The AMD Driver Thread

[LtMatt]

All hail AMDMatt we trusted your word and it came true

Thanks, would never intentionally mislead anyone.

Now let's get that GTA V benchmark thread running Kaapstad, my Quad 290X's are ready to shine.

 

[LtMatt]

matt will u be trying out some gta?
i want to see some benchmarks at 4k

Yup, got my free key and ready to roll with 15.4 Beta and AMD CHS.

 

[LtMatt]

Glad to see everyone is enjoying our GTA V performance.

 

[LtMatt]

Not everyone, can't turn the pc off now.

Does that happen at stock clocks for cpu/memory/gpu? I've had an issue like that before on Haswell and it turned out to be unstable overclock on the cpu/memory/cache.

 

[LtMatt]

Some of us want to use some multisampling to reduce juggles.

It's not purely a frame rate thing for me. I can play inquisition maxed at 40fps and be happy.

Elite can certainly use the performance in asteroid belts though. It's not smooth in them. And i have already dropped settings a bit to try and compensate.

I've personally requested it, so it will appear in a future driver but did not make this one.

 

[LtMatt]

No, PC is overclocked on the CPU but it is definitely not unstable. Can run every gam & program without issue and my PC can shut down successfully under every previous AMD driver release.

Try it at stock to see if it still occurs.

 

[LtMatt]

Did another uninstall/reinstall and that's solved it. I don't have any overclocks on the GPU's anyway. The temps of the card were sitting nicely.



Driver is absolutely fantastic. Well done Matt and the rest of the driver team!

Thank you guys, we wanted to deliver a wonderful GTA V experience and i think you can say, we've delivered.

 

[LtMatt]

Does this driver have the Freesync update for crossfire?

No.

Soooo, No answers again then Matt! plus no new driver for *nix.....

Looks like green team it is then.

Not yet, sorry Pete.

its ok matt secretly enjoys being picked on! <3

I know you'll appreciate this Mei.

 

[LtMatt]

qkqkqkqk <3 ducks
you had a chance to play gta yet?
it needs mods but looks like it runs great
MKX has some online lag but more fun to watch i think

Only a little bit, it looks so amazing though i can see myself playing it a lot...soon. Very busy with work atm.

I'll test Dying Light later and see what's what. Can I ask, I remember you stating that there may need to be a patch to enable CF properly due to the way they display textures? What exactly has the "better Dying Light" profile done? I'll find out later

There have been two Dying Light patches since then, but I've not personally had chance to test it myself. Either way, we've enabled it now.

Matt, is it still the plan that there will be a driver release in April with the xfire Freesync update? I love my new BenQ monitor but am itching to try out Freesync now as well

As far as i know, yes.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt, I'm still having issues with the corruption in the bottom right-hand corner. The problems in the video have disappeared. Also seen another person in the official GTA thread with the same issue.

Does disabling AA (normal and reflective) solve the issue?

 

[LtMatt]

MSAA appears to be the culprit. Disabled all AA and it disappeared. Enabled FXAA and reflection AA and it stayed away. Enabled MSAA and it came back.

Noted, I'll make our team aware. Not sure if it's a game issue or a driver issue yet, but I'm on it.

 

[LtMatt]

Think my post disappeared into the AMD Driver thread abyss.

Not seen that issue myself benny. Try closing the browser down before the map loads.

 

[LtMatt]

I've also got one of those Startech cables, works perfectly.

Currently using a Accell UltraAV B142C-007B DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 Cable with Latches (6.6 Feet / 2m), which also works perfectly.

We recommend using DisplayPort 1.2 Certified cables, as there is a lot of junk out there.

http://www.displayport.org/cables/how-to-choose-a-displayport-cable-and-not-get-a-bad-one/
http://www.displayport.org/products...ry[]=cables-connectors&products_manufacturer=

 

[LtMatt]

Keep the length of the cables 2 metres or shorter too.

 

[LtMatt]

Hi Superpatsy I have exactly the same issue, so running without MSAA at the moment. No biggy, as I want 60fps and FXAA is enough for me at 1080p. I am also getting a few nasty stutters when driving but that is probably my 4gb system ram.

Win7 64, I5 2500k 4.2ghz, 4gb ram, R9 280X.

