[BradleyW]

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Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.1 Highlights

Updated Crossfire Profiles available for:
◾Hitman™

Support for:
◾Need for Speed™

Resolved Issues
◾Installed or played games sometimes do not show up in the Radeon™ Settings "Gaming" tab.
◾Installing via command line may not work for some users. As a workaround please use the default GUI installer.
◾Intermittent hang sometimes experienced on UE4 applications.
◾Black screen or possible hang after launching Oculus Video Application.
◾DirectX®12 application frame rates are no longer locked to the refresh rate of the display panel.

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"
◾FFXIV can experience black screen or application hang
◾The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
◾League of Legends® may experience some graphical corruption on characters death animation in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
◾Rift® may experience a hang when playing with FRTC and V-Sync enabled. As a work around users are suggested to disable V-Sync.
◾Plants vs Zombies™: Garden Warfare 2 may experience some flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
◾Power efficiency toggle in Radeon™ Settings is showing up for some unsupported products.
◾Hitman™ may experience poor AMD Crossfire™ scaling when "Super Sampling" is set to 1.5x.
◾Need for Speed™ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.

SOURCE

 

[poii]

DirectX®12 application frame rates are no longer locked to the refresh rate of the display panel.

The 60fps limit when you have a 60Hz monitor issue fixed

http://www.computerbase.de/2016-03/crimson-16.3.1-hotfix-amd-grafiktreiber/

News about this driver

 

[hyp36rmax]

Cant wait to try the crossfire profile for Hitman! woot woot!

 

[zealord]

damn that is nice.

AMD is currently on a good track with their drivers

 

[ZealotKi11er]

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Originally Posted by zealord

damn that is nice.

AMD is currently on a good track with their drivers

People can't really complain about AMD drivers anymore apart from CFX.

 

[tweezlednutball]

Good stuff. Hopefully ill be able to try these out this weekend.

 

[BradleyW]

Past two months have been a driver a week on average.

 

[p4inkill3r]

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

People can't really complain about AMD drivers anymore apart from CFX.

Sure they can.

 

[zealord]

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

People can't really complain about AMD drivers anymore apart from CFX.

yeah but it appears Nvidia is having trouble to get SLI profiles working aswell.

Also I have only 1 GPU, but for other people I wish they (both Nvidia and AMD) were faster with making sure games have SLI/CF profiles.

 

[ZealotKi11er]

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Originally Posted by zealord

yeah but it appears Nvidia is having trouble to get SLI profiles working aswell.

Also I have only 1 GPU, but for other people I wish they (both Nvidia and AMD) were faster with making sure games have SLI/CF profiles.

Yeah. For 2015 and now 2016 CFX and SLI have had their worse time in their existence. I though It was CFX since AMD users here are more loud but SLI has similar problems from all the complain i hear from TB, Joker and other SLI youtubers. Funny how some youtubes never mention anything about these things. SLI is only a problem for people that buy both cards and want a return.

 

[BradleyW]

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

Yeah. For 2015 and now 2016 CFX and SLI have had their worse time in their existence. I though It was CFX since AMD users here are more loud but SLI has similar problems from all the complain i hear from TB, Joker and other SLI youtubers. Funny how some youtubers never mention anything about these things. SLI is only a problem for people that buy both cards and want a return.

I can think of a few.

 

[Offler]

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

Yeah. For 2015 and now 2016 CFX and SLI have had their worse time in their existence. I though It was CFX since AMD users here are more loud but SLI has similar problems from all the complain i hear from TB, Joker and other SLI youtubers. Funny how some youtubes never mention anything about these things. SLI is only a problem for people that buy both cards and want a return.

Lets put it this way.

You have an engine with no, poor or early multithread rendering. As Windows is not a real-time OS, wireframes done on different CPU cores may get finished out of frame order.

If you have a single GPU you might experience a stuttering, which may get resolved by simple single thread rendering at cost of some performance. If you have a multi GPU solution, you have more points where frame render may go wrong. If data coming from multipe CPUs may be already out of sync, keeping multiple gpus in sync is really a hard task.

An API ready for multiple cores such as Mantle, Vulcan or supposedly DX12 may give a relief in this case.

People who seem to overlook Xfire or SLi trouble now, were doing that for years, and mainly for games which offered some support for multithread rendering. Main reason for this behavior is to "be the best" in means of FPS, or 3dmark scores. And thats simply not right.

 

[Bartouille]

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

People can't really complain about AMD drivers anymore apart from CFX.

Personally I've never been this disappointed with AMD drivers and it's not because of CFX. Crimson introduced a couple of bugs that are still not fixed and don't even seem to be acknowledged (oc getting applied on startup, game profiles not working, etc). I'm not too sure about AMD new strategy to roll out drivers every week, if it's just to say "look we care about drivers we release one every 3 days" or if it's really effective. So far to me it seems they release drivers and don't really test enough to let slip bugs such as I mentioned. And what is the most frustrating is that these bugs weren't there before crimson.

And about CFX, I think it's OK. It's not a day one (release) gamer kind of thing. Anyway I'm the kind of person that buys games years later most of the time and by then CFX probably works perfect hehe.

 

[Cybertox]

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The Division may experience flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Plants vs Zombies™: Garden Warfare 2 may experience some flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.
Hitman™ may experience poor AMD Crossfire™ scaling when "Super Sampling" is set to 1.5x.
Need for Speed™ may experience poor scaling or flickering in AMD Crossfire™ mode.

Have fun Future Radeon Pro Duo owners.

Are we going to receive performance improvements in NFS? Or "support" is all we are getting?

 

[tweezlednutball]

just installed 16.3.1... hitman still wont use more than one gpu

 

[LocoDiceGR]

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Originally Posted by Cybertox

Have fun Future Radeon Pro Duo owners.

Are we going to receive performance improvements in NFS? Or "support" is all we are getting?

Exactly!! They release a multi-gpu but the drivers dont work well with CF.

like.....***?

 

[BradleyW]

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Originally Posted by tweezlednutball

just installed 16.3.1... hitman still wont use more than one gpu

Exclusive full screen?
DX11 and DX12 tested?

 

[tweezlednutball]

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Originally Posted by tweezlednutball

just installed 16.3.1... hitman still wont use more than one gpu

it seems crossfire works with dx11 but only one gpu is loaded in dx12 :-(

 

[BradleyW]

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Originally Posted by tweezlednutball

it seems crossfire works with dx11 but only one gpu is loaded in dx12 :-(

It's the case with Rise of TR DX12.

 

[josephimports]

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Originally Posted by BradleyW

Exclusive full screen?
DX11 and DX12 tested?

I tried all of the above. With DX12, it will just crash. DX11 will only use one card.



Benchmark will only run one card. DX11 cfx does appear to work in game.