#4727075 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:04 PM

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2x R9 290s in crossfire. I will update my profile now I guess

#4727076 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:09 PM

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this driver is for R9 280x

#4727079 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:12 PM

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If you go on the sapphire website, you can download it for all of the AMD cards.

#4727080 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:13 PM

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I knew it, you allway's can count on AMD for these kind of jokes..
Only possible with AMD software...it's unbelievable,.. where these guy's are with their heads, in fact, they aren't gamers for sure...

They break the most elementary things which where solved just past the stoneage...

And with this we have to do it for another month? Well defenetly not...if I see no proper driver before X-mas holyday's, I get rid of this trash (only due that incompetent driverteam)...

#4727081 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:15 PM

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Doesn´t show me Catalyst Version.

#4727085 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:19 PM

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#4727086 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:20 PM

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Doesn´t show me Catalyst Version.



Same for me, but the driver has the right build number so I really don't think that it matters.

#4727087 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:21 PM

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I knew it, you allway's can count on AMD for these kind of jokes..
Only possible with AMD software...it's unbelievable,.. where these guy's are with their heads, in fact, they aren't gamers for sure...

They break the most elementary things which where solved just past the stoneage...

And with this we have to do it for another month? Well defenetly not...if I see no proper driver before X-mas holyday's, I get rid of this trash (only due that incompetent driverteam)...

I'm just waiting for mantle man, and I'm sure that will improve BF4 at least quite substantially, especially in crossfire since it can use each card independently.
But yeah I just switched from NVIDIA and the AMD drivers are worse in literally every single way. Windows feels laggier, games have stuttering problems and Vsync is FUBAR. IDK what to say...

#4727095 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:34 PM

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I knew it, you allway's can count on AMD for these kind of jokes..
Only possible with AMD software...it's unbelievable,.. where these guy's are with their heads, in fact, they aren't gamers for sure...

They break the most elementary things which where solved just past the stoneage...

And with this we have to do it for another month? Well defenetly not...if I see no proper driver before X-mas holyday's, I get rid of this trash (only due that incompetent driverteam)...

You can send the cards to me. I would be glad to free you of "this trash".

#4727097 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:36 PM

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Same here, is it just a typo or are the driver number BS?!
Maybe Sapphire mistake a Beta as WHQL?!

Cheers!

#4727098 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:36 PM

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I'm just waiting for mantle man, and I'm sure that will improve BF4 at least quite substantially, especially in crossfire since it can use each card independently.
But yeah I just switched from NVIDIA and the AMD drivers are worse in literally every single way. Windows feels laggier, games have stuttering problems and Vsync is FUBAR. IDK what to say...

What a shame. The last AMD cards I had were 7850's in Xfire, it was a stutter fest. Got rid of them a long time ago for 2x EVGA GTX 670 FTW's and now I have 2x MSI GTX 770 Lightnings. The 670's went to my twin boys. The new R9 290's had me curious but reading your post confirms my biggest worry.

#4727102 Posted on: 12/18/2013 04:39 PM

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Many Catalyst versions in the past had the same display ver problem, even after a clean OS installation.

The solution
1.regedit
2.search the following "catalyst_version"
3.change it

#4727119 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:04 PM

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Same here, is it just a typo or are the driver number BS?!
Maybe Sapphire mistake a Beta as WHQL?!

Cheers!

It's Catalyst verion, not driver.

#4727122 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:05 PM

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It still doesn't make sense.
Probably a typo... but we will never know until it's official.

#4727123 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:05 PM

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I was really exaggerating a little in that post. Many games run much better than before (with nvidia) and perfectly, it is just some bugs in the drivers than I'm sure will be fixed later which are the problem. There is no microstuttering with crossfire that is perceptible to me - rather there is just a problem with vsync and crossfire on the hawaii cards at the moment which causes this stutter and audio distortion on anything past the 13.11 beta 9.2 driver, so it is obviously just a recently-introduced bug. This makes games with forced vsync like skyrim run crappily. Other games also have some problems like AC black flag, which nvidia obviously paid them to cripple on the AMD cards because there is no reason why it runs so much better on my 680s than these r9 290s. I also had many problems with NVIDIA drivers in the past though, as well as the fact that their cards simply have too little VRAM when playing at 1440P upwards.
Anyway yeah, I'm sure the non-reference cards would be amazing after some driver updates, and the release of mantle

#4727126 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:11 PM

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It still doesn't make sense.
Probably a typo... but we will never know until it's official.

