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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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JamesM said:
Sorry forgot to add that I have a 7990 so its different to 290 based cards iirc

I try running mantle and the screen is full of flickering, low fps, etc

DX11 it's fine
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I have a 7990 and mantle runs fine on 14.4. Texture flickering is common in Xfire and was therein BF3. Trying different browsers or minimising browsers for battlelog reduces it sometimes. Never low FPS though.

You W7 or W8?

If you have everr used the ATI uninstall tool then depending on the version you may have borked your W8 install. One way to tell is can you turn off your firewall in windows or is it greyed out?

Have youy reinstalled drivers after a DDU uninstall and tried it then?
 
@Matt.. so after the Oman round VRAM is at 2925MB.

At least it isnt rising as fast as it used to so they must be working on it somewhere in the background without saying.. maybe i can drop down to 2xMSAA and be ok.. will test that one :)
 
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Woodsta888 said:
I have a 7990 and mantle runs fine on 14.4. Texture flickering is common in Xfire and was therein BF3. Trying different browsers or minimising browsers for battlelog reduces it sometimes. Never low FPS though.

You W7 or W8?

If you have everr used the ATI uninstall tool then depending on the version you may have borked your W8 install. One way to tell is can you turn off your firewall in windows or is it greyed out?

Have youy reinstalled drivers after a DDU uninstall and tried it then?
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Windows 8, 14.4 drivers and used the driver un-install programs etc

DirectX runs fine, with medium to low settings I get 120+ fps average

I switch to Mantle and the game is just un playable, fps drops, spikes, stutters, screen flicker (not texture, can actually see bars in the middle of the screen 50/50% so I presume cores are doing half the screen each) etc
 
I'm getting low gpu usage in watchdogs with this driver, also getting strange glitches on the screen after a while playing. It was running better with crossfire disabled on 14.4 for me
 
14.6 driver definitely has a newer Mantle version vs 14.4 WHQL. :)


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I think Thief must need a patch before crossfire works under Mantle, as its not been updated since the new drivers have hit. Both gpu's see 99% usage but fps are no different to when i bench one gpu. Hopefully Eidos update it via steam today.
 
Heres a GPU-Z shot from after a full round on Parcel Force and Golmund Railway on full Ultra & 2xMSAA.

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I think the VRAM is coming down.. they just need to clear VRAM between rounds. I really dont know why they cant do this.

Sort it out Dice!
 
14.6 = black screen hard lock for me when booting into Windows. It'll show the desktop for a split second. Tried without CCC and all the usual cleanup utils but the same thing happens. I checked the other DVI/displayport/hdmi ports but no dice. Back to 14.4 for me :(
 
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14.6 = black screen hard lock for me when booting into Windows. It'll show the desktop for a split second. Tried without CCC and all the usual cleanup utils but the same thing happens. I checked the other DVI/displayport/hdmi ports but no dice. Back to 14.4 for me :(
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Ouch!! That doesn't sound good! Was just about to give these a whirl now but I think I'll hold off and wait.
 
posted this in another thread, but thought it worthy of a headsup in the driver thread

new Cat 14.6 drivers installed, wow much different Watch Dogs regarding GPU usage and frame rate. Before on 14.4 driver, I was only getting 51% and 51% respective on both cards so had to disable 1 card which really improved performance actually. Now with the new drivers I'm getting 90% usage on both cards and a constant 50fps - 60fps all on Ultra details and using Temporal SMAA. Much better, much nicer to play, and the frames I'm much happier about. Got the maximum eye candy with the occasional stutter but 90% of the time its really good. The game is just poorly optimized so hopefully with a few more patches, we'll get rid of the occasional hicup
 
lmao, im just about to put it on every thread.

Jokes aside, no harm in putting it in both Watch Dogs thread and driver thread, it's related to them both, and good info for others anyway
 
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