AMD Catalyst 14.1 BETA 1.6 (13.350.1005.0 January 31)

played awhile i get the brief pauses also...runs great till it pauses..

 

Shows default clocks and bandwidth for me on HD7970.

 

that's 2 person showing default clocks and bandwith on CCC.

and only 1 person (rich) showing current clocks and bandwith.

 

Wonder if its a 290 thing then, or something to do with Afterburner.

My Idle Clocks :-




My Full Load Clocks :-

 

Your idle clocks are 2d clocks. It changes in 3d.

 

Yeah i know, i just call em Ilde clocks , and i have mine set to 515/625 through Afterburner (low as they go in it), to lock them solid, stop em from jumping up and down all the time.

My 7970 always showed as the default 925/1375 in there, with its full bandwidth, it never changed to my 2D clocks of 300/150, with a low bandwidth, and it never showed my overclocked speeds of 1070/1575 (or whaever i had it at), unless it did change to 1070/1575 there, just i could never see it, with not being able to switch to those clocks while on the desktop, but then again, why would it not show the 2D clocks of 300/150 when just on desktop as well, like its doing now with my 290.

 

Use this form to report issues with 14.1 BETA 1.6:

http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D25AD12B21

I'm currently doing a well written report to let them know about the gamma/color issue with Mantle in Battlefield 4 (Saturated and colors are bad compared to DX11 in BF4, for example the sky in Shangai looks almost grey when C building is down, with DX11 its blue).

 

You can also let them know that it's DICEs fault.

 

Well, the color/gamma apparently is a game issue as Repi from DICE mentioned it in Twitter.

But I also noticed, with my 2x R9 290, that the game has a freeze (Only lasts few tenths of a second) every few minutes.

Other than that stutter/freeze (Which also happens to my friends using Mantle) it's way smoother than DX11!

 

Just installed the new driver for my HD7970 Crossfire setup.

Bit confused about the star swarm benchmark and the settings?

Is everyone using Extreme?

Also the settings in the top right hand of star swarm settings when running:
Temporal AA = On
Fixed Frame Rate = On?

What is the fixed frame rate setting?

I have also enable triple buffering in Catalyst settings.

 

Dice is already aware of this, someone acknowledged it in a tweet this weekend.

 

I know, but I reported it anyways. Although more important to me is the stutter/freeze that we get every few minutes.

 

i tried setting the clock from afterburner, but it still showing my full clock and bandwith on CCC.

so yeah, maybe its a 290 thing

 

since that issue appears to be universal, i can see dice fixing that issue first.

If they get that lag spike fixed, playing bf4 on mantle is going to be smooth as butter.

 

this seems a little vague, can you explain?

you absolutley CANNOT have both Overdrive enabled in CCC, and using AB for OC.

Pick one or they will override each other.

 

Starswarm using DIRECTX upon release

1 open and run using Extreme settings


== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 120 Seconds
Total Frames: 3623

Average FPS: 30.19
Average Unit Count: 3671
Maximum Unit Count: 5223
Average Batches/MS: 867.56
Maximum Batches/MS: 1699.99
Average Batch Count: 35166
Maximum Batch Count: 159901
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Starswarm using MANTLE

1 open and run using Extreme settings


== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 20065

Average FPS: 55.74
Average Unit Count: 4548
Maximum Unit Count: 5828
Average Batches/MS: 1128.80
Maximum Batches/MS: 3422.05
Average Batch Count: 23492
Maximum Batch Count: 161686
===========================================================

I will take that performance boost ANY day of the week!!

 

AB overrides my overdrive settings. They can both be enabled though, but if you want overdrive to become the active part you have to exit AB.

I don't like this driver on my win7 x64 install, it doesn't feel as smooth as the previous ones. Back to 13.30 which does nicely.
Also installed this driver on my win8.1 pro, and there it does good enough to keep it.

I don't like the colour graph in overdrive though. Now the window is really too small, and it resets every time I open it again. Isn't there a key combo or setting to resize the window so that it stays?

 

this isnt always the case, it depends on the loading order among other things.

You are asking for trouble if you leave OD enabled.

If you are using AB you dont need OD, so im not sure what the advantage to leaving it enabled is.

 

2 x Sapphire HD7970 Dual-X both at 1100/1500 Starswarm benchmark

DirectX
== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 120 Seconds
Total Frames: 4050

Average FPS: 33.73
Average Unit Count: 3601
Maximum Unit Count: 5464
Average Batches/MS: 560.41
Maximum Batches/MS: 847.76
Average Batch Count: 18022
Maximum Batch Count: 106342
===========================================================


Mantle
== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 120 Seconds
Total Frames: 7185

Average FPS: 59.87
Average Unit Count: 3699
Maximum Unit Count: 5467
Average Batches/MS: 952.69
Maximum Batches/MS: 2364.76
Average Batch Count: 17111
Maximum Batch Count: 64493
===========================================================

Looking at CPC_RedDawn results it doesn't look like Crossfire is working in Star Swarm?

 

should i try installing it on toshiba laptop ? because toshiba have some errors while installing from somewhere else?