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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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Has anyone tested any of the improvements with this?

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 Windows Driver

    • Support for the AMD Radeon R9 28
    • Performance improvements (comparing AMD Catalyst 14.9 vs. AMD Catalyst 14.4)
      • 3DMark Sky Diver improvements
        • AMD A4 6300 – improves up to 4%
        • Enables AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire support
      • 3DMark Fire Strike
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 5% in Performance Preset
      • 3DMark11
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series - improves up to 4% in Entry and Performance Preset
      • BioShock Infinite
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – 1920x1080 - improves up to 5%
      • Company of Heroes 2
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 8%
      • Crysis 3
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 10%
      • Grid Auto Sport
        • AMD CrossFire profile
      • Murdered Soul Suspect
        • AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, 4x MSAA, 16x AF) – improves up to 50%
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 6%
        • CrossFire configurations improve scaling up to 75%
      • Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements)
        • AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
        • AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
        • AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
      • Batman Arkham Origins:
        • AMD Radeon R9 290X (4x MSAA) – improves up to 20%
        • CrossFire configurations see up to a 70% gain in scaling
      • Wildstar
        • Power Xpress profile
        • Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
        • Performance improves up to 30% on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations
      • Tomb Raider
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – improves up to 5%
      • Watch Dogs
        • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 9%
        • AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvement
        • Improved CrossFire performance – up to 20%
      • Assassin's Creed IV
        • Improves CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93% (CrossFire scaling improvement of 25% compared to AMD Catalyst 14.4)
      • Lichdom
        • Improves performance for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations
      • Star Craft II
        • AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, AA, 16x AF) – improves up to 20%
    • AMD Eyefinity enhancements
      • Mixed Resolution Support
        • A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
        • Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
        • Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
          1. Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
          2. Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays
          3. Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface
      • Eyefinity Display Alignment
        • Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
      • One-Click Setup
        • Driver detects layout of extended desktop
          • Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!

    • New user controls for video color and display settings
      • Greater control over Video Color Management:
        • Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
      • Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
        • Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display
  • AMD Mantle enhancements
    • Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology
      • Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
      • Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
      • Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
    • Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
  • AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration
    • JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
    • Provides fast JPEG decompression
    • Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression
Resolved Issues

    • 60Hz SST flickering has been identified as an issue with non-standard display timings exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in the AMD Catalyst 14.9 driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display
      • Users seeing flickering issues in 60Hz SST mode are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from their monitor vendor that will resolve flickering at its origin.
      • Users are additionally advised to utilize DisplayPort-certified cables to ensure the integrity of the DisplayPort data connection.
    • 4K panel flickering issues found on the AMD Radeon R9 290 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
    • Screen tearing observed on AMD CrossFire systems with Eyefinity portrait display configurations
    • Instability issues for Grid Autosport when running in 2x1 or 1x2 Eyefinity configurations
    • Geometry corruption in State of Decay
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shankly1985 said:
Wow!
Even my BF4 temps have dropped a lot "a lot" used to be 80c top card and 78c bottom

Now top is 73c and bottom 70c


Well DONE AMD!
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are you sure it's not due to weather/room temp change?

my temps have drops but i think it's due to weather/room temp change because at night the temps go up again due to my room temp gets to about 27-28c
 
gareth170 said:
are you sure it's not due to weather/room temp change?

my temps have drops but i think it's due to weather/room temp change because at night the temps go up again due to my room temp gets to about 27-28c
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Nope, it was something I did at first think about. But night time my room get very hot and I was playing CSGO before the driver install and I was sitting at 75c after driver change and played again 30 rounds Dust2 same map as before I was only max 68c

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I do remember a Driver increasing TEMPs I think it was the first 14.7 beta
 
win8.1 said:
I will check this out. Where you using 14.6/14.7 before by any chance as 14.8 I believe fixed the extra heat produced by drivers past 14.4.
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14.7
I remember someone on here noticed the increase after I think 14.4 I went back to 14.4 and confirmed the issue and reported it to AMD.

I didn't install 14.8 has it wasn't officially released.
 
Hi Matt,

I'm curious, looking at the change log for the newest drivers, there doesn't seem to be any mention of improvements for 270x's.

Are the listed improvements across the board, or isn't there any improvements for the 270x's? I have two in crossfire, and was just curious of any changes in terms of performance.
 
14.7 B3: FireStrike
GPU: 11888

14.9: FireStrike
GPU: 12016 (+1%)


14.7 B3: SkyDiver
GPU: 39049

14.9: SkyDiver
GPU 39137 (0%)


14.7 B3: 3DMark11
GPU: 16279

14.9: 3DMark11
GPU: 16476 (+1%)

every little helps...

Temperatures; i unistalled 14.9 and reinstalled 14.7 B3 just now to run these tests

With 14.7 B3 my peak temperature was 69c, with 14.9 it was down to 66c.

Conjecture, in FireStrike i always have got 2 or 3 flickers during benching in the same places, 14.9 made them go away, i got them before i installed 14.9 and i got them again after reinstalling 14.7 B3, i actually thought they are part and parcel i got so used to seeing them.

All in all i feel these drivers are a bit less of a strain on the GPU, reducing temperatures while maintaining performance if not increasing it slightly.

I'm quite pleased with them.
 
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russell664 said:
Hi Matt,

I'm curious, looking at the change log for the newest drivers, there doesn't seem to be any mention of improvements for 270x's.

Are the listed improvements across the board, or isn't there any improvements for the 270x's? I have two in crossfire, and was just curious of any changes in terms of performance.
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They will be across the board generally, so don't worry. Sometimes it's impossible list every performance improvement.

Footyslayer said:
Since installing 14.9 I keep getting "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER " and a blue screen and then a forced reboot.

Can anyone advise?
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Hello Footyslater,

Sorry to hear of the issue you're having.

Is your pc overclocked at all?
 
AMDMatt said:
Hello Footyslater,

Sorry to hear of the issue you're having.

Is your pc overclocked at all?
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Hi Matt, well done on the job by the way, fully deserved!

My cpu is overclocked, never been an issue on any other full release drivers. My graphics card is not overclocked.

I've had to go back to 14.4 as the frequency of that exact error was ridiculous :(
 
Footyslayer said:
Hi Matt, well done on the job by the way, fully deserved!

My cpu is overclocked, never been an issue on any other full release drivers. My graphics card is not overclocked.

I've had to go back to 14.4 as the frequency of that exact error was ridiculous :(
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Thank you Footyslayer.

Sorry to hear of that issue you're having.

Is your cpu definitely fully stable?

Could you provide me a copy of your DXDIAG report as well as any minidump BSOD files and i will submit then to our driver team and see if we can find a solution for you. If you could upload them to sendspace and attach them to this thread i will pass it along. Thank you. :)
 
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