The AMD Driver Thread

Nexus18 · 20 May 2015 at 21:06

thebennyboy said:
It'll be ready when it's ready.

Looking forward to hearing their excuse.

My money is that it will be along the lines of:

"we weren't happy with the quality of the driver and we only want our customers to have the very best and bug free drivers"

elmuzzy66. · 20 May 2015 at 21:07

Maybe its amd version of cartman land?

Gerard · 20 May 2015 at 21:07

mmj_uk said:
AMD's driver department is like Dr Who's Tardis, except when you walk in rather than space getting bigger time slows down.

Seriously, that was really really crap.

LoadsaMoney · 20 May 2015 at 21:41

Surprised those leaked 15.5s wern't them, especially coming from asder.

Those premium priced Fijis are getting more appealing by the minute!

JediFragger · 20 May 2015 at 22:02

LoadsaMoney said:
Surprised those leaked 15.5s wern't them, especially coming from asder.

Those premium priced Fijis are getting more appealing by the minute!

I've no doubt at all that one will kick ass

Two??? Not so much

Bonjour · 20 May 2015 at 22:08

JediFragger said:
I've no doubt at all that one will kick ass

Two??? Not so much

thebennyboy · 20 May 2015 at 23:48

Just been posted on AMD's site:

AMD is committed to improving performance for the recently-released Project CARS and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. To that end, we are creating AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta to optimize performance for these titles, and we will continue to work closely with their developers to improve quality and performance. We will release AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta on our website as soon as it is available.

In the meantime, users experiencing performance issues with the "HairWorks" feature in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are encouraged to enable the below settings in AMD Catalyst™:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/The-Witcher3.aspx

No infomation as to whether there will be an Xfire profile in the coming 15.5 BETA driver.

Nexus18 · 20 May 2015 at 23:58

Nothing new then lol.

Essentially a longer PR version of the usual "soon" and "when it's ready" crap that we have been hearing for the last 6 months....

benjii · 21 May 2015 at 00:14

How do drivers get leaked so early if it's clearly not ready yet? Is it possible it's a ploy to gauge consumer reaction?

LoadsaMoney · 21 May 2015 at 00:19

Thats new isn't it, them putting information up on their site like that about their drivers ?

Don't know if this has already been posted.

LtMatt · 21 May 2015 at 07:08

We have an important update for you about Catalyst Driver support for Project CARS and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Source
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/The-Witcher3.aspx

sgavan · 21 May 2015 at 07:11

Is AMD a much smaller company than Nvidia? I'm just wondering if this could have an effect on driver updates etc

JediFragger · 21 May 2015 at 07:50

sgavan said:
Is AMD a much smaller company than Nvidia? I'm just wondering if this could have an effect on driver updates etc

They've recently had a lot of lay-offs and the driver team could have been badly affected (or so it seems)

Minstadave · 21 May 2015 at 08:00

AMDMatt said:
We have an important update for you about Catalyst Driver support for Project CARS and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Source
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/The-Witcher3.aspx

Will the 15.5 beta have a crossfire profile? Thanks.

Mtom · 21 May 2015 at 08:03

BTW what is wrong with Witcher 3? As i've seen in the benches, the 290X is on par with the 970/780Ti

EDIT: ok i see now the hairworks stuff.

Martini1991 · 21 May 2015 at 08:05

It's mainly crossfire for Witcher 3.

LtMatt · 21 May 2015 at 08:07

Mtom said:
BTW what is wrong with Witcher 3? As i've seen in the benches, the 290X is on par with the 970/780Ti

EDIT: ok i see now the hairworks stuff.

AMDMatt said:
Exactly the reason that slider was introduced, to stop things from being needlessly over tessellated in order to cripple performance. This includes things on and off screen.

The link below is worth a read.

Natively HairWorks actually operates at an extremely intensive tessellation factor of 64x which is why the game setting is so demanding even on Nvidia GPUs. Lowering it to 16x and 8x would yield a very marginal reduction in quality and a massive boost to performance. In fact we reckon that while playing The Witcher 3 you will be hard pressed to notice any differences between Tessellation x64, x16 or x8.

Source
http://wccftech.com/amd-announces-w...driver-coming-boost-tessellation-performance/

Angst · 21 May 2015 at 08:29

So are we getting a witcher 3 crossfire profile soon? If not I'm just going to sell up.

Calneon · 21 May 2015 at 08:29

AMDMatt said:
The link below is worth a read.

Source
http://wccftech.com/amd-announces-w...driver-coming-boost-tessellation-performance/

Nvidia intentionally crippling performance for their users just so they appear better than AMD, yet again. Unfortunately for them it backfired and AMD users actually have better Hairworks performance than Nvidia because of it.

Devrij · 21 May 2015 at 09:00

Angst said:
So are we getting a witcher 3 crossfire profile soon? If not I'm just going to sell up.

I'm gonna guess that since matt avoided that question above, it's a no.