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**THE AMD DRIVERS THREAD**

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But.........just looked at that bloody 8 game giveaway AMD are doing with the 9970 cards and all of a sudden those 780s do not seem as nailed on! Whens AMD's next round of cards due?
 
Right, so the drivers have been in the works for the past 4 months or more, we get confirmation in the morning that they will be released shortly and suddenly they decide to do last minute tweaks that will take them up to a week or longer?

Guess where AMD is on credibility scale now.
 
Its not as last minute as they would have us believe, guru 3d were asked specifically to hold a review on the drivers till the driver went live on August 1st.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4629137&postcount=45

So it would seem they knew they weren't releasing today, and knew that on Tuesday as well. Just stringing people along on twitter to release the "unexpected" (expected) news.
 
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Gerard said:
Its not as last minute as they would have us believe, guru 3d were asked specifically to hold a review on the drivers till the driver went live on August 1st.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4629137&postcount=45

So it would seem they knew they weren't releasing today, and knew that on Tuesday as well. Just stringing people along on twitter to release the "unexpected" (expected) news.
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It was only one person at AMD who said today they were being released shortly - which was probably a bad choice of words given they'd told reviewers yesterday they were delayed a day. There was nothing on any of the official sources.

It sounds very much like they've had something back from the reviews that highlights a problem.
 
Hilberts been preping his AMD's 13.8 B1 framepacing article for and, on the presumption it's ready(or not due to the bugs), then it's here, patience folks, think of our poor Nvidia brethern that's been screaming out for any decent new driver that doesn't go up in smoke again:eek:, instead of having to use ones from ages ago!;)

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Chill out everyone :)

What would you rather have, the driver now with a potential bug (which I presume is behind the delay). Or have the fully fixed thing in a few days?

Imagine the flak they would get if it was released and they found card killing issues like Nvidia had with 320.18?
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+1,

But, pretty poor from AMD telling us it's going live, to then hold it back very late in the day is bad bad bad PR, not cool at all, better feedback should be of the utmost priority with their valued customers.

If they get it spot on, then I'm another one who will be more than content for the delay-unless it's another few months though.

Would be nice for thraks to give us an update informing us of the progress/delay/eta though, hint hint.



A few comments here and other places too on the presumption there is no frame pacing driver- how come there was a closed door frame pacing preview driver at the 7990 launch?


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The question is, if these frame pacing drivers work will there be a performance hit?
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There was some guy(that had acess to the original early beta frame pacing driver) on an [H] forum thread a while back stated that the way the driver works will give a performance increase-as by smoothing out the frames, you will be getting the indicative performance that the numbers portrayed in the first place-i.e in theory we were getting a lot of dropped frames, if they are in place-fixed, then we are in for a treat-IF his claims were true.
 
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Straight up, the driver will be here on August 1. We really are sorry about the one-day delay; we know we promised 7/31, but we needed a smidge extra time to put it through the wringer and had to make that call at the 11th hour. Tomorrow 13.8 Beta is live for the world.
 
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Straight up, the driver will be here on August 1. We really are sorry about the one-day delay; we know we promised 7/31, but we needed a smidge extra time to put it through the wringer and had to make that call at the 11th hour. Tomorrow 13.8 Beta is live for the world.
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Will this driver also be decent for single GPU users? Like a nice increase
 
Thracks said:
Straight up, the driver will be here on August 1. We really are sorry about the one-day delay; we know we promised 7/31, but we needed a smidge extra time to put it through the wringer and had to make that call at the 11th hour. Tomorrow 13.8 Beta is live for the world.
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Thank you for the update thracks :)

Now can everyone just relax and stop acting like someone at amd just punched their mother?

It's A DAY delay, I could understand the moaning if it was another month but it's not.
 
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It's important to note that single-GPU frame pacing was resolved long ago. This driver is primarily concerned with CrossFire.
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Thanks for the updates Thracks - they're appreciated. I remember a post a few months ago (not on here) that the drivers would only resolve single screen crossfire and that Eyefinity+crossfire was a very different problem. Is that still the case or have AMD been able to add pacing to Eyefinity crossfire too?
 
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