• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

The AMD Driver Thread

RavenXXX2 said:
It aint regualr Vsync stutter, it's do do with the low GPU usage. And as stated it's not there with Nvidia.
Click to expand...

Not sure then, they is a lot games I play were my gpu usage will be up and down and core also. Csgo for example I get no stutter.
Can't comment on half life I don't play it.

Can you maybe record this? Is it micro stutter or is it quite big stuttering?
 
AMDMatt said:
How do i repro it Raven? Just download Half Life.
Click to expand...

Just played the first two minutes as you come in on the train, locked at 60FPS with vsync on no stutter at all. What am i missing? I was using maximum settings, max available res was 2400x1200 or something weird. I have black bars around my 4K panel. GPU is sitting in 2D mode and core clock is around 650Mhz.
 
shankly1985 said:
Not sure then, they is a lot games I play were my gpu usage will be up and down and core also. Csgo for example I get no stutter.
Can't comment on half life I don't play it.

Can you maybe record this? Is it micro stutter or is it quite big stuttering?
Click to expand...

I get stutter on League of Legends if crossfire is enabled. The game uses hardly any power so the gpu usage keeps dropping to idle which causes the stutter. Best way to fix it with a single gpu is to use MSI afterburner or similar and force constant clock speed or voltage so there is no throttling.
 
AMDMatt,

I activated VSR yesterday for first time.

It has one side effect, after awhile (2-3 screen loads eg area change etc) in Elder Scrolls Online the ingame fog is gone and I can see miles ahead to the other end of the map. (or other island for that matter)

Graphics quality is improved and, weird, performance is improved also by 8-9 fps across the board, except couple of cities which remained the same.
Wasn't supposed to take a performance hit by activating it?

WOT & WoWs (warships), WT (War Thunder) haven't seen any issues, fps remain high and graphics look bit better
 
Panos said:
AMDMatt,

I activated VSR yesterday for first time.

It has one side effect, after awhile (2-3 screen loads eg area change etc) in Elder Scrolls Online the ingame fog is gone and I can see miles ahead to the other end of the map. (or other island for that matter)

Graphics quality is improved and, weird, performance is improved also by 8-9 fps across the board, except couple of cities which remained the same.
Wasn't supposed to take a performance hit by activating it?

WOT & WoWs (warships), WT (War Thunder) haven't seen any issues, fps remain high and graphics look bit better
Click to expand...

Thanks for the feedback.

We're going to be improving VSR support and the number of resolutions available, so tuned for that. :)
 
fs123 said:
Lol most likely. The guys who hacked the drivers actually say that the code was already in the drivers, they only switched it on with their VSR tool. I guess AMD wanted the feature for the R9 cards to make it a selling point.:mad:
Click to expand...

If that is true that is very embarrassing for AMD. They are really not in a position to be alienating customers.
 
not sure if this is the best place to post


i've recently picked up an MSI r9 280x which is having issues installing the latest drivers

by default windows 8 lists the card as a AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.20

when i install 14.12 or 15.4 over this it does not install the display driver

f5c95bb4_15.43.PNG


however i can install 14.4 & below with no issues at all

but when i go from 14.4 to 14.12/15.4 it still does not update/install the latest display driver

ive done this on a fresh windows 8 install


should i rma?



thanks
 
Dizzlepro said:
not sure if this is the best place to post


i've recently picked up an MSI r9 280x which is having issues installing the latest drivers

by default windows 8 lists the card as a AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.20

when i install 14.12 or 15.4 over this it does not install the display driver

f5c95bb4_15.43.PNG


however i can install 14.4 & below with no issues at all

but when i go from 14.4 to 14.12/15.4 it still does not update/install the latest display driver

ive done this on a fresh windows 8 install


should i rma?



thanks
Click to expand...

We stopped providing support for Windows 8 in Catalyst 14.6. So you'll need to stay on 14.4, or take the free upgrade to Windows 8.1.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
WoW the catalyst control center is lacking so many features compared to Nvidia.

Just picked up an 7950 to mess about with and I can't seem to find an option to make a custom resolution and refresh rate, is there any built in?

In older games like half life that use little GPU power with Vsync on I'm getting horrendous micro stutter, is this because of the clocks lowering in game, is there a fix?

I know Nvidia can force max clocks in games but I don't even need to that as I can play older games with Vsync on and suffer no stutter with lower clocks with an 780.

I can see why some people prefer Nvidia over AMD from a driver/software stand point.
Click to expand...

RavenXXX2 said:
And is there a fix?
Click to expand...

RavenXXX2 said:
It aint regualr Vsync stutter, it's do do with the low GPU usage. And as stated it's not there with Nvidia.
Click to expand...

AMDMatt said:
How do i repro it Raven? Just download Half Life.
Click to expand...

AMDMatt said:
Just played the first two minutes as you come in on the train, locked at 60FPS with vsync on no stutter at all. What am i missing? I was using maximum settings, max available res was 2400x1200 or something weird. I have black bars around my 4K panel. GPU is sitting in 2D mode and core clock is around 650Mhz.
Click to expand...

Ran 4K windowed, no stutter at all Raven. Tested on a 285 which is very similar to a 7950.

MR2Ew0a.jpg




That's without using RadeonPro by the way.
 
Last edited:
AMD Catalyst 15.4.1 Beta

AMD Catalyst™ 15.4.1 Beta for Windows® - AMD FreeSync™ technology updates

This release enables optimisations and fixes for some AMD FreeSync™ technology capable products and displays while retaining all previous updates from the AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta driver.

For more information on AMD FreeSync™ technology, supported products and displays, please visit the official AMD FreeSync™ technology page located here.

For more information on the AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta optimizations included in this release please visit the AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta release notes located here.

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.4.1 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following link:

AMD Catalyst 15.4.1 Beta Driver for Windows 7 & 8.1 32/64 bit

AMD Issue Reporting Form
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the AMD Issue Reporting Form.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom