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The AMD Driver Thread

GoogalyMoogaly said:
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? :p

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!
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Once again twisting words.. Go back and re-read what am saying..
Fyi
What I was saying is people keep asking for elite dangerous crossfire driver but the fact is they is only so much amd can do with a driver. If the game don't support crossfire then nothing amd can do.. Reason I said people think drivers are be all to end all..

When they not.. Bah bah bah jog on.
 
shankly1985 said:
Once again twisting words.. Go back and re-read what am saying..
Fyi
What I was saying is people keep asking for elite dangerous crossfire driver but the fact is they is only so much amd can do with a driver. If the game don't support crossfire then nothing amd can do.. Reason I said people think drivers are be all to end all..

When they not.. Bah bah bah jog on.
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Sounds like you were saying Fallout 4 doesn't need a "game ready" driver...

shankly1985 said:
You my friend need to understand a couple things..

1. Fallout 4 don't support sli or crossfire atm
2. Nvidia released a driver for a game sponsored by them shocking, when you have your own tech in a game you better had support it.
3. A game doesn't always need a driver to work, people think drivers are be all, to end all they are not.

Has other have said already single GPU is working fine so amd driver has already done it's job at getting the game working and running.
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But it seems like they did in order to get better performance out of it.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Sounds like you were saying Fallout 4 doesn't need a "game ready" driver...



But it seems like they did in order to get better performance out of it.
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You are flamebaiting here a little bit. Nowhere in his original post did he say that Fallout does NOT need a driver update. He just mentions that Fallout 4 is one of those games which ran fine even without game ready driver.
And what company would not pick low hanging optimisation fruits if they have a chance to do it?
There are plenty of games which do need updated drivers in order to even work properly. Fallout was not one of those games.
 
muziqaz said:
You are flamebaiting here a little bit. Nowhere in his original post did he say that Fallout does NOT need a driver update. He just mentions that Fallout 4 is one of those games which ran fine even without game ready driver.
And what company would not pick low hanging optimisation fruits if they have a chance to do it?
There are plenty of games which do need updated drivers in order to even work properly. Fallout was not one of those games.
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I don't think people wanted a Game Ready driver in order to play the game though, they wanted one to get the best performance they could, Shankly knew this. Nvidia didn't do a Game Ready driver because the game wouldn't work without one.
You say it runs fine but then there are people saying that they get frame drops and other performance issues fixed by the new driver. AMD obviously thought there was benefit to a new driver, all people wanted was this on (or closer to) release.
 
I think the point is when spending approx £500+ on two graphics cards, we should expect as consumers to get a good level of support and for an important feature to work pretty well. Its not a small amount of money and it is not unreasonable to expect this technology to work as it has been advertised.

We all can accept some issues here and there but they should be fixed. Currently and for years I been patiently waiting for crossfire to work decently.
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
I don't think people wanted a Game Ready driver in order to play the game though, they wanted one to get the best performance they could, Shankly knew this. Nvidia didn't do a Game Ready driver because the game wouldn't work without one.
You say it runs fine but then there are people saying that they get frame drops and other performance issues fixed by the new driver. AMD obviously thought there was benefit to a new driver, all people wanted was this on (or closer to) release.
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I had frame drops but by disabling Godrays and then putting shadow distance to medium it stopped this. Also uncapping my FPS and then allowing rivertuner to cap it made the game even smoother, that combined with the new driver with the little performance enhancment allows me now to run the game in 1440p at a 60FPS capped no drops.

I did most of the optimisations my self so in hindsight the game ran fine and didn't need a "game ready driver" OR a driver release to play the game which is what i think shanks was getting at. However getting driver updates which enhances the performance for people is welcomed by most gamers i believe.

Not sure what point your trying to make lol but expecting a driver near enough on release that gets the best performance out of the game is expecting quite a lot. AMD still could probably release another drive extracting more performance for people with AMD hardware.
 
Can't launch Far Cry 4 with the new 15.11.1 drivers. Uninstall them and return to 15.1 and it works fine.

W8.1

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: FarCry4.exe
Application Version: 0.1.0.1
Application Timestamp: 552190c2
Fault Module Name: atidxx64.dll
 
What's the story with the latest beta drivers? I have always used official Cat's since i had nightmare problems with betas (admittedly they were nvidia drivers years ago). But I got a Fury and people were recommending the latest betas but they are not good enough. Crashes in BF4 and even visual anomalies when just web browsing. back on CAT's now but what's the story with betas, are they just unreliable?
 
Rezident said:
What's the story with the latest beta drivers? I have always used official Cat's since i had nightmare problems with betas (admittedly they were nvidia drivers years ago). But I got a Fury and people were recommending the latest betas but they are not good enough. Crashes in BF4 and even visual anomalies when just web browsing. back on CAT's now but what's the story with betas, are they just unreliable?
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BETAs in general or the latest ones?

The only issues I can recall having with AMD's BETA's were a while back when there were issues with the Windows prompting to accept the cirtificate for some reason meaning it wasn't accepted and didn't get installed correctly. AMD released a hotfix pretty quickly that sorted the issue though.
 
Rezident said:
What's the story with the latest beta drivers? I have always used official Cat's since i had nightmare problems with betas (admittedly they were nvidia drivers years ago). But I got a Fury and people were recommending the latest betas but they are not good enough. Crashes in BF4 and even visual anomalies when just web browsing. back on CAT's now but what's the story with betas, are they just unreliable?
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People keep telling horror stories about betas. Seriously try them yourself, since some people can have problems and then others don't have any problems with them. For example I haven't had any kind of corruption and problems with few latests drivers.

Stability differences between beta and WHQL drivers are nothing but a myth.
 
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