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Kaapstad · 21 Jul 2013 at 10:43

LtMatt said:
I expect he'll come crawling back to us when the 9970 is released and beats a titan.

It might beat a Titan but then again it might not. Having said that the HD 9970 being a top end mainstream card, it's job will be to beat the GTX 770 and HD 7970 by a fair margin for a reasonable price. If it can do even better then that is a bonus.

shankly1985 · 21 Jul 2013 at 10:48

LtMatt said:
Yes it was fixed ages ago but i just wondered if they would include the frame pacing algorithm for single gpu as well.

Thats cool and I dont see why not

Can't wait to try theses drivers and see what the fuse is about.
Looking at the Youtube side by side prototype vids you can clearly see the difference, but when playing games now with 13.6 I dont notice the stutter?

I also noticed on the footage the frame pacing driver had less screen tear.

LtMatt · 21 Jul 2013 at 10:51

shankly1985 said:
Thats cool and I dont see why not Can't wait to try theses drivers and see what the fuse is about.
Looking at the Youtube side by side prototype vids you can clearly see the difference, but when playing games now with 13.6 I dont notice the stutter?

I also noticed on the footage the frame pacing driver had less screen tear.

Generally you need to have the video slowed down to 0.25x or whatever to see or feel the effects. However the issue is there on some titles for sure, but as we've seen its no way near as bad as has been made out. Sleeping dogs and Farcry 3 are the only games i have issue with currently. Sleeping dogs can be 95% solved by using vsync.

Besty · 21 Jul 2013 at 12:56

Far Cry 3 won't be fixed by this driver, it's just a poor PC port.

pgi947 · 21 Jul 2013 at 13:17

Besty said:
Far Cry 3 won't be fixed by this driver, it's just a poor PC port.

This.

The game is just completely broken and the developer couldn't give a monkeys about PC gamers. iirc its just as bad on multi Nvidia cards too where 100fps feels like 15fps.

Kaapstad · 21 Jul 2013 at 13:45

pgi947 said:
This.

The game is just completely broken and the developer couldn't give a monkeys about PC gamers. iirc its just as bad on multi Nvidia cards too where 100fps feels like 15fps.

It plays ok on NVidia setups but yes the fps are quite low and the game does not really use the hardware. Is it a similar experience with AMD multi setups ?

shankly1985 · 21 Jul 2013 at 14:06

Kaapstad said:
It plays ok on NVidia setups but yes the fps are quite low and the game does not really use the hardware. Is it a similar experience with AMD multi setups ?

The game is a mess on both Nvidia and AMD... You know the funny thing FC4 is coming out and they expect us to buy it?

I said this couple months back Ubisoft will be next big company to close its doors, mark my words.

They hasn't been a single game I have played from Ubisoft witch just works. Even Ghost Recon F2P is a mess. Its not just PC either my last Ubi game on PS3 was also a mess and from what I understand still has issue Ghost Recon FS.

Ubisoft is the worst game Development Company out there.

LtMatt · 21 Jul 2013 at 14:07

Blood Dragon works flawlessly on crossfire though so one would hope it would be ok on farcry 4.

oldestgregg · 21 Jul 2013 at 14:29

LtMatt said:
Blood Dragon works flawlessly on crossfire though so one would hope it would be ok on farcry 4.

Its a total mess on crossfire 7970 and a 4770k here and always has been. Radeon pro lessons the problems but its still too stuttery to play. AFAIK this is the general consensus in the community as well.

kunoichia · 21 Jul 2013 at 14:57

fc3 was ****e from the start and has never been fixed. Blood dragon ran fine from the start for me tbh.

pgi947 · 21 Jul 2013 at 14:58

Kaapstad said:
It plays ok on NVidia setups but yes the fps are quite low and the game does not really use the hardware. Is it a similar experience with AMD multi setups ?

It just generally runs like plop, utilisation isn't great, dare you look in any direction it stutters its way to making you want to drop kick your monitor into the sun

As Matt said though, Blood Dragon runs perfect, which just go's to show how lazy and un-supportive Ubisoft are to PC gamers, as its the same engine, they obviously know how to fix it, but won't.

Seem to be another one of these developers that haven't quite gotten the grasp of coding DX11 games yet, they make a mess of it then just leave it for the end user to be disappointed.

