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Anteworld - Outerra Game => Tech demo, support, updates => Topic started by: Acetone on December 09, 2014, 12:06:59 pm

Title: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: Acetone on December 09, 2014, 12:06:59 pm

Just a quick info for AMD users, I've run few tests and the new Catalyst driver seems to improve perfs on Outerra. The last driver was really bad so it's good surprise.

I've run a test with the old and the new driver, above Talkeetna (http://forum.outerra.com/index.php?topic=2855.0) with settings a bit more high than usual :

Altitude |	Old driver |	New driver
2km |	34fps/55ms |	51fps/36ms
500m |	31fps/60ms |	46fps/41ms
Ground |	23fps/59ms |	37fps/47ms

I'm using a Radeon R9 270.
So, it's a good news  ;D

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: cameni on December 09, 2014, 01:24:39 pm

Wow, unexpected :)

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: Acetone on December 09, 2014, 03:28:27 pm

Quote from: cameni on December 09, 2014, 01:24:39 pm

Wow, unexpected :)

Yep, not sure what they really changed to achieve that (the patchlog don't list anything directly related to OGL), but it feels a lot more smoother and responsive.
Some folks see improvements on various games, I can't say for sure, but in Outerra it's impressive !

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: ZeosPantera on December 09, 2014, 04:52:39 pm

There has to be a mistake. All driver updates should cause the game to fail and run poorly.

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: sniperwolfpk5 on December 10, 2014, 01:32:00 am

I have every thing purple with these drivers.

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: cameni on December 10, 2014, 04:49:34 am

A 5000 or 6000 series GPU?

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: thibdumont on December 10, 2014, 05:08:16 am

Hi,

Same here, terrain is purple (except in a 50 meters radius) with HD5850 and the Omega driver.
But i have this issue since i updated to the mid september driver.

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: sniperwolfpk5 on December 10, 2014, 06:05:57 am

Quote from: cameni on December 10, 2014, 04:49:34 am

A 5000 or 6000 series GPU?

I have HP probook 4540s i7QM, which has 7 series GPU

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: cameni on December 10, 2014, 06:55:23 am

Quote from: sniperwolfpk5 on December 10, 2014, 06:05:57 am

I have HP probook 4540s i7QM, which has 7 series GPU

Ah ok, but thanks to marketing schemes, the 7650M GPU in that notebook is actually a renamed 6650M chip, so it suffers from the same problem as 5/6 series desktop GPUs.

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: sniperwolfpk5 on December 10, 2014, 11:27:56 am

Quote from: cameni on December 10, 2014, 06:55:23 am

Quote from: sniperwolfpk5 on December 10, 2014, 06:05:57 am

I have HP probook 4540s i7QM, which has 7 series GPU

Ah ok, but thanks to marketing schemes, the 7650M GPU in that notebook is actually a renamed 6650M chip, so it suffers from the same problem as 5/6 series desktop GPUs.

That is strange. Thank you for the info

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: Stefmar72 on December 28, 2014, 12:09:02 pm

Hi,
Terrain is purple too with HD6870 with the 14.11.2 beta AMd driver, i will try with Omega drivers, but it will seems that i will have the same behavior :(

Title: Re: AMD Catalyst Omega (...) driver - 14.12
Post by: Acetone on December 28, 2014, 12:12:52 pm

Quote from: Stefmar72 on December 28, 2014, 12:09:02 pm

Hi,
Terrain is purple too with HD6870 with the 14.11.2 beta AMd driver, i will try with Omega drivers, but it will seems that i will have the same behavior :(

Quote from: Cameni

Magenta is a driver issue, on AMD 5/6 series you'd have to downgrade to 14.4 drivers until we find a workaround or AMD provides fixed new drivers.