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The AMD Driver Thread

Maybe...just maybe AMD is trying to get it's driver right instead of the mess that Nvidia have caused with their gameready day one driver. We all want our games to run at the highest resolutions with everything turned up to max etc... TR 2013 ran great...AMD sponsored, I believe and it ran well on BOTH AMD and Nvidia cards. ROTTR is a TWIMTBP Gameworks game and it runs like ****e...but more ****e on AMD. Ring any bells people???
When are you going to wake up to what is clearly going on here. Virtually every Gameworks release has problems and more so with AMD cards that should be knocking this game out with no issues at all with good framerates. The evidence is right in front of you. There is definately something going on here that is not right. None of these top end cards should be struggling with this game. Something stinks here. :(
 
maonayze said:
Maybe...just maybe AMD is trying to get it's driver right instead of the mess that Nvidia have caused with their gameready day one driver. We all want our games to run at the highest resolutions with everything turned up to max etc... TR 2013 ran great...AMD sponsored, I believe and it ran well on BOTH AMD and Nvidia cards. ROTTR is a TWIMTBP Gameworks game and it runs like ****e...but more ****e on AMD. Ring any bells people???
When are you going to wake up to what is clearly going on here. Virtually every Gameworks release has problems and more so with AMD cards that should be knocking this game out with no issues at all with good framerates. The evidence is right in front of you. There is definately something going on here that is not right. None of these top end cards should be struggling with this game. Something stinks here. :(
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Do you remember the 2013 game launch? Top end cards were doing worse than they are now... 7970Ghz not even getting 60fps at 1080p, and never mind 2560x1440/1600.

At anything above 1080p, even the top dogs, and Dual GPU cards simply keeled over the died in 2013 Tomb Raider unless they were heavily overclocked. It took a few patches and driver updates before the game ran well.

By comparison Rise is doing fantastically and looks breathtaking in parts.

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Yet again AMD snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Then again I suppose it is only the first major release of the year, start as you mean to go on AMD.

Well done as usual on looking a distant pathetic second to Nvidia.

The definition of insanity AMD is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
 
Okay I have just booted up ROTTR for the first time and I went with everything slammed up to the max. Now the crazy thing here is, apart from a slight stutter in one or two of the cut scenes the game plays really really well. I am dumbfounded at how good it was to be honest, especially after reading a lot of this on here. Okay, I haven't checked any framerates yet (What have people been using to check framerates in this? Fraps? or something else...be nice to be consistent with everyone else) but the game is smooth to look at with no glitches. Admittedly I have only just got through the first snowy level and I am now in Northern Syria...but so far, so good. Are there any specific points for me to look out for any issues that anyone else has experienced?

Maybe everyone is too concerned with the framerate number in the corner of their screen and not concentrating on gameplay and how it runs. I can only give my opinion on what I have witnessed so far and maybe it will change in due course. For now it looks and plays really well. If the 16.1.1 driver makes it any better then that will be awesome. I also understand why people want a perfect game release from day one, as it is what we deserve as customers...but we all got PCs with different cards and components...games and drivers are tricky beasts to get right for everyone first time out of the box...not much else to say except have patience. Hope The Division fares as good this weekend. :)
 
maonayze said:
Okay I have just booted up ROTTR for the first time and I went with everything slammed up to the max. Now the crazy thing here is, apart from a slight stutter in one or two of the cut scenes the game plays really really well. I am dumbfounded at how good it was to be honest, especially after reading a lot of this on here. Okay, I haven't checked any framerates yet (What have people been using to check framerates in this? Fraps? or something else...be nice to be consistent with everyone else) but the game is smooth to look at with no glitches. Admittedly I have only just got through the first snowy level and I am now in Northern Syria...but so far, so good. Are there any specific points for me to look out for any issues that anyone else has experienced?

Maybe everyone is too concerned with the framerate number in the corner of their screen and not concentrating on gameplay and how it runs. I can only give my opinion on what I have witnessed so far and maybe it will change in due course. For now it looks and plays really well. If the 16.1.1 driver makes it any better then that will be awesome. I also understand why people want a perfect game release from day one, as it is what we deserve as customers...but we all got PCs with different cards and components...games and drivers are tricky beasts to get right for everyone first time out of the box...not much else to say except have patience. Hope The Division fares as good this weekend. :)
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Don't make the mistake of assuming because some people are getting decent performance there is nothing to complain about. The issue is how AMD are perceived in an overall sense.

No release day driver for ROTTR despite little wink wink nudge nudge comments from AMD reps here. Or the reference on Square Ennix support page stating that AMD users should download the 16.1.1 drivers that would be available for imminent release. The fact that AMD Fury and Fury X are both lagging massively behind 980Ti and even behind 980 in ROTTR is a massive blow. There are benchmark review articles that paint AMD in a very poor light with this the first AAA game of 2016.

These types of marketing defeats are what AMD need to eliminate if they are to win market share and indeed mindshare. The perception is what matters and the perception is that AMD are looking very amateurish right now. Even a simple statement from AMD saying we are working on optimised drivers for ROTTR and hope to have them in a few days.

Not wink wink nudge nudge then absolutely nothing. It's pathetic to watch the same pathetic crap from AMD, yet oh so predictable. Watching AMD and Nvidia fight over GPU market share is like having ringside seats at a boxing match between an in his prime Mike Tyson and a pathetic drunk who has just poured out of the pub after closing time.
 
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I wonder if the AMD Fury range are bottlenecked as there is only a few Fps separating FuryX/Fury/Nano and 390x. The 390x is right up there with the gtx980 where it should be yet the fury cards are out of place. these results are strange to say the least and i expect that will look very different when a driver finally arrives.
 
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Annoying that we never see gpu usage meters in benches. But it's quite easy to see from results that FX ain't working at it's full load.
 
Dygaza said:
Annoying that we never see gpu usage meters in benches. But it's quite easy to see from results that FX ain't working at it's full load.
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I've got the overclocked Fury tri-x which has a box clock of 1040mhz. I run the card at 1050mhz via Afterburner to try and avoid downclocking and according to gpu-z my Fury runs Rise of the Tomb Raider at a consistent 1050mhz. I did a 45 minute play and it didn't budge. But performance is poor. I'm running at 1440 via vsr on a 1080p screen, I have a stock clock 4790k with it yet with lots of setting turned down or off it still rarely hits 60 and often sits in the high 30's, low 40's.

It's very disappointing especially seeing as it was implied we would get a driver update which we would obviously expect to solve any such problems.
 
Looking a the techpowerup benchmark, the whole yesterday driver talk was a storm in a teaspoon.
The early german articles tested an early gane rev, TPU teszted the steam version:

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@ 1440P the Fury-X is 1 FPS off the 980TI, thats one of the better Fury-X vs 980TI game comparisons, whats the fuss?
 
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