Kaapstad · 21 Jul 2013 at 16:02

pgi947 said:
It just generally runs like plop, utilisation isn't great, dare you look in any direction it stutters its way to making you want to drop kick your monitor into the sun

As Matt said though, Blood Dragon runs perfect, which just go's to show how lazy and un-supportive Ubisoft are to PC gamers, as its the same engine, they obviously know how to fix it, but won't.

Seem to be another one of these developers that haven't quite gotten the grasp of coding DX11 games yet, they make a mess of it then just leave it for the end user to be disappointed.

So all round with AMD and NVidia, Farcry 3 is "£$%

I will have to retest but thinking about it FC3 actually gives lower fps than Crysis 3 on my Titans, this is bad.

pgi947 · 21 Jul 2013 at 16:21

Pretty much, single card I hear is much smoother, but then who buys multiple GPU's to disable them for a supposed AAA title?

whyscotty · 21 Jul 2013 at 16:48

Kaapstad said:
So all round with AMD and NVidia, Farcry 3 is "£$%

I will have to retest but thinking about it FC3 actually gives lower fps than Crysis 3 on my Titans, this is bad.

Please do, just been trying and looks like its fixed on the latest beta.(running win8)

Tried sli and tri sli,both worked very well.(everything maxed)

Still has the same issue of crashing when the match finishes

LtMatt · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:48

New AMD Drivers folks. Get your hands out your pants crossfire users, these are not the frame pacing drivers. Those are due 31st this month, not long to go.

The most interesting thing to note from this driver is this line 'Unigine Heaven – Performance has been improved up to 11% on single GPU configurations'

AMD Catalyst™ OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided “AS IS”, and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver:

Full support for OpenGL 4.3
Resolved Issues:

Enduro Technology on AMD + AMD Ubuntu platforms - Source Engine games hang when running on the High Performance ASIC
Maya 2011-2013 – Various visual corruptions issues have been resolved
Maya 2011-2013 – Mesh/Polygons selection performance has been improved
Unigine Heaven – Intermittent Crashes have been resolved
Unigine Heaven – Performance has been improved up to 11% on single GPU configurations
Left 4 Dead 2 – Visual corruption issues have been resolved

System Requirements:

Window® 8.1 Release Preview (32 & 64-bit)
Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit, with SP1 or higher)
Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit, with SP2 or higher)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
OpenSUSE
Ubuntu
AMD Product Compatibility:

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

Download Link
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD_Catalyst_Win8.1_Release_Preview_V2-13.15.100.1.exe

shankly1985 · 23 Jul 2013 at 12:52

LtMatt said:
New AMD Drivers folks. Get your hands out your pants crossfire users, these are not the frame pacing drivers. Those are due 31st this month, not long to go.

The most interesting thing to note from this driver is this line 'Unigine Heaven – Performance has been improved up to 11% on single GPU configurations'

AMD Catalyst™ OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided “AS IS”, and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver:

Full support for OpenGL 4.3
Resolved Issues:

Enduro Technology on AMD + AMD Ubuntu platforms - Source Engine games hang when running on the High Performance ASIC
Maya 2011-2013 – Various visual corruptions issues have been resolved
Maya 2011-2013 – Mesh/Polygons selection performance has been improved
Unigine Heaven – Intermittent Crashes have been resolved
Unigine Heaven – Performance has been improved up to 11% on single GPU configurations
Left 4 Dead 2 – Visual corruption issues have been resolved

System Requirements:

Window® 8.1 Release Preview (32 & 64-bit)
Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit, with SP1 or higher)
Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit, with SP2 or higher)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise
OpenSUSE
Ubuntu
AMD Product Compatibility:

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

Download Link
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD_Catalyst_Win8.1_Release_Preview_V2-13.15.100.1.exe

Nice will get these installed now

shankly1985 · 23 Jul 2013 at 14:19

3DMark
13.6 beta 2 vs OpenGL4.3 driver

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/680318/fs/688325

13.6 - 10182
13.7 ?? - 10197

Every Little helps

LtMatt · 23 Jul 2013 at 14:20

shankly1985 said:
3DMark
13.6 beta 2 vs OpenGL4.3 driver

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/680318/fs/688325

13.6 - 10182
13.7 ?? - 10197

Every Little helps

Are you sponsored by Asda?

shankly1985 · 23 Jul 2013 at 14:29

LtMatt said:
Are you sponsored by Asda?

Asda who this? Must be some small time player

BS Dave · 23 Jul 2013 at 16:02

i wonder if the PS4 will use something akin to open GL - and this is a result of drivers being revamped for that...?

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