Oh gawd, why did AMD have to say overclockers dream... Lol. Funny stuff. It's like there is no communication in the company or something. I think it is for the best they separated the graphics division. Maybe let Raja do the talking from now on.
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The AMD Driver Thread
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Soldato
I think this habit is a relic from the old days, when drivers weren't so "clean" with their installations!
I still do it
Ermmmm, not too bad. it is running an older 6850 style GPU on a 1650 res. Updates are done via Lenovo and they are so rare but on the whole I can run most games on low
Thank's mate, ive never invested in a AMD laptop before so was curious. Always been Intel/nVidia
I tried Crossfire on by 2x7950s.
I managed to run with everything ultra at 14440p but with volumetric lighting off and godrays off. I got a stable 60fps near enough everywhere with dips into 50s. This was achieved using the crysis 3 xfire profile but every now and again I got stuttering. Quite frustrating as I am yet to find a game that works 100% with xfire. Really feel like I been duped by AMD.
I also fear for the non technical people who purchased two graphics card not knowing how to tweak thinking they got double the performance. Not on.
I managed to run with everything ultra at 14440p but with volumetric lighting off and godrays off. I got a stable 60fps near enough everywhere with dips into 50s. This was achieved using the crysis 3 xfire profile but every now and again I got stuttering. Quite frustrating as I am yet to find a game that works 100% with xfire. Really feel like I been duped by AMD.
I also fear for the non technical people who purchased two graphics card not knowing how to tweak thinking they got double the performance. Not on.
I get 60 fps too but without turning off lighting/godrays. Godrays is set to low. The better boost is achieved by reducing shadows to medium or high. The stutter is the only annoying thing but still playable enough.
I am just frustrated that CF never works so much aggro every time.
Permabanned
I tried crossfire with a pair of 2gb Sapphire 7850's a few years back and that was a horrible experience. I vowed to never try again, About a year later the 290 and 290x came out with bridgeless crossfire and it was around the same time as AMD gave us the microstutter etc fixes we'd been waiting for so I decided to try again, Fortunately I never did by a second 290x as the support has proven to be inconsistent.
Soldato
I've been running a pair of 290's since launch and have been very happy with them on the whole. Most games I play work nicely with Crossfire and while it's frustrating when a new game doesn't support multi-cards I have found one 290 is surprisingly capable on those games. It probably helps that if the devs have left the game in such a bad state it doesn't support multi-GPU, it likely doesn't support multi-screen either and a single 290 generally doesn't break a sweat at 1080p.
The recent examples that don't support crossfire that spring to mind:
Wolfenstein - single screen only, no issues at all and GPU barely working even at max settings
Wolfenstein: Old Blood - as above
Arkham Knight - only played since recent patches when put back on sale. Game played 30-40FPS outdoors and 50-80FPS indoors at 5760x1080. Felt smooth enough that I was able to enjoy the game without feeling any slow down or issues.
Everything else I play works nicely with Crossfire and seems to utilise both cards to 100% most of the time at 5760x1080 (e.g. Mad Max). Maybe I'm not experiencing the disappointment with Crossfire that others obviously are because I'm not into the Fallout series and refuse to buy COD games until they start supporting multi-screen (if Goat Simulator can do it on day 1, COD should be able to!)?
The recent examples that don't support crossfire that spring to mind:
Wolfenstein - single screen only, no issues at all and GPU barely working even at max settings
Wolfenstein: Old Blood - as above
Arkham Knight - only played since recent patches when put back on sale. Game played 30-40FPS outdoors and 50-80FPS indoors at 5760x1080. Felt smooth enough that I was able to enjoy the game without feeling any slow down or issues.
Everything else I play works nicely with Crossfire and seems to utilise both cards to 100% most of the time at 5760x1080 (e.g. Mad Max). Maybe I'm not experiencing the disappointment with Crossfire that others obviously are because I'm not into the Fallout series and refuse to buy COD games until they start supporting multi-screen (if Goat Simulator can do it on day 1, COD should be able to!)?
