AMD Catalyst 15.7 Driver is now available!

[casiofx]

Wow, I think the draw calls did improve.
Previously at the center square in Novigrad of The Witcher 3. I got around 45-48 fps even with OCed R9 290 (not 100% utilized, CPU bottlenecked). Now I get 51-53fps at the same spot.

 

[Silverforce11]

Wow, I think the draw calls did improve.
Previously at the center square in Novigrad of The Witcher 3. I got around 45-48 fps even with OCed R9 290 (not 100% utilized, CPU bottlenecked). Now I get 51-53fps at the same spot.

Not sure if draw calls or just game specific optimizations, there's a large list of games listed at AMD's sites that have been improved with this driver.

But I just tested it in a few games (WoT, WoW, Witcher 3, Cities Skylines) and yes, FPS either goes up or GPU usage goes down to maintain 60 fps (Frame Limit).

Great driver, kudos AMD!

 

[Arkanius]

AMD are finally doing something good with their drivers.
W10 beta drivers have been rock solid, but this one is a real gem.

Worthy of the WHQL tag so far.

 

[guskline]

Just installed in my rig below and very happy. Firestrike frame rates jumped. Has the win 10 driver ready.

 

[n0x1ous]

Good driver, but wish they would add adaptive vsync for users who don't have freesync monitors. Radeonpro is so buggy and unreliable so its not really an alternative.

 

[tential]

The amount of issues people are having with the frame rate control and VSR is pathetic. AMD really should have made sure this launch period of Fury was completely polished instead of mistake after mistake. Dunno how people feel confident spending that kind of money when AMD just continues to struggle with simple features.

 

[railven]

No the issues did not exist in dx9. At least not recently. Eyefinity and crossfire worked with dx9 but since the dx11 client launched neither work.

If I honestly had to guess, it most likely will take AMD a little extra work since again the DX11 client is sponsored by Nvidia (and I guess you can infer all the nefarious Nvidia mucking).

 

[casiofx]

The amount of issues people are having with the frame rate control and VSR is pathetic. AMD really should have made sure this launch period of Fury was completely polished instead of mistake after mistake. Dunno how people feel confident spending that kind of money when AMD just continues to struggle with simple features.

Not a single problem of VSR and FRTC here :sneaky:

 

[tential]

Not a single problem of VSR and FRTC here :sneaky:

Still no 1800p option here. Yet there are some with the option on guru3d for HD7000 users.

 

[Red Hawk]

This is part of the reason I didn't purchase the 290x. 1440p VSR limitation isn't worth it as most of the geames I could probably run at 4K. But because VSR is so limited, even BEYOND what AMD publishes, I can't even trust to be able to use the card for it's intended purpose. cool!

Not sure where you got the idea that the 290x is limited to 1440p in VSR; I have a 290x and I regularly use VSR up to 1800p in Dragonball Xenoverse. Supporting VSR with Southern Islands at all is pretty cool. In practice I don't think it matters that Southern Islands can't push go past 1440p, that's about as high as those cards can go in modern games at playable frame rates.

 

[guskline]

Took quite awhile to decompress and install all the drivers but is working well on my rig below. Nice to finally have an official upgrade from Omega.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

These drivers have certainly increased FPS for me in some games I tested. Arkham Knight I swear feels way smoother as well weirdly along with PCars.

 

[DiogoDX]

Just reported the giant mouse cursor bug.

 

[n0x1ous]

Just reported the giant mouse cursor bug.

care to elaborate?

 

[DiogoDX]

care to elaborate?

Mouse cursor became 2X size after installing the 15.7. Going back to 14.12 fixed.

 

[railven]

Mouse cursor became 2X size after installing the 15.7. Going back to 14.12 fixed.

Not a Windows scaling issue?

 

[DiogoDX]

Not a Windows scaling issue?

Never had this and just unistalling the driver fix the bug.

 

[tential]

Not sure where you got the idea that the 290x is limited to 1440p in VSR; I have a 290x and I regularly use VSR up to 1800p in Dragonball Xenoverse. Supporting VSR with Southern Islands at all is pretty cool. In practice I don't think it matters that Southern Islands can't push go past 1440p, that's about as high as those cards can go in modern games at playable frame rates.

