The AMD Driver Thread

[LtMatt]

Thanks S2KIP, it will be looked at.

 

[LtMatt]

Did you see my post! Any idea what the problem is?

Will send you a trust shortly.

 

[LtMatt]

Any ETA on driver for dying light or any tips to get it running better?

Even after the new patch Its still doesn't use anything on my system to 100% so so assuming there is a problem somewhere.

I can't give you an exact date Finners, but it's coming soon. I've seen Dying Light on the new driver and QuadFire was working well. As soon as it's ready, I'll post about it here.

I've packed my 970s up to send back and went back to my 290 and GPU usage is showing 100% and temp up to 73c with fans hitting 93% :|

Are you using a reference card?

 

[LtMatt]

Any updates for crossfire on dying light yet, getting stick of waiting...

Have you tried it since the latest patch? Game is running much better for me at 4k now.

Yes the game developer has fixed some issues with the game affecting multi gpu setups and it's running well for me now. I've also seen the new drivers in action with an improved Dying Light Crossfire profile and it was working well on QuadFire too at 4k.

 

[LtMatt]

Update - Did a memtest, all passed perfectly, then tried card 1 on it's own and got great results eg hitman 48, 94, 64 and almost identical results when I tried card 2 on its own in slot 1. Then when I use crossfire with two cards, the performance increase is practically 0, and the Hitman benchmark hitches like crazy and almost stops with lows of 1fps.

I really have no idea what to do :/

Also, with 2 cards, it even makes games hitch in the menu 0___0

I would try a fresh driver uninstall/install, then check out this thread here and follow the guide to make sure Crossfire is working correctly. If you still have problems after that, the on screen display will help us to diagnose any issues. Sounds good?

EDIT

Can you double check to make sure you're running games in exclusive full screen mode too.

 

[LtMatt]

Manually set it to x4, had better performance on 1st run but 2nd run hitching and barely loaded with minimum 1fps.

I doubt it's my motherboard since before I ran sli 970s.

What happens if when running a game you press Alt+Enter, wait a few seconds then press it again?

 

[LtMatt]

I think it might be time for a 'How Well Does Crossfire Scale' thread covering performance from one gpu, to two gpu's to four gpus. Sounds like a fun little project!

 

[LtMatt]

What happens if when running a game you press Alt+Enter, wait a few seconds then press it again?

Tried metro, runs nicely

Were you previously running in Windowed mode sir?

 

[LtMatt]

Hi Matt

Sometimes when I load MSI Afterburner, the PC just freezes, do you reckon there's a setting to fix something in there? E.G force constant voltage? or disable something?

Sounds like some hardware might not be stable on your computer, as afterburner should not normally cause a lockup. Are you running everything (including your cpu and memory) at stock clocks?

 

[LtMatt]

Matt any idea when the new drivers are expected, providing support for CF in TW Attila?

A profile for this new title should be in our next drivers, not the ones that are due soon as it just missed the cut off point.

However i would not anticipate such a long time between drivers for the next release.

21 days after the release of Dying Light and I still can't use my crossfire... Shame on you AMD!

They're almost ready folks, we just want to keep up the high standards we've set with the 14.12 Omega and previous drivers.

 

[LtMatt]

I hope 2 months is not going to be the norm for future driver releases. So many new games come in such a wide space of time. To wait 2+ months is not cool to wait for a driver that enables proper crossfire. With this mentallity, AMD wont get many ppl looking for multi gpu setups in the future, and for 4k this is a must. Surely it would make sense to have a dedicated team looking in crossfire profiles for each AAA title, couldn't they just send a CAP to update the driver? like a hotfix?

So Matt, you saying this upcoming driver will not have a Dying Light Crossfire Profile? that's really not cool if that's the case.

Matt has already said a Dying Light profile IS in this driver.
It was TW: Atilla that doesn't have one just yet, but will in the next driver.

Thanks Alex, that's correct.

 

[LtMatt]

My GPU just overheated, flickering, lines across the screen... the works, the GPU was boiling, literally. don't know yet if there is any damage.

Whats causing it is somesort of conflict between MSI AB and CCC, i have had it before, its completley random when it happens but when it does it looks the fans to idle speeds.

It's something to do with CCC fan settings, if you set your own fan profile it sets CCC to manual control and it does that at whereever the fan speed happens to be at the time.

If CCC decides to take over and block MSI AB or whatever it is that it is doing it looks the fans to the set speed not mater how hot the GPU gets.

The only way to guarantee it not happening is to unistall CCC, because the thing is if i use MSI AB to overclock that overclock will be reset unless you have CCC overdrive enabled.

Its like CCC is fighting to take over.

Why the ###### does CCC have a setting where you can look the fan speeds no matter how hot the GPU gets anyway? its daft take it out.

Just spent nearly an hour on BF4, it seems to have survived.

What i have done now is ramp up the Manual Fan Control in CCC to 100%, so if it decides to take over again and lock the fans like that at least it the GPU's isn't going to overheat.

Can i see your fan control settings in afterburner?

 

[LtMatt]

Question:

Where does MSI AB keep the configuration file when you customise the AB settings?

 

[LtMatt]

Cheers - I don't want to have to re do all the settings each time I have to install it. I've also had an issue with the install itself now, an error relating to a missing DLL. Fresh download & install of windows - didn't screen shot it but it was relating to RivaTuner!

I think there is a DX update that needs to be installed before you can install AB+Riva tuner, however it should auto install when you install AB.

 

[LtMatt]

yeah I noticed that but not sure why it failed the first time - working fine now though!

One of the great unsolved computer mysteries. Sometimes there is no answer for the unexplained.

 

[LtMatt]

So, Matt, looking good for this week?

Before long it will be approaching three months.

I'll be posting it here when it's ready, though i suspect someone will beat me to it.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt, will the next driver have a Homeworld Remastered crossfire profile?

I will find out benny and let you know.

EDIT

This is a ten year old game, I'm not sure it would need a profile to be playable.

You can always try a custom profile though.

Just loading Total War Attila and it's telling me my drivers are out of date.

I'm using 14.12 omega, is there any newer? According to AMDs site they're the newest.

Is the game telling you this?

 

[LtMatt]

Yeah.

Is this preventing you from playing the game, or is it just a warning type notification?

No, it's a rework of the originals that is coming out tomorrow.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/244160/

No profile, so let me know how performance is.

It does not look to be very demanding.

 

[LtMatt]

AMD should at least be making more beta drivers I think. I loved it when they used to make 1 driver a month. Now it has become a quarterly thing... Should try bi-monthly in my opinion.

Although we've taken extra time with this particular driver release, we have no plans to switch to a quarterly driver release schedule. We'll be sticking to one driver a month or thereabouts once this driver is ready.

 

[LtMatt]

I can play the game, but my performance for my spec is pretty terrible.

I5 3570k @ 4.8ghz
8gb DDR3
3gb 7970
Installed on a SSD

Running at medium settings i can expect 40fps on average.

Thanks for letting me know.