dang, that kinda blows actually. Check out the tftcentral review on the display and see if the fs range and/or hz can be modified.
Can drivers affect a games loading time?
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dang, that kinda blows actually. Check out the tftcentral review on the display and see if the fs range and/or hz can be modified.
tft doesn't have a review that I could find on this model. I know I can install (if that's the right word) modified .infs for the panel, but I didn't see anything in settings for it. Unless it's under wattman. Which is completely new to me. I'll have to enable that and dig through the settings.
What's a standard, or good range to look for?
Argoon1981
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The only thing i can think of, right now, where GPU drivers would have a impact in loading times, is if they are "optimizing" shaders behind the scenes for the game, but this usually happens only one time and is mostly the first time you run the game. Imo most of the time long loading times is caused by many other factors, the game engine itself, some engines, like idtech 4 for example, have no asset streaming so they load everything a level needs into memory at level start, that is why it takes time to start a map but then restarting is very fast, because everything is there already, of course HDD/SSD's speeds have a say in this, is also very important the type of assets the game uses, for example a simple human readable file takes more time to process then a binary non human readable file, other things like, texture amounts, texture resolutions, geometry complexity, shader complexity, etc, al of this has effect on loading times and sometimes even quit time.
edit: its seems you found that drivers where indeed causing this particular problem, glad you solved it.
edit: its seems you found that drivers where indeed causing this particular problem, glad you solved it.
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Thanks for the insights Argoon - shaders were actually one of the first things I tried disabling/modifying etc through the AMD CP, and that might be it for all I know. I'm just glad I found a set that works. Very frustrating to not be able to play the games you built the computer to play
CRU can edit that stuff. Ideally u want the range to be 30-max refresh with lfc or whatever is called. I doubt the panel can go that low tho
I think I'm going to leave it as is Higgy. Not broken don't fix it lol.
It might be a moot point anyway. Friggen windows is still trying to update the driver and broke my games again. I can't believe these idiots thought forcing driver updates is a good thing. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I can't keep uninstalling/reinstalling drivers every time I want to fire up a favorite game.
EDIT: Found out where to disable driver updates and did that, then scrubbed the system of everything AMD and reinstalled the drivers that were working and it's still broken. I'm not doing a full windows reinstall over this, but I'm tired as hell of trying to make something work that shouldn't give a bit of trouble to begin with. I think I'm done with this.
EDIT2: Have no idea what I changed, was screwing around in device manager and with config files and suddenly both games work perfectly with the newest drivers, 18.2.3.
this is exhausting, but hopefully it sticks.
It might be a moot point anyway. Friggen windows is still trying to update the driver and broke my games again. I can't believe these idiots thought forcing driver updates is a good thing. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but I can't keep uninstalling/reinstalling drivers every time I want to fire up a favorite game.
EDIT: Found out where to disable driver updates and did that, then scrubbed the system of everything AMD and reinstalled the drivers that were working and it's still broken. I'm not doing a full windows reinstall over this, but I'm tired as hell of trying to make something work that shouldn't give a bit of trouble to begin with. I think I'm done with this.
EDIT2: Have no idea what I changed, was screwing around in device manager and with config files and suddenly both games work perfectly with the newest drivers, 18.2.3.
this is exhausting, but hopefully it sticks.
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wtf lol, that is some weird ****
NWR_Midnight
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it sounds like it is something windows is doing, and now that you have disabled the windows driver update, which means windows won't try to install drivers. As windows driver install has always been a no, no, as they have always seemed to be incomplete or lacking the features of the hardware manufactures latest drivers. You where able to do a clean, complete install of drivers from AMD, without windows coming back and updating them in the back ground, screwing something up.
Windows 10 auto driver update was the dumbest thing they could do. They have never had a good track record in my experience with updating drivers, specially GPU drivers.. if it was baseball, they would have a batting average of .000 when it comes to GPU drivers, because any time they auto updated drivers, it broke something. It is almost like they don't update all the driver dlls and such.
Anyhow, disabling Windows driver updates is the first thing I do when I do a fresh install.
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It's how things work for me lol
I sure will be from now on. I was under the impression that you couldn't disable drivers under 10 Home, but, like you said, I'm going straight to that S.O.B. here on out.
It blows my mind - everything they've done so right with Win10, to leave a glaring garbage setting like that enabled. They have to know it can cause major issues.