OpenGL perf. on AMD/ATi gpu's: WIP fix.

[Bikerdude]

Is it a 1st or 2nd gen phenom ..? or if you dont knows, whats the model number..? as the 1st gen Phenoms were notoriosuly aweful.

 

Also whats the make and model of your mobo and what bios version does it have..?

[SteveL]

Btw, turn off rendering while on at spot and see fps gain. If there isn't much gain, then what AMD issue on Earth are you talking about.

 

Erm... what, if anything, does "turn off rendering" mean?

 

The issue is that AMD's latest most powerful card gives significantly lower fps in TDM than older nvidia cards, in the same machine. AMD have agreed there's a problem and have promised to try to fix it in the next driver release. Biker is gathering evidence to help that process and give feedback.

[New Horizon]

Erm... what, if anything, does "turn off rendering" mean?

 

The issue is that AMD's latest most powerful card gives significantly lower fps in TDM than older nvidia cards, in the same machine. AMD have agreed there's a problem and have promised to try to fix it in the next driver release. Biker is gathering evidence to help that process and give feedback.

 

Exactly, I'm not sure where the confusion lies here since AMD have already confirmed that it is an issue.

[SteveL]

Ok, I see what you mean. But we've already got past that point in testing. Whatever your particular card does, we're seeing drops from 60fps (older nvidia) to 35 fps (newest AMD) in the same spot and on the same machine. AMD have installed TDM on their test machines and reproduced the result. So it's not a CPU problem.

[Xarg]

FPS: 47

System: Radeon 7870 2gb, Core I7 2600k, 8gb ddr3-1600, Gigabyte p67 mobo, Win7 SP1

Catalyst version: 14.4

Screen resolution: 4320x900

AAx0, AFx1, Vsync Off, Ambient render and Interact shader Enhanced

[lowenz]

• Fps - 40
  
• System - Radeon HD 7850 1 GB, Intel i3 530 @3.8 GHz, 8 GB DDR3-1600, Gigabyte H55 UD3H, SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS, Win 7 SP1
  
• Driver - Catalyst 14.9
  
• Sreen res - 1680x1050
  
• Settings - AA x1 & AF x16, V-Sync OFF, Ambient Rendering-enhanced & Interaction shader-enhanced
  

Edited October 25, 2014 by lowenz

[bloomquest]

Hello first time here and If it still means anything to you I'm getting 40 fps on my rig

 

Sapphire AMD R9 270X DualX 2GB OC Boost (1070mhz core 1400mhz gram)

AMD FX 6300 @ 4.5 GHZ

8GB Kingston DDR3 1600MHZ

SSD Mushkin Chronos 120 GB

 

catalyst driver 14.9 on Win7 sp1

 

Video options AAx4, AFx16, Vsync OFF, everything else on max (enhanced)

 

Glad to be of some help to this great mod (or game!?) of yours i have been admiring for some time now..

Edited October 26, 2014 by bloomquest

[Bikerdude]

Thanks Bloomquest, what screen resolution are you running?

[bloomquest]

oh yes sorry I'm on 1920x1080..

[lowenz]

News about the future drivers?

[Bikerdude]

I'll my contact, the plan is the fix will be included in the next major driver release.

[lowenz]

Today's release is "the" release?

[Bikerdude]

Afternoon folkes

 

Catalyst 14.11.1 beta is out, can people test it and see if perm is increased in TDM please -

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-11-1BetaWINReleaseNotes.aspx

[SteveL]

Dammit, 2 hours before I can try. Do we know we got included? I can't find a link to full release notes, if they exist. The highlights only mention Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed.

[Bikerdude]

Im trying to find a copy of the change log....

[lowenz]

Some Improvements! (?) 43 FPS and with AA 4x and 1920x1080 now! (before: no AA & 1680x1050)

 

• System - Radeon HD 7850 1 GB, Intel i3 530 @3.8 GHz, 8 GB DDR3-1600, Gigabyte H55 UD3H, SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS, Win 7 SP1
  
• Driver - Catalyst 14.11.1
  
• Sreen res - 1920x1080
  
• Settings - AA x4 & AF x16, V-Sync OFF, Ambient Rendering-enhanced & Interaction shader-enhanced
  

*****************

 

With old settings (NO AA & 1680x1050 ) 47!

 

Edited November 11, 2014 by lowenz

[Bikerdude]

A 4-7Fps increase looks like a general driver improvement only, the equivelent nVidia card (GTX660) would be flat out @60fps at your highest setting. I have emailed my contact to see what version the driver team will include The Darkmod fix in.

[SteveL]

No change for this end. I guess we don't get the patch yet. Pity, I wanted to do some performance diagnostics on our openGL use, but unless I get an nvidia card instead, I can't separate out what we should fix from what AMD should fix.

[Tels]

A 4-7Fps increase looks like a general driver improvement only, the equivelent nVidia card (GTX660) would be flat out @60fps at your highest setting. I have emailed my contact to see what version the driver team will include The Darkmod fix in.

 

It is actually a decrease (47 =>43), but at much higher settings. So this test result is useless, one would need to see the difference at the same resolution and AA setting to see what the difference is.

[Bikerdude]

see the difference at the same resolution and AA setting to see what the difference is.

He did, with the previous driver 40, latest driver 47.

[HMart]

That driver is not for me either it doesn't support the HD5000 series only HD7000 up.

[lowenz]

He did, with the previous driver 40, latest driver 47.

Exactly, but there's a lot of FPS variance.

Edited November 12, 2014 by lowenz

[nbohr1more]

Try renaming TheDarkMod.exe to darkathena.exe and see if performance improves.

[lowenz]

Try renaming TheDarkMod.exe to darkathena.exe and see if performance improves.

47/48 -> 54 (1680x1050 - NO AA)

 

reading the FPS via com_showFPS (do not use FRAPS)

Edited November 12, 2014 by lowenz

[lowenz]

Screenshot series (10+10) with original exe name and "darkathena.exe" : http://www78.zippysh...20762/file.html

So you can see the difference by yourselves.

Edited November 12, 2014 by lowenz