AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Driver

That's interesting....thanks for the info! I've never owned a Gigabyte product as their products have usually lacked something I wanted. I've been using MSI for years, though, for motherboards--and recently bought an MSI R9 380...first time for the videocard. (The MSI had the backplate which appealed to me for a couple of reasons.) Even Asus seems somewhat dodgy to me these days. Caveat Emptor... It's all got to do with the economic problems in the world markets, I'd imagine. Has this been something consistent from Gigabyte, or has it occurred mainly in the last 4-6 years? Just wondering...

 

For what its worth, my gigabyte z77 board is a 1.1 revision and the only change was adding a full 8-pin 12v connector for the CPU instead of the 4-pin on the 1.0. That whole controversy surrounded a budget board - if you're buying that and expecting a quality overclock then you've made a mistake. Cutting out a power phase is a pretty obvious deal-breaker.

Yeah its sleezy to change a product around under the same name, but doing your research before buying has always been the key to getting a good build. I have no doubt gigabyte still makes some good stuff (knock on wood), just do product-specific research before you dive in.

If anything, this makes me wonder how often this has occurred and no-one noticed because the updated board was still sold under the same revision. I think the chances of only gigabyte being guilty of this is pretty slim.

I get the whole "vote with your wallet" idea, but I think it just applies differently here. Rather than just reject their entire product line, I think there is still value in rewarding a well-rounded product.

 

I have this "vibe" from them for at least the last 5-8 years. This is no evidence of course, just personal opinion.

It's obvious that they wouldn't do that to all their products, or even the majority of them.

Being a budget board makes it even worse in my opinion. A consumer that actually reads reviews before getting a budget board is someone without many funds available, who yet has the ability to try and make a good purchase. If your product is not really value for money and you pull tricks like that to get sales you don't deserve, then it's double sleazy.

All of your points are valid, I have just had bad personal experience with their products, and they have happened to be the only company whose tactic like that even made news websites take a look. I'm sure that others do it, I highly doubt the degree.

 

check Feature Level to my tool http://s2.sendfile.su/download/1160495/bzqrWqTIB49RRS6fCuZ5gZGsQWghBmuc3kOTWfsm

 

They don't need to.

 

And wonder why?
They want to test your graphics card compatibility with FL, so how do not take my utility.

 

The window resizing bug is fixed for me here, but I get massive problems in SC2 now. About 20 minutes into a game, my framerate will randomly tank to 1-2 fps, regardless of where I'm looking, as if my VRAM is filled up or something. 15.7.1 works fine.

 

Because their GPU supports feature level 12.0

 

still waiting an assetto corsa cf profile... :bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:

 

Win 7 still had the older style dxdiag which showed the DDI version rather than feature levels, meaning essentially the highest DX version supported by hardware/driver.
Note how Win8/10 dxdiag doesn't show DDI version.

I remember how eagerly we awaited "DDI: 9" for DX9 compatible drivers/cards when DX9 was new. Just as we now want feature level 12.0 or better

 

Feature level 11.0/1 is also fine

 

- running sweet here..:thumbup:

 

Of course, silly of me

 

Can anyone test OpenGL vsync for me? I want to be sure it's working before I give these a go.

 

I would, but i can't :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

 

It's working, sort of. I'm running Windows 10 and tripple buffering won't work, so fps fluctuates between 60 and 30 fps.
Id tech 5 adaptive vsync doesn't work either.

 

It works here.

 

When I press Tab in Potplayer, it shows input resolution == output res. All I can see is high GPU utilization, but videos are not upscaled. Does anyone know how to fix it?

 

In comparison my 295x2 not doing too badly and I have a weaker CPU:


I need to find 1046.2 driver as I'm sure I was getting around 10-15% higher scores.

Both CPU an GPU at stock clocks.

 

Here my ex-golden sample, I own 2 sapphire and 1 gigabyte (7970ghz ed) and only one goes to
1300Gpu
1900Ram
at max voltage proposed from msi afterburner
without artifacting
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1892527 9310pt (10230graphic score)

http://hwbot.org/user/luca_aaronne/

changed it only to goes to mobile workstation but at 1920x1080 it can run everything at max