Triple Buffering and Vertical Refresh (Vsync) are for gaming. they lock the Frame rates and or cache frames during gaming to stop screen tearing.
Those thing don't do anything with your movie player or the desktop.
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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**
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Triple Buffering and Vertical Refresh (Vsync) are for gaming. they lock the Frame rates and or cache frames during gaming to stop screen tearing.
Those thing don't do anything with your movie player or the desktop.
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Yes, sorry, I meant more in regards to gaming than anything else
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Update: I tested a game last night (Fifa 13 - don't judge me! It's the only one I have reinstalled on my computer since I restored it all. The reason I chose this one is a) because it is the quickest to start playing, and b) it is one of the games that had the worst lags on it.)
The lag is still there, and whilst still unplayable, it is only just unplayable. Before it was almost 1 second lags, now it is a few milliseconds. I'll need to start installing and testing the other games, but would you suggest any tinkering with triple buffering or Vsync to improve this?
To answer your earlier question - going back to Windows 8 wouldn't help - it was actually a security patch update for windows 8 that kicked all of this off. The installation of the update just coincided with upgrading to Windows 8.1, so I was incorrectly blaming 8.1!
Again, I really appreciate your help. Since all these problems began, the computer is now running better than ever, and is as close to right as I've had it in 6 months, so thank you
Anyone else found load times slow on BF4 with the 14.4s ?
I used to be among the 1st in to a map, now i'm way after all the vehicles etc have gone.
2 x 7970 , decent SSD, [email protected], 16gig ram etc , so don't believe its hardware.
I used to be among the 1st in to a map, now i'm way after all the vehicles etc have gone.
2 x 7970 , decent SSD, [email protected], 16gig ram etc , so don't believe its hardware.
Update: I tested a game last night (Fifa 13 - don't judge me! It's the only one I have reinstalled on my computer since I restored it all. The reason I chose this one is a) because it is the quickest to start playing, and b) it is one of the games that had the worst lags on it.)
The lag is still there, and whilst still unplayable, it is only just unplayable. Before it was almost 1 second lags, now it is a few milliseconds. I'll need to start installing and testing the other games, but would you suggest any tinkering with triple buffering or Vsync to improve this?
To answer your earlier question - going back to Windows 8 wouldn't help - it was actually a security patch update for windows 8 that kicked all of this off. The installation of the update just coincided with upgrading to Windows 8.1, so I was incorrectly blaming 8.1!
Again, I really appreciate your help. Since all these problems began, the computer is now running better than ever, and is as close to right as I've had it in 6 months, so thank you
The Radeon HD 7310 has 80 Stream Processors, 80.
Compare that with the FX-7600P 35 Watt Mobile APU which has 512 Stream Processors, 512.
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/70653-amd-fx-7600p-28nm-kaveri/?page=7
On that ^^^ chart your gaming performance would come in under the Athlon 5350 or even the i5-4210Y.
Your problem is horse power, its not a Laptop for games.
Anyway, your welcome, unfortunately there is nothing more that can be done.
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Thanks, I get what you are saying, and I trust your knowledge... the only thing that is strange it is a game I could play (I could play all my games actually) without incident before the whole security patch update/Windows 8.1/ computer crash debacle, so it just seems strange. Which is why I asked about triple buffering and Vsync, as I was under the impression tweaking these can help. I think I will have to try all of my games (oh bother!
) and see if there are any improvements or if all are still unplayable.
I just tried out the14.6 drivers and OMFG! Never had a worse impact from a driver update with any card... Lost about 80 points in Heaven 4.0 on average, constant display driver crash/recovery and black screens every 5 - 20 mins ... that is before i load a game. In Football Manager 14 It tears the screen to pieces ... i move my mouse and instantly get multi coloured slashes or cracks in the picture to the point that 3 mins into a game i have to quit because it drives me to madness. I've gone through the obligatory steps to completely uninstall previous driver fora clean install.... Wtf has happened since 14.2? I got a massive jump with that driver, no real change with 14.3, a large drop with 14.4 and now complete instability with 14.6...
