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The AMD Driver Thread

Bonjour said:
I was playing Alien Isolation for a couple of hours last night. Silly smooth 60fps frame cap, with 30-40% GPU utilisation, then in one area it spaz'd out and went to ~5fps for about 3-4 seconds. Could this be related?
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snips86x said:
Not sure really!

I was playing for 20 mins this morning and watched it creep from 4gb to 7.5gb. At this point, I closed the game down and the usage dropped.

The 2 times this has happened, the system has been unrecoverable and I've needed to reboot.
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Bonjour said:
I'll have a look after lunch. I have 32GB ram, so would be interesting watching it fill up.
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Keeping an eye on this folks. If anyone else notices similar behaviour, please shout.
 
Final8y said:
Snip.
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I guess the point we differ on then really is that I believe users should be allowed more options/offered these things, with the disclaimer that if they chose to use them not as recommended then they may have unexpected side affects, whereas you seem to fall on the side of less options/less issues. Many won't bother.

Honestly though, people are always requesting profiles as soon as they're done, so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't consider an online update functionality of some kind, whether it's CAPs or something similar which checks your profile list against an updated database somewhere or similar.

AMD have just started to be seen as on equal footing recently or even better by some when it comes to drivers who thought otherwise before, the CAP system was not a contributing factor.
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A lot of people stand by some of these more advanced tools on the Nvidia side as one of the reasons they stick with NV, so I at least think it should be something AMD consider, and I certainly don't think profile updates outside drivers would change that, in fact it may enhance it. Again, when Nvidia were slower, there was a reason EVGA actually offered there own SLI profiles :)

By the same vein of don't touch advanced stuff, we wouldn't have overclocking etc. All can cause problems, but are fine if used appropriately and within reason.
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
I guess the point we differ on then really is that I believe users should be allowed more options/offered these things, with the disclaimer that if they chose to use them not as recommended then they may have unexpected side affects, whereas you seem to fall on the side of less options/less issues. Many won't bother.

Honestly though, people are always requesting profiles as soon as they're done, so I don't see a reason why they shouldn't consider an online update functionality of some kind, whether it's CAPs or something similar which checks your profile list against an updated database somewhere or similar.

A lot of people stand by some of these more advanced tools on the Nvidia side as one of the reasons they stick with NV, so I at least think it should be something AMD consider. :)

By the same vein of don't touch advanced stuff, we wouldn't have overclocking etc. All can cause problems, but are fine if used appropriately and within reason.
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Personally im all for more options as i know what im doing most of the time and when i slip up its my fault, but i can understand why its sometimes they are taken away or not offered in the first place because there are simply to many who will screw things up and then point the blame at the wrong people or instead of themselves, that's why some things are left to 3rd party programs.
 
thebennyboy said:
I am getting terrible stuttering in Thief using Mantle Crossfire. Here are some logs and a youtube vid showing the issue.

Aida64 log: https://www.sendspace.com/file/x3q95k
Aida64 log stats: https://www.sendspace.com/file/0quwuz

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thebennyboy said:
No. I'm not using 290X's and i'm not using 4k :p. I'm trying to get a benchmark for the Thief benchmarking thread, so far failing miserably.

My cards:
VTX3D R9 280X
XFX R9 280X DD Black

Thief settings:

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Just an update to this Matt, running Mantle on one card works fine on those exact settings. No stutter or juddering at all and it's buttery smooth. Has to be something to do with Mantle Crossfire. Any ideas? :p
 
Unable to replicate the memory leak in Alien Isolation. RAM usage stays at a solid 4.9GB.

My issue is possibly CPU-related. FPS tanked at one point, at which the resource monitor indicated CPU and GPU usage had dropped to 0 for a split second.
 
After windows reinstall, omega drivers are a good step up from the last time I used amd drivers on trifire 290p.

What I am most impressed with is dragon age utterly maxed out at 3840x2160. Three cards usually hovering around 40 to 45 fps but smooth as hell.

Where as when I was playing with sli 970 it was a mess, and even after lowering settings a fair amount at 3440x1440, it was never smooth, and suffered awful, awful tearing.

Might have to have another run through.
 
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