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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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I've had a brief go on BF4 (mantle) with these new 14.4's and the leaked ones were better it seems with my 7970's.
Cards were running at 95-100% before, but are struggling to get past 60% now and fps are quite a way down regardless of which pacing method I use.

Need to do some more testing, I guess...
 
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Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows

    • Support for the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X
    • CrossFire™ fixes enhancements:
      • Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
      • Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
      • Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
      • Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
      • Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
      • Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
      • Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
    • Full support for OpenGL 4.4
      • OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
        • ARB_buffer_storage
        • ARB_enhanced_layouts
        • ARB_query_buffer_object
        • ARB_clear_texture
        • ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
        • ARB_texture_stencil8
        • ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
        • ARB_multi_bind
        • ARB_bindless_texture
        • ARB_spare_texture
        • ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
        • ARB_indirect_parameters
        • ARB_compute_variable_group_size
        • ARB_shader_draw_parameters
        • ARB_shader_group_vote
    • Mantle beta driver improvements:
      • BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
      • BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system
Known Issues

    • System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
    • Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1 on specific platforms (see below). The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.
      • ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX)
      • ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (Z87
      • ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (X79)
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LtMatt said:
14.4 WHQL Driver is here folks! :cool:

AMD Catalyst 14.4 RC1 (14.100.0.0 April 15)

Build Info:
DriverVer=04/15/2014, 14.100.0.0000
Catalyst: 14.4 RC1
CCC: 2014.0415.2225.38428
D3D: 9.14.10.01029
OGL: 6.14.10.12874
OCL: 10.0.1445.5
Mantle: 9.1.10.0013

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows

Support for the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X
CrossFire™ fixes enhancements:
Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
Full support for OpenGL 4.4
OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
ARB_buffer_storage
ARB_enhanced_layouts
ARB_query_buffer_object
ARB_clear_texture
ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
ARB_texture_stencil8
ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
ARB_multi_bind
ARB_bindless_texture
ARB_spare_texture
ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
ARB_indirect_parameters
ARB_compute_variable_group_size
ARB_shader_draw_parameters
ARB_shader_group_vote
Mantle beta driver improvements:
BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system

Known Issues

System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1 on specific platforms (see below). The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX)
ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (Z87
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (X79)
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Download Link
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx#
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_14_4_rc1_(14_100_april_15)_download.html
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humbug said:
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Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows

Support for the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X
CrossFire™ fixes enhancements:
Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
Full support for OpenGL 4.4
OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
ARB_buffer_storage
ARB_enhanced_layouts
ARB_query_buffer_object
ARB_clear_texture
ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
ARB_texture_stencil8
ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
ARB_multi_bind
ARB_bindless_texture
ARB_spare_texture
ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
ARB_indirect_parameters
ARB_compute_variable_group_size
ARB_shader_draw_parameters
ARB_shader_group_vote
Mantle beta driver improvements:
BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system

Known Issues

System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1 on specific platforms (see below). The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX)
ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (Z87
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (X79)
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OK, what are my tired eyes missing, did something change in the 3 hours since LtMatt posted this?
 
LtMatt said:
These are 14.4 Beta, but they're going to become WHQL soon i believe. Definitely much newer driver than the 14.4 leaked press drivers.
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LtMatt said:
I think they're awaiting WHQL certification.
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LT called it.

https://twitter.com/CatalystCreator/status/458334211125293057

Kaapstad said:
What do people use to monitor the FPS with Mantle and BF4 please ?
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Kaaps use this. Place it in your Origin Games/Battlefield 4 folder. Makes life easy. :)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/opf89g
 
I don't like the new drivers.
My cards were screaming last night after a moderate BF4 session, they don't normally.

I'll try mantle to see if that makes any difference but so far I am not impressed :-(
 
Steveocee said:
I don't like the new drivers.
My cards were screaming last night after a moderate BF4 session, they don't normally.

I'll try mantle to see if that makes any difference but so far I am not impressed :-(
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Drivers don't alter fan profiles, however they do improve performance and fps. Apparently DX11 got a bump in performance in BF4 with these drivers so that could be why your cards are working harder. Alter your fan profile if needed.
 
Hi all. Small question.

Do you guys normally install the beta drivers? I have a 280x and I have the 13.12 drivers (last stable version I think) but I see there are the 14.x beta drivers already.

Personally, I prefer a stable system than an unstable system with a small FPS boost.

Should I just download the beta drivers, and hope for the best (I read some GPUs were burnt using some beta drivers) or should I keep the stable drivers, and update once the 14.x goes out of beta?

Thanks
 
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