15.11.1 BETA Drivers & Fallout 4

[Kobathor]

The new 15.11.1 BETA drivers for Radeon GPUs came out a few days ago, and I didn't get it until today (cause I had no idea about it.) Supposedly to optimize for Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront and the new AC game.

 

I have to say, I LOVE the performance boost in Fallout 4. Before today, in cities (at High settings) I got around 30-45 FPS, and my GPU usage was around 50-75% (since the framerate is capped at 60 it never gets to 100% like it does in Battlefield, ect.) Now I get near perfect 60 FPS everywhere and it's awesome, GPU usage still around 75%.

 

Has anybody else used these yet? I'm running a 7970, and I feel good knowing AMD still loves my 2012 GPU (sorry, Kepler!) I haven't gotten Battlefront yet, but in the Beta I never went below 60 FPS so I don't expect a huge boost.

[GodSpoon]

The new 15.11.1 BETA drivers for Radeon GPUs came out a few days ago, and I didn't get it until today (cause I had no idea about it.) Supposedly to optimize for Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront and the new AC game.

 

I have to say, I LOVE the performance boost in Fallout 4. Before today, in cities (at High settings) I got around 30-45 FPS, and my GPU usage was around 50-75% (since the framerate is capped at 60 it never gets to 100% like it does in Battlefield, ect.) Now I get near perfect 60 FPS everywhere and it's awesome, GPU usage still around 75%.

 

Has anybody else used these yet? I'm running a 7970, and I feel good knowing AMD still loves my 2012 GPU (sorry, Kepler!) I haven't gotten Battlefront yet, but in the Beta I never went below 60 FPS so I don't expect a huge boost.

 

Its been awesome! I was getting frustrated with all the low frames for seemingly no reason

I actually stopped playing for a bit because of it

But my 280x and I are much happier now  

[Whorax]

I've updated to the new drivers and I still get garbage framerates in downtown Boston, and I have a 290X.

[Kobathor]

I've updated to the new drivers and I still get garbage framerates in downtown Boston, and I have a 290X.

Yeah, a capped framerate will do that to you.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Good to know that Tahiti is still kicking ass.

[MEC-777]

Crossfire 290's here. Have to run on one cards because no CF support. There's no SLI support either and I don't think there ever will be (there never was for Skyrim and this is the same game engine). 

 

That being said, I'm running it at 1440p with VSR on high preset with draw distances set to half, lighting on ultra and with TAA. Also using tessellation override in Catalyst at 32x and CF disabled. With these settings I get 60fps+ most of the time, with the occasional dips into the 45's (like in the city regions). It's a good balance between eye candy and smoothness, for me. 

 

After installing the 15.11.1 drivers, I didn't really notice any improvement (but really, how can you if it's limited at 60 most of the time? ). 

 

By the way, you can unlock the frame rate limit (disable Vsync) by editing the FalloutPref.ini file in your user/docs/games/fallout4 folder. Just edit the line that says "iPresentInterval=1" to "iPresentInterval=0" and save it. Don't worry about corrupting this file or making a mistake as the game creates and overrides this file every time you open and close the graphics settings in the game's launcher menu.

 

I found to get the game to run as smooth as possible, I leave the game's default Vsync frame limit enabled and use AMD's frame rate target control set to 60fps in Catalyst so the GPU doesn't have to work as hard and you don't get any input lag issues typically experienced with using just straight Vsync.

 

Just as a side note: Playing last night, I was getting significant frame rate dips, some times down into the high 20's. CPU and GPU usage were nowhere near max (usually between 60-80%), so it wasn't a hardware bottleneck. Not sure why that was happening, but the game has been quite buggy for me. Occasionally it will lock up and freeze randomly (has happened maybe 3-4 times) or the audio will drop out for no reason, causing me to have to restart the game. 

 

Besides all that, have been really enjoying the game a lot.

[EChondo]

On my R9 390 I'm still having performance issues