Anyone Using AMD RAPTR?

[GrantSor+1]

How is it? Do you really get the "benefits" and points? Have you purchased something using points?

[Levent]

nop UI sucks and it has no reason for me to keep it running on the background ,yes i purchase tickets for their graphics card giveaways never won anything.

[Held657]

I use it. You get the points, else I found no benefits. I didn't buy anything for the points because 1. everything is very expensive of course and 2, I want to see if I can get enough points to buy a GPU  .

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

Was using it. Was Horrible.

[Cubit481]

i didnt liked it at first but now i dont like it even more...

[PhantomChevron]

Erm I use it for the DVR, and generally trying to save up for stuff to buy with points, but otherwise, I do use it mostly for optimizing games, and seeing if I like it, was able to get a sweet spot for BF4, then they changed it and asked me to optimize to a lower setting, then ignored it

[gundershot]

I got rid of it immediately, absolutely hated it.

[PassionFruit]

I use it. You get the points, else I found no benefits. I didn't buy anything for the points because 1. everything is very expensive of course and 2, I want to see if I can get enough points to buy a GPU  .

Does it yet have the recording software equivalent to Shadowplay?

[UnknownEngineer]

!!Unpopular opinion alert!!

I actually like it, the points system is useless but fun regardless, it acts as a indicator for how much I play and it can't hurt to use them to possibly get games. The twitch thing is useless to me, I don't have a good connection. As for the game DVR it is a different story, I was able to record 1080P 60 FPS, and I was still getting 100+ FPS in-game. Not to mention that the quality of the videos was great, unlike the one I got from OBS witch was full of odd artifacts. (I couldn't get the settings right)

[UnknownEngineer]

Does it yet have the recording software equivalent to Shadowplay?

I would say yes, it didn't cause any frame-dropping for me in BF4, and the quality of the recording was great as well, 1080p 60 FPS. Then again I have BF4 on the SSD and was recording to the HDD.

[PassionFruit]

I would say yes, it didn't cause any frame-dropping for me in BF4, and the quality of the recording was great as well, 1080p 60 FPS. Then again I have BF4 on the SSD and was recording to the HDD.

Sure thing. Does it have the shadow mode/whatever it is for AMD? And how is the stability? Is it still crashing when you touch your mouse?

 

Sorry for the question spam, the recording program is going to be the deciding factor whether I will go with R or GTX. :F

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

Just get ShadowPlay performs better if you have a nvidia gpu. Raptor does have GameDVR for recording.

[UnknownEngineer]

Sure thing. Does it have the shadow mode/whatever it is for AMD? And how is the stability? Is it still crashing when you touch your mouse?

 

Sorry for the question spam, the recording program is going to be the deciding factor whether I will go with R or GTX. :F

Yes, you can set it to automatically record up to 600 seconds (10min) worth of footage, press a button an it will save that track.

When it comes to crashing it depends on the game, in BF4 it worked fine, but other games may crash on start-up (shogun 2, had to disable it to play). I didn't try disabling steam overlay and using it then because I wasn't planning on recording, I heard that origins overlay caused problems with it as well.

I am thinking about putting it to the test properly, so far the only game I have recorded at all is BF4, others I have just had it running. (Or turned off in favor of steam's or origins overlay) 

I might make a "review" of it later, seeing that I am in the minority of people that like raptor even a little. I am also intrigued to find out if all the hate is justified for my self.

[PassionFruit]

Yes, you can set it to automatically record up to 600 seconds (10min) worth of footage, press a button an it will save that track.

When it comes to crashing it depends on the game, in BF4 it worked fine, but other games may crash on start-up (shogun 2, had to disable it to play). I didn't try disabling steam overlay and using it then because I wasn't planning on recording, I heard that origins overlay caused problems with it as well.

I am thinking about putting it to the test properly, so far the only game I have recorded at all is BF4, others I have just had it running. (Or turned off in favor of steam's or origins overlay) 

I might make a "review" of it later, seeing that I am in the minority of people that like raptor even a little. I am also intrigued to find out if all the hate is justified for my self.

Well that is nice.

 

I hope a lot that it is going to get better. Shadowplay and Shadow Mode are the only things that would make me buy an Nvidia graphics card. Now that I know this, I'll most likely going to go with Radeon.

 

Thanks for the answers, looking forward for the review if you are going to make one.

