The AMD Driver Thread

Devrij · 18 Mar 2015 at 22:36

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

LtMatt · 18 Mar 2015 at 22:49

I will find out tomorrow what time guys, i expect it will be afternoon/evening.

Bonjour · 18 Mar 2015 at 23:00

TonyTurbo78 · 18 Mar 2015 at 23:39

Matt, can I expect expect anything for my setup tomorrow other than the possibilities of more crossfire profiles? VSR and freesync are no no's on my cards are they not?

gpuerrilla · 18 Mar 2015 at 23:41

TonyTurbo78 said:
Matt, can I expect expect anything for my setup tomorrow other than the possibilities of more crossfire profiles? VSR and freesync are no no's on my cards are they not?

YB2ndBEST · 18 Mar 2015 at 23:50

For the couple hours I owned BFH it played very well, even in DX11 honestly... but mantle was uber smooth just like BF4

But I really didn't like the game so EA refunded me WOOT!

Daftbrown · 19 Mar 2015 at 00:06

The day has come!

Meladath · 19 Mar 2015 at 00:57

Only another 23 hours left until 23:59 when they have no time!

I bet it won't be out till 11 tonight

pete910 · 19 Mar 2015 at 01:07

Meladath said:
Only another 23 hours left until 23:59 when they have no time!

I bet it won't be out till 11 tonight

They said 19th of march! they never said what year

gareth170 · 19 Mar 2015 at 01:32

i think it'll be around 7-8pm

YB2ndBEST · 19 Mar 2015 at 04:58

It's the 19th here! GIMME

YB2ndBEST · 19 Mar 2015 at 05:01

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

BF4 at 4k res is so booooteefull

UTmaniac · 19 Mar 2015 at 05:54

Unbelievable, just woken up on the 19th and driver has been delayed, it is not available for download right now.

Andygully · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:02

Itll be the 19th in the US most likely. so this afternoon/evening

shankly1985 · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:07

Normally around 8pm for us..

slick rick · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:37

Looking forward to some new drivers!

eyetrip · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:39

All I want is crossfire in elite.

dasimpse · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:40

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

Bonjour · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:41

Ditto.

Should hopefully make 3K VSR possible without unbearable lag.

sprite1275 · 19 Mar 2015 at 07:42

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

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