AMD Catalyst 13.3 BETA 3 (12.100.17.0 March 18)

Good to hear! I still play that.

Can you post your IL-2: 1946 conf.ini settings?

 

9 Hours until bioshock infinite unlocks,
you would think ati/amd would release a optimal crossfire driver for this game being thats its probably going to be one of the biggest games this year.

COME ON ATI......

 

OMG : look at what NVIDIA just released today:

GeForce 314.22 BETA Driver Download

Download the GeForce 314.2 Driver as released by NVIDIA mostly to help out with performance and stability improvements in BioShock Infinite. This is the GeForce Game Ready driver for BioShock Infinite, delivering up to 41% faster performance.

New in GeForce 314.22 Drivers

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 314.07 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are a few examples:

GeForce GTX 680:

Up to 41% faster in BioShock Infinite
Up to 60% faster in Tomb Raider
Up to 23% faster in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 13% faster in Sleeping Dogs
GeForce GTX 680 SLI:

Up to 21% faster in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 14% faster in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 10% faster in StarCraft II
Up to 15% faster in Civilization V
NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles (since GeForce 314.14 drivers):
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army – Added DX11 SLI profile
Dungeons and Dragons: Neverwinter – Added DX9 SLI profile
BioShock Infinite – Added AO profile
NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds the following profiles (since GeForce 314.14 drivers):
MUD - rated Good
Brutal Legend - rated Good
Tomb Raider - updated rating to Good

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and what do we get ? FK all lol

 

ATI are always doing the same. Which you will see when the official drivers appear.

 

The problem is that we (AMD users) always have to wait days, when Nvidia is always (95% of the time) pro-active.

 

...ati?

 

That worked. Thank you very much!

 

I did notice you are running core i3. Not to dog you rig but that is going to bottleneck your framerate. I looked at some benches from i3 to i5 and i7, seems i5 should be minimum ( or core 2 quad) to play current games like tomb raider.

 

They were ATI, and still technically ATI with the AMD name.

 

Duuuude c'mon don't make those kind of mistakes when explaining someone about bottlenecks, how could you compare a Core 2 Quad with an i3/i5? its ancient technology !

Even an i3 2100 will beat in most case scenarios (especially offline gaming) a Core 2 Quad Q9400, hell, it even beats and is on par with a Core 2 Quad Q9650. Of course, tasks that benefit of more cores will always favour the real 4 cores on the Core 2 Quad.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/76?vs=289

On the other hand, a sandy i5 2500K will beat the crap out of a core 2 quad. in every possible way. Especially gaming.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/76?vs=288


Appart from the explanation, yes, most new games will benefit from more cores and nowadays it has become a norm to have at least 4 (real) cores. That's why the i5 (4 cores, 4 threads) is chosen over the i7 (4 real cores, 8 threads) for gaming as there is little to none performance improvement in fps and the price for the i5 is way lower, using that spare money to get a better VGA.

 

in latest games amd is far behind with the latest nvidia driver...wtf, AMD what are they drinking.? they need to answer asap, this driver is for the weak:bang:

 

I too, have the problem with some CCC's profiles not being applied in games while setting it as "global" works.

 

U simply have no idea.
Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, Hitman Absolution, and many more of the latest games ran far better in AMD cards because of drivers than on Nvidia.
Nvidia had superiority in fluidness a couple of months ago but now with the latest betas, Amd cards are fluid as hell, no more latency issues at frame rendering, no more stuttering.
I have been impressed by the 180 degree turn AMD has been doing with drivers lately. kudos to them.
Oh and BTW if you want a solid experience, never go for Crossfire or SLI, it will ALWAYS be faulty and drivers will take more time to be flawless.

 

I agree with you in most points except for CFX/SLI. If you know what you are doing you have no issues most of the time.

 

Please dont put far cry 3 and fluidness in the same sentence, but other than that I have to agree. My crossfire experience has been just fine thank you.

 

Why do you assume the latest driver doesnt have optimizations for that game already?

You start sounding like a troll...

 

All 4 games you mentioned in Nvidia are much more fluid with less latency, get down from your riding horse because you speak without knowing anything man.

 

If your comparing a GTX 690 vs a Radeon HD 3200, then yea I imagine Nvidia would run the games smoother

I want to see some actual proof of recent games running better on Nvidia, in comparison to an AMD card of equal power, with recent drivers.

Word of mouth (from one person at that) means nothing, especially with such a bold claim, need something to back it up. I want to see charts, video footage, and proof of ownership of specific hardware and exact testing conditions, exact clock speeds, etc. that prove this.

Not saying I doubt your statement or not, but I'm tired of words without proof

 

sorry, but <60 fps is not a very solid experience for me, more like a stuttering hell.

and for those wondering, Bioshock Infinite works fine in crossfire, everything on maximum and 2560x1440 res solid 60fps with both gpu usage at around 90% tops

using latest 13.2 beta, haven't tried this one yet