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The AMD Driver Thread

somewhatdamaged said:
I love my R9 295X2, but having started the Witcher 3 and not having working crossfire drivers, its unacceptable

I do believe Nvidia have done and will do questionable business practices, but i also believe they pump far more money and resources into ensuring games run on their hardware and work on release date.

I've spent tons on AMD hardware over the years, and the only constant has been poor drivers and late crossfire profiles.

I want to spend the weekend hammering the Witcher 3 and could get a big chunk of the game done.

I can either do this with the game running on reduced settings with a shaky framerate (and probably not want to play through the game again) , or i can wait for crossfire drivers and play it the way it should be played.

if i choose option 2, many Nvidia owners could have almost finished the game? When will these drivers actually arrive? (and when they do, i'm certain they won't be working properly due to being a beta)

Why should i have to wait to unlock the full power of a card i paid over £700 for?

I'm utterly sick and tired of AMD. I don't care how incredible Fuji XT might be with HBM, i will be choosing an Nvidia Pascal GPU next

151 days since the last driver...is this acceptable AMD?

Rant over
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I agree with all of this, except for the 151 days bit. WHQL is irrelevant.

Like you, I have the most expensive video card AMD makes and I have spent more time fiddling with drivers and game ini files in the 8 months since I bought it than in the 3 years before that put together (during which time I had nVidia cards).

I got the card in October, and since then have bought Far Cry 4, Elite Dangerous, CoD:AW, GTA V, Assetto Corsa and Project Cars. Out of these games, only GTA V has had a Crossfire Profile that works on day one. Every other game in that list either needed some effects switched off (and I don't mean nVidia Gameworks stuff) to work with Crossfire, or didn't work with it at all. Ironically, I bought the card for Far Cry 4 and it months before I could use it properly. I'm pretty sure all of those games work in SLI on nVidia. I know nVidia have issues too, but they seem to be fewer, and they seem to be resolved quicker.

I know multi GPU is a niche market within the niche market for high end GPUs, but it's not right for a company to sell a card like the 295X2 for over £1000 at launch, then effectively dessert it 6 months later with a lack of Crossfire support that turns it into a 290X. I will not buy multi GPU again unless Dirext X12 makes it less hassle. How long the 295X2 stays in my PC will depend on how often I get to use the full power of the card between now and the end of the year.

AMDMatt is brilliant. He's the only reason I haven't sold the card already and sworn off AMD for life. However, he's clearly very limited in what he's allowed to reveal at times and that's a shame as he tries his hardest to help AMD owners in the face of some pretty major ignorance from forum posters.
 
Poneros said:
Actually, it is a problem for Nvidia users too
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Nvidia users have problems too, of coarse, driver problems will always be there for any company, but even any dedicated AMD user like myself can testify that we are on the back foot right now. When you buy your new games and watch how all the Nvidia users can play above your settings with higher fps, is there no point where you wonder.....why am I using this card?

It's got to the point where I'm just going to have to pay the extortionist Nvidia prices ( By that I mean it's like willingly having all my teeth pulled out........by a back street drug addled dentist). Probably even one or two years ago I swore I'd never go green, but kinda feel like I don't have a choice anymore. That's just how I feel.
 
Must have been crazy doing the monthly WHQLs, can just imagine the Benny Hill music playing as they were all rushing to get em done with as many fixes and what not as they could before the send off deadline :D
 
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Ayahuasca said:
They clearly stopped the monthly WHQL's to save a bit cash but as has already been explained there's no need for WHQL drivers anyway.
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That too :p

thebennyboy said:
They? I thought they only had one guy there now? :D
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haha :D

Its probably just Matt in his bedroom, and thats why he can say 'we aim', as hes the only one who knows for definite if they are gona hit or not :p
 
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Roy also stated after pcars released that they were now working with the devs to optimise, something which could have been done before release.

Telling your users they need to wait for "nVidia titles" drivers is just going to drive them away.
 
Found out the gf was preggers the other week, she went nuts, but to be fair, i did tell her i only aimed to pull out in time*







*this didn't happen, obviously :p
 
McShave said:
This is the very reason I'm getting off this AMD merry-go-round. These "Ready when it's ready" answers to anything just don't cut it. There is more to it, but after a decade on ATI/AMD I'm done. I'm done with waiting for crossfire profiles (hell I'm done waiting for single card profiles). I'm done with being crippled by gameworks, by Windows 10 drivers. When people have been calling the whole "gameworks/Nvidia" stuff, the fault of the game developers for crippling AMD cards they might have a point, but it doesn't matter whose fault it is. It's a dog eat dog world out there. It matters whose problem it is. It isn't a problem for Nvidia users, it isn't a problem for the game devs as the majority of gamers are using Nvidia these days. It's AMD's problem and mostly IT'S AMD USERS PROBLEM.

"We always aim to have the latest Crossfire optimisations for launching titles in our latest Catalyst driver". Sorry AMDMatt, nothing against you, but AMD's aiming is way off, they aren't even close to hitting the mark (GTA V drivers not withstanding). This is just a rant I had to get out of my system. I don't even care if the next top AMD card beats the 980ti in single use. I have no interest in spending any more money on crossfire cards. I hope it isn't so, but I can't see anyway back for AMD so the second those 980ti's drop on to the market I'm having two.

