AMD Addresses Witcher 3 And Project Cars (Catalyst 15.5 Driver Fix)

[Opcode]

UPDATE: Catalyst 15.5 beta has been released.

• AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Driver for Windows® 7 32-bit
• AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Driver for Windows® 7 64-bit
• AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Driver for Windows® 8.1 32-bit
• AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Driver for Windows® 8.1 64-bit

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AMD is committed to improving performance for the recently-released Project CARS and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.  To that end, we are creating AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta to optimize performance for these titles, and we will continue to work closely with their developers to improve quality and performance.  We will release AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta on our website as soon as it is available.

 

In the meantime, users experiencing performance issues with the "HairWorks" feature in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are encouraged to enable the below settings in AMD Catalyst™:

 

New driver incoming to help resolve problems for AMD users.

[ImBleu]

inb4 still runs bad

[TheSLSAMG]

What I don't get is who in their right mind sees fit to use NVIDIA Hairworks in Witcher 3 on an AMD card and then complain that it doesn't perform very well? It's an NVIDIA optimized feature, of course it isn't going to work well on an AMD card (just like what happened with TressFX on Tomb Raider.)

[Blackie Sheen]

What I don't get is who in their right mind sees fit to use NVIDIA Hairworks in Witcher 3 on an AMD card and then complain that it doesn't perform very well? It's an NVIDIA optimized feature, of course it isn't going to work well on an AMD card (just like what happened with TressFX on Tomb Raider.)

TressFX is an amd technology. I am sure that you meant that it ran better on amd but thats not how its phrased. I think a better comparison would be PhysX. The first time I plaed Metro Last light I just could not understand why I had so bad fps in really dark areas. PhysX was killing my shit. As soon as I took it off, I passed from like 10-15 at moments to 50 and up all the time on very high or high

[mrswagbhinav]

haha Didn't the Project Cars devs blame AMD for these performance issues. I couldn't stop laughing when I read that.

[givingtnt]

haha Didn't the Project Cars devs blame AMD for these performance issues. I couldn't stop laughing when I read that.

I find it funny when people do that.

they make a game that works well on one side. then blame the other for being bad

[qwertywarrior]

 Tress FX has been open sourced ,nvidia can optimize for it

i wish if nvidia did the same for gameworks 

[Humbug]

Witcher 3 is already running well on AMD so will be interesting to see how much more performance they will get out of it. Project Cars we can expect significant improvements with this driver.

Also in future AMD should try to get these out on launch day. They did that for GTA V and kept their customer's happy.

[mrswagbhinav]

I find it funny when people do that.

they make a game that works well on one side. then blame the other for being bad

BF4 was the shitstorm of 2013, if they blamed Nvidia for that.... wowowow I would burn my copy of BF4. It's on origin so idk how.

[MegaDave91]

I'll spare "Hairworks" for the massive framerate improvement anyway. I didn't use "TressFX" in Tomb Raider 2013, either.

[givingtnt]

BF4 was the shitstorm of 2013, if they blamed Nvidia for that.... wowowow I would burn my copy of BF4. It's on origin so idk how.

you can do liek they did to me, give my password to someone one else. let them buy a game, then ban me.

[mrswagbhinav]

you can do liek they did to me, give my password to someone one else. let them buy a game, then ban me.

I would BUY hacks then make it super obvious and keep getting banned. (game time)

[Trik'Stari]

Am I the only one who could not care any less about this? Topic is over-done.

[Opcode]

What I don't get is who in their right mind sees fit to use NVIDIA Hairworks in Witcher 3 on an AMD card and then complain that it doesn't perform very well? It's an NVIDIA optimized feature, of course it isn't going to work well on an AMD card (just like what happened with TressFX on Tomb Raider.)

TressFX actually ran better on Nvidia hardware in Tomb Raider while being an AMD technology.

 

HD 7970 = ~14 FPS Hit

 

GTX 680 = ~7 FPS Hit

 

Although either way it ran equally well on both brands without any super major issues (other than the Nvidia bug that was quickly patched early on).

 

Am I the only one who could not care any less about this? Topic is over-done.

Which is why I quickly posted this thread. With fixes coming people can stop playing the blame game and just enjoy the game.

[Trik'Stari]

 

TressFX actually ran better on Nvidia hardware in Tomb Raider while being an AMD technology.

 

HD 7970 = ~14 FPS Hit

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GTX 680 = ~7 FPS Hit

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Although either way it ran equally well on both brands without any super major issues (other than the Nvidia bug that was quickly patched early on).

 

Which is why I quickly posted this thread. With fixes coming people can stop playing the blame game and just enjoy the game.

