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Hello All,

 

I have a Asus R9 290 DirectCU II since years ago and i never able to make this card works to its best performance, tried to make a fresh install of Window 10 and latest AMD Crimson driver did not help too. Been playing around the settings but non of it makes any different other than FPS drop... I'm starting to think whether is there any bottleneck by other hardware. Please help to advise for what can i do to improve it, i've been waiting for year to play Bns but the graphic really turn me down... 

 

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Cooler Master Seidon 120 XL

Acer G247HYL 24" Monitor 5ms

 

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Blade & Soul-NA (Worst jaggies graphic)

League of Legend (Significant jaggies in bush & champions)

Need for Speed (Slow respond on background change)

CS-GO (By far the best graphic i played with my pc, little but not obvious jaggies)

Skyrim (Little glitches)

Dota 2 (Blurry images)

Metro 2033 (Much Better)

 

i'll try to take screenshot for each game if needed

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No bottleneck, try contacting ASUS even though their support is pathetic.

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You wouldn't happen to be looking for this would you?

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/499767-low-image-quality-on-newer-gpus/

(don't mind the first few posts, we've noticed this on AMD cards just as much)

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No bottleneck, try contacting ASUS even though their support is pathetic.

 

 

Ok, trying now

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What's your ram speed? If it's at 1600mhz, overclock that shit. Report back.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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What's your ram speed? If it's at 1600mhz, overclock that shit. Report back.

 

Not sure if Ram speed really helps.. i actually tried with a Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB 2400MHz from another pc, it doesn't look much improvement... 

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Hmm, just out of curiosity how do you know it's not the games? If you're at 1080p you'll get those effects.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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Hmm, just out of curiosity how do you know it's not the games? If you're at 1080p you'll get those effects.

 

i have a few pc, a mid range with Pentium G3258 (OC) + GTX750ti & a Lenovo y410p, i used to play LAN, MMO games with my brother, most of them have slightly better graphic quality than i do, at-least smoother with less jaggies and better blur effects...  

 

They all run at 1080p except for the laptop of course... and they all just run pretty fine, maybe it's Nvidia  <_< but this AMD card cost me almost triple the price of GTX750 and it give me crappy performance... this really makes me annoyed...

 

But right now i need it to ply Bns, so i have to find a way to get it work or else i have to live with those jaggies... 

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I think i'll try VSR, max it to 4k or something and see whether it helps... 

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Sounds like you went from a small screen to a larger one, that increases the area without increasing the pixel count. Plug a 13" monitor into your PC and you'll see what I mean.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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Hello All,
 
I have a Asus R9 290 DirectCU II since years ago and i never able to make this card works to its best performance, tried to make a fresh install of Window 10 and latest AMD Crimson driver did not help too. Been playing around the settings but non of it makes any different other than FPS drop... I'm starting to think whether is there any bottleneck by other hardware. Please help to advise for what can i do to improve it, i've been waiting for year to play Bns but the graphic really turn me down... 
 
Here is my setup.
Intel i5 4670k (OC to 4.3 ghz)
Asus Maximus VII Ranger
Kingston Hyperx Savage 16GB (4x4)
Samsung EVO 850 250GB SSD (Window 10)
Asus R9 290 DirectCU II 4GB D5
Corsair RM850 850W
Cooler Master Seidon 120 XL
Acer G247HYL 24" Monitor 5ms
 
Game playing:
Blade & Soul-NA (Worst jaggies graphic)
League of Legend (Significant jaggies in bush & champions)
Need for Speed (Slow respond on background change)
CS-GO (By far the best graphic i played with my pc, little but not obvious jaggies)
Skyrim (Little glitches)
Dota 2 (Blurry images)
Metro 2033 (Much Better)
 
i'll try to take screenshot for each game if needed

 

 

Check out the thread Ryan_Vickers posted. Jump to around page 20 and read on from there. 

 

Also, don't bother using the Crimson/Catalyst settings for overriding in-game AA settings. I've never had good results from that and most of the time, I found it never applied the settings properly or at all. Just use AF set to x16 and leave everything else set to "let application decide" and use in-game graphics settings. 

 

Also, as @App4that mentioned; if you've gone from a smaller to a larger display but with the same resolution, the image will not look as sharp and you will notice more jaggies etc. 1080p isn't very crisp by today's standards. Not with all the much higher pixel-density displays all around us now (phones, tablets, laptops etc.)

