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The AMD Driver Thread

Currently running Win 7 and have the 15.7 drivers installed. When I upgrade to Win 10, is there any reason why I need to uninstall the display drivers and download the 'Win 10' version? Or are they unified?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
No, I'm getting tearing with Crossfire enabled and if I set up a profile with Crossfire disabled.

So I guess Freesync isn't working full stop :(

Damn you AMD!!! Why can't these things just work?!
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Its plug and play here.. All I did was plug new BenQ monitor in, reinstall driver, got a pop up saying enable freesync.
Setup a Frame limit in AB 140fps disable in game Vsync not needed anymore and enjoyed nice smooth gaming..

You do seem to have a lot issue with PC gaming GM! You sure PC gaming is for you? I mean all I see if you complain about things!


I think its time you sold up and went with something a little more easy for you PS4 or something failing that a Wii U :p
"Joke" :D
 
shankly1985 said:
Its plug and play here.. All I did was plug new BenQ monitor in, reinstall driver, got a pop up saying enable freesync.
Setup a Frame limit in AB 140fps disable in game Vsync not needed anymore and enjoyed nice smooth gaming..

You do seem to have a lot issue with PC gaming GM! You sure PC gaming is for you? I mean all I see if you complain about things!


I think its time you sold up and went with something a little more easy for you PS4 or something failing that a Wii U :p
"Joke" :D
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Maybe it's just AMD's way of telling me I should buy Nvidia (much like the Fury X stock levels and pump whine have been for a lot of others).

Are you running Crossfire Freesync?
 
shankly1985 said:
Its plug and play here.. All I did was plug new BenQ monitor in, reinstall driver, got a pop up saying enable freesync.
Setup a Frame limit in AB 140fps disable in game Vsync not needed anymore and enjoyed nice smooth gaming..

You do seem to have a lot issue with PC gaming GM! You sure PC gaming is for you? I mean all I see if you complain about things!


I think its time you sold up and went with something a little more easy for you PS4 or something failing that a Wii U :p
"Joke" :D
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:D :D Life is never easy for our enthusiast GM.

I would try seeing if you can get it working with a single card first using the demo I posted. :)
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Maybe it's just AMD's way of telling me I should buy Nvidia (much like the Fury X stock levels and pump whine have been for a lot of others).

Are you running Crossfire Freesync?
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Yess and Noo - Yes that I tuck out GPU from second PC to test and no that I put it back into second PC..

I tested BF4, CSGO, Dirty Bomb, Alien.. All worked perfectly fine!

Sitting here waiting for FuryX to come into stock, while also thinking should I now wait for 8GB HBM..
 
AMDMatt said:
:D :D Life is never easy for our enthusiast GM.

I would try seeing if you can get it working with a single card first using the demo I posted. :)
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I had tried the demo before you posted it and like I've already said, with crossfire disabled (i.e. using a single card) it works fine.

I disabled crossfire and tried a game and with VSync off there is no tearing and very little juddering. If I set up a profile for the game and set crossfire to disabled it doesn't work, crossfire has to be globally disabled.

Am I being criticised for not getting crossfire freesync working by people that are running single card freesync and not running freesync at all?
Are either of you running multi-card Freesync? Or just defending AMD based on blind loyalty?
 
I've just jumped on a couple 390's doing exactly that shanks. Furyx just left me feeling underwhelmed. So got a combination that cost less than a Fury X plus giving me
more frames than a Furyx would have done. Also, with 8gb vram, I feel better suited to crossfire. Will jump on better Hbm in a year's time, maybe then we'll finally get a totally bonkers single card.
 
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Not sure about Shanks, but I'm using Quadfire and FreeSync without issue. Tony is too so not sure why it's not working for you. What games have you tried?
 
shankly1985 said:
Yess and Noo - Yes that I tuck out GPU from second PC to test and no that I put it back into second PC..

I tested BF4, CSGO, Dirty Bomb, Alien.. All worked perfectly fine!

Sitting here waiting for FuryX to come into stock, while also thinking should I now wait for 8GB HBM..
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But you've got a 1440p monitor, why do you need more than 4GB HBM?
Remember HBM is magic so will be fine for 4K, 5K 8K, etc.
You've currently got a 290 so it seems you upgrade regularly so will probably be upgrading again before the magic that makes HBM work runs out.

Freesync doesn't require software support does it, so it shouldn't matter which games are tested.
I've tried Guild Wars 2 and Dota 2. It's really obvious in Guild Wars 2, not so much in Dota 2. In fact I don't remember seeing tearing at all in Dota 2 (with Freesync off and ingame FPS cap set to 140). But is it just a case that some games tear less with higher refresh rates than others?

