AMD Catalyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta Released

[Al Capwn]

Originally Posted by tk471138

another test... this time made a mission with me flying around england with a group of 6, i put an enemy out like 15 min so i can fly around and do these tests....flying around 1k maybe a little less i get around 30-40 fps, the gpu is working at 80%, and again the first cpu (cpu0) is at or near 100% across the board, with the rest of the cores at around 25%it seems that the cpu is the bottle neck....

the settings are the same as the above post

regarding the old amd patch, all i can say is it seeming runs just as smoothly (and most likely better since they say that the driver includes optimizations)

also can i turn on AA or vsync, i dont know why i just seem to recall reading on these forums that those functions are not working or something so if this is incorrect let me know as i would like to change those options THANKS !!

Hello again tk471138, I'm glad to hear you're seeing good results with the new driver! AA does not currently function properly, although it seems setting it to 2x sometimes results in some AA but it's more of a performance hit than what it's worth (if it was implemented correctly this wouldn't be the case). However VSync does work properly as far as I understand it; I can't vouch for it personally as I don't use VSync but I've read on the forums that many here use it successfully.

Regarding the AMD CPU, you will find that it will be the bottleneck in games that don't have proper multithreading support as it's not particularly powerful while running on only one core. Although you will find that DX11 titles have absolutely excellent multithreading support (among other excellent performance enhancing features) and will run great on your AMD processor as it's much better in a heavy multithreading environment.

One trick you may find interesting is that in cases of a CPU bottleneck, you can try actually increasing certain graphics settings and you may find your performance increases as more load is put on the GPU. I would say first run the "Black Death" track on your current settings (no VSync) and then try turning all your settings to max (except SSAO and VSync) and run the track again and observe the change in fps/smoothness.

The function to enable in game FPS counter is "FPS START SHOW" (I believe it needs to be all caps and you may need to bind a key for the console in the options under Controls -> Game) and to restart the fps avg count you can do "FPS STOP SHOW" and then do "FPS START SHOW" again. There may be an easier way to do that but I don't know it.

I hope this helps and I'd love to hear back about your results.

Cheers!