AMD Catalyst 13.11 BETA8 (13.250.18.0 October 29)

Why do people always link single player benchmarks. CPU is a HUGE factor in multiplayer which is what people care about

 

i wonder why AMD separated the driver for Rx series from the HD series.

are they planning on separating the HD driver from the Rx driver ?

below is the quoted from the page.

if this is true, its gonna be confusing, since the only new GPU is only R9 290 and 290x, and the rest are only rebadged.

perhaps, this might be the reason for the current weird issue with the latest beta.

 

It's misdirecting indeed, but the reason for benchmarking in single player is that it's allowing for nearly identical scenarios. It's always something different happening in multiplayer

 

Getting texture flickering and black textures in World of Tanks when not in sniper view. I can't tell if it's these drivers or the newest patch. Anyone else?

 

It's the known dx9 corruptions they supposedly fixed. It's almost confirmed, we've defective GPUs. Most likely it's connected to faulty memory on 7000 series. This is my opinion of course, since day one and still after one year and a half, nothing changed.

It's gonna be interesting if the same happens on R series, especially on re-badged cards.

 

is this just for me, or the mem clock only has minimum and maximum clocks
switching between them like crazy?

 

Having only min and max it's normal. The reason it's switching like crazy, this I can't know about.

Open Process Explorer and check if something keeps the GPU busy.

 

so fore memory is normal but for core its not?

thanks, Didn't know that

So I guess this is not the cause for the driver resets/ reboots

 

I am getting some major texture flickering in BF4, noticeably on wide open maps in the distance. I also noticed when I opened up the screen to customize my gun, the textures on the gun were flickering like crazy.

I'm running a crossfire setup with 7870s. These are the only drivers I have tried with BF4, but wondered if anyone else has seen this, specifically with BF4, I have no issues with other games.

 

They did fix the dx9 flickering issues, it's just that it's back. I'm going to role back some version to find a good one. Like I said, I don't know if it's these drivers or the 8.9 update.

EDIT: Rolled back to beta 6 and it's fine.

 

BF4 stutters like crazy with V Sync enabled on my rig, but its smooth with it off. Is this case for anyone else?

 

V-sync causes stuttering in all games because of what it does. You should always play any MP games with v-sync off for smooth frames.

If it's stuttering A LOT, could just be another bug in BF4 or AMD drivers.

 

There is an AMD catalyst bug with 1440p + vsync on + frame pacing that causes extreme stuttering. Turn off frame pacing. Sloved it for me.

 

Vsync under normal circumstances shouldn't cause stuttering at all; should improve stuttering if anything.

What it can do is add input latency though.

 

To get smooth performance with Vsync on in bf4 you have to disable frame pacing.

 

It remains the same whether in single player or multiplayer. Sure, the numbers will be lower in multiplayer, but with the same consistensy.
Nowadays (and for some years) cpu clocks are less important. Most overclocks are only usefull for benching, games don't improve much.
On the other hand, overclocking the gpu now yields much more fps.

It's a bit the same as with bf3, which was gpu dependant (claimed by the devs).
Sure enough, a faster gpu immidiately gave much better fps.
Still people keep insisting it's a cpu dependant game.

The real truth is you just need an adequate cpu, bundled with a good gpu, and the game will run flawless.

 

Indeed, given your rig can maintain 60FPS continuously.

On bf4 some places with specific setting on High/Ultra are causing extreme fps dip and that's why he sees stuttering with VSync on. In a few months BF4 will be optimized and ready for VSync on. You then set max fps at 59 ( +VSync ) and you'll be more than fine.

 

Radeon Pro works well for me in that instance, by turning on Dynamic Frame Rate Control, it keeps things very smooth. This is with Frame Pacing turned on.

Setting Flip Queue Size to 1 removes the mouse input lag as well.

 

Yes, Memory has 2 phases, min (300Mhz) and max (1250Mhz).

Core usually has 3, for instance on me min (300Mhz), max (900) and video (501).

 

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