The AMD Driver Thread

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 07:48

Tommy Farcry 4 is having a new patch shortly and as such, we've been unable to test if Crossfire is safe to be officially enabled yet in this title. Once we've tested and confirmed all is ok, it will be added to the next driver. As soon as i can tell you when that will be, you'll hear about it from me.

As for Metal Gear Solid i will have to investigate.

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 08:50

Dicehunter said:
Odd aliasing going on in Alien Isolation, Tested the game at 1080P on a GTX 780 Ti and the aliasing was there but not bad, Tested again with the same settings on the 295X2 and the aliasing is huge.

This a driver issue or game issue ?

Single gpu can select SMAAx2 but multi gpu (from either vendor) can only select SMAAx1, this could be the reason.

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 10:01

How did you disable Crossfire?

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 10:16

Dicehunter said:
The little check box under Crossfire-X, I'm guessing that actually just activates profiles and doesn't really disable Crossfire-X ?

Correct. You need to create a profile for Alien Isolation using the game exe A (AI.EXE) and select disable Crossfire at the bottom. No promises this will work as you have a dual gpu card, but it might.

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 10:29

FXAA should get rid of those, you'd have thought.

LtMatt · 14 Jan 2015 at 10:48

Does anyone else get this issue on Alien Isolation? I will test myself when i get chance.

LtMatt · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:54

Uncle Petey said:
/Raises hand

Really? It never used to work, at least if you had synchronise ticked.

LtMatt · 16 Jan 2015 at 15:17

shankly1985 said:
So with ULPS on for you matt is all your other GPU's not allow the voltage change?

synchronise wont work for me because my card not the same ID tag..

I have it off at the moment, but will try later. Pretty sure for me it only changes the voltage of gpu1 when i use sync. Maybe Pete sets them individually.

A bios flash might give you the same ID.

LtMatt · 16 Jan 2015 at 18:15

Uncle Petey said:
My cards are all pretty much identical in their voltage requirements and clockability, so I have synchronise checked and clock them as one.
I just checked to see if they could be adjusted independently (with sync disabled obviously ) and they can. I dunno.
ULPS is on.

Interesting, thanks Pete.

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 12:49

LoadsaMoney said:
Supported cards :-

AMD Radeon(TM) R7 Graphics"
AMD130A.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R6 Graphics"
AMD130B.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R4 Graphics"
AMD130C.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R7 Graphics"
AMD130D.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R6 Graphics"
AMD130E.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics"
AMD130F.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R7 Graphics"
AMD1318.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics"
AMD6600.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8600/8700M"
AMD6601.1 = "AMD Radeon (TM) HD 8500M/8700M"
AMD6604.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 M265 Series"
AMD6605.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 M260 Series"
AMD6606.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8790M"
AMD6607.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M240"
AMD6610.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 200 Series"
AMD6611.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 200 Series"
AMD6613.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 200 Series"
AMD6640.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8950"
AMD6646.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M280X"
AMD6647.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M270X"
AMD6658.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 200 Series"
AMD665C.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series"
AMD665D.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 200 Series"
AMD6660.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8600M Series"
AMD6663.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8500M Series"
AMD6664.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M200 Series"
AMD6665.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M230 Series"
AMD6667.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M200 Series"
AMD666F.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8500M"
AMD6798.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series"
AMD679A.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series"
AMD679B.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series"
AMD679E.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series"
AMD67B0.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD67B1.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD67B9.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD6800.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7970M"
AMD6801.1 = "AMD Radeon(TM) HD8970M"
AMD6810.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD6811.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD6818.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series"
AMD6819.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series"
AMD6820.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M275X"
AMD6821.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M270X"
AMD6822.1 = "AMD Radeon E8860"
AMD6823.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M265X"
AMD6825.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800M Series"
AMD6827.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7800M Series"
AMD682B.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8800M Series"
AMD682D.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700M Series"
AMD682F.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700M Series"
AMD6835.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 Series / HD 9000 Series"
AMD6837.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series"
AMD683D.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series"
AMD683F.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series"
AMD6840.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series"
AMD6841.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series"
AMD6842.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7000M Series"
AMD6843.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7670M"
AMD6900.1 = "AMD Radeon R7 M260"
AMD6901.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M255"
AMD6907.1 = "AMD Radeon R5 M255"
AMD6921.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6921.2 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6921.3 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6921.4 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6921.5 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6921.6 = "AMD Radeon R9 M295X"
AMD6939.1 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"
AMD6939.2 = "AMD Radeon R9 200 Series"

