AMD 14.4 Amazing driver thread

Ok
A HD7950 Flex edtion, running a triple 25" fullhd!

Before
I was playing rf2 with every thing in medium setting expect car+track on High(shadows-medium, both road and environment-Low) AA-2, multiview-Off, HDR-ON and with 15AI @ Silverstone I was averaging 25-30fps on the start then 45-50fps!

With this new Beta
I'm running a higher graphic setting
track+ car on high.
I turned the road reflection from low to high.
The shadows from medium to High.
Shadow blur from off to Optimal.
AA from 2 to 4
now I'm getting 50fps on the start and 60-70fps after the first lap with 15 AI!
So, now I'm running with a better graphic setting and averaging more 20-25fps!:) and every thing feels more fluid and stable!
 
does anyone see a difference beyond level 4-5 AA.. i tried x8 and compared to x5 and couldnt see a difference (taking snapshots)
adding fxaa does.
 
I now use 8X on the ingame AA settings, nothing in the CCC outside of rF2.

Pretty sure FXAA is fast approximated AA, and all I have ever found with it in any game is that it makes things blurry to hide the jagged edges. Pretty sure its meant to be easier on the framerate though, just it seems dumb to be getting crazy about highly detailed models and textures, and then go blurring things.

Blurring is making me think of AC now, has anyone noticed how AC looks kinda blurry? Like there is a very very slight smear of vaseline over the camera lens? Especially noticeable on the wheels I find. Maybe they are using some sort of FXAA to blend some of the jaggies.
 
I agree about ac quote. Think it gives it a console look. I use fxaa and x4 aa and looks nice and just conceals the sharp jaggies which sometimes can catch the eye.

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Andregee said:
Can´t confirm for 7970.

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Something has to be wrong with your System.

I used Driver cleaner and Driver Fusion, after deinstalling and rebooting the System.
AFter using the cleaner utilities, i rebootet the System again before installing the new Driver.

The last days i noticed the big improvement compared to the 13.xx Drivers, but the test from now Shows that the improvement is higher than i had expect
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Well, my 12.11 results are in line with the best 7970 results in this benchmark 3D: http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/16951-R9-290-or-GTX-770-4GB/page22
So the system seems OK.
Then my 14.4 results have been obtained 30 minutes after the 12.11b11 benchmark, I only did the 12.11 uninstall, 14.4 install, and then the benchmark, so it's very hard to think that something is wrong with my system, but could be possible, who knows...

I never updated to 13.XX because the benchmarks have always been worse, up to 50% worse than 12.11b11.
 
Led566 said:
I never updated to 13.XX because the benchmarks have always been worse, up to 50% worse than 12.11b11.
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That immediately makes me think something is odd with your system. I have never had a driver update sap that much of a games performance. In the odd case I've had something run slightly slower, it was usually minimal, but nothing like up to 50%.
It's a real bugger though, I was hoping everyone would get some decent boost from this :(
 
Led566 said:
Well, my 12.11 results are in line with the best 7970 results in this benchmark 3D: http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/16951-R9-290-or-GTX-770-4GB/page22
So the system seems OK.
Then my 14.4 results have been obtained 30 minutes after the 12.11b11 benchmark, I only did the 12.11 uninstall, 14.4 install, and then the benchmark, so it's very hard to think that something is wrong with my system, but could be possible, who knows...

I never updated to 13.XX because the benchmarks have always been worse, up to 50% worse than 12.11b11.
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i meant that something had to be wrong with your driver uninstalling routine. May there are some remains of the old driver
 
Great boost in fps. In Silverstone, triple 1400x900 screens, from 40 at the start to 70 with an AMD HD7950 card.
Installed over the old drivers no uninstall at all.
Really happy here. Have to test how many things can configure from medium/low to max.
 
Minibull said:
That immediately makes me think something is odd with your system. I have never had a driver update sap that much of a games performance. In the odd case I've had something run slightly slower, it was usually minimal, but nothing like up to 50%.
It's a real bugger though, I was hoping everyone would get some decent boost from this :(
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Anyway consider that the benchmark i did was with everything maxed. I could actually run with some minor tweaks and dinamic vsync at 60 fps rock solid.
I can confirm that 14.4 runs smoother so i'll stay with that.


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I can't see a QA diff between 4x and 8x. FXAA blurres the picture and SSAA doesn't looks really any better while it blurrs the picture as well on higher performance costs.
 
heres a grab of Fxaa on / off cant remember what AA think x6

with fxaa
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without
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especially look at the light grey fence in front of people..
 
XFX Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition

Every setting maxed out, Silverstone, 20 Camaros.

13.1 / 13.6 Beta 2 @ 60 FPS MAX - 42 AVG
14.4 @ 90 FPS MAX - 81 AVG

14.4 with GPU V-Sync enabled @ rock solid 60 FPS.

Micro stuttering has also gone.
 
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