True, the only real difference I´ve seen so far is that the smoke-flicker
I had until now in 3DMark`s Fire-Strike is gone in CFX and since BF 4
is broken for now I can`t comment on that!

Cheers!

#4727127 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:11 PM

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My SLI experieces where superb, with allmost zero problems, powerfull, flexible and reliable.

With crossfire the most basic funtions often allready fail. But, the hardware is so great.. It's a shame these wonderfull GPU's are plaged by this incompetent software (forced AA what's that?), really...such a shame..

If the hardware wasn't so great, I wouldn't even looking at it...

#4727136 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:22 PM

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We will know by looking at the driver size.

#4727140 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:26 PM

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Hold your horses with the Mantle nonsense. If it was ready, I am sure AMD would go big about it, and IT media woul be full of it.

#4727142 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:29 PM

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So far 2h on this driver and everything is stable on 7790. I have win 8.1 x64

No crashes when using acceleration in browser or watching movie.
Memory clocks also changing properly. So far they don`t stuck at max after using acceleration.

It look good. In older drivers my system was crashing every 5 minutes

#4727143 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:30 PM

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Is this some sort of weird merge thread?
When reading the thread, page one indicates this is the Dec. 6 false alarm we already know about. When viewing the thread title from the general forum, the titles of the threads reads correctly with Dec. 18.

Spooky.

EDIT: confirmed, this is some sort of botched merge thread.

#4727147 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:34 PM

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Is this some sort of weird merge thread?
When reading the thread, page one indicates this is the Dec. 6 false alarm we already know about. When viewing the thread title from the general forum, the titles of the threads reads correctly with Dec. 18.

Spooky.

EDIT: confirmed, this is some sort of botched merge thread.

This is a WHQL package, so the driver is supposed to be much older vs the release/leaked date.

The Mantle driver is probably going to be a Beta, just so they can get the most updated stuff out there without waiting for Microsoft's certification.

#4727169 Posted on: 12/18/2013 05:53 PM

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I have a Second GPU 99% bug with these(Battlefield 4). I did complete driver cleanup twice. Nothing helped. Back To 13.11 9.5.

#4727177 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:03 PM

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From my understanding disabling ULPS will fix this, it has in my case.

It seems like every new driver will have the second GPU 99% issue every few restarts on my system, regardless of how I wipe the previous drivers (DDU, etc.).

There are a few different free and easy to use programs on the internet to disable ULPS. I disable ULPS every time I install a new driver now. Try using one of them, it should solve your problem.

#4727181 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:08 PM

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I was really exaggerating a little in that post. Many games run much better than before (with nvidia) and perfectly, it is just some bugs in the drivers than I'm sure will be fixed later which are the problem. There is no microstuttering with crossfire that is perceptible to me - rather there is just a problem with vsync and crossfire on the hawaii cards at the moment which causes this stutter and audio distortion on anything past the 13.11 beta 9.2 driver, so it is obviously just a recently-introduced bug. This makes games with forced vsync like skyrim run crappily. Other games also have some problems like AC black flag, which nvidia obviously paid them to cripple on the AMD cards because there is no reason why it runs so much better on my 680s than these r9 290s. I also had many problems with NVIDIA drivers in the past though, as well as the fact that their cards simply have too little VRAM when playing at 1440P upwards.
Anyway yeah, I'm sure the non-reference cards would be amazing after some driver updates, and the release of mantle

I used to be die hard nvidia, until I could no longer update drivers for my 460. Every new driver caused crashes and freezes, and battlefield 4 wouldn't work without the new drivers. Im not talking about things being broke for a month, this went on for months before I just gave up. I've had issues with amd drivers before, but they were game specific... nvidia drivers completely broke my PC. Now with my 7950 everything works pretty damn smoothly, kudos to amd for finally fixing frame latency issues that kept me away in the past.