AMD 14.4 Amazing driver thread

msportdan said:
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..
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Yes and i don't like it. :)
 
Just tested the new driver with Loch Drummond 2 lap replay and i'm totally impressed.

Spec: Intel Xeon-1230v2 | AMD HD7950 | Max in-game setting | 1080p + HDR + AA lvl3


Tested back in February with Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver
Average FPS = 33fps
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As you can see the framerate is unstable and too many micro stutter(little spikes)



With latest driver Catalyst 14.4 WHQL
Average FPS = 60fps (Capped@60fps)
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The graph is smooooooooooooooooth. (close enough)

This is exactly what i need to continue rF2 subscription which will end this June or get it permanently.
 
xAcid9 said:
Just tested the new driver with Loch Drummond 2 lap replay and i'm totally impressed.

Spec: Intel Xeon-1230v2 | AMD HD7950 | Max in-game setting | 1080p + HDR + AA lvl3


Tested back in February with Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver
Average FPS = 33fps
f5QkLAy.png

As you can see the framerate is unstable and too many micro stutter(little spikes)



With latest driver Catalyst 14.4 WHQL
Average FPS = 60fps (Capped@60fps)
ZR8tGyY.png

The graph is smooooooooooooooooth. (close enough)

This is exactly what i need to continue rF2 subscription which will end this June or get it permanently.
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What is that software that you use for the fps?!
 
You do benchmark with Fraps and choose to do benchmark for FPS, Frametimes and Min-Max. Fraps will export three files in folder where you want. Then use another utility called FRAFS and put those three Fraps files in it to make the graph.
 
xAcid9 said:
The graph is smooooooooooooooooth.
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Can I just point out that, impressive framerate increase aside (and obviously I'm assuming all settings etc were the same), you can't compare an uncapped framerate test to one that's capped. If you'd set a max framerate of 15 in your first test it would be very smooth too.
 
I found that rf was smoother when i had sync on at 60, than when it wasn't on at around 80fps.

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Well, I was so excited reading all the comments, found time to install new drivers and got bummed. Unfortunatelly, they don't work good in crossfire with my two HD6870. I have big grey screen flickerings and on the track there are so many textures missing, everything is messed up. It does run smooth, but I can't drive like that, the whole road is missing lol

With disabling crossfire everything looks OK, but that's not the point, I need the second card for the power and to run supersample AA. I would rather downgrade to 13.12 than use only one card.

I have problem only with RF2, other games are running fine.

I see there is also 14.4 Beta driver, is that one older or newer than 14.4 whql?
 
So you got big increase in framerate like you just got a free video card. :)


No one says boo hardly ? , a few smiles, no streamers or party, you should all be doing back-flips. hehehe



What is it with rF2 users ? totally weird to other sims.



;)
 
Lazza said:
Can I just point out that, impressive framerate increase aside (and obviously I'm assuming all settings etc were the same), you can't compare an uncapped framerate test to one that's capped. If you'd set a max framerate of 15 in your first test it would be very smooth too.
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Indeed, but even without framecap it still much smoother roller coaster ride compare to the one i tested back in February. Yes i used the same setting for all test, ingame and launcher.



This is the one without frame cap using 14.4 WHQL. That is almost 125% performance increased for my system.
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Compare to the February, 14.1 beta driver. I forgot which rf2 build was this.
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DurgeDriven said:
So you got big increase in framerate like you just got a free video card. :)


No one says boo hardly ? , a few smiles, no streamers or party, you should all be doing back-flips. hehehe



What is it with rF2 users ? totally weird to other sims.



;)
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We are a very serious community!
 
U can't imagine how bad the performance for some of us was i guess and there is nothing for free, we just get payed for our patience from AMD :p
 
125% performance increase would shoot the AMD cards up there just where they should belong comapred to the nVidia counterparts.

Is anybody able to run this benchmark test again? Really curious what the the outcome is.

I can't find the releated thread again where the detailed benchmark settings are listed??

 
Well, no luck for me with new drivers and crossfire.

14.4 WHQL gave me a lot of screen flickering and missing textures, I've decided to try few weeks older 14.4 Beta (RC1) drivers, but the same problem exist. Although other games works fine with new drivers and crossfire, I haven't seen any big improvements with Batman Origins for example or Assassins Creed 4.

Shame, since I can't play RF2 without textures, I downgraded back to 13.12 WHQL and now everything runs fine again.
 
Just tried them and I am pretty disappointed with my HD6870:

using ISI F1 at Silverstone GP, I caped 60 fps in the pit, but on the end of the pit lane, I rich a solid 5fps ...
so I uninstalled 14.4 and go back to 14.1 beta and now my fps are back.

There is an object in front of the car that break the fps: the fps go back 60 if I look back.
 
Windows 7 and 8 have the new 14.4 WHQL, no surprises there.

But a ~14 year old operating system (XP) also has 14.4s, yet Vista (~7 years old) does not... How does that work?
 
I'm one of the 6xxx owners where it actually works.

Silverstone start with 11 cars up from 24FPS to 38 or 36, the rest of it runs at my capped 40 frames (used to drop to 30 on some corners).

Most amazing improvement actually at historic Spa, external TV Cameras... watching the AI race I was getting lower than 20FPS on a lot of scenes, now it's 35 or more.

So yes, this does seem to be a bit of a magic driver (or rather: finally unlocking the potential of our cards), but I can't understand why it breaks stuff for some people like Jul and works for others. Very weird.

Oh, and is this artefact new, or did I just not see it until now:View attachment 12577
 
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