AMD 15.30 Crimson drivers?

Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:40 am

Anyone else with a AMD card using these?

My FPS seems to have taken a massive FPS hit indoors. I usually get 55-60 stable FPS, but using this new driver has me pushing 30-40 indoors and 50 max outdoors.

Just wondering if anyone else has tried these and can report their performance changes.

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Nikki Lawrence
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:12 pm

The auto-detector may have got you the wrong driver. I went back to my default drivers and managed to actually play the game today.

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Dan Wright
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:54 am

The only thing (so far) I have noticed with the driver is that the compass symbols become a little glitchy. There is a fix for that that works (another thread on this forum). Hopefully AMD or Bethesda fixes this (whoever it is that should fix it).

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bimsy
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:41 am

Not sure, been doing some testing and it doesn't matter the settings.

Put it on Low settings and it still drops down to 30fps indoors and has horribly unstable FPS outdoors.

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Amy Gibson
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:13 am

Figured it out.

Apparently when installing the Crimson it was set to download the newest drivers and was downloading drivers not for my card. Skipped that part and kept my current drivers and Crimson works fine now.

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Lloyd Muldowney
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:42 pm

Having this same issue, indoors FPS is lowered to 30 during some scenes and constant change from 60 to 30 results in massive stutters. Outdoors is fine.

But I don't see how I could get the wrong Crimson driver as I picked it myself and installed offline so neither Windows 10 or itself can mess it up by downloading something else. I also see many people with same problem reporting on AMD forums.

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Latino HeaT
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:15 am

Even if I (so far) only have seen the compass symbol issue, I decided to roll back to the old system until AMD have sorted this out.

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Chavala
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:32 pm

I'm rolling back as well, indoors is mostly unplayable. I have seen downclocks to 400Mhz (GPU is 985MHz normally) so that the driver tries to give me 30FPS even with every frame limiting option disabled.

AMD dropped the ball as usual. Shame Nvidia didn't have a non-gimp competitor (128-bit for 200$+? no thanks) to 380 so I had to buy that.

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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:07 pm


You can use the crimson software, which will net you a few extra frames alone.

Just in check auto download drivers and don't install the 15.30 drivers. I'm back to 15.11 with the crimson software.
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Sami Blackburn
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:03 pm


Your also on a 380? I have a feeling it's our card. I'm using the 380 and I have seen a number of game have issues with the 380 that other 300 series cards do not have.
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Melly Angelic
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:27 pm

Yeah, Sapphire Nitro 380 4GB. I just bought it for FO4 as my old 6950 1GB couldn't handle anything above low suitably.

This indoors FPS problem seems to be from Powerplay downclocking the card to the point that it gives 30FPS but it's only for certain scenes so it fluctuates wildly from 30 to 60, I saw my clock bouncing all the way from 350Mhz to 900Mhz indoors with 500Mhz averages. Not the case before, it was always above 800Mhz at least.

I'll try what you said, it's a great idea.

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Tina Tupou
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:12 pm

Got it yesterday. Need to test it more, indoors and other areas. I have 1280:1024 resolution. So, 60 fps in Sanctuary Hills, with few drops. For me, it's not worse if not better, but it seems that it preforms little better.

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Marina Leigh
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:00 pm

Seems fine for me no change though maybe somewhat better performance. I like the options it has. SOme of Radeon Pro has been integrated.

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Emily Rose
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:35 pm


Give the crimson software a try with 15.11 drivers.

My FPS have been much more consistent and I can now run god rays on high with the crimson software. Got to be something wrong with the 15.30 drivers and the R9 380 as other 300 cards seem unaffected.
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Jeremy Kenney
 
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Post » Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:43 pm

I did as you said, indoors problem is gone at least, even though I'm unsure if shader caching of Crimson works.

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