AMD Catalyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta Released

[tk471138]

Originally Posted by Al Capwn

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 "START FPS 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 "STOP FPS SHOW" and then do "START FPS 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!

just so i understand you want me to max out the rest of the stuff except vsync and ssao?? the only thing left to raise would be the forest and bulidings amount (to unlimited, from high) and checking the box marked grass...



also every time i try and do the start fps show with all caps within and with out quotes it dosent work...typing in 'fps show' (edit this only seems to work in all lower case) gives me something but thats it '? fps show' gives me something different but i cant seem to get it to change from stopped and hidden to started and shown

i know from arma 2 that shadows on medium makes them render on CPU, higher than that they render on GPU.... it seems in that game their seems to be definitive answers on what whether the cpu or gpu is used for what settings...is their similar settings in this game and if so are they known??