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AMD Catalyst 14.9 Driver for Windows & Linux available now

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Z15CAM, just played BF4 both in DX11 and Mantle without a problem with the 14.9 drivers in my rig below.
 
Yeah - I feel dumb. The issue I was having with DX11/BF4 was origin's in-game overlay and rivatuners OSD not playing nice. I disabled "origin in-game" and BF4 runs fine in DX11 now.
 
Another UpDate: Unegines Valley runs in X-Fire but neither Heaven or BF4 will load with this 14.9 driver. As I say I've no problems with 14.6 rc2.

What does Heaven and BF4 have in common to prevent them from loading with this 14.9 Dvr?
 
Z15CAM said:
Another UpDate: Unegines Valley runs in X-Fire but neither Heaven or BF4 will load with this 14.9 driver. As I say I've no problems with 14.6 rc2.

What does Heaven and BF4 have in common to prevent them from loading with this 14.9 Dvr?
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Don't waste your time with those drivers if you noticed crash in every DX11 games.

Your issue is aknowledge by AMD and a fix is on the way.

I also have wasted 4 hours to make it work but sometime you have to admit that it's not user error 😉 .
 
BF4 is working perfectly on my ASUS HD7950 CU II OC 1GHz, i have played a lot the last few days with zero probs so far. The problems experienced could be related to certain board models due to custom PCBs perhaps.
 
My experience with a 7950 on these drivers

Got stuck at menu screen in tomb raider (CTD), had to try (relaunch) probably 30 times before my game started

And just got my first lock up on Diablo 3 ever.

Yeah I hope the new drivers come soon 🙂
 
AtenRa said:
BF4 is working perfectly on my ASUS HD7950 CU II OC 1GHz, i have played a lot the last few days with zero probs so far. The problems experienced could be related to certain board models due to custom PCBs perhaps.
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Are you using Mantle in BF4? And if so, are you still having issues with lag spikes and memory leaks?
 
Z15CAM said:
Another UpDate: Unegines Valley runs in X-Fire but neither Heaven or BF4 will load with this 14.9 driver. As I say I've no problems with 14.6 rc2.

What does Heaven and BF4 have in common to prevent them from loading with this 14.9 Dvr?
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Z15CAM: Have you filed a report to AMD of these specific problems? If not PLEASE do.
 
I am running 14.4 still for now. Using the 14.6 driver files for mining.
 
Z15CAM, Thank you. BTW are you running 290Xs in CF?
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I'm presently running an XFX 1050W Pro Black Edition BEFX KM3 design unit on an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro GEN3 MB..
i7 2700K @ 1.6 to 4.8 GHz 24/7 and up to 5.2Ghz for Benching.
290X X-Fire (XSPC RAZOR WB'd) at 1000x 1250 24/7 and as high as 1200x1500Mhz OC's for Benching.
16GB Samsung MV-3V4G3D-US_DDR3 at 1866Mhz 9-9-9-24 1T @ 1.34v.
Water Rig with 3 Pumps(Corsair H110 and Koolance RP 401x2 with 2 PMB400 Pumps in Series) / 7 x's 180 Fans / 1 Goolgate 280x60x180 Rad).
WnTV / extra NIC / Samsung 256MB 840 Pro SDD / 3 x's 7200rpm WD Black HDDs plus Fan Controller and Optic Drive.
All fitted neatly into a Fractal Design Midi ARC 2 Tower
Running Win7 64-Bit SP1 with DX 11.2.

Now you know as much as I do.

Should mention I normally run a 4GB RAMDisk to handle SSD sluff ;o)

The amd-catalyst-14.6-rc2-windows-june23 AMD Dvr works great in X-Fire across the board and the one I use to date and going to use it forever unless AMD comes up with a better driver for my platform.
 
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Tarvaln said:
Are you using Mantle in BF4? And if so, are you still having issues with lag spikes and memory leaks?
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update.

I may experienced memory leak and performance degradation in BF4 MP on a 64player Siege of Sanghai map 2500 tickets using Mantle. At some point the game started behaving strangely, unfortunately i didnt have fps and drawgraph enabled to see what was happening. Ill try again in the same map and see if it will happen again.
 
Just to report on experience from my linux box.

Ubuntu 14.04, latest updates
Radeon 6870
intel c2q q9300 (2.5Ghz default; can oc to 3.55 GHz)
8G DDR2-1066 memory


FGLRX 14.301.1001 (14.9) clean install from 14.20 FGLRX
Install went fine, no issues.

Counter Strike Global Offensive - Max performance about the same as 14.20 but stutter when using multicore rendering greatly improved, much more pleasurable experience. Still not at Windows performance or smoothness, but certainly playable. IMO, the game visually looks better in linux than Windows.

Borderlands 2 - Had not tried with 14.20, but I was surprised at how well it performed. Plays choppy at times, but would probably be ok for people who are more casual (console?) gamers. Physx options are not available at all, I'm assuming Physx doesn't have a linux compatible version. Visually the game didn't look as good as the Windows version, just seemed too bright and a little washed out even after tweaking brightness/contrast settings.

No bugs or anything to report so far. Although, if I turn everything to low in CS:GO then people/weapons turn to all black if in any kind of shadow. Doesn't happen when everything is on high, haven't tested to see if the same happens in windows.
 
AtenRa said:
update.

I may experienced memory leak and performance degradation in BF4 MP on a 64player Siege of Sanghai map 2500 tickets using Mantle. At some point the game started behaving strangely, unfortunately i didnt have fps and drawgraph enabled to see what was happening. Ill try again in the same map and see if it will happen again.
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On large/long maps it's more noticeable as the leak creeps towards your RAM ceiling. You get lag, spikes and a out of memory error. I don't think the issue was fixed in the last BF4 patch nor 14.9 driver but I can't test it myself. I'm going off of what I've read on forums.

If you want to test it yourself, you can try Hardware Monitor. It's what I use for memory watching, however I have two monitors. I don't know of an overlay program that will let you watch your RAM in game.

On the BF4 side of things, the problem has been diagnosed unofficially. *"The fix is to go to the Battlefield 4 folder and locate a file called "WeaponChunks.sb" inside /Data/Win32/ folder and delete/rename/move it. "

That has worked for me, however, you do lose some of the audio from weapons. There haven't been any issues with gameplay by removing/renaming the file above. It will increase your FPS, smooth out your FPS and stop the memory leak.

*Source:
http://cte.battlelog.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2985968005281976156/last/post_2985968005414880988
 
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The first two of the Crysis games were always buggy. They crash different amounts on different drivers, there was never a perfect one.
 
New 14.9.1 beta driver has fixed all my issues (CTD, hard locks, restart issues etc)

Thankfully not such a wait for this fix. Thanks!
 
Hmm, no mention about the memory leaks in BF4 Mantle Crossfire, and I am wondering about mining performance. Worth a look though likely.
 
Shmee said:
Hmm, no mention about the memory leaks in BF4 Mantle Crossfire, and I am wondering about mining performance. Worth a look though likely.
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I downloaded it, but I'm still debating whether to install it, since I have no issues with the 14.9 driver on either of my rigs.
Albeit, I do admit I don't allow my PCs to sleep (i just turn them off when not in use) and I don't play BF4.....so those issues are irrelevant to me personally.....so I never "test" those issues.
 
I'm going to stick with the amd-catalyst-14.6-rc2-windows-june23 display Dvr until AMD releases a RC as the WHQL 14.9 Dvr was a complete mess on my X-Fire platform.
 
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