The AMD Driver Thread

Flanos · 15 Mar 2016 at 18:22

muziqaz said:
Please stop panicking. I have 3 Fury Xs folding 24/7. 2 of them are in the same system. Stock coolers as well. I had them roughly similar amount of time as Matt did. The difference is I was 24/7 folding on them while Matt probably was just gaming on them and switching them off at night/during day. On the other hand I was less inclined to play around with voltages and clocks as Matt was.
Either way, one dead fury x will never mean that all of them are going to die.

I was more concerned it was a subtle way of letting us users know some of our cards might give out to soften the blow, I found it unusual to read.

muziqaz · 15 Mar 2016 at 19:00

Flanos said:
I was more concerned it was a subtle way of letting us users know some of our cards might give out to soften the blow, I found it unusual to read.

Come on

Seriously?

TonyTurbo78 · 15 Mar 2016 at 22:52

still no driver tonight then to fix the crossfire flickering in The Division. So disappointing after all UBI said this supports mgpu and AMD said they had a crossfire profile for weeks which doesn't work and is known.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Mar 2016 at 23:12

Is it worth having the Shader Cache set to AMD Optimized in the Global Settings ?, and does it do anything from there ?, as i know if you do individual Profiles, you can either do Off/On, or AMD Optimized, but i don't use Profiles, just Global, and also, does it work/help for GTA V ?

EDIT: Seems it doesn't work Globally, so i'll have to make an individual Profile for GTA V, and set the Cache to On in there.

JediFragger · 15 Mar 2016 at 23:24

TonyTurbo78 said:
still no driver tonight then to fix the crossfire flickering in The Division. So disappointing after all UBI said this supports mgpu and AMD said they had a crossfire profile for weeks which doesn't work and is known.

SLi isn't at 100% efficiency by any means but I'm feeling sorry for you Crossfire guys

TonyTurbo78 · 16 Mar 2016 at 10:46

JediFragger said:
SLi isn't at 100% efficiency by any means but I'm feeling sorry for you Crossfire guys

its becoming incredibly frustrating these days. Crossfire has been annoying for 6 months now, but even more annoying when they release a driver that states there is a proper crossfire profile included in the driver for a particular game, then when you test it's nothing but flicker. Game has been out for a while now, they fixed the Fallout 4 flicker issue within a day when it became common knowledge, (kudso there on that one. The Division flicker is well known but still nothing.

shankly1985 · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:00

Too be fair they do state in the known issues The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode

I believe crossfire was working in beta and last info from amdmatt is amd is working with ubisoft on a fix.

SalfordBoys · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:00

Crossfire wont stay enabled here, nor am i getting the crossfire "enabled" logo during games. When i do enable cf.....it crashes the system 50% of the time.

TonyTurbo78 · 16 Mar 2016 at 11:43

shankly1985 said:
Too be fair they do state in the known issues The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode

I believe crossfire was working in beta and last info from amdmatt is amd is working with ubisoft on a fix.

Crossfire was never working in the BETA, there was never a driver at that point and you couldn't force it by using AFR mode, just zero scaling.

And you are right about the notes, but they do say "may experience flickering" shanks lol..Everybody that runs crossfire is getting it from what I can see on various different forums, not seen one person say no flickering on crossfire here etc. But like Matt also said, they are aware of it and will be addressing, just frustrating no hotfix is coming, it's the biggest game of the year.

shankly1985 · 16 Mar 2016 at 12:26

Hopefully it isn't long mate.

LoadsaMoney · 16 Mar 2016 at 15:48

Well the Shader Cache made no difference in GTA V (still juddery), apart from when i got wasted, it would take ages to load me coming out of the hospital, so switched it back to single card, where its butter.

HEADRAT · 16 Mar 2016 at 16:31

TonyTurbo78 said:
it's the biggest game of the year.

Just once wouldn't it be nice to have a "game of the year" that worked out of the gate with crossfire

HEADRAT

muziqaz · 16 Mar 2016 at 16:34

HEADRAT said:
Just once wouldn't it be nice to have a "game of the year" that worked out of the gate with crossfire

HEADRAT

Just once would be great to have a game of the year which did not have any issues be it with nvidia or AMD.
Can we for once stop this pointless AMD bashing about their xfire support. Is AMD also responsible for nvidias crappy SLI scaling and game support?

Confused Stu · 16 Mar 2016 at 16:50

HEADRAT said:
Just once wouldn't it be nice to have a "game of the year" that worked out of the gate with crossfire

HEADRAT

Mad Max. The only game I was looking forward to in 2015 so for me this was the "game of the year", and it worked perfectly in Crossfire from the first day.

Unfortunately, the developer then blew it with Just Cause 3 not having multi-GPU support (for either side) and still no sign of it 4 months later, but you can't have everything I guess!

JediFragger · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:00

LoadsaMoney said:
Well the Shader Cache made no difference in GTA V (still juddery), apart from when i got wasted, it would take ages to load me coming out of the hospital, so switched it back to single card, where its butter.

Tbh m8 that's ****ing shocking considering the game is like 8/9 months old!!!!

HEADRAT · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:01

muziqaz said:
Just once would be great to have a game of the year which did not have any issues be it with nvidia or AMD.
Can we for once stop this pointless AMD bashing about their xfire support. Is AMD also responsible for nvidias crappy SLI scaling and game support?

I don't have a Nvidia card so I'll just bash AMD

I neither know nor care about problem with Nvidia cards as I haven't owned one in about 6 years.

JediFragger · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:10

muziqaz said:
Just once would be great to have a game of the year which did not have any issues be it with nvidia or AMD.
Can we for once stop this pointless AMD bashing about their xfire support. Is AMD also responsible for nvidias crappy SLI scaling and game support?

I dumped AMD crossfire about 11 months ago (295x2 to 980 SLi) and haven't looked back. Is it perfect? No. Is it ****loads better than Crossfire? Hell yes!!!!!

Guess that's what you get when one company has 80%+ marketshare and a shedload of cash to throw at developers!!!!! If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em...

:cool:

muziqaz · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:22

HEADRAT said:
I don't have a Nvidia card so I'll just bash AMD

I neither know nor care about problem with Nvidia cards as I haven't owned one in about 6 years.

But at least have decency to look at it from different perspective

muziqaz · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:25

JediFragger said:
I dumped AMD crossfire about 11 months ago (295x2 to 980 SLi) and haven't looked back. Is it perfect? No. Is it ****loads better than Crossfire? Hell yes!!!!!

Guess that's what you get when one company has 80%+ marketshare and a shedload of cash to throw at developers!!!!! If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em...

I have xfired fury xs and will say they are fantastic in games supporting multigpu. In games which don't support multiGPU I use single card and have no issues.
As far as I remember majority of the games not working in multigpu setup don't work on both company's products, not just one. There might be one or two where nvidia works fine, amd doesn't but they are just that, one or two.

HEADRAT · 16 Mar 2016 at 17:26

muziqaz said:
But at least have decency to look at it from different perspective

Meh, I'm not very decent