AMD Finally Finishes Mantle Drivers, Will Be Available Soon

[ubercake]

Comments I've seen regarding mantle and BF4 so far:

"its working alright but cant see much difference. But, as far as I can tell, if I choose mantle, its a bit blurry. Not so much but thats atleast what I observed. But I am happy cause now AMD has shown something working. Not yet fully but it will take months, until it is refined."

"I get 10 more fps in BF4 but it screw up my mouse cursor in the menus and map. The cursor become offset by about 1 inch to the right of where it is actually clicking... back to DX11 for now..."

"I use Mantle on R9 270 and FPS are down a little.

Hope better performance on 14.2."

 

[Djentleman]

Comments I've seen regarding mantle and BF4 so far:

"its working alright but cant see much difference. But, as far as I can tell, if I choose mantle, its a bit blurry. Not so much but thats atleast what I observed. But I am happy cause now AMD has shown something working. Not yet fully but it will take months, until it is refined."

"I get 10 more fps in BF4 but it screw up my mouse cursor in the menus and map. The cursor become offset by about 1 inch to the right of where it is actually clicking... back to DX11 for now..."

"I use Mantle on R9 270 and FPS are down a little.

Hope better performance on 14.2."

The AMD consumer -
"Waiting.... waiting........"

 

[slimething]

Comments I've seen regarding mantle and BF4 so far:

"its working alright but cant see much difference. But, as far as I can tell, if I choose mantle, its a bit blurry. Not so much but thats atleast what I observed. But I am happy cause now AMD has shown something working. Not yet fully but it will take months, until it is refined."

"I get 10 more fps in BF4 but it screw up my mouse cursor in the menus and map. The cursor become offset by about 1 inch to the right of where it is actually clicking... back to DX11 for now..."

"I use Mantle on R9 270 and FPS are down a little.

Hope better performance on 14.2."

The AMD consumer -
"Waiting.... waiting........"

Nvidia had big problems with BF4 when first released, even through the middle of November. Stop pretending it didn't.

Also, apparently people don't know how to read. If they don't properly uninstall drivers before installing 14.1, they are in trouble, even to the point of bricking their OS. Rolling back, same thing. Audio drivers should be updated as well. The first Mantle release is buggy and AMD plainly stated the first beta was optimized more for 290 series, but the more serious issues are operator error.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

NOTE! This AMD Catalyst™ Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

Installing The AMD Catalyst™ Software Driver

Current driver MUST be uninstalled before updating to AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta driver.

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So what was the big innovation nVidia has in the works? Wait.....nothing.

 

[nikoli707]

bf4 had problems when it was released, and still does. it was neither amd or nvidias "big problem" so stop spinning the old news. mantle doesn't appear to be very buggy at all according to synthetics... bf4 is buggy so again dont put spin on it being amd drivers fault. nvidia has plenty on big innovations in the next few years just like amd does.