The AMD Driver Thread

tommybhoy · 25 Apr 2015 at 09:16

cezarewhite said:
I'd do a full windows re-install if I had major problems, but I have way too much on my computer and not enough time to think about doing it all, I will wait till windows 10 is out before that.

Fair play, if I was to do a setup re-install, it'l take the best part of 4hrs+ to set up everything the way it is, but(as DDU etc can wipe essential core files for installing gfx drivers), don't you have a spare sd/hd you could install the bare minimum to find out if your current system has a fault?

Last time I set up, I cloned the fresh setup and if anything goes wrong, now I don't have all the setup hassle to go through as most of it is good to go.

eyetrip · 25 Apr 2015 at 09:39

Matt, what's happening with the promised driver release this month for crossfire/freesync ?

Freakbro · 25 Apr 2015 at 10:00

Confused Stu said:
Having a 4th screen works very well with Eyefinity - when you set up an Eyefinity Group, you simply select 3x1 as the configuration and then select which 3 you want in the Group. The 4th one can then be added as an Extended desktop monitor so Windows "sees" 2 x monitors attached (one at 5760x1080 or whatever, and one at 1920x1080). I have Afterburner's OSD running on my fourth monitor while playing games on the main 3.

The issues I found were in some games having issues recognising how your system is set up - in LA Noire, the game went to Vert- where it should detect an Eyefinity setup automatically, and Alien Isolation wouldn't display any menu when started up. I moved my fourth monitor from the GPU onto the Intel onboard graphics, and both game issues were fixed next time I ran them. This is why my "extra" monitor is run from the onboard - I simply found this less problematic in some games than I did when the GPU was powering it.

Thanks Stu.

Is that a stand you can buy for 4 monitors or did you have to make something up?

NexusK · 25 Apr 2015 at 10:12

Anyone else getting frequent "Display driver stopped responding..." errors? Had no problems with the 14.2's but ever since i changed to the 15.4 it's been happening a couple of times a day. Sometimes watching a Youtube vid, other times just clicking link or tab on the browser.

Tried reinstalling again using DDU to clean but still happening.

passey89 · 25 Apr 2015 at 10:24

AMDMatt said:
Yes it works very well and this is using QuadFire. If QuadFire works well, then you can bet regular Crossfire will be top notch, because the more gpu's you add the more complex it becomes.

These are my go to settings currently, that offer the minimum amount of stutter. There is a little bit every now and then while driving, game bug it seems, but on the whole it's very smooth.

I have plenty of grunt spare to run higher settings, but i found this mix to work best for me at the moment until future game patches come out.

Tessellation is set to very high.

The above settings offer me 60FPS locked Vsync, with gpu usage around 50-60% per gpu.

just tried your settings and just had to adjust

Reflection quality to very high
soft shadows to softer (can't really tell the difference anyway)
post FX to very high.

With all cards & CPU at stock speeds its getting 55fps average on the benchmark.

Running 14.2 omega drivers as well.

LtMatt · 25 Apr 2015 at 10:28

passey89 said:
just tried your settings and just had to adjust

Reflection quality to very high
soft shadows to softer (can't really tell the difference anyway)
post FX to very high.

With all cards & CPU at stock speeds its getting 55fps average on the benchmark.

Running 14.2 omega drivers as well.

Ignore the benchmark, use in game testing as a measurement of performance of my settings.

Confused Stu · 25 Apr 2015 at 10:29

Freakbro said:
Thanks Stu.

Is that a stand you can buy for 4 monitors or did you have to make something up?

It's actually a six-monitor stand I bought from a competitor a couple of years back, I simply didn't bother adding the two arms for the top monitors. It was the cheapest stand I could find that would allow my monitors in the configuration I wanted, and I've been vey happy with it, although if I was constantly fiddling with the monitors I think I'd want something with a little less "give". That said, once you've got everything aligned, it's sturdy enough that it's not going anywhere, it's just a case of putting something half a centimetre further than you want it so when you let go it drops to where you want it, if that makes sense.

It was model number "NOV-MSSEX2" when I bought it, but it seems to go by some other model numbers too at different places - "AT 1339AT", "TS746A", "TS746E". A quick Google hasn't thrown up anywhere still selling them, unfortunately.

passey89 · 25 Apr 2015 at 11:27

AMDMatt said:
Ignore the benchmark, use in game testing as a measurement of performance of my settings.

will give it a go in a sec. just installed 15.2 & sorted my overclocks out now so hopefully will get a bit better performance.

