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Download AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver
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#4727122 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:05 PM
It still doesn't make sense.
Probably a typo... but we will never know until it's official.
It still doesn't make sense.
Probably a typo... but we will never know until it's official.
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#4727123 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:05 PM
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
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.
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
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#4727126 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:11 PM
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!
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!
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#4727127 Posted on: 12/18/2013 06:11 PM
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...
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.
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...
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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.