I think you may be right, 8GB should be the minimum these days.

 

[LtMatt]

I did have a latency issue once, it was mainly audio popping during video playback or gaming. What resolved it for me was going into the mobo bio's and disabling all CPU power saving features and that fixed it and I never had the issue again.

Interesting, what cpu do you have? Was this when you used Vsync? Do you have more than one monitor? What did you disable exactly?

Sorry for the forty questions.

 

[LtMatt]

May have been asked before, but has anyone been having issues with VRAM in GTA V with crossfire enabled?

I have 2 Sapphire Tri-X r9 290s with 4GB VRAM, on a fresh install of Win8.1 with the 15.4 beta driver, and playing at 1080p @ 120Hz. In game settings are a mix of high/very high with FXAA and both MSAA turned off.

With one card enabled the VRAM in GTA V is ~ 2.4/4GB, in game with afterburner it never exceeds 3GB and the frame rate is a steady 90-100.

If I enable crossfire for my second card GTA V reports 4.7/8GB in use, and VRAM usage in afterburner is between 5.5-6.5GB despite the cards only having 4. With two cards enabled the frame rate is much worse, and it constantly freezes as textures are loaded. GPU usage is ~40% on each.

Link to the GTA V VRAM report for 1 and 2 cards:
https://i.imgur.com/UoSQ6DF.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gzwjmVf.jpg

Are you running in full screen mode and are both gpu clocks correctly locked at full 3D clock speeds? Use my thread here to setup an overlay, if you haven't already.

Assuming you have an overlay enabled Afterburner doubles the video memory usage once you have Crossfire, so basically halve whatever it says the video memory usage is and you have your actual video memory usage.

I have QuadFire and working out the video memory usage often required a calculator.

 

[LtMatt]

Would you be able to help me AMDMatt?

Is this during the benchmark sequence or whilst playing the game? I would recommend increasing the graphics settings, like AA, this will place more load on the gpu and bring the usage up. It's about

As long as performance is good and the game is smooth, i would not worry too much.

Using 2x HD7850 2GB. In Dying Light single gpu performance has improved somewhat since release, but crossfire isn't scaling at all for me using 15.4 either. Awesome drivers for GTA V though!

Matt I noticed something odd last night.
While playing Mortal combat X gpu clock is all over the place from 850mhz to 1150 and cause of that fps is all over ther place. Its stable 60 and then drops to 40 cause clock drops.

Not sure if its game or driver issue just pointing it out.

btw. In benchmarks 1150 all the time. OFC new drivers ect

update typical new game ****up ...
http://gameserrors.com/how-to-fix-mortal-kombat-x-errors-random-crashes-low-fps-not-starting/

Noted, thanks.

 

[LtMatt]

I downloaded and installed these last night, and I have to say I've not noticed much of a difference over the 14.2 Omega Drivers, but on my setup the game ran and still runs Super Smooth anyway.
For the record I've got my graphics settings maxed out apart from 'MSAA' which is set to off, as is 'Reflection MSAA' and I've got Soft Shadows set to AMD CHS.
I've also got the 'Advanced Graphics' options set to off, but am getting a constant 60+ FPS and that's even in the grassy, hilly, Mountains. To say I'm chuffed is an understatement, and to think I even bought an additional 7970 Matrix Platinum to max this game (I've not even installed it yet, lol).
Well done AMD on some awesome Graphics Drivers and also to Rock* for a superbly optimized game

Thank you for the kind words. We're not going to rest on our laurels though and we'll keep trying to improve our existing performance in GTA V in future drivers.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt, I have a question, which I think's already been answered if I'm honest, but if I turn MSAA to on (no matter whether it's 2x, 4x or 8x) it causes some on screen glitching/ corruption, as in some sort of snowy square blocks appear in the bottom right corner of the screen (obviously this isn't meant to be there), so I simply run with MSAA off.
I know you'll be working on trying to fix this but is this something that many others have reported, and is there a reason for this (running gout of VRAM etc, as I'm aware my 7970 is only a 3gb card, but GTAV reports it's using under 3gb anyway.

Yes, we're aware of the issue. Not sure yet if it's a game or driver issue, we're investigating at the moment. If we're at fault, of course we'll fix this as soon as possible.