Crossfire/sli have to many technical hurdles to overcome.
at least with the die shrink to 14nm we will have more single cards that will be enough for 4k and multi-screen from AMD than just the Fury.
I always bought single cards as I dont compromise with my gaming experience due to crossfire and sli simply isnt a good idea with todays games and tech support.
one card to rule them all.
at least with the die shrink to 14nm we will have more single cards that will be enough for 4k and multi-screen from AMD than just the Fury.
I always bought single cards as I dont compromise with my gaming experience due to crossfire and sli simply isnt a good idea with todays games and tech support.
one card to rule them all.
Soldato
But one card looks so lonely on it's own in a case!
Plus, don't forget that having multiple GPUs not only improves your framerate, but is guaranteed to impress the ladies too.In all seriousness, I would always advise a single high-end GPU over multiple lower cards. However if you're in a situation where a single GPU doesn't cut it - such as 4K or multi-monitor currently - then based on my experience with 5870s, 7970s and 290s I wouldn't hesitate to recommend running 2 high end cards (from either red or green team) to see if it provides the experience you're after while you wait for a future generation that can provide a single GPU solution.
Caporegime
My point is me and many others who played the game didn't have issues but you choose to ignore us in favour of bashing. I won't bother replying to you in this thread again, as it is painful reading and those of us who are not brand biased know what is what. You stick with AMD and carry on trawling forums for people with Nvidia problems if it makes you feel better
Soldato
Just because an individual does/doesn't have gaming issues, doesn't mean others do/don't.
Exposure is more telling than brand backers comments.
How much effort goes into brand backing and how much they impose their neutrality upon us explains an awful lot about individuals though.
Exposure is more telling than brand backers comments.
How much effort goes into brand backing and how much they impose their neutrality upon us explains an awful lot about individuals though.
Anyone else with a 290 or 290x in crossfire tryed Battlefront yet?
Reading around quite a few who have tryed it are having the crash on startup issue even though it works perfectly with a single card.
Even the beta worked better with crossfire lol. I could at least get into the game them. Just had to put up with the stuttering insane frame drops and flickering.
Reading around quite a few who have tryed it are having the crash on startup issue even though it works perfectly with a single card.
Even the beta worked better with crossfire lol. I could at least get into the game them. Just had to put up with the stuttering insane frame drops and flickering.
Caporegime
I understand not everyone is lucky but I don't see the point of brand bashing. I could look for problems on both vendors if I so wanted but have far more interesting things to do and I certainly don't feel a driver thread is the place to bash the enemy.
Soldato
Suppose people should be more aware of where they can cause grief with their opinion and not bother in the first place tbph-unless they ultimately really do want to go down that route whatever their reason.
If they do go down that route then they should be prepared for criticism and not bleat about it.
If they do go down that route then they should be prepared for criticism and not bleat about it.
Caporegime
Everyone just has it in for Greg, or maybe there is more to it than that?
Soldato
Don't share that view, I share the view of you are what you post in here.
People don't forget, they aren't thick either, said people remember things like backing up a vendor every single time there is an issue, said people ain't as thick.
People don't forget, they aren't thick either, said people remember things like backing up a vendor every single time there is an issue, said people ain't as thick.
Caporegime
Dont be silly. Nobody should feel that way over a GPU lol. I argue with so many people over so many different things from football to religion and none of my mates has it in for me when I disagree. If people feel so wrapped up in a forum, they should get out more. Now I will let the thread get back on topic.
Soldato
Wow! Thats some jump in performance for a driver.. Bad drivers from AMD again
Nice Find let the fun begin for you guys...
Weren't you saying that you didn't need new drivers for the game for single card and that because of that AMD had already delivered a driver?
If you don't need new drivers why did AMD release new drivers or at least why and how could they include Fallout 4 optimisations for single card?
Definitely interested to see the "overclocker's dream" unleashed now we have VC and can now fairly compare the Fury X to overclocked 980Ti without any caveat's about not being able to overclock properly. Spent a while wondering if I'd made the right choice with my Fury Xs, hopefully this will show that I didn't!