AMD Catalyst 14.x BETA (14.300.1005.0 August 27)

That might be okay in the USA, but I'm in Australia . Newegg does sell to here now (international shipping) but they don't sell everything, some of the stuff has a considerable price premium such that you can buy it cheaper in stores here, and I would hate to think what the RMA process would be like.

Driver appears to be good so far. It will be interesting to see to what scope the driver can be improved for the R9-285 and R9-285X (when released), since although they aren't a completely new architecture, they aren't just a new stepping of a rebranded existing card either.

 

yeah!

 

Linux driver works fine with kernel 3.17rc3, will test it later with the witcher 2.

 

Can someone confirms if this will fix mantle for BF4 or is that just simply a BF4 issue. I see new mantle included so what did they update? I will install and test anyway but just wanted to know if i'm wasting my time

 

Oh, Yes . Exactly . RPM (tachometer) is working now !)

 

BF4 have a little gain with this driver (~5% DX11 and ~2% Mantle, but Mantle is still unplayable on ultra for me because of fps drops)

and DX9 corruptions finally gone (tested Flatout 2)

 

BF4 running flawless here with both my GPU. Solid 60FPS (locked) to prevent tearing. Much better than DX11, where it stutters now and then.

 

Try these settings. Create user.cfg file to BF4.exe folder and add these lines to it. And always use vsync.

thread.processorcount 6
thread.maxprocessorcount 6
thread.minfreeprocessorcount 0
RenderDevice.RenderAheadLimit 1
gametime.maxvariablefps 120 or 90

 

So you say mantle is smooth. like in no more memory leak? If so then this is going to be one amazing driver for me. Can't wait to try out on my system.

For me setting my renderdevice.renderaheadlimit to 1 makes my fps drop from 70-90+ to about 40. I think they disabled the thread.processorcount commands. Although you can change it the game will override it so changing it does nothing

 

Last driver I had very bad memory leak. Game was unplayable 1500-3000 tickets. I haven't played BF4 yet so I can't confirm is it working or not.

 

lines - "thread.processorcount 6
thread.maxprocessorcount 6
thread.minfreeprocessorcount 0" does not work !

 

That is weird. Changing it to zero cause bad frames because it's real time. You can try 0-5 numbers. But I dont recommend to use over 1 because it cause mouse lag.

You can try to add this line to also because you have two cards.
RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod 1

 

Those first processor lines are for how many cores you have. You have only four so use four only. What you mean minfreeprosessorcount does not work?

 

Mantle's working properly with crossfire again? :banana:

I've been getting freezes every 20 seconds or so (probably a memory leak) for the past few months.

 

thank you

 

thanks for advice,
with vsync fps drops are not so huge, but they still happen sometimes.
(i always play with vsync, only switching it off while testing perfomance)

didn't notice any changes with such .cfg
my problem is that 2Gb of Vram is not enough for ultra with mantle, but it is enough for ultra with DX11 =)

 

There are 3 values for the command RenderDevice.FramePacingMethod.

0 = Off.
1 = AMD's first frame pacing algorithm.
2 = AMD's newer improved frame pacing algorithm.

When the improved frame pacing algorithm (default on or by using value '2') first came out, it was broke. It has been fixed for months now and gives a better result than using the older frame pacing (value '1').

 

developers reported that these commands do not work !

 

Memory leak in BF4 still present, cant even finish one game. But gameplay much much smother no cpu spikes,nothing in mantle mode. Dice just needs to fix the memory leak and i'll be perfect

 

7670M here, everything seems fine and everything installed fine but CCC won't start.

EDIT - Skyrim is smoother, Crusader Kings 2 is faster, loading times reduced.