[Held657]

Does it yet have the recording software equivalent to Shadowplay?

If it has I did not find it  . But I have to admit I didn't look too much into it. It's basically in the background all the time and as long as it doesn't annoy me it can stay there. And maybe some day in many many years I will have enough points to buy a GPU  .

[PassionFruit]

If it has I did not find it  . But I have to admit I didn't look too much into it. It's basically in the background all the time and as long as it doesn't annoy me it can stay there. And maybe some day in many many years I will have enough points to buy a GPU  .

How much points is needed for GPUs? And how many do you have? 

 

Just curiosity.

[Held657]

How much points is needed for GPUs? And how many do you have? 

 

Just curiosity.

 

I use it since it comes with the driver and have collected 3.692 points, mostly by just playing (I think about 800 or so for setting up a profile, optimizing some games etc).

A Sapphire R7 260X is 35.000 points (they say it's 50% off and costs 70.000 normally, but that "offer" runs since I use it). A Sapphire R9 270 costs 80.000 points (again they say it's 41% off and costs 135.000 normally, again this offer runs since I use it). Altough I don't play that much games that are in the app at the moment. You can get max 40-50 points a day with playing I think. Sometimes you only have to play 30 minutes for that, sometimes 5 hours (I think it doesn't work properly yet). I just keep on using it since it's not annoying you and really just runs in the background. Who know maybe one day I will have enough to buy a GPU, given that I will keep on using AMD cards.

[PassionFruit]

I use it since it comes with the driver and have collected 3.692 points, mostly by just playing (I think about 800 or so for setting up a profile, optimizing some games etc).

A Sapphire R7 260X is 35.000 points (they say it's 50% off and costs 70.000 normally, but that "offer" runs since I use it). A Sapphire R9 270 costs 80.000 points (again they say it's 41% off and costs 135.000 normally, again this offer runs since I use it). Altough I don't play that much games that are in the app at the moment. You can get max 40-50 points a day with playing I think. Sometimes you only have to play 30 minutes for that, sometimes 5 hours (I think it doesn't work properly yet). I just keep on using it since it's not annoying you and really just runs in the background. Who know maybe one day I will have enough to buy a GPU, given that I will keep on using AMD cards.

Haha, well that's neat. 

 

I bet there's a guy who is "mining" graphics cards with his 40 R7 240s.

[F2K8]

The DVR recording is decent, but everything else about it feels useless. I only use it to record gameplay. 

[GrantSor+1]

Hmmm.
You just hate it. Im looking for comments that has "performance issues" or whatever.

[papeles]

It's a retarded app imo, and this is why:

 

-First off, the user interface is dumb. I don't know who designs those instead of going for a clean looking and functional one. Full screen layout feels sluggish. I also don't like the app maximized, 

-Game optimizations are mostly wrong. It kinda "forces" you to a specific preset and if you change something manually, even in the app itself, it keeps saying that the game isn't optimized.

-DVR is a plus. and aparently works decently. I would like to see it as part of the AMD drivers and not part of an app. 

-Twitch streaming is beta for ages: typical AMD, the queen of unfinished software. Tbh, it's kinda useless since alot of game are starting to come out with a streaming option inbuilt. Also, a regular streamer would use OBS or xplit and probably use Intel quicksync or adm integrated gpu for that.

-The point system is a plus: you can get free stuff out of it, but thats the only good thing there

[Held657]

Haha, well that's neat. 

 

I bet there's a guy who is "mining" graphics cards with his 40 R7 240s.

 

I'm sure you mean with his 60 R5 230s  :lol: .

[coen113]

i used it for like 10 secs, and never botherd to start it up again

[MAXXHEW]

My son and I have it installed... it doesn't hurt performance of our systems, and it is simple to set up and use.  It keeps your GPU updated, and gives you the option to ignore updates too.  It tracks gameplay time, and ranks you according to other players of the same game.  The points system is automatically tallied for you to use on gaming gear/raffles.  I haven't seen any problems with it... and anything you don't like can be excluded in the settings.  There is really no downside to it besides the minute or so of setup... which isn't that long actually.  Give it a try, if you don't like it just delete it.

[mcmad358]

No. Messed up my battlefield and tried to enhance it without me knowing, stopped working. Runs in background. Useless. Deleted right after getting catalyst