The AMD R9 290 (non x) Thread

SiDeards73 · 27 Nov 2013 at 20:36

Hmmm GPU-Z shows the temp of my card at a constant 94c with 27% fan speed, need to sort that

thewanted · 27 Nov 2013 at 20:57

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.

Marine-RX179 · 27 Nov 2013 at 21:14

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.

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...

thewanted · 27 Nov 2013 at 21:19

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...

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

Orangey · 28 Nov 2013 at 01:20

2600K 2x290 all stock

Tute · 28 Nov 2013 at 01:41

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.

Orangey · 28 Nov 2013 at 02:11

Yep stock, xfire is enabled in CCC too, will investigate.

SS-89 · 28 Nov 2013 at 08:19

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.

That's firestrike extreme. I'm pretty sure your 10k score was on normal firestrike.

Score looks about right if everything was at stock.

Tute · 28 Nov 2013 at 11:59

Apologies, but I wasn't aware there was a difference!

melmac · 28 Nov 2013 at 16:25

Well, I am now a member of the R9 290 owners club. I got the Sapphire one.

thewanted · 28 Nov 2013 at 16:51

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

I ordered another Sapphire 290. Looking forward to seeing how Crossfire handles 1440p

Tute · 29 Nov 2013 at 14:45

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:

Orangey · 29 Nov 2013 at 15:10

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.

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

a66as · 29 Nov 2013 at 16:46

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?

Addicted · 29 Nov 2013 at 18:00

Hey guys - just installed my 2nd R9 290 - but I can't seem to get it to detect in the Device Manager?

This is all I get - any ideas? Even got a monitor plugged into it!

Addicted · 29 Nov 2013 at 19:00

Sorted it, I think I reset it when it was installing the driver so never installed it properly.

Uninstalling and installing it again worked.

Here's a pic: http://i.imgur.com/IOJqrZw.jpg

thewanted · 29 Nov 2013 at 19:04

Is anyone getting weird screen tearing in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema when CrossfireX is enabled?

Orangey · 29 Nov 2013 at 19:55

thewanted said:
Is anyone getting weird screen tearing in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema when CrossfireX is enabled?

You can set up a profile for mpchc with xfire disabled, 1 card is enough for video acceleration.

thewanted · 29 Nov 2013 at 20:19

Orangey said:
You can set up a profile for mpchc with xfire disabled, 1 card is enough for video acceleration.

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

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

vUNREALv · 29 Nov 2013 at 20:25

Afterburner doesn't read GPU usage very well for these cards mate, I'm sure it will get sorted in future versions.