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The AMD Driver Thread

Any idea what time we should expect these drivers tomorrow? Is there a traditional time they get put up?

E: just noticed I was beaten to it! Glad I'm not the only one itching for them then
 
So not sure if this is just with the omega drivers (don't want to go back and test earlier ones lol) but I literally just now realized that BF4 in mantle basically only uses my 4930k like a damn 3770k lol. The last 4 threads are just flat shut off. I thought I saw it use all 12 threads before on an earlier driver... or am I losing my mind? Runs beautifully so not complaining just wondering :D BF4 at 4k res is so booooteefull
 
Hey guys long time nvidia owner here. Really tempted by a 290x or do you think it's worth waiting for the 3 series now? I'm hearing amd has really stepped up performance with driver updates? Looking forward to keeping an eye on updates here :)
 
S_D said:
FAO AMDMatt!

Hi! Do you have the chance to feedback into the driver team at AMD?

Only reason I ask is for Prepar3d v2. As you alluded to in this thread, you don't know what it is, BUT, this is important :)

So, Microsoft stopped making FSX and disbanded the 'ACES' team responsible for it's development. However, Lockheed Martin picked up the mantle (so to speak) and are developing it, and have done for the last couple of years. It gets update approximately quarterly, and is now running under DirectX 11...

So, here is the point of my post...

Under FSX and previous FS versions nVidia was the card of choice as ATI cards had problems with the clouds etc. Now it's on DirectX11 I'd say that actually AMD cards are coming close to parity with nVidia cards in Prepar3d. However, it seems that the flight sim community still think that nVidia are the 'ones' to have. They have made multiple requests to nVidia to get a software driver profile working for it, and also an SLI profile, but nVidia have been pretty silent on it all, apart from the communication that they've had directly with Lockheed Martin, suggesting that something is coming, soon, at some point.

Could you please feed back to the AMD driver team to get 'proper' driver support for Prepar3d v2? Perhaps reaching out to Beau (a dev who can be found on the www.prepar3d.com forums) would be a good place to start. There is a whole community of thousands of flight simmers across the world who are begging for decent driver support in Prepar3d, and to be honest I'm one of them with my R9 290X Tri-X OC :) If AMD could upstage nVidia in this I'm sure you'd get legions of simmers swapping allegiance when they realise that AMD are supporting them properly! It's good business sense ;)

Thanks!

Simon
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Think I'll have to fire fsx up again its Been ages since I played it.
 
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