A driver update to reduce Radeon frame times — The Tech Report tests 13.2 beta

[BrightCandle]

This seems to be the start of fixing the problem. These are specific adjustments to the profiles for games and there is a lot more to do before the cards are finally working as they are meant to. At least now AMD is finally testing for stuttering and frame time behaviour and hence we can at least expect this to improve over time. I didn't expect the memory fix so quickly and indeed its not what is coming with this driver, just some buffer size tweaks and such that were easy to apply, and this only impacts specific DX9 games.

It also comes along with a confirmation that AMD lied to me last March. AMD support told me that they were testing for frame times and had determined no such problem and that it was my system, that has now been admitted as false. I don't really know what to do with the list of lies I am now seeing laid bare. I can't help but feel AMD were really forced to clean this up after a year of reports of the problem and finally an editorial lambasting them for it. They have been lying all year about the problems the card faced and are finally coming clean right before they replace them.

I of course expect nothing better from NVidia either but to have another generation of cards shrouded in controversy and more driver messes, its not good for any of us that they continue these shenanigans.

 

[Leadbox]

I hope testing these nothing scenes does not become the thing with TR
A stroll through the countryside benchmark? Whats up with that?

 

[Homeles]

I capped my FPS in MSI AB to 60 and all my stuttering is gone and i run at all 4 cores on CPU plus HT.

The stuttering is caused by FPS going above 60. Setting core affinity to 1 does nothing

You do realize that you're laughing in the face of evidence, right?

The stuttering is not caused by going above 60 FPS. There had to be some underlying issue, especially when you consider that the issue has now been resolved.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

This seems to be the start of fixing the problem. These are specific adjustments to the profiles for games and there is a lot more to do before the cards are finally working as they are meant to. At least now AMD is finally testing for stuttering and frame time behaviour and hence we can at least expect this to improve over time. I didn't expect the memory fix so quickly and indeed its not what is coming with this driver, just some buffer size tweaks and such that were easy to apply, and this only impacts specific DX9 games.

It also comes along with a confirmation that AMD lied to me last March. AMD support told me that they were testing for frame times and had determined no such problem and that it was my system, that has now been admitted as false. I don't really know what to do with the list of lies I am now seeing laid bare. I can't help but feel AMD were really forced to clean this up after a year of reports of the problem and finally an editorial lambasting them for it. They have been lying all year about the problems the card faced and are finally coming clean right before they replace them.

I of course expect nothing better from NVidia either but to have another generation of cards shrouded in controversy and more driver messes, its not good for any of us that they continue these shenanigans.

AMD lied to you, or you aren't willing to accept that the random help desk idiot you talked to wasn't smart enough to know what a frame time or microstutter even is.

 

[Fx1]

You do realize that you're laughing in the face of evidence, right?

The stuttering is not caused by going above 60 FPS. There had to be some underlying issue, especially when you consider that the issue has now been resolved.

I fixed the issue with the fix i mentioned and so did half the internet who have this problem and even with Nvidia 680 GTX's

The core affinity thing is bull and no one suggests it as a fix apart from that one blog.

Im using 12.11 beta and with the 60 FPS cap its smooth as butter