AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (14.200.1004.0 August 11)

Hopefully a new driver series comes with the revised CCC. I'm guessing they're probably dropping NET Framework in favour of a Visual C++ implementation. It's pointless packaging NET Framework 4.5 with the driver, especially because it's been superseded with 4.5.2 for all supported OS's (including Windows 7).

 

Flatout 2 is still unfixed (DX9 3d-models corruption)

 

yeah looks like i'm not selling my 290x after all , just found a way to get high res screenshots ( no thanx to AMD at all but their drivers seems super stable with me )

 

My guess would be use of NV instead of ARB.

 

Will test this one once I get home, because while I have over 200 DX9 games, none expressed corruption of any kind.

Have you checked cooling on your card? Maybe too high vram OC?


Edit: fasor is right, flatout 2 has some geometry stretched even on HD7970 OC or not. Tested it with flatout 1 CCC profile which does not have same issue, but FO2 still expresses it.
And it continues to be issue on 14.7RC3.

 

i'm an advanced user and dealing with computers for over 15 years.
so i'm absolutely sure - it's drivers fault (don't want to describe all actions i perfomed). And i also think that this problem connected somehow with HD7000 flickering problem (cause i think it was partly hardware and now AMD starts new driver model since 14.6 betas) there was no total fix - they just add some driver/profile fix for definite games.

 

Or you could press the "Check for Update" button in Catalyst...? Running HD7950`s in crossfire with this driver and things seem all good, even my old DX9 games that i play work fine .

 

Lets Try if they really fixed the 4k Flickering, its really annoying..

 

Mantle test 14.7 RC3 against DX11.Great driver as usual.

Thief-Mantel 36% Faster for average than DX11.



BF4
Best was 3840x2160 Mantle with RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod 0- Mantel 14% Faster than DX11.

 

ok just tested these, and my temps went from 83C° which i feel is too much for this card, to a whooping 92C°, do i have a bad card? i dont think drivers can do this, the card is a MSI R9 290x Gaming OC, many reviews show the load top temp as 75 C°, how the hell watch dogs can take this card up to 92 C° with the fan at 95%?

 

95°c is max temp for these cards, Ive seen mine reach close to that too, nothing to worry about

 

Source ?

 

Link? I only see one thread on the RC3 drivers and there's only 1 reply

 

yours is also a Twin Frozen cooler? mine is the non Reference Twin frozen R9 290x Gaming OC, and this is at 95% fan speed, sorry for anything i am just extremly freaked out right now, temps before were 83 C° and thats 10 C° more than most of the reviews out there, i do live in brazil but this is too much, thanks for the reply though.

 

i think he means this reply


http://www.overclock.net/t/1501216/amd-catalyst-14-7-rc-driver-for-windows-out-now/140#post_22708957

 

That post was before the RC3 update was posted in their forum

 

Maybe, but Im running 14.4 and see temps close to those occasionally

 

oh well, so i am not alone? i just dont want to go through another RMA here in brazil, took a month to see that my R9 290 Tri-X had a issue, now ive forked more money for the R9 290x, and the temps are so freaking high, 83 C° with watch dogs with the 14.4 drivers, oh well i will just change drivers and wait for the fix, thanks guys, i thought my card was faulty lol

 

AMD should really put their **** together. No idea what they are doing with their drivers recently but the last stable driver for my 7870 is 13.12 whql. Any of the 14.xx drivers may cause BSOD (once/twice in a month, always while watching youtube vids), and artifacts in some dx9 games (mafia2 for example). And their cleanup utility is a joke. That crap uninstalls USB drivers, what the ****? So people with usb keyboard/mouse have to reset their pc if they are using this util. Seriously AMD, wtf?

 

Never saw anything over 75-80c when I first got it, but since OCd and running +50% PL, +67mV, and its the summer here too