E" as fast as you can) now in CF it stops to 1fps with all sorts of weirdness happening... all in, not the best update tbh... looks like by fixing the texture flicker we've not got a mad step down in fps on certain scenes...

Okay, well that's good to hear that the surface issue has gone.

I'll let our team know that the performance is not where it should be, thanks Pug.

nutsnut · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:00

nutsnut said:
Also, just tried on a new install on a spare SSD and the same problem exist. So I think I can safely rule out overclock or windows install as problems.

Any other suggestions matt?

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:03

nutsnut said:
Any other suggestions matt?

Sorry i don't have at the moment, this is the only instance of this I've seen reported I'm afraid. I would roll back to 15.3 Beta for now as a temporary workaround.

old gamer · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:34

Superpatsy said:
Having more issues with the driver.

Been playing GTA V over the past couple of days and I've just noticed now that it keeps downclocking my card as if they are thermal throttling, which they aren't. The temps have been nudging 50C which is obviously a country mile under the throttle.

im getting the same with a 290 tri-x, the thing will not clock above 800mhz

Superpatsy · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:42

Do you use Afterburner as well?

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:44

old gamer said:
im getting the same with a 290 tri-x, the thing will not clock above 800mhz

During the benchmark sequence or actually while playing the single player campaign?

old gamer · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:46

AMDMatt said:
During the benchmark sequence or actually while playing the single player campaign?

in single player game, ive just tried older drivers but still the same

yep im also using afterburner

Superpatsy · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:50

old gamer said:
in single player game, ive just tried older drivers but still the same

yep im also using afterburner

Check the clock speeds in AB and CCC to see if they are the same.

LtMatt · 16 Apr 2015 at 13:54

old gamer said:
in single player game, ive just tried older drivers but still the same

yep im also using afterburner

Prior to the clocks switching, did you enable or disable Vsync or change any graphical settings in the video/graphics menu?

Superpatsy · 16 Apr 2015 at 14:56

Is this a driver issue?

thebennyboy · 16 Apr 2015 at 15:16

old gamer said:
im getting the same with a 290 tri-x, the thing will not clock above 800mhz

Noticed I'm getting a very similar issue. First card won't go above 850Mhz.

old gamer · 16 Apr 2015 at 15:23

AMDMatt said:
Prior to the clocks switching, did you enable or disable Vsync or change any graphical settings in the video/graphics menu?

yep i up the res as it set to 2560x1080, i also upped a few others, what do you reckon reset do default and try again

forgot to mention i did disable vsync

humbug · 16 Apr 2015 at 15:37

old gamer said:
yep i up the res as it set to 2560x1080, i also upped a few others, what do you reckon reset do default and try again

forgot to mention i did disable vsync

Power Tune turned up? If you have the bar set too low it will cap the powerdraw which will drop the clocks.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18620924