The AMD Driver Thread

[heatonpkmassive]

Good luck with nvidia support.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/2one2z/discussion_has_nvidia_forsaken_kepler_cards_has/
No driver support for past generation of nvidia cards.

We'll see what happens. The situation now though is that I can play the current games I want to at full settings with very smooth framerates.

And that's all I'm bothered about. If I'd have been able to do that with the 290, I'd have stuck with it. It's not like an i5 4690k at 4.6ghz was bottlenecking it.

I have nothing against AMD, but I look in here to see if the long-awaited driver release solves people's issues. Because another reason I ditched them is because when they made something work, something else usually went wrong as a result.

That's just my experience of late, I can't say anything other than that. As pointed out above, I have no allegiance to either team. I just buy what performs best for me.

 

[tommybhoy]

I have nothing against AMD, but I look in here to see if the long-awaited driver release solves people's issues. Because another reason I ditched them is because when they made something work, something else usually went wrong as a result.

W3 Game Ready driver...

Spoiler

The Grass Isn't Always Greener

 

[kevy1986]

So today at 12.00 then ?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Still no new drivers? Need my freesync driver...witcher 3 would be good too, I can actually buy it then

 

[something daft already!!]

I tried the 15.5 leaked drivers and wish I hadn't lol. I've had two weird crashes so removed it and reinstalled 15.4 but woke to my PC not responding today. I am going to give it a good driver clean tonight I think.

 

[humbug]

So today at 12.00 then ?

AMD HQ is -8 Hours, a 9 to 5 working day would end 01:00 our time.

Staying up late?

 

[kevy1986]

Nah got work to think about unfortunately. Will probably be finished the Witcher by the time the drivers come out

 

[TNA]

As much as I would love new drivers to maybe get me that little bit more performance, I have to say I am really happy with Witcher 3 performance on these drivers so far. Got it working nicely at 30fps at 4k now.

I turned off Nvidia HairTurd, lowered foliage and shadows to high, set ambient occlusion to SSAO and turned off AA. Rest on Ultra and it looks and plays well.

 

[Confused Stu]

Is anyone else thinking that they've pulled back all the workers to ensure the 3xx series with the new HBM memory launches without a hiccup? People remember launch day issues (just like they'll remember the first half of 2015 as being the driest for AMD drivers even though we've had a few released/leaked, and remember the 290 series as hot even though it was only the reference coolers that were designed to run at 94C) and it would be very embarrassing for people to associate HBM memory with incompatibilities.

Hoping I'm wrong and a new driver with shiny Crossfire profiles for W3 and Elite gets posted soon (I don't own either game, but I understand how frustrating it is for people who do), or the 300 series launches soon and we can get back to business as usual for the driver team.

Anyway,don't take this as a complaint as the current drivers issues largely don't affect me as I'm still loving the performance of my little Crossfire setup on the games I run (currently GTA V mainly), but like I said, I do feel for those few with issues.

 

[Angst]

Think im just going to buy a 980ti, should be about the same as my 280x crossfire but without all the issues.

 

[russell664]

I like my AMD card, but again this driver business is ludicrous.

Making me reconsider getting the 390x if i'm honest.

 

[tonyli3]

I still after several weeks now can't believe they've not got a project cars fix out?...I refuse to play it right now as its like my tri-x is trying to perform while encased in a bag of cement!

 

[Flanos]

I'm not sure I can mention the name of another forum here, regardless... I got a win10 AMD? driver that was made backwards compatible for windows vista and upwards (64bit? installed win7) and the performance increase is incredible ... 1440p project cars, and GTA V are running MUCH smoother/higher FPS with crossfire 290x ... DIRT RALLY 1440p everything ultra was minimum 122 FPS average 148, and max around 170 !!!

??? ... why do these MEGA drivers exist and not currently readily avaiable??!?

I cant get my head around the increases in performance, perhaps they have optimisations for these certain titles not made available on win7 ?!?! no idea whats going on....

 

[Flanos]

cant re-call where I got them, I think it was something like grugruu3bee ? ....

I did as the instructions said, the device manager device installer stopped responding, did a restart and everything seems to be completely functional, working ok! ...

AMD CCC is there and everything!

forgive these ****** posts, I've been awake far too long.

 

[RageQuit©]

The AMD Gods are awaiting their blood sacrifice before releasing those mega drivers to us Win 7 peasants.

 

[jimbob339]

Given up on pcars back to assetto corsa and tbh I think its better getting a solid 60fps at 1440p maxed out

 

[Type_R]

Given up on pcars back to assetto corsa and tbh I think its better getting a solid 60fps at 1440p maxed out

+1 there is nothing worse than playing a driving game that is stuttering like a mad man! I too have gone back to AS and the experience is so much better!

 

[RageQuit©]

This situation has me worried about Arkham Knight now. Can we expect a similar driver-less experience? Are there going to be Gameworks features in Arkham Knight?

 

[JediFragger]

This situation has me worried about Arkham Knight now. Can we expect a similar driver-less experience? Are there going to be Gameworks features in Arkham Knight?

I don't think AK could be MORE loaded with GW features

 

[bemaniac]

I don't care if amd never do an Ak driver
Just do that witcher driver! Afr with no flickering please!