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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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The__Malteser said:
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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The 14.4 drivers will become WHQL drivers very soon. In other words, they're the same.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx
 
PapaLazaru said:
No mention of BF4 improvements with Mantle for us peasants with 270x's.
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I got improvements on my HD7770 (in dx and mantle) so im guessing you will as well. This driver has a new Mantle build in it vs 14.3 beta. AMD rarely list all the improvements they make in drivers, one of their faults imo. They should sell it more, like Nvidia did with the 337 drivers.
 
I think they might have broken Vsync with these new drivers.. Seems i have to use gametime.maxvariablefps 60 together with Vsync to stop tearing.

Perf may have improved and in the same scenario on Shanghai RPG'ing the same vehicle on the same settings.. my minimum FPS drop on DX is around 45 with Mantle being around 58.

Thats with all High settings & 4xMSAA.

VRAM usage hasnt changed.

Btw Matt im seeing Mantle using around 500MB more VRAM than DX.
 
LtMatt said:
I got improvements on my HD7770 (in dx and mantle) so im guessing you will as well. This driver has a new Mantle build in it vs 14.3 beta. AMD rarely list all the improvements they make in drivers, one of their faults imo. They should sell it more, like Nvidia did with the 337 drivers.
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Have you tried these new drivers on the Sleeping Dogs bench yet, check out my 1080p 3 card score.:D
 
Kaapstad said:
Have you tried these new drivers on the Sleeping Dogs bench yet, check out my 1080p 3 card score.:D
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No i have not, but thanks to your thread Kaap (the one i asked you to do) i did forward your findings onto the driver team. If you have any other good info like that, pass it on to me and ill forward it on. :)

Will check your score now.

MyBrains said:
I think they might have broken Vsync with these new drivers.. Seems i have to use gametime.maxvariablefps 60 together with Vsync to stop tearing.

Perf may have improved and in the same scenario on Shanghai RPG'ing the same vehicle on the same settings.. my minimum FPS drop on DX is around 45 with Mantle being around 58.

Thats with all High settings & 4xMSAA.

VRAM usage hasnt changed.

Btw Matt im seeing Mantle using around 500MB more VRAM than DX.
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Could be because you're on Tahiti and im in Hawaii m8.
 
LtMatt said:
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.
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So my fans and the profiles were fine before.
DX11 BF4 got a performance increase so in theory for the same performance my cards should be under less load to get the same results so the answer is my fan profiles are wrong?

That doesn't make sense to me.
 
Can anyone confirm if they've fixed the power target bug yet? I wouldn't actually mind over clocking my card to its full potential on mantle drivers which I've not been able to do thus far.
 
i have also tried the new driver 14.4 and no all that impressed with my 290x if i go anymore that 1150/1450 if throttles like anything jumping from 1150 to 500 and lag in BF4 .... can be doing 100fps and them drops to 30fps every couple of mins and stutters
 
Footyslayer said:
So my 7990 is running 6C hotter. from 33c to 39c with 14.4, which I find strange...

Anyone have any input on that?
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I've had a temp increase aswell judging by last nights BF4 session.
I went back to DX11 2 weeks ago as I prefer to be able to run screen recording software and to monitor the fps through it and was fine until I upgraded.

I might just roll back to the last stable build (without mantle)
 
Steveocee said:
I've had a temp increase aswell judging by last nights BF4 session.
I went back to DX11 2 weeks ago as I prefer to be able to run screen recording software and to monitor the fps through it and was fine until I upgraded.

I might just roll back to the last stable build (without mantle)
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I think I am going to do that, I hate any increase in temps when it isn't necessary! :D

I do understand what LtMatt is getting at but I don't like the increase in temps.
 
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Footyslayer said:
I think I am going to do that, I hate any increase in temps when it isn't necessary! :D

I do understand what LtMatt is getting at but I don't like the increase in temps.
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I was quite happy with my setup, fans were there but not screaming and the overclock was fine.

Now it screams and I am not happy with it, I'm not lowering the fan speeds because they are IMO fine where they are for the temp and lowering it will only make the card hotter.
 
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