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The AMD Driver Thread
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I assume it doesn't work beautifully with the Witcher 2 profile or straight AFR, or someone would probably have mentioned it by now. Unfortunately we're waiting for AMD now, once again wondering why I bought an R9-295x-2 instead of a couple of 970s
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Someone said performance is great with AFR but had some texture flicking..
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Unless what AMD are doing recently, becuase they have a small team of driver engineers is putting all their resources in to optimising drivers for the 300 series.
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Textures flicker for crossfire no matter what setting you try.
I've now turned mine off, just running high for everything at 1440p and dealing with 30 to 40fps. if this driver doesn't come tonight then it's bye bye AMD, you've just lost another customer. Getting sick and tired of not supporting crossfire now.
I've now turned mine off, just running high for everything at 1440p and dealing with 30 to 40fps. if this driver doesn't come tonight then it's bye bye AMD, you've just lost another customer. Getting sick and tired of not supporting crossfire now.
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It is weird as they make very nice dual GPU cards, worked on frame pacing, introduced XDMA crossfire but seem to have lost interest in releasing profiles so crossfire actually works.
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The current few months have completely destroyed any interest I ever had in going Crossfire ever again.
I'll buy a 390X, but if AMD continue to slide, I'll probably end up going Nvidia next die shrink.
I'll buy a 390X, but if AMD continue to slide, I'll probably end up going Nvidia next die shrink.
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I agree, I don't think I will ever go Crossfire again as it is just not worth the expense, hassle and disappointment. Just more trouble than its worth.
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I've never understood the mentality. AMD are in the business of selling gpus, the more you sell the more wedge you make. crossfire is a great way of selling more product, it's a cheap alternative to outperform a stupidly expensive flagship card. If they totally nailed crossfire, can you imagine how many people would be jumping over the crazy low prices now of 290's. They'd clear their backlog in no time, making a tidy profit. It's a no brainer to me, they just simply drop the ball at every opportunity, and for that reason I'm out AMD. You can't get the cards right, you can't get the drivers right, you don't treat your customers right and you've totally ballsed up freesync.
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Same, i was going to go Xfire after going Haswell-E, but no chance now, im sticking to single cards.
I've never been convinced by Crossfire. It's never had adequate or timely support, it's never been without issues or problems. The fact that you can't just load a game and expect it to work has always been a massive black mark against multi-GPU for me. I think the concept is nice, but all the technology to make it work is just inherently flawed.
I've always had motherboards that could take a second card, but it's never been tempting to me because Crossfire has never worked properly, even though it's been available for years.
I've always had motherboards that could take a second card, but it's never been tempting to me because Crossfire has never worked properly, even though it's been available for years.
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Works well here, although as above I don't always buy latest games on release. Am always playing catch up.
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Xfire used to be the dogs when AMD done the frame-pacing, every man and his dog was saying how much better than SLi it was, and they've just ruined it, absolute shame
Do they really think, with what they've done for the past few months and months, everyones just going to rush out and buy one of their new cards ?, i know im not now.
Do they really think, with what they've done for the past few months and months, everyones just going to rush out and buy one of their new cards ?, i know im not now.
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it works well at times but the downside for me is no support on release of big games. Surely AMD would have the code or an early copy of the game long in advance of release to be able to get drivers out on release day.
The witcher 3 is probably one of the biggest titles this year along with GTA5 for pc users and to have no working profile makes AMD seem like a poorly run company. There will never be as many crossfire users as single card users but they advertise it and show crossfire off so much that to have it not working on new games like the Witcher is a huge disappointment and like others have said makes me think about just going over to the other side for my next upgrade. The AMD driver side of things seems like its low on there priority list. Its like having a beautiful expensive car that looks great on the outside but the engine is a second thought and it stalls and craps out on you half the time.
The witcher 3 is probably one of the biggest titles this year along with GTA5 for pc users and to have no working profile makes AMD seem like a poorly run company. There will never be as many crossfire users as single card users but they advertise it and show crossfire off so much that to have it not working on new games like the Witcher is a huge disappointment and like others have said makes me think about just going over to the other side for my next upgrade. The AMD driver side of things seems like its low on there priority list. Its like having a beautiful expensive car that looks great on the outside but the engine is a second thought and it stalls and craps out on you half the time.