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Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
Warsam71 wrote:Hello everyone,
In case you missed it; we just released the Catalyst 14.9 Driver for Windows and Linux:
Hz so good wrote:So far, so good (knock on wood).
just brew it! wrote:Hz so good wrote:So far, so good (knock on wood).
Wouldn't knocking on silicon be more appropriate?
TwistedKestrel wrote:Installing 14.9 coincided with a weird problem where my machine will either spontaneously restart or freeze without a BSOD (no events in system logs).
FightingScallion wrote:GPU up-scaling sticks in both settings for me (as best I can tell). I'm attached by DisplayPort on all of my monitors, though, and those settings are for HDMI. Not sure if that helps answer anything. If no one else responds to this for a while, maybe I'll pull out an HDMI cable and swap one of the displays to see if everything is still working alright.
Resizing the CCC program works fine, including slamming it into the top of the screen to go full screen, Windows+Left Arrow, Windows+Right Arrow, grabbing sides, and grabbing the lower right-hand corner.
R9 290 on Windows 8.1 with three VE248Qs through an EVGA DisplayPort hub
Anyway, Google showed this was a common problem when Windows 7 was run with an AMD/ATI GFX card, as for some reason unimaginable to every disgruntled user who complained of the problem, the writers of the AMD/ATI driver software had decided to not allow the user to set the GPU Scaling options, as long as THE CURRENT GRAPHICAL RESOLUTION WAS THE SAME AS THE NATIVE GRAPHICAL RESOLUTION OF THE MONITOR (be it a laptop monitor or an external monitor connected to a desktop). Seriously, for some reason that would baffle Sherlock Holmes, they restricted you from altering the GPU Scaling options if your current resolution was set at the optimal resolution as dictated by the hardware!!!
geekl33tgamer wrote:The new drivers totally bombed in GRID Autosport since I updated yesterday. There's graphical corruption around the edges of text and shadows.
killadark wrote:no problem here maybe cause your run eyefinity?
AMD wrote:We are aware that a small number of users are experiencing the following issues with the AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 driver:
Random installation crashes or hangs
Intermittent black screen or BSOD error on reboot after driver installation
AMD Catalyst™ Control Center intermittently crashes or fails to load
FightingScallion wrote:I'm not buying the Eyefinity explanation. I've got 3 monitors going just fine.