 

What's your ram speed? If it's at 1600mhz, overclock that shit. Report back.

 

Ram speed doesn't effect visual quality and AA settings. ;) 

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Check out the thread Ryan_Vickers posted. Jump to around page 20 and read on from there.

Also, don't bother using the Crimson/Catalyst settings for overriding in-game AA settings. I've never had good results from that and most of the time, I found it never applied the settings properly or at all. Just use AF set to x16 and leave everything else set to "let application decide" and use in-game graphics settings.

Also, as @App4that mentioned; if you've gone from a smaller to a larger display but with the same resolution, the image will not look as sharp and you will notice more jaggies etc. 1080p isn't very crisp by today's standards. Not with all the much higher pixel-density displays all around us now (phones, tablets, laptops etc.)

Ram speed doesn't effect visual quality and AA settings. ;)

Was a shot from the hip that it might have been stuttering. I have pamphlets on the benefits of ram speed lol

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Sounds like you went from a small screen to a larger one, that increases the area without increasing the pixel count. Plug a 13" monitor into your PC and you'll see what I mean.

 

I'll try to reinstall my driver using DDU and let everything run in stock, i remember i did something about GPU Scaling to make the display fit to my screen, i thought it was normal, will give it a try and report back

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Check out the thread Ryan_Vickers posted. Jump to around page 20 and read on from there. 

 

Also, don't bother using the Crimson/Catalyst settings for overriding in-game AA settings. I've never had good results from that and most of the time, I found it never applied the settings properly or at all. Just use AF set to x16 and leave everything else set to "let application decide" and use in-game graphics settings. 

 

Also, as @App4that mentioned; if you've gone from a smaller to a larger display but with the same resolution, the image will not look as sharp and you will notice more jaggies etc. 1080p isn't very crisp by today's standards. Not with all the much higher pixel-density displays all around us now (phones, tablets, laptops etc.)

 

 

Ram speed doesn't effect visual quality and AA settings. ;)

 

I'll try that and report back the result. You guys just remind me that there is a incident where everytime i reinstall a fresh window+AMD driver, i'll have to do some setting like GPU scaling to a percentage and make the display to fit my screen (There is a half inch black boarder gap between the display & the screen)

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And here is a screenshot from BnS forum of their AA effect, it really does make different

 

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Honestly your screenshots look normal. You're using a 24" monitor, you should see it on my 27". Larger the monitor the larger the pixels.

 

I've been ignoring it since years ago, but come to this Blade & Soul game, i cant take it anymore while watching my brother playing just fine with a lower specs pc , i really have to do something now.. if u refer to the right screenshot at post #17, mine were like 50% worst than that... 

 

Here is mine

 

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Well, you could enable VSR and run the game at 1440. See if that helps.

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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Well, you could enable VSR and run the game at 1440. See if that helps.

 

Ditto.

VSR should help the with the aliasing...to an extent.

 

BTW, according to AMD, the R9-290 supports VSR up to 3200 x 1600.

You need to balance the resolution with the performance, though, @raydeeyo.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/VSR.aspx

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Tried everything, even DDU & roll back to catalyst driver, doesn't help much... only VSR to 1440 can make some slightly different 

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I'll try that and report back the result. You guys just remind me that there is a incident where everytime i reinstall a fresh window+AMD driver, i'll have to do some setting like GPU scaling to a percentage and make the display to fit my screen (There is a half inch black boarder gap between the display & the screen)

If you have black bars it means you're not running at the monitors native resolution. Can you elaborate on this?

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If you have black bars it means you're not running at the monitors native resolution. Can you elaborate on this?

 

Ya, it do have black bars around the display when i was using Crimson, but after i DDU and install OEM AMD driver (Catalyst) it just default to 1080p which is the my monitor max resolution. Everything is still same, CS GO, Bns still have the jaggies everywhere, especially the trees & shadow...

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Tried everything, nothing seems working other than downsampling to 1440 or more to minimize the bad part


 


Here is what i tried, 


 


1) DDU & reinstall latest OEM driver (AMD Catalyst)


2) Return to all stock status (CPU & Ram Overclock)


3) Swap HDD with Window 8.1 installed (Installed with OEM driver)


4) Swap PC (Intel G3258 OC + Asus Z97M Plus + 750W PSU)


5) Optimize with RadeonPRO (Force AA & others to games)


6) VSR to 1440p (The only thing that works but FPS drop to 20++)


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