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_15_x_download.html

This driver is not recommended for normal users, it's for people who use the Alienware Amplifier.

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 13:06

JediFragger said:
Matt, do you know when the next Omega drivers are due? Soonish?

Yes but am not able to say. As soon as they're ready I'll let you know don't worry.

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 13:41

slick rick said:
Hi Matt, I have a 295x2 and fx9590 cpu running off a Silverstone 1500 watt power supply,
do you think I could add a 290x for tri-fire off this PSU?

Sorry this is off topic for the thread but I really wanted your opinion.

Thanks.

You certainly can, but first it would be nice to know what motherboard you have and what resolution you'll be running, along with what games you'll be playing?

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 13:57

slick rick said:
Thanks Matt. Mobo is the Asus Crosshair Formula Z and resolution is 4k. I am hoping to get good results with GTA V and The Witcher 3 when they finally come out.

In that case, you're good to go. Great board! :cool:

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 14:42

Dicehunter said:
Just out of curiosity as it has a more up to date display driver I've installed it, Can't see any difference in anything though.

It's not recommended and VSR may not work properly so I'd advise against using it.

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2015 at 14:54

Martini1991 said:
Do AMD plan to add 21:9 resolutions to VSR?

We intend to deploy a phase 2 driver which will expand on the number of resolutions supported. There is no exact timeframe for this driver yet, as and when that changes I'll post about it here.

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2015 at 16:18

BS Dave said:
Matt one of the devs of BF mentioned that AMD managed to fix the memory leak and to expect the fix to be included in forthcoming beta - do you know if he was talking Vram(Mantle?)/or system RAM. I thought that DICE had fixed the memory leak - are there more than 1? Who's telling porkies here?

Hi Dave,

Can you link me to that comment please so i can investigate.

There were three different memory leaks to the best of my knowledge. One we fixed a long time ago, one Dice fixed very recently (it was the well known system memory leak) and there is also the video memory over subscription issue. I know the Dice team are continuing to work on on bringing the high video memory subscription down with the Mantle Frostbite implementation.

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2015 at 17:57

thebennyboy said:
I get horrendous stuttering using Mantle in BF4. Works fine in DX11.

Sounds like the video memory over subscription issue. What settings are you using?

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2015 at 19:38

thebennyboy said:
I'm using the "Ultra" preset. Running it in DX11 works without any problems, always maintains 60FPS. Mantle however, stutters all over the place.

That'll be why then, using the ultra preset under Mantle uses more video memory than your graphics cards have available. Either use DX11, or lower AA to x2 or x0 and Mantle will not stutter.

LtMatt · 23 Jan 2015 at 10:36

BS Dave said:
Did you manage to get to the bottom of this Matt? Is he just behind the times? Or do we have even better performance to look forward to?

Yes i did Dave.

Actually a memory leak was found recently. It's a bit different from the well known Mantle (system memory) leak. This memory leak was in the base kernel mode display driver.

The developer was only tracking the memory allocations itself and noticed that they weren't being released properly. This case mainly happens in Multiplayer mode when changing maps so it's not as easily reproduced as the previous memory leak issue.

I would expect this to be fixed in a future driver update.

LtMatt · 23 Jan 2015 at 15:55

Dicehunter said:
Well just spoke to AMD Roy via twitter and he asked me to send feedback to his email address about Raptr, Was very polite honest feedback, Basically yes it works but it needs to be on the same level as Shadowplay in the quality department and functionality, It was a rather lengthy email but that's the jist of it, I hope we see progress sooner rather than later