Sorry for the blog, just got buggered by the Windows 10 drivers....(after two reinstalls).....I needed to say it.
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I have to question the point of community personnel if they can only spout pre scripted responses. Richard Huddy posted here a few times and amd roy has lately. Where are they now? Needless to say i expect to see them pop up when there's something to crow about (the new gpu's obviously) but besides that it just seems they only interact on rare occasions.

No clue if nvidia has reps posting on forums, but the same thing applies, if you're only going to post vague statements that can go one way or the other then whats the point? We may as well flip a coin and be done with it. :confused:
 
thebennyboy said:
They had drivers on release for GTA5, so why not anything else?
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That was an exception where they actually got it right. The game coming a year late to PCs probably helped.

I think this is the big issue here. Since stopping the monthly WHQL and claiming this would allow more resources to target new releases and bugfixes as required, we've instead had big gaps between drivers, drivers arriving weeks after big games, and crossfire/freesync support MIA.

AMD should be getting drivers right most of the time with the occasional delay for unforseen circumstances. Instead, we have the opposite where everything is delayed and we get something on time once in a blue moon.
 
McShave said:
Nvidia users have problems too, of coarse, driver problems will always be there for any company, but even any dedicated AMD user like myself can testify that we are on the back foot right now. When you buy your new games and watch how all the Nvidia users can play above your settings with higher fps, is there no point where you wonder.....why am I using this card?

It's got to the point where I'm just going to have to pay the extortionist Nvidia prices ( By that I mean it's like willingly having all my teeth pulled out........by a back street drug addled dentist). Probably even one or two years ago I swore I'd never go green, but kinda feel like I don't have a choice anymore. That's just how I feel.
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You misunderstand. I'm not simply saying Nvidia users have problems in general. I'm saying that the implementation of Gameworks in games hurts not only AMD (for the obvious reasons) but also Nvidia users who don't auto-upgrade their GPU because the pre-900 GPUs are seeing much lower performance in those games than in non-gameworks titles regardless of whether you use gameworks features or not.

So, unless you plan to buy a new Nvidia GPU each time it launches then you will simply hurt yourself more by going Nvidia now than by sticking with AMD. Not to mention that if they gain more marketshare nothing's preventing them from not only messing with older cards (whether its due to willful tampering or just negligence) but also with lower-priced ones.
 
thebennyboy said:
Are you trying to take Matt's job? Needs to keep the political PR rubbish going somehow...
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Not at all, perfectly happy with my job thanks.
What I am doing is opening up a bigger picture that all you keep some how missing..

Read back couple pages from what I mean.. Before you start thinking am just defending amd for fanboy crap am not i know amd isn't perfect and either is nvidia..
Already countless reports of sli stutter for users, black screening on Witcher 3 so don't think jumping over, Is going to be all this and that..

elite dangerous is the only game I can think off amd maybe could done better to support with Crossfire but there again we don't know for sure why crossfire stopped working in that game.

All other games this past couple months we been hit hard with Gameworks, it's clear that amd is having issues providing working drivers within these titles. Either the game devs need to patch after release or amd need more time sorting out Gameworks issues..

Open your eyes people.
 
Gerard said:
I have to question the point of community personnel if they can only spout pre scripted responses.
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Same here. I have nothing against any AMD rep personally. To be honest I feel sorry for them at the moment. But it has to be asked, if they can't say anything what is the point?
 
shankly1985 said:
Not at all, perfectly happy with my job thanks.
What I am doing is opening up a bigger picture that all you keep some how missing..

Read back couple pages from what I mean.. Before you start thinking am just defending amd for fanboy crap am not i know amd isn't perfect and either is nvidia..
Already countless reports of sli stutter for users, black screening on Witcher 3 so don't think jumping over, Is going to be all this and that..

elite dangerous is the only game I can think off amd maybe could done better to support with Crossfire but there again we don't know for sure why crossfire stopped working in that game.

All other games this past couple months we been hit hard with Gameworks, it's clear that amd is having issues providing working drivers within these titles. Either the game devs need to patch after release or amd need more time sorting out Gameworks issues..

Open your eyes people.
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It's all the misinformation, poor communication and missed deadlines that annoy me.
 
Whats a shame is many of us will have probably completed the Witcher 3 by the time the driver for it comes available lol. That's been the case with a lot of new games in the last year. Usually once I finish a game I don't really care that much anymore and its a shame that the first run through of the Witcher 3 I cant enjoy it with all the bells and whistles at great fps all because theres no crossfire profile.
 
thebennyboy said:
They had drivers on release for GTA5, so why not anything else?
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Because they suck donkey balls.

They obviously have next to no staff on drivers. AMD can **** off now as far as I am concerned. I'll be back to Nvidia as soon as I can (which may not be that soon unfortunately) and will be sticking with them.

Even if AMD sort out all current games next week, I am not sure I will trust them to keep the support going.

Just makes it a damn costly change for me. And I really just wanted to leave my system as is until near end of next year...

About to install Witcher 3... Don't intend to get through much of it but am curious to see what looks like
 
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