Wednesday, December 11th 2013
AMD to Roll Out Eyefinity Frame-Pacing Fix in January
AMD is reportedly releasing a fix for frame-pacing issues for Radeon-based systems with Eyefinity setups in January, 2014, according to an AnandTech report. This September, AMD rolled out the first fix into the frame-pacing issues that affected Radeon GPUs based on the Graphics CoreNext architecture, in which raw-framerate didn't come with the right pacing between each frame, resulting in display output that isn't fluid, which even caused accusations to fly from some quarters about how honest AMD really is with performance numbers of its GPUs.
The Catalyst update that rolled out in September 2013 resolved the problem for a majority of users - with single displays connected to single GPUs, but left out cases in which people use Eyefinity (single display head spanning across multiple physical displays), on CrossFireX (multi-GPU) setups. It was originally expected that AMD would release the so-called "phase 2" Catalyst driver update looking into frame-pacing issues this November, but since the month has passed, AMD has obviously hit a delay. AnandTech reports that delay could last as long as two months, and one should expect "phase 2" to come out only towards the later half of January, since in the first half, AMD, along with the rest of the industry, will be busy with the 2014 International CES, where it will launch its next-generation A-Series APUs, codenamed "Kaveri."
Source:
AnandTech
The Catalyst update that rolled out in September 2013 resolved the problem for a majority of users - with single displays connected to single GPUs, but left out cases in which people use Eyefinity (single display head spanning across multiple physical displays), on CrossFireX (multi-GPU) setups. It was originally expected that AMD would release the so-called "phase 2" Catalyst driver update looking into frame-pacing issues this November, but since the month has passed, AMD has obviously hit a delay. AnandTech reports that delay could last as long as two months, and one should expect "phase 2" to come out only towards the later half of January, since in the first half, AMD, along with the rest of the industry, will be busy with the 2014 International CES, where it will launch its next-generation A-Series APUs, codenamed "Kaveri."
13 Comments on AMD to Roll Out Eyefinity Frame-Pacing Fix in January
AMD has Kaveri, TrueAudio, and Mantle to release in that time frame. There's no way that frame pacing will get prioritized over those other three.
AMD's history of missing deadlines and performance targets has taught me me to never trust their promises. The only reason I keep AMD cards is because of crypocurrency mining. If it wasn't for that, I would have switched sides a long time ago.
In January there will be yet another announcement of a delay.
AMD has promised a late December release for Mantle support for Battlefield 4, and yet two weeks out you haven't heard a peep from them about any details.
The company perpetually promises dates it can't meet.
Remember that AMD also is promising to have TrueAudio for the release of Thief in February 2014. That's a much higher profile issue, and they will get a lot more bad press for not shipping TrueAudio than delaying this frame pacing driver yet again. My expectations are a release of Crossfire Eyefinity frame pacing in March 2014 at the earliest, if ever.
Two words...Enduro and underutilization.
You'll find that AMD promised to rectify the issue in October 2012- after burying it's head in the sandfor the best part of a year. The fixstill left a lot to be desired, as did the one after that, and the one after that...
As an affected user, I can PM you a timeline and support correspondence if you think that you need more convincing.Thankfully the client roadmap isn't the clusterf**k that the server (Magic 8-Ball) division is...How many of these saw the light of day!
"Don't stop now! Come on!"
I bet none before this post have even got eyefinity.
Shit not long ago monitor 2 was for surfing only and no one , NOONE even new about frame pacing , now 6 month's later a company is worth slating every time for not pre empting peoples gayness about gameing Fps and the 95th percentile,,, shiiit, Except for one minute, that no company is perfect and many of us have had fair reason to maoan at and troll all these big tech companies pr shit but its a bit balls since its the same faces on here mostly and most do actually know whats going on Ish with each others shit so hearing the same driver moan every time from the same guy's gets a bit like " yeah ,, you said", its like sitting watching a match with my ol man , the same tale and a lot of rewinds then back to the start,, Amd's drivers are shit err guess what Ive had Ati gpus all the last 10 years and mostly had An Nvidia card all the time too and I had little to no issues with either bar xfire on 3870's initially wow they were a pain.
I would have forgiven AMD if the company had fixed this issue in a few months, but it's been a year. Knowing that graphics cards are some of the most finicky pieces of hardware when it comes to drivers, I won't be buying AMD for my next system because I don't have confidence in them to fix issues that may crop up.Technology advances. We should expect more from hardware than we did in 2000. Your argument is that we shouldn't be pushing companies to meet higher expectations. That's ridiculous.
If you want a single-GPU, single-monitor gaming desktop system, then AMD is competitive. However, if you go toward more than one monitor gaming, more than one graphics card, or want to use a laptop with discrete graphics, then AMD is best avoided.