4.8ghz cpu 1160/1500 on both gpu's

Ayahuasca · 25 Apr 2015 at 11:42

Only 5 days left on the promised April crossfire freesync driver.

Still on track? Or is it another case of it's ready when it's ready.

passey89 · 25 Apr 2015 at 11:52

passey89 said:
will give it a go in a sec. just installed 15.2 & sorted my overclocks out now so hopefully will get a bit better performance.

4.8ghz cpu 1160/1500 on both gpu's

tried your settings fps was perfectly fine tbh 50 / 55 doing everything but micro stutter is terrible. turned them down to mine and it seems a lot better occasional bit here and there but fine for now.

thebennyboy · 25 Apr 2015 at 14:57

Something I would love is radeonpro integrated into CCC. AMD should have hired the guy who made it before raptr did, would have blown nvidias control panel out of the water.

Goose · 25 Apr 2015 at 18:59

Crossfire noob here. Installed my second 280x today and got 1800 in Heaven running the OCUK benchmark settings which i think is on par with other 280x crossfire setups.

Just played GTA V and i'm only getting about 60% GPU usage on both cards and i'm just wondering if thats normal? I have it FPS locked to 57 in Riva Tuner Stat Server after reading that it can help a little with stuttering.

FPS is pretty good and mostly stays above 50 with momentary drops to low 40s when driving. The settings i'm using are in the screenshots below.

All advanced gfx settings are set to 'Off'.

Thanks

passey89 · 25 Apr 2015 at 19:03

Goose said:
Crossfire noob here. Installed my second 280x today and got 1800 in Heaven running the OCUK benchmark settings which i think is on par with other 280x crossfire setups.

Just played GTA V and i'm only getting about 60% GPU usage on both cards and i'm just wondering if thats normal? I have it FPS locked to 57 in Riva Tuner Stat Server after reading that it can help a little with stuttering.

FPS is pretty good and mostly stays above 50 with momentary drops to low 40s when driving. The settings i'm using are in the screenshots below.

All advanced gfx settings are set to 'Off'.

Thanks

Yeh if u have ur fos locked thats all the gpu power its needing to get that fps.
If u turn the fps lock off u will see it go up.

gpuerrilla · 25 Apr 2015 at 19:06

Guys its been a while since I used AB. How do I get the VRM temps? I'm using 4.1.0

gareth170 · 25 Apr 2015 at 19:11

Th0nt said:
Guys its been a while since I used AB. How do I get the VRM temps? I'm using 4.1.0

use gpu-z. AB doesn't have VRM temps.

Goose · 25 Apr 2015 at 19:19

passey89 said:
Yeh if u have ur fos locked thats all the gpu power its needing to get that fps.
If u turn the fps lock off u will see it go up.

Thanks mate. Sounds like I have performance to spare then, which is nice to know.

eyetrip · 26 Apr 2015 at 09:31

Matt, will put in request now for someone on driver team to start looking at Hawken for crossfire at some point.

It actually does have a profile surprisingly, but the default gives some odd juddery motion to everything. AFR friendly works much better, but has some flickering issues.

thecremeegg · 26 Apr 2015 at 10:45

passey89 said:
Yeh if u have ur fos locked thats all the gpu power its needing to get that fps.
If u turn the fps lock off u will see it go up.

Not sure that's true. I have 2 x 280x and run at 1920 x 1200....whatever settings in use in the game GPU useage never goes over 60% per card yet the fps doesn't improve. I just think that 280x xfire is inherently crap, so many issues.
I have to unplug my second monitor when gaming to reduce the stutter, unacceptable tbh

Nexus18 · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:20

Anyone got GTA 5 working with radeonpro? Mine just keeps crashing when I try using it :confused:

- I don't have it on steam
- I have radeonpro running in 32/64 bit mode
- I am adding the correct GTA5.exe

Any ideas?

passey89 · 26 Apr 2015 at 12:50

thecremeegg said:
Not sure that's true. I have 2 x 280x and run at 1920 x 1200....whatever settings in use in the game GPU useage never goes over 60% per card yet the fps doesn't improve. I just think that 280x xfire is inherently crap, so many issues.
I have to unplug my second monitor when gaming to reduce the stutter, unacceptable tbh

if it doesn't change could be 1 of two things.
1) really bad xfire drivers
2) Bottlenecked by your CPU.

If its GTA V its not the xfire drivers as my 290X crossfire uses 100% on both cards.