The AMD Driver Thread

Bonjour · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:42

It's so close to GDC, surely the driver release is going to coincide with some sort of announcement there.

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:46

When is that?

TheRealDeal · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:48

eyetrip said:
When is that?

March 2nd to 6th. Starts Monday.

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:51

I certainly hope that isn't the reason. Because there would no reason for not releasing game updates and certain smaller bug fixes in the interim as betas.

LtMatt · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:53

The drivers will be released when they're ready. We're not waiting for a specific date or event before releasing them.

Geeman1979 · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:57

The drivers will be ready when they're ready!

No ****

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:00

Well, it's good to at least know they aren't holding them up for something in particular...

But the current situation makes zero sense to me.

Oh well, here's hoping for tomorrow.

Would love to play Elite with xfire and be able to up the supersampling.

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:01

Geeman1979 said:
The drivers will be ready when they're ready!

No ****

Yeah, am thinking it will be line 2 of my sig in red

Geeman1979 · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:02

eyetrip said:
Yeah, am thinking it will be line 2 of my sig in red

He Ninja'd

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:08

Is ok, I don't need a source

Geeman1979 · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:08

Go for it...

Bonjour · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:09

So they're out tomorrow? That's awesome!

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:11

Bonjour said:
So they're out tomorrow? That's awesome!

That depends.... on whether they are ready.

Geeman1979 · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:12

LOL^

That's about the size of it.

thebennyboy · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:15

eyetrip said:
That depends.... on whether they are ready.

That sig.

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:22

thebennyboy said:
That sig.

I'm red green colour blind, so I can't see that I have done anything wrong... :confused:

LtMatt · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:22

eyetrip said:
Well, it's good to at least know they aren't holding them up for something in particular...

We release drivers once we're happy with them, not before.

Kaapstad · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:29

AMDMatt said:
We release drivers once we're happy with them, not before.

AMD are no fun at all.

You get quite a thrill if your card blows up or catches fire like some other manufacturers drivers allow.

eyetrip · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:29

AMDMatt said:
We release drivers once we're happy with them, not before.

That's a wonderful philosophy to have, but it appears entirely unpractical.

I may sound like I am moaning a lot, but I am still ok to wait a bit.

No matter what though, I simply can't see a reason for not releasing smaller, more frequent updates, at least for small wins to keep customers happy.

LtMatt · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:35

Kaapstad said:
AMD are no fun at all.

You get quite a thrill if your card blows up or catches fire like some other manufacturers drivers allow.

Yes we're not in the habit of rushing out multiple drivers to fix bugs introduced by the last driver set.

eyetrip said:
That's a wonderful philosophy to have, but it appears entirely unpractical.

I may sound like I am moaning a lot, but I am still ok to wait a bit.

No matter what though, I simply can't see a reason for not releasing smaller, more frequent updates, at least for small wins to keep customers happy.

We put a lot of work into the 14.12 Omega drivers, as a result everyone loved them and we've received record lows of people reporting driver issues as a result.

The next drivers have taken a little longer than normal, but this does not mean there will be such a long wait between future driver releases.

We're focused now on maintaining the high standards set by the stability and performance of the 14.12 drivers and will look to continue this from hereon in.