[rumor] AMD Catalyst Omega Drivers

[KaRLiToS]

It's Raghu78 that posted them at OC.net .

 

[96Firebird]

That frame interpolation is an option for creating video, correct? The PowerDVD case in the corner leads me to believe it is. I hate the frame interpolation most "120Hz" TVs use, I think it looks horrible.

 

[Phynaz]

Nice

 

[SPBHM]

oh, I used omega drivers back in 2003 with my 9500, good to know they are back :thumbsup: (joking)

how is support for this improvements? all GCN, GCN 1.1+ only?

 

[Erenhardt]

Free sync is labeled for HD7X00 GPUs aswell? What?

 

[csbin]

Nice！

 

[96Firebird]

Free sync is labeled for HD7X00 GPUs aswell? What?

http://support.amd.com/en-us/search/faq/219

 

[n0x1ous]

Free sync is labeled for HD7X00 GPUs aswell? What?

oh the 7000 series supports it..........just not in games....

 

[Erenhardt]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/search/faq/219

Thanks:thumbsup:

 

[raghu78]

It's Raghu78 that posted them at OC.net .

yeah. I saved them from http://www.3dnews.ru/906235 before they pulled it down and then put them up on ocn. :thumbsup:

 

[SunburstLP]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that hopped in a time machine when I saw the name. I also used the heck out of Omega's drivers years ago. As much as I miss tweaking the snot out of a machine to get it to run games at full potential, now that I'm older, I kind of appreciate the fact that you don't need to jump through hoops to get a machine to run properly.

Looks like it will be a good driver release, congrats to the affected.

 

[n0x1ous]

so are these going to be 14.12 or are they really calling them Omega officially?

 

[Despoiler]

so are these going to be 14.12 or are they really calling them Omega officially?

NDA drops for these on Monday. We will find out then.

 

[Red Hawk]

Hmm, I wonder what they mean by "high core". High amount of CPU cores? Or high amount of GCN "compute units"/"cores"?

 

[wand3r3r]

I wish they were already released so I could try them out over the weekend.

 

[geoxile]

Hmm, I wonder what they mean by "high core". High amount of CPU cores? Or high amount of GCN "compute units"/"cores"?

Great performance for AMD systems and "higher efficiency" seems to imply (to me anyway) greater parallelism. So maybe the CPU overhead has been reduced in some way

 

[Dankk]

Very exciting.

What is your guys's opinion on the Gaming Evolved client? I've always avoided installing it in the past because it seems like unecessary bloatware, similar to the Geforce Experience client. But if it offers useful features like FPS measurement and footage capture I might have to give it a chance.

 

[Red Hawk]

Very exciting.

What is your guys's opinion on the Gaming Evolved client? I've always avoided installing it in the past because it seems like unecessary bloatware, similar to the Geforce Experience client. But if it offers useful features like FPS measurement and footage capture I might have to give it a chance.

I tried it once, it didn't seem too bloaty but there wasn't anything about it that was really useful to me so I just uninstalled it. But if the client now features gameplay video capture and FPS measurement, I may just give it another shot.

 

[DiogoDX]

Videocardz: http://videocardz.com/54128/amd-announces-catalyst-omega-drivers-with-virtual-super-resolution

Rotated Eyefinity Support for AMD Radeon™ R9 285

Enables a mix of portrait and landscape oriented displays

This is the requested portrait-landscape-portrait?

TOP Bug fixes:

14.9 Install issues for intermittent crash or black screen after install
14.9 Catalyst™ Control Center issues have occasional AMDMantle64.dll error popups during install
Online video can sometimes crash when watching Youtube videos with hardware acceleration enabled
Watching online flash videos in Google Chrome sometimes causes the browser to hang when hardware acceleration is enabled
Displays that go in to sleep mode intermittently causes the display to not wake up
AHCI Chipset Drivers can sometimes cause the system to crash on bootup
144Hz displays in AMD CrossFire™ configurations can cause intermittent crashing when launching D3D Applications
Game stuttering or screen tearing in Quad CrossFire™
State of Decay textures can intermittently extrude beyond their boundaries or be corrupted
HDMI audio stays disabled when a connected TV is disabled and then reenabled

 

[el etro]

Hmm, I wonder what they mean by "high core". High amount of CPU cores? Or high amount of GCN "compute units"/"cores"?

Maybe is a overhead enhancement improvement for the DX11 driver.

 

[Udgnim]

Very exciting.

What is your guys's opinion on the Gaming Evolved client? I've always avoided installing it in the past because it seems like unecessary bloatware, similar to the Geforce Experience client. But if it offers useful features like FPS measurement and footage capture I might have to give it a chance.

let it optimize my games

found out that meant changing graphic settings

deleted it from my HDD

 

[Rickyyy369]

let it optimize my games

found out that meant changing graphic settings

deleted it from my HDD

I let it "optimize" Far Cry 3 for me once and it turned it into a stuttering, laggy mess.

I installed it once or twice but reinstalled it rather quickly. I just didn't see any reason for it outside of their regular giveaways, which I wasn't interested in anyway.

 

[mindbomb]

That frame interpolation is an option for creating video, correct? The PowerDVD case in the corner leads me to believe it is. I hate the frame interpolation most "120Hz" TVs use, I think it looks horrible.

It's primarily to fix judder, which is caused by the mismatch of the frame rate of the video with the refresh rate of the monitor. For example, if you have 24 fps video on a 60 hz monitor, since 24 doesn't divide evenly into 60, you won't display each frame for an equal amount of time. Since some frames are displayed longer than others, this can be be perceived as motion not looking fluid.

There are other solutions rather than doing interpolation, such as using freesync or just buying a monitor with a 120hz or 144hz refresh rate, or using the 24hz refresh rate on a tv. With 120hz, you are covered for 24 fps, 30 fps, and 60 fps video, so that is pretty sweet. Madvr has smooth motion frc, which is pretty similiar to the AMD thing, but blends rather than interpolates.

 

[Shamrock]

Videocardz: http://videocardz.com/54128/amd-announces-catalyst-omega-drivers-with-virtual-super-resolution


This is the requested portrait-landscape-portrait?

TOP Bug fixes:
14.9 Install issues for intermittent crash or black screen after install
14.9 Catalyst™ Control Center issues have occasional AMDMantle64.dll error popups during install
Online video can sometimes crash when watching Youtube videos with hardware acceleration enabled
Watching online flash videos in Google Chrome sometimes causes the browser to hang when hardware acceleration is enabled
Displays that go in to sleep mode intermittently causes the display to not wake up
AHCI Chipset Drivers can sometimes cause the system to crash on bootup
144Hz displays in AMD CrossFire™ configurations can cause intermittent crashing when launching D3D Applications
Game stuttering or screen tearing in Quad CrossFire™
State of Decay textures can intermittently extrude beyond their boundaries or be corrupted
HDMI audio stays disabled when a connected TV is disabled and then reenabled

What everyone's been waiting for!

 

[Final8ty]

ShadowPlay is nice but AMD has a solution with Gaming Evolved, it has more overhead that ShadowPlay because it does not have the on chip solution. However if you want the best results when recording you cannot use Shadowplay, so while it is nice for streaming or for you to record fun moments it doesn't work as a professional solution (some mild artifacting issues.) I cannot speak as to the Gaming Evolved solution as I have not used.

DSR just got a response from AMD as well.

With Mantle, FreeSync, Gaming Evolved, and their increased work with vendors I think AMD has pretty much caught up.

Gaming Evolved does not have more overhead than ShadowPlay, AMD does have a on chip solution VCE which Gaming Evolved uses.
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