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[KerenskyClone]

These were released yesterday. Anyone had a chance to test these out with Mechwarrior: Online?

Do they bring some performance to the table?

Edited by KerenskyClone, 30 January 2013 - 03:54 AM.

[Torquemada]

Will install and test later, hopefully some of the glitches will be fixed.

[Catamount]

I'll install it later and do some comparative benchmarks vs 13.1 as well.

[Youngblood]

Just inject it into my veins!

[Egomane]

The 13.2 beta3 drivers seem to specifically adress Crysis3, so that the players can enjoy the beta. Nvidia, as a development partner for the game, has a bit of a headstart there.

[KerenskyClone]

Doesnt MWO run on Cryengine3, as such wouldnt it benefit from drivers that are designed for that game engine?

[Catamount]

Yes, Crysis 3 does run no CE3, but so does Crysis 2, so driver-developers have been making drivers for this engine for awhile. However, that doesn't mean that there aren't enhancements that would benefit CE3 in general, so Crysis 2 and MWO may still benefit.

In fact, we know Cryengine 3 is getting general performance enhancements in some ways, because Crysis 2 Crossfire scaling has been boosted by another 10%. Will there be gains for single-card users, or even a general performance enhancement for all games from these drivers? I'll let you guys know in about 10 minutes

[Egomane]

Catamount, on 30 January 2013 - 07:26 AM, said:

I'll let you guys know in about 10 minutes

Can't wait! I need results now!

Thank you!

[Catamount]

Sapphire TRIXX is tweaking out right now; will get back to you soon with 3dmark and MWO benchmarks

[Sen]

Hope you have a better experience with them than I did [granted, i'm on a notebook and not running SLI] but I actually LOST 10-15 FPS trying these drivers.

Edited by Sen, 30 January 2013 - 09:59 AM.

[Youngblood]

Sen, on 30 January 2013 - 09:59 AM, said:

Hope you have a better experience with them than I did [granted, i'm on a notebook and not running SLI] but I actually LOST 10-15 FPS trying these drivers.

Which driver did you upgrade from?

[Catamount]

Well no differences in terms of measured fps, in general, or for MWO. I was going to post the numbers from the benchmarks, but since it's exactly the same I won't bother (and 3dmark's P-GPU was just 9850 for both drivers).

Still, this is a very welcome driver release. The frame draw time issue was something I was noticing in Skyrim, so that's good to get rid of. Beyond that, I don't think this driver will differ notably from 13.1.

Edited by Catamount, 30 January 2013 - 07:19 PM.

[Sen]

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[color=#959595]Which driver did you upgrade from?[/color]

310.90

[Torquemada]

I updated and after a few games this afternoon MWO corrupted so have had to reinstall, it was crashing almost immediately as the game started.

[Youngblood]

Sen, on 31 January 2013 - 07:16 AM, said:

310.90

Uhhh...you were comparing an nVidia driver versus an AMD driver? Does not compute.

[Sen]

OH SH**! Wrong THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeesh!!!

Nvidia just released a beta driver at the exact same time, and [I thought] for almost the exact same reason!

/facepalm

I thought the new AMD catalyst drivers were to combat the FPS latency issue that was just discovered last DEC or so??

(well, shoot, now I wish I were at home so I could get these on my desktop and see how they work >< )

PS: here's the thread I confused this one with. . just so y'all don't think I'm crazy

http://mwomercs.com/...driver-anybody/

Edited by Sen, 31 January 2013 - 09:38 AM.

[Catamount]

Yeah, 13.2 is mostly here to improve Crossfire performance and fix a latency issue. It definitely succeeds on the latter. As I said, the issue was very pronounced in Skyrim, with the game often appearing somewhat "jittery", despite continued insistence by Fraps that I was running at exactly 60fps, all the time.

[Thorqemada]

Catalyst 13.2 beta 4 runs great for me and gave me a significant imrpovement of 5 to 10 FPS on my ATI 6950.

http://support.amd.c...BetaDriver.aspx

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 4 DRIVER

• Improves performance in the Crysis 3 Multi-Player Beta by up to 50% when 4x and 8x MSAA are enabled.

Edited by Thorqemada, 01 February 2013 - 08:46 AM.