Aight, time for a rematch!

Perfect timing, thanks.

I like that amd now in changelog provides also hardware specification and settings at which they measured performance gains, that's really informative. For my R9 380 this driver maybe will do absolutely nothing but i still update just to keep up with latest version.

Any brave soul who could add support via modding inf. file for Ryzen 2200/2400 GPUs? As some games can't be started https://i.imgur.com/DhSUpry.jpg

A step in the right direction for AMD, with clear statements to gains and issues in the past couple of drivers. Will provide feedback soon on FFXV performance, once done installing this.

spectatorx:

I like that amd now in changelog provides also hardware specification and settings at which they measured performance gains, that's really informative. For my R9 380 this driver maybe will do absolutely nothing but i still update just to keep up with latest version.

You too shall see gains in Dota 2, it's just that they used the RX 580 as a baseline. The gains, however, will vary depending on configurations.

Romulus_ut3:

A step in the right direction for AMD, with clear statements to gains and issues in the past couple of drivers. Will provide feedback soon on FFXV performance, once done installing this. You too shall see gains in Dota 2, it's just that they used the RX 580 as a baseline. The gains, however, will vary depending on configurations.

Possible and that's good for these who play this game. I do not play dota 2 as overall i do not enjoy moba games.

What do they mean by "Support for: Final Fantasy® XV"? What is there to support for? Game was playable before. Especially when we have this: "Final Fantasy® XV may experience minor stutter during some particle effects. A workaround is to disable the "Geomapping" setting in game.". Known issues list doesn't look good.

mindaz3:

What do they mean by "Support for: Final Fantasy® XV"? What is there to support for? Game was playable before. Especially when we have this: "Final Fantasy® XV may experience minor stutter during some particle effects. A workaround is to disable the "Geomapping" setting in game.". Known issues list doesn't look good.

Support means an optimized profile for the game probably.

LocoDiceGR:

Support means an optimized profile for the game probably.

Performance wise I have not seen any improvements http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/benchmark-review-final-fantasy-xv-for-windows-pc.html.

mindaz3:

What do they mean by "Support for: Final Fantasy® XV"? What is there to support for? Game was playable before...

Hmm, it seems it's something like "GameReady" vague statement from competition. BTW., 18.3.1 includes some optimizations from ReSX program/project https://abload.de/img/amd_resx_tableoysll.jpg

well here working like a charm no issues 😀

17.50.27 over 17.50.25 for the driver version so some tweaking there I guess. March 2nd for these and February 19th for the previous set. Crossfire profile changes: World of Tanks - Updated. Star Wars Battlefront 2 - Updated. Middle Earth Shadow of War - Updated. Sea of Thieves - Updated. Conan Exiles - Added. Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition - Added. Final Fantasy XV Benchmark - Added. Vermintide 2 - Added. DXX profile changes: Autodesk 3D Studio Max - Updated. Grand Theft Auto 5 - Updated. DOTA 2 - Updated. Final Fantasy 15 - Added. (Yeah it's called XV for the Crossfire profile, 15 for the DXX one.) PXDynamic profile changes: (HighPerfGPUAffinity) Warhammer: Vermintide 2 - Added. The crossfire profile for Final Fantasy XV is only for the Steam version it seems. Final Fantasy XV Windows EditionProfile Final Fantasy XV Windows EditionProfile (It's _o for Origin and I think it's _UWP or some such for Win10 Store.) DXX profile adds a joker / asterix to catch all. Final Fantasy 15Profile Final Fantasy 15Profile

spectatorx:

I like that amd now in changelog provides also hardware specification and settings at which they measured performance gains, that's really informative. For my R9 380 this driver maybe will do absolutely nothing but i still update just to keep up with latest version.

As a R9 290 owner, I pretty much feel the same way. I hate doing updates when I don't know what I'm getting out of it, especially when they're as bloated as Windows GPU drivers. I'll update even though I'm not likely to get any performance enhancements anymore (since the GCN architecture is pretty much obsoleted). But, since I don't boot into Windows often or play games when they're still new enough to cost $50+, I've pretty much only been doing updates if I have time to kill or if I'm listening to something in the background.

