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The AMD Driver Thread
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Caporegime
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So its amd's fault somehow that the games releasing early? Makes sense..
Well, the game officially launches in half an hour.
Either way, AMD aren't having drivers in time.
AMD Roy (If it was him) was banging on about the good working relationship they had..
I don't see why there's an assumption that it needs some kind of specific driver, for all we know it will work fine on the latest beta both single and crossfire mode. At the minute nobody really knows. Just have to wait and see.
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Even if drivers are coming tomorrow am hearing great report that Witcher 3 is running great on latest driver.
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Crossfire's not working, so we erm, do know?
And performance isn't exactly great on a single 290 (Then again, I seem to have different standards than other people....), can that be helped with drivers? Maybe, but we don't know that.
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This guy says 60fps at 1080p and he seems to have a R9 290 in his sig
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28056653&postcount=2174
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28056653&postcount=2174
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And there's a few others who say 20 FPS 
Fully maxed out at 2560x1080, I was bouncing from like 30-40 FPS. Which given the IQ, isn't impressive. I can get 60 FPS if I ran like him though.
Fully maxed out at 2560x1080, I was bouncing from like 30-40 FPS. Which given the IQ, isn't impressive. I can get 60 FPS if I ran like him though.
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Yeah, that's not really acceptable though.
It comes across as amateur in terms of support.
Well its a game profile option that both nvidia and amd have, its worth a try to see if other modes work for it.
So its amd's fault somehow that the games releasing early? Makes sense..
It's AMD's fault they are not ready until right at the last second and now are missing Europe, Africa, Asia, Pacifica, etc. on launch day. You leave things till the last moment, and you will get caught out.
If the AMD driver comes out at their usual time on Tuesday, then the game will have been available in the UK for 20 hours before AMD's new driver arrives. It makes a world of difference in perception if AMD got their driver out a day early instead of a day late (assuming it arrives tomorrow and not at some other unknown time).
If AMD want to be considered as good as Nvidia on drivers, then they have to at least turn up to the fight on time.
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Confirmed, it runs abysmally with 7990.
2560x1440, every single bit of bling switched off or turned to low (if off isn't an option) and I get 36 fps max. With it dropping down to 18fps. Change in fps doesn't change a great deal when turning up settings either, just the max is hit less. Even when it's up in 36fps, it feels like it's running at 12-15 fps, it's insanely juddery. Not even remotely playable.
Try disabling one of the GPUs, I'm getting that with a single 7970 at the same resolution.
Game looks really bad with graphics on low and it's unplayable on Ultra. I doubt a driver will do much in this case.
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I got it "working", I can put it up to medium, get about 35-60fps fluctuating, but it still feels jerky. It started off defaulting the Graphics settings, seemingly too high for the card and just seemed to mess up the drivers, hence the weird performance I was getting, a simple pc restart helped it, but the stuttery feeling to it is a real pain though.
Hopefully that can be ironed out, my mate is getting similar stuttery play from a single 290x (despite having a solid 60 fps), so may not even be a crossfire issue specifically. (I doubt it helps mind).
I won't play it whilst it's like this, I been looking forward to this and don't want to play it with a sub par experience, hopefully a driver will help somewhat.
There is no "usual time" for amd drivers, they can show up at random times during the day. Yes playing the game on one gpu until a driver shows can be a pain but its hardly the end of the world.
The vast majority of them have been at about 8 pm GMT, usually a Thursday, though sometimes a Tuesday.
Sure it's not the end of the world to wait a day. What about a couple of days, what about a week? When does it start to look like amateur hour when your competitor gets new drivers out for their customers a day before a big game launch, and you still aren't ready?
Obviously this depends a lot on when amd were able to get access to the game and optomise drivers. And as its a gameworks game they've already said that the code can change on launch day with updates etc and basically break what was previously working.
Personally i couldn't give a toss one way or the other as i've no interest in the game.
