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The AMD Driver Thread

muziqaz said:
So in order to have freesync working you have to enable V-Sync in game as well?

P.S. I don't have freesync monitor, so I am curious ;)
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Nope :D
If you dont want to use Vsync you will need to use a frame limit software to keep the Frame rate within the Freesync range for example 40-144hz on my BenQ
Without limiting the frame rate it will be all over the place and out of sync. If you limit the frame rate to 143 max with AMDs FRTC or Afterburner this will now give you screen tear free gaming without Vsync, But if i drop below 40fps "37" in my case screen tear will happen If I dont use vsync.
 
shankly1985 said:
Nope :D
If you dont want to use Vsync you will need to use a frame limit software to keep the Frame rate within the Freesync range for example 40-144hz on my BenQ
Without limiting the frame rate it will be all over the place and out of sync. If you limit the frame rate to 143 max with AMDs FRTC or Afterburner this will now give you screen tear free gaming without Vsync, But if i drop below 40fps "37" in my case screen tear will happen If I dont use vsync.
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so you enable freesync, limit frames to 143fps with limiter, and in game disable v-sync? this will make sure freesync is functioning?
 
shankly1985 said:
Everything seems fine here. Have you tried setting up a profile for that game and enabling FRTC and set a FPS within the freesync range?
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That seemed to work, thanks. :) I had to create a custom profile as it only recognises the Steam i.d. and I launch via SKSE instead but that seemed to get it working. Crimson doesn't seem to like 3rd party fps limiters at all that might have had something to do with it.

Now I just need to find something to replace the missing Hotkeys function I'd been using the last CCC with the latest gfx driver up til now... :(
 
Matson said:
So regarding Tomb raider. I was wondering why I could run the first parts of the game with very high textures and not get any stuttering but later on I had a lot of stuttering unless I dropped textures to high. Turns out I only get that stuttering on a 290 when I use crossfire mode but if I run single card mode I can have textures at very high and its fine. Yes I don't get as much fps as crossfire but I can run textures at very high and theres no stuttering for me.
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If your using vsync at 60 hz make sure you lock your fps to 59 gets rid of crossfire stutter. Crossfire runs much smoother if ya can get it running at a solid 59 fps, if its dropping below it can get a bit stuttery, single cards dont suffer from the same thing which is another reason why a powerful single card normally looks smoother than 2 less powerful cards.
 
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@Matt

Are you guys working on any more improvements for rise of the tomb raider:

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_page..._graphics_performance_benchmark_review,9.html

I think we found a root core of the performance issues, they seem to be related to the number of CPU cores. It is mind boggling to see that with the Radeon the 1 core setup remains to be the fastest. Here you will also notice that with a 2 core processor setup we have micro-stuttering going on whereas the 1, 4 and 8 core setup are fine. After seeing this it is without doubt that AMD will need to do a thing or two with driver optimizations.
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They seem to be pointing out dual core has issues while single core or 4 or 8 cores are fine?

What processor today is single core? Or have they just switched off cores.
 
Yeah they have switched off cores on their x99 CPU.

They say that just having 1 core was the fastest

This is the Radeon R9 Fury. Watch and observe it closely, the red line is the one core configuration ... it is the fastest with 43 FPs at 50% of the rendered frames = Average FPS. It is then followed by the 8 core install at 39 FPS, then the 4 core is lower at 36 FPS and finally the 2 core setup does 33 FPS on average. In total there's a 10 FPS differential !
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Matt.

I'm still experiencing flickering with crossfire + freesync enabled.
This is with 16.1.1 drivers.
For example, when I run World of warcraft, then alt-tab into windows, then run skype, then the desktop starts flickering, especially when I try to move the skype window.


Also, would it be possible to FINALLY fix the usage and frequency fluctuation with games, mostly older ones(DX9, DX10), please?
Here are two vids showing the fluctuations. Both clock and usage.
#1 World of Warcraft 3.3.5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klvuk9KeP3c
#2 Crysis 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB4NV0qcqHQ

System spec-
Intel i7 4790K @5.1G
Asus M7 Hero
Corsair Dominator Platinum 4*4GB 2666CL10
Asus Ares III (2*290X)
Superflower Leadex 1200W Platinum
BenQ XL2730Z @1440p/144Hz

AMD Drivers: 16.1.1 Crimson, Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.
 
slick rick said:
I assume you got the Steam version which is better than the MS store anyway, and the game is worth £25 IMO.
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Definitely, I'm 16 hours in now and not far off 50%, With a game as good as this is I don't mind paying that sort of money but as a rule I'm a bit of a cheapskate and try to pay as little as poss.
 
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