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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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Metro Last Light, Very high, Very high Tessellation, SSAA Off @ 3200x1800P

Single R9 290.

Average 36FPS.

Actually very smooth, very playable for off line single player gaming.

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i do get my Samsung monitor go black screen sometimes and have to disconnet my DP lead and plug it in again i have had this on 3 diff AMD cards over the last 2 years SAmsung says it isnt a fault tried numerous DP leads and the person here PG what ever his name did say Samsung knows about it but i can put up with it as it never happens in games seems to be res changes sometimes
 
I'm using a DVI connect for my 1080 monitor, what are the pro's & cons of going to hdmi?

I read earlier in the thread that I need to use hdmi to get the RGB selection option - anything else worth changing for?
 
Dispelling FUD about AMD drivers:

http://semiaccurate.com/2014/12/10/amd-cuts-firepro-prices-talks-quality/

AMD has a long-standing and once deserved reputation for really awful quality drivers. Several years ago they went on a bender to change that and it did indeed change. Purchased game developer shenanigans aside, they drivers are solid but for some the stigma remains. As you can see from the slide below, the units are reported driver problems per million units sold, they did do what they promised about the time SemiAccurate started telling you it was happening..
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Perceptions do not necessarily reflect reality and the net is a morass of loud idiots without a clue or data on both sides, then again what else is new? AMD still has to combat this and the first step is to get people to try their cards to see for themselves. The quality is there, the cost is there, the performance per dollar is there so getting over that initial hurdle is the key.
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Should come in handy.
 
Uncle Petey said:
For anyone getting black borders (16:9 users), you may have to set your desktop resolution to match the game res you plan to use.
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=440&threadid=181926

I still get the borders on one of my screens. Not sure why it doesn't happen on the other and haven't had a chance to try this fix yet.
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Yes, it does work.
Setting the desktop res to match the game means no more black borders :)

Sorry to quote myself :D
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Sorry for another self quote... :o

I've just come back to it (PC was off for a bit) and tried a game on my second screen which had the border before I changed the desktop res to fix it and despite me not changing the desktop res this time, games no longer have a border when I pick a higher res in game.

Tis a strange one... At least it works :)
Loving how it's sorted out jaggies on Assetto, pCARS and Alien as well as helping out with other games that didn't respond to the previous supersampling options in CCC.
 
Scotspaul said:
I'm using a DVI connect for my 1080 monitor, what are the pro's & cons of going to hdmi?

I read earlier in the thread that I need to use hdmi to get the RGB selection option - anything else worth changing for?
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HDMI will do audio and higher res (up to 4k on version 1.4 and greater) as opposed to DVI. If your monitor is 1080p and does not have speakers I doubt it will have any benefit AFAIK.
 
GoogalyMoogaly i have the same problem, tried everything i can think of removing all driver traces in safe mode, uninstalled all 3rd party software, updated windows but still the same error
 
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