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The AMD R9 290 (non x) Thread

Would someone mind sharing their experience with Battlefield 4 @ 1440p (multiplayer) please?

I'm seeing dips to ~35FPS but then quite often it'll sit at ~70FPS. The game never quite feels smooth but my GPU usage sits at 99% most of the time but it does spike a little.

4770K @ 4.4GHz
16GB RAM @ 1333MHz C9
Sapphire R9 290 @ 1120/1450
Battlefield 4: 1440p at Ultra settings but 2x MSAA

I just want to know if I'm perhaps expecting too much from one card.
 
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thewanted said:
Would someone mind sharing their experience with Battlefield 4 @ 1440p (multiplayer) please?

I'm seeing dips to ~35FPS but then quite often it'll sit at ~70FPS. The game never quite feels smooth but my GPU usage sits at 99% most of the time but it does spike a little.

4770K @ 4.4GHz
16GB RAM @ 1333MHz C9
Sapphire R9 290 @ 1120/1450
Battlefield 4: 1440p at Ultra settings but 2x MSAA

I just want to know if I'm perhaps expecting too much from one card.
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BF4 on 2560 res...and with 2xMSAA applied...with a single 290? I would have to say yes. If you are expecting minimum 55-60fps, then may be you are thinking 1920 res...
 
Marine-RX179 said:
BF4 on 2560 res...and with 2xMSAA applied...with a single 290? I would have to say yes. If you are expecting minimum 55-60fps, then may be you are thinking 1920 res...
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I think you might be right. I'm busy playing the campaign, and the part where you're standing in front of that skyscraper in Shanghai with the fountains out the front completely murders the card when it's set to Ultra, even with MSAA disabled.

Knocking the settings down to High keeps the FPS above 60. Time for another 290 I guess :(
 
2600K 2x290 all stock

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Is that at stock 3DM settings Orangey? It doesn't look like Crossfire is working to me, I get ~10k graphics score with a single card.
 
Tute said:
Is that at stock 3DM settings Orangey? It doesn't look like Crossfire is working to me, I get ~10k graphics score with a single card.
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That's firestrike extreme. I'm pretty sure your 10k score was on normal firestrike.

Score looks about right if everything was at stock.
 
thewanted said:
I think you might be right. I'm busy playing the campaign, and the part where you're standing in front of that skyscraper in Shanghai with the fountains out the front completely murders the card when it's set to Ultra, even with MSAA disabled.

Knocking the settings down to High keeps the FPS above 60. Time for another 290 I guess :(
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I ordered another Sapphire 290. Looking forward to seeing how Crossfire handles 1440p :)
 
Well well well.

Me and my 290 are locking horns quite a bit today. It seems to have rendered itself totally unstable overnight - I can't get into a game for longer than about 10 minutes without a BSOD/crash. Also it's doing funny things on the desktop like crashing IE, artifacting, display driver recovery errors, and it flicks back and forth between Aero and Basic every few minutes.

Trying to roll back to the 9.2 drivers but AMD have quite kindly removed all links to them on the website. How helpful, morons. :rolleyes:
 
Tute said:
Well well well.

Me and my 290 are locking horns quite a bit today. It seems to have rendered itself totally unstable overnight - I can't get into a game for longer than about 10 minutes without a BSOD/crash. Also it's doing funny things on the desktop like crashing IE, artifacting, display driver recovery errors, and it flicks back and forth between Aero and Basic every few minutes.

Trying to roll back to the 9.2 drivers but AMD have quite kindly removed all links to them on the website. How helpful, morons. :rolleyes:
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I can upload it somewhere if you need.

edit: here it is actually: http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_11_beta_9_2_(13_250_18_november_7)_download.html
 
Just received mine today and the first thing i want to do is replace the thermal paste on it. Any precautions i need to take as to not void the warranty?
 
Hey guys - just installed my 2nd R9 290 - but I can't seem to get it to detect in the Device Manager?

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This is all I get - any ideas? Even got a monitor plugged into it!
 
Orangey said:
You can set up a profile for mpchc with xfire disabled, 1 card is enough for video acceleration.
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Ah cool, thanks! This is the very first time I've ever had 2 cards so this is all very new to me. First time I've had a gaming PC since about 2001 too :P

Any idea why my GPU usage spikes so much while playing BF4?

Spec:

4770K @ 4.4GHz
16GB 1333MHz C9 RAM (This is getting swapped out for 2400MHz C10 on Monday)
2 x Sapphire R9 290s @ stock

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