The AMD Driver Thread

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 17:50

Seen that other day, has me thinking is it because of compatibility with the software OSD and some games or is it because AMD working on there own recording software that will be announced next month

November is AMD's month for releasing new things.

locodice · 12 Oct 2016 at 18:16

shankly1985 said:
Seen that other day, has me thinking is it because of compatibility with the software OSD and some games or is it because AMD working on there own recording software that will be announced next month
November is AMD's month for releasing new things.

I hope they release something inside Crimson (like a new TAB), and NOT a 3rd party program again.

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 18:21

locodice said:
I hope they release something inside Crimson (like a new TAB), and NOT a 3rd party program again.

100% agreed. Use the already working application profiles. Would be able to pick and choose what games are recorded etc will be excellent.

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:10

I was going to press submit on that very angry post i had just typed out but i deleted it instead...

Sigh!!!!

Dear AMD Matt will the trial, for which i am guessing is a final build, of BF1 getting crossfire support ?

I want to trial it on my 4k monitor..................

the 4k gaming hype train is almost dead to me.....

TonyTurbo78 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:13

Might get BF1 crossfire support in DX11 mode? But I can't see it happening in DX12 mode.

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:23

tried crossfire in dx11 doesn't work.

Yeah devs don't seem to be bothered with mgpu on dx12 which is a real shame because the support for crossfire is getting so bad..

Just read the latest driver notes, looks like crossfire should be supported.

I might just be the unlucky one. I will have a play about and see if there is anything i can do my end.

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:29

Frostbite engine has excellent MGpu support already so I don't see why DX12 won't get supported seeing Mantle had support..

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:35

just tried it dx12 does not have mgpu enabled.

i know it is the trial but it is out next week so its going to be the final build.

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:37

raven-uk-1 said:
just tried it dx12 does not have mgpu enabled.

i know it is the trial but it is out next week so its going to be the final build.

Might need new drivers from AMD and a patch from Dice maybe. Am sure DX11 will have support come release. dx12 maybe later on.

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:38

Battlefield games have always had excellent crossfire support, probably one of the best games out there for it.

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:39

yeah i guess so.

I think i am just getting really frustrated with how things are going with crossfire at the moment.

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:41

shankly1985 said:
Battlefield games have always had excellent crossfire support, probably one of the best games out there for it.

I know that. I am just frustrated at trying to play this trial at 4k.

Would be nice for drivers to be pre made for such events it is a AAA title and AMD do have close links with Dice.

TonyTurbo78 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:41

shankly1985 said:
Battlefield games have always had excellent crossfire support, probably one of the best games out there for it.

Battlefront had shocking crossfire support for a long long time. In fact it was non existent for maybe 6 months or so. Actually, I'm not even sure it works properly now.

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:42

TonyTurbo78 said:
Battlefront had shocking crossfire support for a long long time.

Ah yes very true, did they ever sort the black distance thing out ?

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:43

raven-uk-1 said:
yeah i guess so.

I think i am just getting really frustrated with how things are going with crossfire at the moment.

Not just crossfire, it's Multi-GPU even SLI is having its fair share of the problem..

Devs are getting lazy it would seem.

shankly1985 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:44

TonyTurbo78 said:
Battlefront had shocking crossfire support for a long long time. In fact it was non existent for maybe 6 months or so. Actually, I'm not even sure it works properly now.

True, but that isn't Battlefield

Seriously though, who is truly at blame there? Lazy dev team or Amd?

It's a hard one to call in these situations.

TheRealDeal · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:51

TonyTurbo78 said:
Battlefront had shocking crossfire support for a long long time. In fact it was non existent for maybe 6 months or so. Actually, I'm not even sure it works properly now.

Battlefront looks like it scales pretty well. Around 71%.

http://i.imgur.com/bqlr1Vn.png

I am surprised that they still use Bf4/3 instead of the much newer Battlefront. I wonder if it's anything to do with how Nvidia fairs better in BF4/3 lol.

http://i.imgur.com/BiDPV3J.png

raven-uk-1 · 12 Oct 2016 at 19:55

TheRealDeal said:
Battlefront looks like it scales pretty well.

http://i.imgur.com/bqlr1Vn.png

It scaled very well. The issue was the strage black draw distance xfire caused. Meaning you couldn't see anyone or anything unless they were pretty close..

Rezident · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:07

AMDMatt said:
You can also set it globally for all apps.

OK I set FRTC to 143 (1 below my monitor's refresh rate of 144) but in CSGO it definitely feels a little bit stuttery now - it's not that bad but it is just about noticeable. Do I have to change any other settings? V-sync is off.

shankly1985 · 13 Oct 2016 at 13:22

Rezident said:
OK I set FRTC to 143 (1 below my monitor's refresh rate of 144) but in CSGO it definitely feels a little bit stuttery now - it's not that bad but it is just about noticeable. Do I have to change any other settings? V-sync is off.

CSGO is one game that doesn't like FRTC the only way to limit CSGO FPS without getting stutter is by using the games own limiter FPS_MAX 143 in the console.

I think the reason for this is how CSGO works your FPS is linked with your network latency, this the reason you shouldn't limit your FPS. It can give you worst hit reg