Welcome . I have question : We see change in FF15 and Dota2 .It is only 2-3 game improve ? ...AMD working for better experience in more Games?For example in past when AMD relase new driver the list of games was long ? I play in ACorigin and I'm interested if the game works better with New 18.3.1 driver ?

schmidtbag:

As a R9 290 owner, I pretty much feel the same way. I hate doing updates when I don't know what I'm getting out of it, especially when they're as bloated as Windows GPU drivers. I'll update even though I'm not likely to get any performance enhancements anymore (since the GCN architecture is pretty much obsoleted). But, since I don't boot into Windows often or play games when they're still new enough to cost $50+, I've pretty much only been doing updates if I have time to kill or if I'm listening to something in the background.

Not sure why you guys thing they don't provide updates to GCN, GCN is still a large player pool base. just looking at notes from some recent releases (3 months ago) mention GCN updates and even a HD7900! https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/pages/radeon-software-crimson-relive-edition-17.2.1-release-notes.aspx I mean the 290x is a definition of fine wine when it comes to evolving performance updates.. the 290x was slower then the 780 Ti at release and is now around 15% faster now. so i think GCN is still in the minds of AMD driver team.

Final fantasy XV performance is the same but better temps..3-5° less.

spectatorx:

I like that amd now in changelog provides also hardware specification and settings at which they measured performance gains, that's really informative. For my R9 380 this driver maybe will do absolutely nothing but i still update just to keep up with latest version.

from 17.9.3 to 18.2.3 i lost some point in superposition with my 380, this evening i'll try this ones

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There is slight improvement in 3dmark to my score on previous driver but when you analyze all previous scores you can see in time there were minor downgrades and improvements all the time. 18.2.3 vs 18.3.1: 2639 vs 2660 https://www.3dmark.com/spy/3395708 https://www.3dmark.com/spy/3404775 If you are bored enough here you can see all my scores: http://i64.tinypic.com/313rh8x.png

holler:

Not sure why you guys thing they don't provide updates to GCN, GCN is still a large player pool base. just looking at notes from some recent releases (3 months ago) mention GCN updates and even a HD7900!

AMD is notorious for quickly dropping support for outdated hardware (on Windows, not so much other OSes). For example, from my recollection it took less than a year for TeraScale to be categorized as "legacy" after GCN 1.0 was released. When it comes to obsoleted architectures, they will address security flaws and driver-specific bugs of major titles that are brought to their attention, but that's about it. HD7900 update you linked to is one of those cases. I predict that when AMD completes an entire product series that does not include any GCN hardware, GCN will be transitioned to legacy. "Luckily" for us, AMD tends to rebrand things for many generations, so GCN will likely remain current for at least the next 2 years. At least AMD isn't as bad about this as Intel, who not only quickly drops support for hardware but prematurely drops support. There are many cases where Intel GPUs had hardware capabilities that the drivers never supported. Intel is fantastic about updating their current models, but the day one of their GPUs is superseded, you might as well forget about any issues, because now you're probably never going to see them fixed.

I mean the 290x is a definition of fine wine when it comes to evloving performance updates.. the 290x was slower then the 780 Ti at release and is now around 15% faster now. so i think GCN is still in the minds of AMD driver team.

I agree - one of the reasons I buy AMD GPUs is because they tend to age better than Nvidia while costing less up-front. Since I rarely ever buy titles when they're within a few months old, the poor optimization for early adopters is largely irrelevant to me. However, I'd say people who buy AMD hardware are taking risks as to how long AMD will keep up with optimizations. It might sound like I'm a bit bitter, but not as much as you might think. I mostly use Linux, where AMD has fantastic support for older GPUs. At this rate, I intend to keep my 290 until I have a 4K display (whether that be a monitor or VR headset).