Well in some games the gains are not so good, in others they are pretty significant. It depends on the game really. Hence the whitelist for now.
Radeon Software Crimson ReLive edition 16.12.1
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Apocalypsee
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Yeah, perhaps Fallout 4 is not a good example to test it since it's locked at 60fps anyway. I have high hopes this will get fixed and compatibility with more games.
narciso
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Chill is not compatible with crossfire which defeats it's purpose. Chill is like afterburner framerate limiter, it helps with framepacing which is not much of a problem with single gpus.
Let's hope they add support for crossfire.
Also this driver is a driver to avoid if you own a 144hz panel.
Let's hope they add support for crossfire.
Also this driver is a driver to avoid if you own a 144hz panel.
They are working to implement it for more games; but if you see some articles that explain it in more detail, it's much more than a framerate limiter, I mean the drivers already have one of those. Hence it'll be a game-by-game thing, with more to be added in the whitelist as time goes by.
Care to elaborate? My ASUS MG279 monitor wants to know
LordHawkwind
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Like Kombantant says why? My Acer XF270HU works fine and I have the freesync counter on to make sure. With regards to Chill the only game I own that's on the white list is Tomb Raider 2013. So I fired up the in-game benchmark and here are the results;
No Chill
GPU 1000
Memory 500
Temp 67
Fan Speed 30
Avg FPS 120
Chill
GPU 1000
Memory 500
Temp 56
Fan Speed 24
Avg FPS 80
TBH I couldn't tell the difference between the two runs and during the chill run if I moved the mouse it spiked the freesync counter to over 120. So in this small example the card ran 11 degrees lower (about 20%) and the fans dropped 6%. I can't hear the fans at 30% anyway so that makes no difference. Obviously this is not in-game but it shows it works as a concept and as Komb says it will vary from game to game. If your card is hot and loud and you own any of the games on the white list it does no harm enabling it I guess.
You should see some difference if you had a power meter thing connected to your wall socket as well. That's the main purpose of chill; save power while not impacting your performance much. You set minimum and maximum framerate that you consider acceptable, and it works its magic.
narciso
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They are working to implement it for more games; but if you see some articles that explain it in more detail, it's much more than a framerate limiter, I mean the drivers already have one of those. Hence it'll be a game-by-game thing, with more to be added in the whitelist as time goes by.
Care to elaborate? My ASUS MG279 monitor wants to know
Ok, I own a AOC G2770pf monitor, it's a 1080p monitor but I usually play with it using vsr 1440p 100hz or 1800p 60hz. If I make any change to the vram clocks, vram speed doesn't get fixed at the highest value, it fluctuates. So when entering a game which runs at different refresh rates than 144hz the panel starts to flicker in the upper portion when I exist the game. Running the panel at 120hz doesn't show that flicker.
With a fresh driver install without any changes to vram clocks, everything runs fine, because vram clocks don't change between games and desktop.
But if the PC gets out of a sleep state vram clocks go down to 150mhz and the same erratic behavior occur when exiting from games.
Previous driver works fine, so this is a regression.
Hope I could explain this. English is not my mother language.
I just tried to install this driver and it completely locked up my pc with a black screen (no disk access, no remote desktop possible). Had to use hardware reset to reboot. Once booted, it hadn't changed the driver.
I tried installing the driver again, and it came a bit further this time, but eventually still locked up my pc completely. Again, no disk activity and no remote desktop to it possible. The driver seems to have changed as it is dated 4. december 2016, version 21.19.384.0. No additional AMD software seems to be installed, just the driver (I did download the 500MB package). Scratch that, the driver update check is still running, claiming there is a new driver (16.12.1).
I will serious warn anyone against trying to install this driver as it might **** up your system. Now I have to find the driver package for the older driver and install that to regain some control of my pc (running windows 10 x64).
I tried installing the driver again, and it came a bit further this time, but eventually still locked up my pc completely. Again, no disk activity and no remote desktop to it possible. The driver seems to have changed as it is dated 4. december 2016, version 21.19.384.0. No additional AMD software seems to be installed, just the driver (I did download the 500MB package). Scratch that, the driver update check is still running, claiming there is a new driver (16.12.1).
I will serious warn anyone against trying to install this driver as it might **** up your system. Now I have to find the driver package for the older driver and install that to regain some control of my pc (running windows 10 x64).
LordHawkwind
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During the chill run the freesynce monitor counter hovered between 79 & 80 the whole time. I hadn't set any minimum or maximum numbers. Without chill it goes between 100-144hz. Not being able to tell the difference is a positive as far as I'm concerned and shows it works. The only strange thing was at the end of the chill run the games benchmark scores showed an average of 40 fps which I know is incorrect because I can see the freesync counter every second. I suppose the benchmark tool can't keep up!
t0adp1p3
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Thanks, it must be a CFX thing then where it doesn't show up.
Argoon1981
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Installed the driver with no problem whatsoever but first i totally uninstalled the old one, and even deleted the AMD folder in the c drive, contrary to you i totally recommend people to install it but as major update of the driver i also recommend a clean install not a update on top.
Korrigan
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t0adp1p3
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I have clean installed I think 4 times now... I honestly just gave up. I am not gonna use wattman for anything, so the last time I installed I didnt accept the agreement for it. I am just using AB to control fans now, and that works so it is no big deal.
However, I posted this in the suggestion thread:
I'd like AMD to clearly define what portions of Crimson work for different cards and configurations. Right now its hard to tell if we are missing features because it didnt install correctly or if it is because of an old card or because of cfx or because of eyefinity etc...
Lets face it alot of people have had and are having issues getting everything to install and work correctly with crimson drivers. So it would be nice to know what "correct" looks like for a given setup.
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did you try turning cfx off ?
I have not yet
but I also do not get chill with fury x cfx either
Hardwood
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On my 290x, I disabled afterburner from starting, shut down all system tray tasks and did a clean install.
All went well until it asked to restart. This gave me a black screen and had to warm restart.
Major issue is in eyefinity mode, scrolling anywhere on Radeon Settings causes the screen to flicker with horizontal random (seemingly) placed bars.
Wattman certainly doesn't have the fan control functions of the 480 screenies above. I'll go back to Afterburner control.
All went well until it asked to restart. This gave me a black screen and had to warm restart.
Major issue is in eyefinity mode, scrolling anywhere on Radeon Settings causes the screen to flicker with horizontal random (seemingly) placed bars.
Wattman certainly doesn't have the fan control functions of the 480 screenies above. I'll go back to Afterburner control.
bittermann
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Did you check the Windows event logs to see what is causing it? It's worth a shot...
ok im not having a seizure either. I get that prob occasionaly also. Im using older drivers too