For the majority of us, 14.6 is by far the best amd driver yet.
Sadly, not for me - I have recently hooked up a pair of 290s @XFire to the AOC U2868 PQU 4K monitor.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
/ a horrible flickering , had to revert back to 30Hz.
At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
/ a horrible flickering , had to revert back to 30Hz.At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
Sadly, not for me - I have recently hooked up a pair of 290s @XFire to the AOC U2868 PQU 4K monitor.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
Passed it on to the relevant people, will see what they say.
Sadly, not for me - I have recently hooked up a pair of 290s @XFire to the AOC U2868 PQU 4K monitor.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
Silly question
What type of lead are you using to connect your 290s to the 4K monitor ?
Sadly, not for me - I have recently hooked up a pair of 290s @XFire to the AOC U2868 PQU 4K monitor.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
Something odd going on, your cards should be able to push 60htz.
Here is a review with 290X CF on a 4K 60htz monitor.
http://www.eteknix.com/4k-gaming-showdown-amd-r9-290x-crossfire-vs-nvidia-gtx-780-ti-sli/
Sadly, not for me - I have recently hooked up a pair of 290s @XFire to the AOC U2868 PQU 4K monitor.
AT 4K AMD cards are not able to push 60Hz , I got / and not only me
At Tomshardware there is a whole thread about it / and must be elsewhere /, one guy reverted back to a pair of 780s and instantly got 60Hz.
AT Nvidia forum one guy had a call with AMD and they , reportedly, stated that 290 do not have proper " timing controllers " to run 60Hz at 4K resolution.
I do hope it is not a hardware, but software problem, because if it is a HW related issue, than it s a nogo for me and many others with AMD.
If it is a SW /driver / issue, then I must say that their driver making dept are a bunch of idiots.
4K monitors are coming and they do ... nothing.
Passed it on to the relevant people, will see what they say.
Bit of an update for you, more to follow.
https://twitter.com/TheMattB81/status/478081570906337281
There is quite a lot of others having probs Kaap not just the op.
If you look around this is affecting red and green.
I know of one person who had the AOC working with ti's,
swapped out for 2 sapphires 290X's and can't even get 60hz running
That's a shame, well we've got their attention lets hope they can fix it.
Your mate Thracks is on the case for this poor soul
I get a flicker/signal loss and a popping noise when I first turn the monitor on.
Awaiting Asus to replace.
I think they rushed these 4K's out
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It is very sad to hear, I hope they get it sorted soon.
Your mate Thracks is on the case for this poor soul
I get a flicker/signal loss and a popping noise when I first turn the monitor on.
Awaiting Asus to replace.
I think they rushed these 4K's out
I am not a great fan of the tech review sites and prefer to see how users get on with equipment.
If only the tech review sites were more critical and raised problems like the above one rather than letting the end users find and deal with them.
Display Port cable that came with the monitor / should be of 2.1 specification / and worked for some guys with 780, 770 with the very same monitor.
Passed it on to the relevant people, will see what they say.
Thanks a lot, I knew I would get help and support here !
Your mate Thracks is on the case for this poor soul
I get a flicker/signal loss and a popping noise when I first turn the monitor on.
Awaiting Asus to replace.
I think they rushed these 4K's out
To me it looks that the monitor is allright: I ran it under W7 , allright, scaling and font problems. Yestardy I installed W8.1 and the support from within the OS is allright . Monitor gave and is giving a clear picture, no flickering in 2D , but.. no 60Hz.
When I downscale the resolution to full HD or WHQD I can run 60 Hz no problem, but the ultimate resolution does not work at 60Hz.
AT Tomshardware one guy wrote that with a pair of 290s he had had the exactly same issue like me /us/ and bought a pair of 780s instead and BANG- 60 Hz out of the box.
The other wrott that replacing the 290 with 770 had solved the problem as well..
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