AMD Special Edition Driver: Catalyst Omega

[Phynaz]

Microsoft is pulling the root certificates update for Win 7 that broke the installer. KB3024777 has been pushed to machines to remove it.

 

[raghu78]

at ubi forums almost everyone agrees that patch 1.3 + amd omega is a massive fps boost. :thumbsup:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/972897-AMD-Omega-Driver-Massive-boost-in-Frame-rate-for-ACU

you can also check out Bang4buck PC Gamer videos at youtube

http://www.overclock.net/t/1524297/gamegpu-assassins-creed-unity/160#post_23265195

 

[KaRLiToS]

at ubi forums almost everyone agrees that patch 1.3 + amd omega is a massive fps boost. :thumbsup:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/972897-AMD-Omega-Driver-Massive-boost-in-Frame-rate-for-ACU

you can also check out Bang4buck PC Gamer videos at youtube

http://www.overclock.net/t/1524297/gamegpu-assassins-creed-unity/160#post_23265195

I agree it is a massive FPS boost with recent games with Omega

In Far Cry 4 at 8040x1440 (triple monitors) I went from 25-30 fps to 40-45fps , on low settings of course with a single R9 290x.

As soon as they enable a crossfire profile for that game, I'm gonna start playing it with Quad .

I will have to buy Unity to test, but it is scary.

 

[Piotrsama]

Microsoft is pulling the root certificates update for Win 7 that broke the installer. KB3024777 has been pushed to machines to remove it.

Hmmm, seems Win 8 was not affected by KB 3004394.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3024777/en-us

The KB 3004394 update that was dated December 10, 2014 can cause additional problems on computers that are running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This includes the inability to install future updates. This new update is available to remove KB 3004394 from your computer.

 

[Final8ty]

Some results are sharper and more detailed for sure and i have yet to see a VSR screen shot comparison that is not unless heavily compressed.

R290
Hitman.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103911

Titan
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103915

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

that sounds better. at ubi forums almost everyone agrees that patch 1.3 + amd omega is a massive fps boost.

Game is running better, especially downscaled with AA turned off, but Crossfire still seems to be broken. I'm not getting any noticeable scaling on my double 290X.

Actually, ARF mode seems to be working in Omega, or at least providing some semblance of scaling for the second GPU. The areas where the FPS tank don't change (and the drops are exactly the same), but the average is significantly higher. ACU engine is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

 

[Silverforce11]

They all have hardware downsampling solutions its just that the max resolution that can be downsampled from is limited by the hardware solutions that each have.

Some results are sharper and more detailed for sure and i have yet to see a VSR screen shot comparison that is not unless heavily compressed.

R290
Hitman.
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103911

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103915

That is absolutely beautiful AA. Not only are the jaggies gone but the down-sampling actually INCREASED overall image quality with clearer textures and more details in the foliage.

There's anti-blur in fact with AMD's VSR and massively increased LOD!

 

[Piotrsama]

Some results are sharper and more detailed for sure and i have yet to see a VSR screen shot comparison that is not unless heavily compressed.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103915

That's beautiful, look at the wheelbarrow and grass with VSR.
Too bad I have only 1 290, but I might try.

 

[Final8ty]

R290
Dirt3
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103909

Titan
Assassin’s creed brotherhood
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/103912


And that's all for now.

 

[Piotrsama]

· How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

First instrucion says:
1 - Close all opened applications including any live monitoring anti-virus, firewall, remote-access, or webcam software before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst Driver.

Hey Warsam.
Constructive criticism here.

There's no reason anybody should disable their firewall conected to the internet. Way too dangerous.
Tell the guys on charge of that, to redact to text to be something like this:

1- Download the new driver.
2- Disconnect from the internet (turn off modem, unplug cable...)
3- Disable firewall, antivirus.
4- Install
.....

What do you think?
Thanks.

 

[Final8ty]

Indeed^

 

[tential]

Hey Warsam.
Constructive criticism here.

There's no reason anybody should disable their firewall conected to the internet. Way too dangerous.
Tell the guys on charge of that, to redact to text to be something like this:

1- Download the new driver.
2- Disconnect from the internet (turn off modem, unplug cable...)
3- Disable firewall, antivirus.
4- Install
.....