EDIT: Double checked and it is tearing in Dota 2, just hard to notice. Although it's so hard to notice it may actually be stuttering.
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
But you've got a 1440p monitor, why do you need more than 4GB HBM?
Remember HBM is magic so will be fine for 4K, 5K 8K, etc.
You've currently got a 290 so it seems you upgrade regularly so will probably be upgrading again before the magic that makes HBM work runs out.

Freesync doesn't require software support does it, so it shouldn't matter which games are tested.
I've tried Guild Wars 2 and Dota 2. It's really obvious in Guild Wars 2, not so much in Dota 2. In fact I don't remember seeing tearing at all in Dota 2 (with Freesync off and ingame FPS cap set to 140). But is it just a case that some games tear less with higher refresh rates than others?
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I don't believe I do need more than 4GB.... Just for future preference I feel 8GB will be better!
We about t come into an age were PC games and Console games are Cross platform and all running Low level API... Consoles running 8GB Vram and PCs matching that Vram I believe will be the sweet spot of future games.

I could be completely wrong here! But yess you right I dont need more than 4GB but you can never go wrong with having more.. I have 16GB Ram dont even need more than 8GB!

4GB used to be the recommend spec remember that you dont need more than 4GB, now look more recent games wanting 8GB... GTA5 on 4GB is not playable, just had to upgrade a family PC because of it.. GTA5 hits the page file hard with 4GB.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
It's not just the tearing for me, it's the motion fluidity as well. Everything looks so smooth.
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100% agree so much so its completely changed that way I look at games now...

I used to try my best to hit 120fps turning down setting, buying crossfire... Now I just let games run what they want on ultra setting and enjoy very smooth frame rates.. 60 fps feels like 120 to me now!
 
shankly1985 said:
I don't believe I do need more than 4GB.... Just for future preference I feel 8GB will be better!
We about t come into an age were PC games and Console games are Cross platform and all running Low level API... Consoles running 8GB Vram and PCs matching that Vram I believe will be the sweet spot of future games.

I could be completely wrong here! But yess you right I dont need more than 4GB but you can never go wrong with having more.. I have 16GB Ram dont even need more than 8GB!

4GB used to be the recommend spec remember that you dont need more than 4GB, now look more recent games wanting 8GB... GTA5 on 4GB is not playable, just had to upgrade a family PC because of it.. GTA5 hits the page file hard with 4GB.
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But consoles share the RAM between OS, game (as RAM) and GPU (as VRAM). Also they tend not to do 1440p (barely 1080p it seems) and it seems quite often 30fps (because it feels better, apparently). So I'm not sure how much parity we want with consoles.

Yes 8GB would be better, so would 16GB, but I ain't holding out for 16GB VRAM, not sure about you.

Of course, with DX12 and Vulkan around the corner then VRAM requirements may increase or decrease when it's left up to developers to do it (like the developers that ported Arkham Knight to the PC, they'll get to do it).

shankly1985 said:
100% agree so much so its completely changed that way I look at games now...

I used to try my best to hit 120fps turning down setting, buying crossfire... Now I just let games run what they want on ultra setting and enjoy very smooth frame rates.. 60 fps feels like 120 to me now!
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I'd like to have it running properly, give it a real try, but my brief testing with crossfire disabled didn't blow me away. I struggled to notice any difference.
But then, I'm playing at 144fps, so if it makes 60fps feel like 120fps, maybe by the time you get to 144fps it's hard to notice.

I'm not super worried about not being able to get it running on this rig as my plan is to use it with my Fury Xs, which will go in my other rig. Would be nice if it would work though.
Matt, do you know if AMD are still looking at ironing out bugs and tweaking FreeSync in Crossfire or is this as good as we get?

Good job Nvidia came up with GSync then if it's helped to push the industry forward by prompting this!
 
BradleyW said:
@AMDMatt

A word of caution to those running GCN cards on Witcher 3 with the 1.07 patch, in Crossfire.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1565638/...d-crossfire-performance-warning#post_24191345
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Probably more a game issue than a driver issue.

EDIT: wtf - A 7.4GB patch!!!

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Out of interest, those with working Crossfire Freesync, which version of Windows are you using?

I know back when Win8 came out a lot of people jumped to it because of DX11.3 (before the whole DX sucks, long live Mantle thing happened). I didn't and I'm still running Win7. Just wondering if this has any affect?
 
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