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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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So i just had a round on Firestorm with your settings and they seem good for VRAM usage Humbug, @ around 2GB :) Only problem was the smoke when theres a lot of it i get some stutter and FPS drops. Gona try these settings in a bit..

Custom)
High
High
High
High
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
2xMSAA
Low (Post)

Hopefully that'll ease off the smoke lag if smoke is something to do with Effects quality.

Oh i set resolution to 104% :p
 
MyBrains said:
So i just had a round on Firestorm with your settings and they seem good for VRAM usage Humbug, @ around 2GB :) Only problem was the smoke when theres a lot of it i get some stutter and FPS drops. Gona try these settings in a bit..

Custom)
High
High
High
High
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
Ultra
2xMSAA
Low (Post)

Hopefully that'll ease off the smoke lag if smoke is something to do with Effects quality.

Oh i set resolution to 104% :p
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:)
 
Been having a little potter around with Mantle on BF4 and currently have the 7970's pulling 80's avg (100+ peak) at 150% scaling, 1200/1600 with 2xAA/everything ultra except high textures due to vram chugging at full ultra/4xAA.
With those settings, it gets to about 2.8GB usage.

Frame pacing method 2 I think...

/Justsayin.gif :)
 
Uncle Petey said:
Been having a little potter around with Mantle on BF4 and currently have the 7970's pulling 80's avg (100+ peak) at 150% scaling, 1200/1600 with 2xAA/everything ultra except high textures due to vram chugging at full ultra/4xAA.
With those settings, it gets to about 2.8GB usage.

Frame pacing method 2 I think...

/Justsayin.gif :)
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Not bad old boy. Think i was pulling similar fps at 1440P ultra preset with my 7990 @1000/1500. :)

Mantles lovely, isn't it?
 
Yeah, it's not bad :cool:
Still got a little fiddling to do, as I'm not sure if it's the AA or the textures that bomb the vram after a few minutes. Limited testing so far and still need to look at the other Fp methods.

That was on shanghai btw, and it's more like 90's avg, but y'know...
 
Uncle Petey said:
Yeah, it's not bad :cool:
Still got a little fiddling to do, as I'm not sure if it's the AA or the textures that bomb the vram after a few minutes. Limited testing so far and still need to look at the other Fp methods.

That was on shanghai btw, and it's more like 90's avg, but y'know...
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Yeah Shanghai is a heavy map for sure.
 
I tried BF4 again yesterday with Mantle and the Frame Pacing method 1. Horrible, horrible experience.
Started off ok, decent framerates felt fine, then I upped the MSAA from 2x to 4x (everything Ultra, no Post AA) and it all went to hell. Started getting pauses as the framerate dropped to single digits, even when it wasn't pausing the framerate dropped low enough the in-game OSD FPS display went red. Turned the MSAA back down to 2x and it didn't help, turned it off, no difference.
Played the same map on the same server again today using DX11 and framrates were only around 90fps but it was consistent and no pauses.

So as far as my 7950CF rig goes, I'm even less impressed with Mantle now than I was before (previously 4xMSAA just felt less smooth, now it seems to be entirely unplayable).
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I tried BF4 again yesterday with Mantle and the Frame Pacing method 1. Horrible, horrible experience.
Started off ok, decent framerates felt fine, then I upped the MSAA from 2x to 4x (everything Ultra, no Post AA) and it all went to hell. Started getting pauses as the framerate dropped to single digits, even when it wasn't pausing the framerate dropped low enough the in-game OSD FPS display went red. Turned the MSAA back down to 2x and it didn't help, turned it off, no difference.
Played the same map on the same server again today using DX11 and framrates were only around 90fps but it was consistent and no pauses.

So as far as my 7950CF rig goes, I'm even less impressed with Mantle now than I was before (previously 4xMSAA just felt less smooth, now it seems to be entirely unplayable).
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From what I know Crossfire 7000 series and Mantle isn't ready yet :D to lessen the head ache I would stay with DX11 till amd release the driver for your setup.

Why not just use your 290's on Mantle?
 
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To be fair I've not even tried the 290s with Mantle, they're still on the 13.12 drivers.
Trouble is they're reference cards so even at idle with 20% fan they're just so noisy I can' bring myself to use the PC (it doesn't help that the 290s are probably the most disappointing graphics card I've bought in a while). I'm waiting on some XSPC rotary angle fittings to come into stock and then I'll be able to build my waterloop.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
To be fair I've not even tried the 290s with Mantle, they're still on the 13.12 drivers.
Trouble is they're reference cards so even at idle with 20% fan they're just so noisy I can' bring myself to use the PC (it doesn't help that the 290s are probably the most disappointing graphics card I've bought in a while). I'm waiting on some XSPC rotary angle fittings to come into stock and then I'll be able to build my waterloop.
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Noisy at idle? I would have thought they were almost silent.
 
shankly1985 said:
From what I know Crossfire 7000 series and Mantle isn't ready yet :D to lessen the head ache I would still with DX11 till amd release the driver for your setup.

Why not just use your 290's on Mantle?
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Mantle is not a problem on my tri fire 7950s unless i hit the Vram limit then its lag and stutter time, which then lowring the setting will not fix, only a game restart will...

Been playing the last 2 weeks on my 50" Plasma which even on ultra has not been an issue at 1080p unlike 1600p.
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
To be fair I've not even tried the 290s with Mantle, they're still on the 13.12 drivers.
Trouble is they're reference cards so even at idle with 20% fan they're just so noisy I can' bring myself to use the PC (it doesn't help that the 290s are probably the most disappointing graphics card I've bought in a while). I'm waiting on some XSPC rotary angle fittings to come into stock and then I'll be able to build my waterloop.
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Lol what? I can't even hear the reference fan at 30% fan speed, let alone 20%. You must have the hearing of a an owl GM. :D

thefogo said:
Noisy at idle? I would have thought they were almost silent.
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They are, trust me. GM is just incredibly anal and not in a good way. :p
 
I still run BF4 on DX untill they sort the VRAM issue out. I can run full ultra with 4xMSAA with my 7970's with no issues at all.

I'll try again once mantle has mature a bit more.
 
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