What do you think?
Thanks.

Great suggestion.

 

[jackstar7]

I sent in a report for this, but just in case anyone sees similar behavior:

Updated the driver and from then on my Overlord Tempest would not show an image. It was being recognized by Windows and would show during post, but once in Windows, nothing. I tried several troubleshoots with CRU and other tools I had, but nothing gave results. I finally used the restore point and everything is back to normal.

I am expecting that my setup is possibly too weird to come up much, so it's possible this won't be fixed anytime soon, but since things work all right as-is, I'm not complaining. Hopefully it does get sorted out...whatever the problem is.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Maybe I'll have to give Synaptic a try. I have the drivers installed now, but not CCC, which isn't a big issue as I can do everything through aticonfig, but it's more convenient with CCC. Can you do me a favor real quick before I try going through Synaptic? Can you just open CCC and look in the information tab under the driver and 2d driver lines just to make sure they're both 14.501? When installing CCC after the drivers through the Ubuntu package it reverts the 2d driver to an older version. Thanks.

I'll take a look once I plug that drive in again (right now it's disabled). Might not be 'til tomorrow (sorry, work hours getting crazy this time of year). You did download the CCC .deb from amd directly, right?

 

[Hitman928]

I'll take a look once I plug that drive in again (right now it's disabled). Might not be 'til tomorrow (sorry, work hours getting crazy this time of year). You did download the CCC .deb from amd directly, right?

Yep, thanks for checking when you have a minute.

 

[stahlhart]

This thread was started by a representative from AMD for the express purpose of officially announcing a driver release, supporting customers that own graphics hardware that the driver supports, and soliciting feedback and addressing concerns from customers on the drivers.

If this does not apply to you, then you have no business being here.

-- stahlhart

 

[guskline]

Been running the Omega driver now for over 24 hrs and well pleased.

 

[NIGELG]

I am wondering if this will benefit my 7970.

 

[tential]

I am wondering if this will benefit my 7970.

If you're an AC Unity player it seems to boost performance dramatically.

 

[Final8ty]

DFRC coming to part 2 of these drivers

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18507294&page=190

 

[brandonb]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18507294&page=190

This is indeed great news. Trying to limit frame rate on a Windows machine is a pure nightmare. The OS being multi threaded in addition to inaccurate hardware timers with low resolution never gave good results and needed to be programmed into every game, and not everybody is able to do that/willing to do that/or can get it working correctly based on my statement above. Being able to control this in a driver would be awesome.

*I've been trying to get it to work in my DX11 app and I've been struggling to get it working like designed: This is supposed to limit to 60 fps but I usually still run at about 90 fps because of the things mentioned above, and this was the absolute best scenario I was able to create. I tried about 5 other methods with worse results.

		// Throttle
		objl_MAIN->objm_PROFILER->ProfilerDatas.at(std::string("8.Throttle"))->Begin();

		int intl_MILLISECONDWAIT = (int)(16.66f - (16.66f * objl_MAIN->decm_STEP));

		if(intl_MILLISECONDWAIT > 0)
		{

			__int64 intl_DUETIME;
			intl_DUETIME = -10000 * intl_MILLISECONDWAIT;

			LARGE_INTEGER objl_TIME;
			objl_TIME.LowPart  = (DWORD) (intl_DUETIME & 0xFFFFFFFF);
			objl_TIME.HighPart = (LONG)  (intl_DUETIME >> 32);

			SetWaitableTimerEx(hanl_THROTTLE, &objl_TIME, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
			WaitForSingleObject(hanl_THROTTLE, INFINITE);

		}

		objl_MAIN->objm_PROFILER->ProfilerDatas.at(std::string("8.Throttle"))->End();

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Will VSR be available for the R9 280x in the future?

 

[railven]

OOpps, just saw that last mod warning. Let's get out before the infraction!

Kudos to the Omega name revival. Doth reminds me of the lovely 9800 days.

 

[Skurge]

Will VSR be available for the R9 280x in the future?

It should be available in Jan/Feb with the phase 2 driver.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Yep, thanks for checking when you have a minute.

Driver Packaging Version is listed as:

14.501.1003-141120a-178002C

2D driver version is listed as:

14.50.2