The AMD Driver Thread

shankly1985 · 12 Mar 2015 at 12:58

Gregster said:
I will try the frame limiter and see how that goes. Is it just me who thinks Matt's vid isn't smooth? Maybe it is a G-Sync thing.

It looks good to me..

Gregster · 12 Mar 2015 at 12:58

Wizzfizz said:
Ethan Carter is known to stutter, there's quite a few posts online

Fair enough.

shankly1985 said:
It looks good to me..

Probably a G-Sync thing then. You will be the same come the 19th

Geeman1979 · 12 Mar 2015 at 12:59

Gregster said:
I will try the frame limiter and see how that goes. Is it just me who thinks Matt's vid isn't smooth? Maybe it is a G-Sync thing.

Doesn't look smooth to me, although it might be the way we see it from our end.

Ayahuasca · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:05

It's hard to tell because of the extremely slow movement but parts did look a bit jittery.

GoogalyMoogaly · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:05

Ayahuasca said:
You're probably better off going nvidia if you're going to blame all those on AMD.

Mouse lag lol and thinking nvidia is superior for competitive players?

My mouse feels the same as it did on a 970 with my 295x2, my scores have actually improved on BF4.

The reason most streamers go nvidia is because the majority have zero knowledge in hardware and the average joe still thinks nvidia are the go to for everything.

Also I think a lot of software seems to have support for the Nvidia encoding codec (which I guess uses hardware acceleration) that might not support AMD yet.

Maybe that has something to do with it too (maybe not).

LtMatt · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:13

Geeman1979 said:
Doesn't look smooth to me, although it might be the way we see it from our end.

Ayahuasca said:
It's hard to tell because of the extremely slow movement but parts did look a bit jittery.

Could be a recording side effect with the game as i couldn't detect any judder during actual gameplay. I'd need to see some evidence of stutter while playing before i would raise it as a bug.

Wizzfizz · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:13

Ayahuasca said:
My mouse feels the same as it did on a 970 with my 295x2, my scores have actually improved on BF4.

Funny you should mention that because my experience of going from a 970 to a 5770 changed my mouse latency, that impacted my in game movement in Quakelive / Quake 4 quite a bit. I also inherited micro stuttering in Quake 4, which I didn't experience the 970

Ayahuasca · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:15

Wizzfizz said:
Funny you should mention that because my experience of going from a 970 to a 5770 changed my mouse feeling which impacted my in game movement in Quakelive / Quake 4 quite a bit. I also inherited micro stuttering in Quake 4, which I didn't experience the 970

That's a massive step down so no surprise really.

Wizzfizz · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:18

Well not really. The games aren't demanding, Quake 4 is nearly 10 years old for a start, plus I play (like any competitive Quaker) with all eye candy turned off, like bare minimum. For instance, I play Quake 4 at 800x600 on a Iiyama VM Pro 454 CRT:

Going to the 5770 changed my game play dramatically, can't put a finger on it, but it introduced some latency that wasn't there before.

I played on an age old 3400+ / 1gig RAM / Asus K8VSE Deluxe / 7600GT prior to upgrading my rig last year. Played on that rig for like a decade without any issues either.

Can only think it was driver related

Ayahuasca · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:22

Well I've not experienced any mouse lag or loss in competitive play between either brand.

I'm sure it would be well documented if so.

Some of the top CS players play on AMD hardware and have no issue.

shankly1985 · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:24

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Also I think a lot of software seems to have support for the Nvidia encoding codec (which I guess uses hardware acceleration) that might not support AMD yet.

Maybe that has something to do with it too (maybe not).

Most stream with OBS which fully support both vendors. Very little use anything else. The main reason for
OBS is you can have multiple overlays on your stream.

Soon as you see a overlay you can 100% say they using OBS.

Gregster · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:29

I can't say I have noticed any mouse lag. Another thing people have said is picture quality is better when switching either way but I have not seen that either.

shankly1985 · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:33

Gregster said:
I can't say I have noticed any mouse lag. Another thing people have said is picture quality is better when switching either way but I have not seen that either.

Think this more on the HDMI side of things.. RGB Levels etc... Nvidia fixed this couple drivers ago anyway.

DisplayPort you shouldn't notice anything. RGB is locked to Full PC level.

Wizzfizz · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:34

Although I turn off all eye candy in the FPS games that I play, I did notice some textures looking different between vendors. It didn't impact my game in anyway, but it certainly looked different. Guess it's just down to how both cards display things differently on screen

Gregster · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:36

Raptr is quite a drain on performance (especially in Batman AO)

With and without Raptr running - Guess which is which

humbug · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:44

Gregster said:
Raptr is quite a drain on performance (especially in Batman AO)

With and without Raptr running - Guess which is which

Yeah, its turned into Bloatware, i unistalled it about a month ago.

Wizzfizz · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:45

First thing I do after installation, is uninstall Raptr

Bonjour · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:47

Or do a custom install and uncheck the 'Gaming Evolved' tick box.

Geeman1979 · 12 Mar 2015 at 13:50

This^

I don't install that tripe.

Gregster · 12 Mar 2015 at 14:03

I like the recording side and Raptr's DVR does a good job when it works. It does look slightly better quality over ShadowPlay but SP works in every single game I have, so a trade off really, pluses and minuses for both.