Low FPS in Battlefield 4 with R9 290 Tri-X

[jkteddy77]

My R9 290 Tri-x only gets around 45-60fps in BF4, no matter what setting.
I clean installed the 13.12 driver (the 14.1 beta is a mess, so is mantle)
I tried my friend's Powercolor R9 290 PCS+, and it ran 65-110 on ultra...

Yet, in Unigine valley, His card got 53fps, and my Tri-X got 55fps... Is it just BF4 not liking my card or... I bought the card for BF4, so this is a bummer.

 

[jkteddy77]

Have you tried the 14.12 Omega driver, it's great.

DICE finally fixed their Mantle crossfire they broke in July 8 patch. It was finally fixed with Final Stand patch.

The fix for me was actually just getting a 4790k... now every driver works fine...
8350 was a bottleneck.

is it still worth it to grab a second 290 for me, or should I be looking at getting 390's if I want to go 1440p 144hz/4k 60hz this spring? dual 970's are already stomping 2x 290's, so idk if a second 290 is a good idea anymore

I have the Asus ROG swift and 2x 290x's and it's a beast. Check out my battlelog profile to see my settings and examples.
I use those settings on Mantle to get an average of 120fps at 120hz. AMD cards cant go over 120hz on that monitor as the firmware was tinkered to achieve 144hz on Nvidia but 120hz is fine specially since I basically play 4K at 120hz and 120fps! I use Vsync and "Maxvariable 120" on Mantle I can't feel any lag as it's so much more responsive than DX11 and the screen tearing is gone with it and it looks and feels amazing.

I had rob from AMD look into the 144hz issue as it has interference and flickers and they pulled the monitor apart and said the following to me in a email.

"Hi, Daniel. We have this monitor in our lab and took a look at the firmware of the electronics for the display. Our analysis reveals that this monitor’s firmware is not compliant with a VESA certification called Coordinated Video Timing (CVT). The CVT timing standard provides a common framework for a graphics card and monitor to reliably communicate, especially at high refresh rates or resolutions (e.g. 144Hz). Failure to follow the standards set forth in VESA CVT specification can cause interoperability and visual errors, like the one your are experiencing now, or common errors like “DisplayPort link failure.”



Unfortunately there is not much we can do on our end to resolve this problem, as it is a firmware issue with this particular display.



Sincerely,

Robert"

That's great performance! maybe I'll just grab another 290 instead of trying to sell it and get 2x 390's. It would be much cheaper to just get a used 290.
Sucks that the Nvidia tech monitor isn't agreeing with your 290x's :/ I bet it's a beautiful experience anyway though. Freesync monitors in 2015 should fix bugs like this, that's what I'm waiting on.