AMD Crimson 16.4.1 released

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http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-Software-Crimson-Edition-16.4.1.aspx

Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.4.1 Highlights

Support for:

Quantum Break™
Upto 35% faster performance using Quantum Break™ on Radeon™ R9 Fury X than with Radeon™ Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2(1).

Oculus Rift™

HTC Vive™

Resolved Issues

Frame rate capping issues experienced in some DirectX®12 applications is resolved.
Hitman™ may experience flickering when played in DirectX® 11 mode using high game shadow settings.

Known Issues

A few game titles may fail to launch or crash if the AMD Gaming Evolved overlay is enabled. A temporary workaround is to disable the AMD Gaming Evolved "In Game Overlay"
Need For Speed™ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around users can disable the profile through the Radeon™ Settings game manager.
The Division™ may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Power efficiency toggle in Radeon™ Settings is showing up for some unsupported products.
XCOM2™ users may experience an application crash when using AMD Crossfire™ mode. As a work around please disable AMD Crossfire™ for the games profile in the Radeon™ Settings Gaming tab.
Some DX9 applications cannot disable AMD Crossfire™ mode through Radeon™ Settings.
A small subset of AMD Radeon™ R9 380 users may be experiencing slower than expected fan speeds. A work around is to raise your fan speeds through AMD Overdrive in Radeon™ Settings manually to a desired amount.
HDMI Scaling options may not be available in Radeon™ Settings on some system configurations.
 
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I installed this, but I'm not really sure why. I'm all for frequent driver updates but none of the things I'm looking for will be corrected in this release. Either that or the patch notes are not very exhaustive.
 
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Despoiler said:
That is the last driver that shows what I would call normal performance. Drivers before that were fine too. Every driver after 16.2.1 shows noticeable performance loss.
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Thanks for the info. I've been wondering whether I should update my drivers from 16.1.
 
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Really wish they would post a full change log, instead of these snippets.
 
IllogicalGlory

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Well, this is something like the 4th driver to claim as much. I haven't tried this one, but none of the other drivers allowed any tearing in that game, vsync on or off. :(
 
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thesmokingman said:
Is the game written to support it in the first place?
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Crossfire worked when the game ran DX9. It was officially supported.

Eyefinity worked when the game ran DX9. The game itself is given the AMD Gold seal for Eyefinity.

When they upgraded to DX11, both of these got borked. SLI works and so does Surround, but AMD users are left to eat dust.
 
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cbrunny said:
Crossfire worked when the game ran DX9. It was officially supported.

Eyefinity worked when the game ran DX9. The game itself is given the AMD Gold seal for Eyefinity.

When they upgraded to DX11, both of these got borked. SLI works and so does Surround, but AMD users are left to eat dust.
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Is it the driver or is it the game? Have you sent complaints to the dev? Point is AMD may be slow, but they do listen and respond to their customer base and their problems. And it doesn't seem like a difficult issue on the surface right?


For ex. in my own experience, it took about 2-3 weeks for them to fix the 144hz refresh rate on the desktop issue. Karlitos was very adamant about it too. I dunno how many bug reports he fired off, but I sent one. A few weeks later it was fixed. They do fix stuff. If it's being ignored or looks like its being ignored, it just might not be an issue on their side?
 
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thesmokingman said:
Is it the driver or is it the game? Have you sent complaints to the dev? Point is AMD may be slow, but they do listen and respond to their customer base and their problems. And it doesn't seem like a difficult issue on the surface right?


For ex. in my own experience, it took about 2-3 weeks for them to fix the 144hz refresh rate on the desktop issue. Karlitos was very adamant about it too. I dunno how many bug reports he fired off, but I sent one. A few weeks later it was fixed. They do fix stuff. If it's being ignored or looks like its being ignored, it just might not be an issue on their side?
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Several bug reports to AMD and square Enix. Actually I should fill out another one...
 
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Kinda, and Nvidia cards aren't usually as good at it, but its possible depending on the card. See our thread about it.
 
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Shmee said:
Kinda, and Nvidia cards aren't usually as good at it, but its possible depending on the card. See our thread about it.
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Realistically, with a card like the 390X, how much money can you currently generate a month?
 
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With ~30MH/s of a 390X, about $155 at current price and difficulty. Used to be a bit more.
 
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Mercennarius said:
Realistically, with a card like the 390X, how much money can you currently generate a month?
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I'm at $5 / day over the past ~23 days with 30 MH/s on a 290. It's barely worth it, but it's still cold here and it keeps my room warmer. I'll turn it off before too long.
 
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So an extra $150 a month pays for the card in 2-3 months and that's not worth it?
 
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Wonder how much extra in electricity you're paying. And how much wear on the card/system that adds?
 
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That's part of what makes it hardly worth it unless you can use the extra heat. I pay $.21/kWh, and I'm assuming my system draws 333 W from the wall (easy numbers, could be more or less). So every day I pay $1.68 in electricity, already 33% of my daily "profits" compared to leaving my system off, which it is the majority of the time, or else sitting idle listening to music or playing old Thief games from 1998. And on top of that, the GPU fan is loud and kind of annoying. I don't really care how much life I take off of the card because it'll last more than long enough and I'll probably upgrade to a new lower power consumption card when they come out, but running it at 80-90C all the time is definitely a consideration if you're keeping it a while.

So yeah, there's no way I'll be leaving it on once it gets warm here and my third floor apartment starts heating up.
 
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