 

I'm just tired of seeing the name "Witcher 3"......that, and I was looking for an excuse to use that .gif again lol (it makes me laugh. It seems to say "I care so little, I'm going to day dream for a bit")

[SurvivorNVL]

Am I the only one who could not care any less about this? Topic is over-done.

-Deadpool Snip-

I concur.  

I have no reason for having used this meme, but I used it anyway. 

[Me1z]

What I find really funny is that I have had zero issue with the game and with Nvidia hairworks. Uber settings and Hairworks enabled on crossfired AMD GPUs; no problems whatsoever. My only complaint is that the combat system is absolutely abysmal, but that's personal preference. Are the people complaining about poor performance trying to run the game on an APU or something or am I just really lucky?

[sgloux3470]

What I don't get is who in their right mind sees fit to use NVIDIA Hairworks in Witcher 3 on an AMD card and then complain that it doesn't perform very well? It's an NVIDIA optimized feature, of course it isn't going to work well on an AMD card (just like what happened with TressFX on Tomb Raider.)

 

The thing about Hairworks is that what they are basically doing is doing an INSANE amount of tessellation in order to deliberately cripple performance on both Kepler (3x slower at Tessellation than maxwell according to Nvidia) and AMD.  As the AMD fix shows, it's entirely possible to achieve a similar effect without as much of a performance impact.  But then how would Nvidia sell their 980's?   

 

 

 

What I find really funny is that I have had zero issue with the game and with Nvidia hairworks. Uber settings and Hairworks enabled on crossfired AMD GPUs; no problems whatsoever. My only complaint is that the combat system is absolutely abysmal, but that's personal preference. Are the people complaining about poor performance trying to run the game on an APU or something or am I just really lucky?

 

You just have enough GPU power to muscle through it.

 

Hairworks is about a 30 FPS drop for AMD and a 15 FPS drop for Nvidia.  But if you're running the game at 90 FPS, it doesn't matter.  So if your single 290 only manages 50 FPS, that 30 drop is unacceptable.  

[Me1z]

 

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You just have enough GPU power to muscle through it.

 

Hairworks is about a 30 FPS drop for AMD and a 15 FPS drop for Nvidia.  But if you're running the game at 90 FPS, it doesn't matter.  So if your single 290 only manages 50 FPS, that 30 drop is unacceptable.  

 

 

I guess that makes sense. I do keep Vsync on to prevent crossfire stutter, so I don't actually know what my max FPS is. I could be scraping up against the 60 FPS barrier without knowing it.

[Dietrichw]

 

The thing about Hairworks is that what they are basically doing is doing an INSANE amount of tessellation in order to deliberately cripple performance on both Kepler (3x slower at Tessellation than maxwell according to Nvidia) and AMD.  As the AMD fix shows, it's entirely possible to achieve a similar effect without as much of a performance impact.  But then how would Nvidia sell their 980's?   

 

yea, in the comparison images I can't see a difference with different levels of tessellation

[Godlygamer23]

TressFX is an amd technology. I am sure that you meant that it ran better on amd but thats not how its phrased.

I think he meant it as a comparison. AMD is to Hairworks as NVIDIA is to TressFX. That is, it's the same situation. TressFX ran better on AMD cards and HairWorks works better with NVIDIA cards.

[WereCat]

I think he meant it as a comparison. AMD is to Hairworks as NVIDIA is to TressFX. That is, it's the same situation. TressFX ran better on AMD cards and HairWorks works better with NVIDIA cards.

Except that NVIDIA can optimize for TressFX but AMD can't for HairWorks.

So you can make run NVIDIA card a lot better with TressFX than you can make run AMD card with HairWorks.

[mr moose]

Except that NVIDIA can optimize for TressFX but AMD can't for HairWorks.

So you can make run NVIDIA card a lot better with TressFX than you can make run AMD card with HairWorks.

 

Let's see what this driver update does for AMD performance with hairworks on.  If it is within margin of error then We can finally stop hearing people claim Nvidia are intentionally crippling AMD. 

 

We have seen so many mixed results over so many different games and engines that there isn't one reduction in performance on AMD cards only that correlates to the same instance of software every time. 

[Humbug]

hairworks looks good on the animals. But even Maxwell is taking a big performance hit. Why can't CD ProjekT Red provide an in-game slider to adjust the tessellation levels?

[Lays]

BF4 was the shitstorm of 2013, if they blamed Nvidia for that.... wowowow I would burn my copy of BF4. It's on origin so idk how.

 

Tbh I've never really had any problems with BF4, to this day it's still one of my favorite games, it's gotten much better than it was at first although I never had any issues in the first few months after it was released.

 

My friends were having tons of issues with it though.