Sorry I worded that extremely poorly in just irritated with amd with this type of stuff at this point. My card is at 1440p with the 7950 despite being clearly able to use 1800p. I'd like to test the 1800p to see if it's worth it to upgrade to a 290. However I don't have the option and it makes me also worried that the option won't show up if I upgrade too. Since I'll get a used card and won't return it (can't) then I really want that 1800 p to work since I can crossfire to use it if necessary.

But I can't test despite amd saying the resolution is there and tons of people are having similar issues with vsr or the frame rate control. Even more annoying the 290 can do 4k with the wagnards tool. This whole situation with vsr and the frame rate control is pathetic.

Is it really that hard for amd to implement these 2 features? Or do I need to always use third party tools to get these features to work more reliably....

I already figure I need to install some third party tools and stop waiting for amd as they'll never give me the stuff I want.

 

[IGemini]

I guess VSR isn't quite ready, as far as my 7870 is concerned. Installed over the old driver (15.6), then took DDU to it, reinstalled with a new download. I run the Intel onboard driver with Virtu MVP2 for virtualization & QuickSync encoding, took DDU to the Intel driver in the off-chance that was interfering and disabled the iGPU. Still don't have the VSR option. Only thing I haven't tried is installing 15.7 without the Intel driver present, but no time before work...and I doubt it's the problem at the point anyway. Usually don't have problems with driver feature updates until now. FRTC is available but haven't tried that yet.

 

[tential]

I guess VSR isn't quite ready, as far as my 7870 is concerned. Installed over the old driver (15.6), then took DDU to it, reinstalled with a new download. I run the Intel onboard driver with Virtu MVP2 for virtualization & QuickSync encoding, took DDU to the Intel driver in the off-chance that was interfering and disabled the iGPU. Still don't have the VSR option. Only thing I haven't tried is installing 15.7 without the Intel driver present, but no time before work...and I doubt it's the problem at the point anyway. Usually don't have problems with driver feature updates until now. FRTC is available but haven't tried that yet.

You're not alone. Tons of people with same issue on guru3d.
Exact reason I'm annoyed it's been 7 months and they still can't get this amazing features working correctly.

Makes it very hard to want to spend a large sum of money if you have to hope that features work.

 

[Rvenger]

Never had this and just unistalling the driver fix the bug.

Sounds like you need to run DDU.

 

[DiogoDX]

Sounds like you need to run DDU.

Already did.

 

[chimaxi83]

Anybody know if this resolved TW3 Crossfire occasional flickering? I shouldn't have to rig ini files constantly.

 

[Red Hawk]

Sorry I worded that extremely poorly in just irritated with amd with this type of stuff at this point. My card is at 1440p with the 7950 despite being clearly able to use 1800p. I'd like to test the 1800p to see if it's worth it to upgrade to a 290. However I don't have the option and it makes me also worried that the option won't show up if I upgrade too. Since I'll get a used card and won't return it (can't) then I really want that 1800 p to work since I can crossfire to use it if necessary.

But I can't test despite amd saying the resolution is there and tons of people are having similar issues with vsr or the frame rate control. Even more annoying the 290 can do 4k with the wagnards tool. This whole situation with vsr and the frame rate control is pathetic.

Is it really that hard for amd to implement these 2 features? Or do I need to always use third party tools to get these features to work more reliably....

I already figure I need to install some third party tools and stop waiting for amd as they'll never give me the stuff I want.

From what I've read, AMD enables VSR through the hardware scaler, and that limits the usable resolutions to what the scaler can be made to support. The scaler in the 285 is newer than the scaler in the 290X, so that's why the 285 supports 4K VSR while the 290X doesn't, even though the 290X is more powerful. The relatively lower VSR resolutions supported on Southern Islands chips is likely because of a similar scaler constraint. So yeah, I guess is kind of is that hard for AMD to implement higher VSR resolutions on cards with scalers that can't support it.

 

[el etro]

From what I've read, AMD enables VSR through the hardware scaler, and that limits the usable resolutions to what the scaler can be made to support. The scaler in the 285 is newer than the scaler in the 290X, so that's why the 285 supports 4K VSR while the 290X doesn't, even though the 290X is more powerful. The relatively lower VSR resolutions supported on Southern Islands chips is likely because of a similar scaler constraint. So yeah, I guess is kind of is that hard for AMD to implement higher VSR resolutions on cards with scalers that can't support it.

Yep. Hardware scaler on the GCN1.0 cards only allow this "little" VSR resolution uplift. Is not a bad thing, here i'm getting 1200p with HD7950B and a 19" 1440x900 monitor.