The AMD Driver Thread

marc69 · 18 May 2015 at 09:49

humbug said:
Your waiting for AMD's new cards to jump ship to Nvidia?
Why wait?

Because people will upgrade and sell off their older cards in the MM.

Dave2150 said:
It will obviously drop the price, assuming AMD's new cards have good performance.

This is what I'm hoping.

Ayahuasca said:
There's no need for a WHQL one and for those jumping ship with single cards that's just silly. For certain games where crossfire doesn't work I could see why but AMD's drivers are mostly fine.

Why is it silly? The past 3 big games I've purchased have had glitches / poor performance.

Hard line and GTA V tearing (Matt confirmed he got this too along with other forum members).

Project CARS poor performance with ati cards.

We as consumers pay good money for the technology and the games and expect to be able to play them as they are meant to be played. I'm not impatient, I understand fixes take time but I think sometimes these fixes take too long. I could stay with ATI but why give myself more headaches when the next AAA title is launched and doesn't work properly?

Cryfreeman · 18 May 2015 at 10:07

Seems Nvidia have released witcher 3 drivers with sli support... Come on AMD only a few hours left!

Martini1991 · 18 May 2015 at 10:10

AMD need to launch new drivers today with Multi GPU support for Witcher 3, or else they're looking second best again.

marc69 · 18 May 2015 at 10:18

Martini1991 said:
AMD need to launch new drivers today with Multi GPU support for Witcher 3, or else they're looking second best again.

Exactly the reason I haven't purchased it yet even though I'm single GPU I'm sure something won't be right.

Martini1991 · 18 May 2015 at 10:19

I fully expect AMD to launch drivers for W3, but I've the feeling it'll be tomorrow rather than today.

The game officially launches at 00:00.

trynoval · 18 May 2015 at 11:43

Martini1991 said:
I fully expect AMD to launch drivers for W3, but I've the feeling it'll be tomorrow rather than today.

The game officially launches at 00:00.

Just found this one.

https://twitter.com/amd_roy/status/599565425597288449

NAIS.

humbug · 18 May 2015 at 11:49

Usually Tuesday for new Drivers isn't it?

shankly1985 · 18 May 2015 at 12:00

humbug said:
Usually Tuesday for new Drivers isn't it?

Yeah although GTA5 driver release on Monday. Wasn't it?

humbug · 18 May 2015 at 12:20

shankly1985 said:
Yeah although GTA5 driver release on Monday. Wasn't it?

Erm? dunno

jimhaumman · 18 May 2015 at 12:24

Next week ,so might be between 18-24.05,would be nice if we would get it tomorrow,with the bump in performance in Witcher 3 up to 30%

Mr Krugga · 18 May 2015 at 20:00

I'm fed up with AMD, as soon as the new cards from Nvidia are out, I'm jumping the ship (again).

shankly1985 · 18 May 2015 at 20:02

Mr Krugga said:
I'm fed up with AMD, as soon as the new cards from Nvidia are out, I'm jumping the ship (again).

Why you fed up?

thebennyboy · 18 May 2015 at 20:19

Mr Krugga said:
I'm fed up with AMD, as soon as the new cards from Nvidia are out, I'm jumping the ship (again).

You're not the only one. Sincerely hope they deliver a Witcher 3 crossfire driver on-time. I have no intention of going Nvidia though, it's not much better there either.

LoadsaMoney · 18 May 2015 at 20:23

New forums gash

deuse · 18 May 2015 at 20:35

Mr Krugga said:
I'm fed up with AMD, as soon as the new cards from Nvidia are out, I'm jumping the ship (again).

Same here. I think when the new cards come out a GTX 980 will be cheaper.

Mr Krugga · 18 May 2015 at 20:37

shankly1985 said:
Why you fed up?

Where should I start?

How about the fact they haven't released a stable driver in the past 6 or so months?

shankly1985 · 18 May 2015 at 20:40

Mr Krugga said:
Where should I start?

How about the fact they haven't released a stable driver in the past 6 or so months?

Stable driver? Nothing wrong with 15.4, WHQL don't mean anything to how well a driver runs.. Just means it's been tested for compatibility..

What problems you been having with driver? You not helping very much without giving details to the issue you having.

deuse · 18 May 2015 at 20:46

shankly1985 said:
Stable driver? Nothing wrong with 15.4, WHQL don't mean anything to how well a driver runs.. Just means it's been tested for compatibility..

What problems you been having with driver? You not helping very much without giving details to the issue you having.

I've watch your posts and seams to me that if AMD sold you a **** filled sandwich you'd say it was great.

AMD has no where near the support of NV and never will.

Mr Krugga · 18 May 2015 at 20:48

shankly1985 said:
Stable driver? Nothing wrong with 15.4, WHQL don't mean anything to how well a driver runs.. Just means it's been tested for compatibility..

What problems you been having with driver? You not helping very much without giving details to the issue you having.

WHQL might not mean anything, but the clear "Beta" badge next to 15.4 is a clear indication this is not considered a stable, final release driver. Therefore not making my point any less valid.

On top of that, the virtual lack of support for the already released Project Cars and the announcement that the Witcher 3 optimised driver won't be ready until next week are just additional nails in the coffin.

I have also had issues with the mouse cursor bug, not being able to wake the display up, overclocking, Flash crashes, little to no support for the 7900 series cards, all that since about 14.4 WHQL, and the constant re-badging of existing cards into "new" models sold at full price, as if AMD does not need to compete with anyone any more.

r7slayer · 18 May 2015 at 20:49

deuse said:
I've watch your posts and seams to me that if AMD sold you a **** filled sandwich you'd say it was great.

AMD has no where near the support of NV and never will.

what just like NV supported all those users affected by the Vram issue on the 970 lol. They just let suppliers handle it. All you go for NV is they were working on it. Then it was the 970 were designed like that. Basically meant tough S***
NV ain't no singing angel. They just release drivers abit more often.