Aren't you supposed to write news articles? This is not the section to vent your opinions.
Also, stop repeating the same stupid mantra about the WHQL stuff. AMD repeatedly stated the "betas" were just as stable as the WHQL version, and the ONLY difference is the four letters.
I wouldn't have expected such stupid and useless thread from a staff member.
Just like any other human on the face of the Earth, bta is entitled to an opinion. That's what editorials are for, and this one is clearly marked as such. You have absolutely NO RIGHT whatsoever to tell him what he can and can't write, that's where his boss comes in. Such decisions need to be kept strictly in-house because if you can tell him what he can and can't do, then others can do the same as well and that's when real crap starts happening. You can agree or disagree with his opinion, that's what this forum is for after all, but stop thinking you're his boss, because you're not.
Personally, I like editorials a lot better than news, because the writer is free to also share educated guesses. And as many of you may have noticed, reviewers know a lot more about what's actually happening than your average Joe.
Drivers for TW3 have been a major drama. It's not because AMD hasn't wanted to do a driver. The cooperation between AMD and the dev have been really problematic. I haven't really heard AMD's side being reported, but the Dev has released statements, then recanted them, now they are working on something, said you couldn't optimize some Gameworks features for AMD. Now they apparently are working together on something. It's been a mess though.
If you think about it, all the problems AMD has had lately with games have come from titles that are a part of nVidia's GameWorks program. And I know a lot better than to think this is mere coincidence. It has happened before, after all (remember TWIMTBP, anyone?). It's not that AMD's drivers are suddenly crap or that they just don't care enough to roll out a good driver, it's that nVidia's GameWorks program, just like its predecessors, isn't about helping devs make better games, but about making sure games run great and with all the bells and whistles ONLY on nVidia's hardware.
Are you people blind or is AMD paying you to write this crap? "If it's not broken, don't fix it" - yeah, but you are forgetting that almost every freaking AAA game in the last half year had poorer performance on AMD cards than on Nvidia cards. Also the Crossfire support is crap. I have 2x R9 290's and can't utilize the second card in The Witcher 3 and CF in GTA 5 is also broken. I am now strongly considering selling those two Radeons and buying a GTX 980 or a 980 Ti if the price won't be murderous.
PS. Sorry for my language usage but I'm not a native speaker.
Maybe you should just consider buying a single single-GPU card next time, one fitted out with a damn good cooling system, instead of wasting money on multi-GPU setups, which only ever work out as intended for benchmarks. If you actually want to play games and enjoy them, just get the best single-GPU card you can afford and you'll have a great time. If you want to brag about sinking an ungodly amount of money into your computer, well, you'll just have to deal with reality.
AMD are fucked. I couldn't possibly recommend any of their products now with such lack of support for premium products. Well, premiumly priced products, anyway.
If this new senior management don't turn the company around asap, we'll probably look at the death of the company within a year. I'm beginning to suspect it's too late already.
What are you on?
I wouldn't be surprised, considering half or more of the news posts have (PR) in front of them. Maybe TPU is even being paid to put that stuff there.
Well, that's how most tech sites get their news. Save for the occasional rumor and other unofficial sources, most of the information you'll read in the news section comes from actual press releases.
WHQL is completely meaningless, and NVIDIA's driver situation is far more controversial - not only have they introduced a lot of bugs lately, but update after update they downgrade the performance of the last generation, sometimes to levels where it's farcical. He's yet to write an editorial about this, and I'm sure he won't. I absolutely guarantee you he's either received favour / recompense for this, or is hoping to curry favour as he knows how kindly NVIDIA looks on this kind of crap. It's so utterly blatant, especially as it comes in the middle of a negative PR storm against NVIDIA because of GameWorks & driver shenanigans.
Previously I had adblock disabled for TPU. As of reading this article, it's enabled. I'd strongly urge anyone else who disagrees with this kind of propaganda to enable ad-block too.
To be honest, I've seen how an article looks if it has been paid for or influenced by interested parties (read: corporations) and this doesn't really cut it. There's just one part that I find odd, and I'll be discussing it further down in this post, but right now I can't say I've seen anything that would actually lead me to believe nVidia is behind this editorial (being the interested party in this case).
By then, it will have been 196 days since a Catalyst WHQL driver release. Such a slow driver update cycle would do little to inspire confidence in buying the next-generation Radeon product, even if it establishes a performance lead over GeForce.
Are you actually serious about this statement? As in, are you really saying that even if AMD rolled out a (significantly) better card than the Titan-X, that would yield better performance in real life, not just benchmarks, you would still prefer buying the Titan-X just because AMD releases drivers less often, especially WHQL ones? If so, I must say, this can hardly be called impartial reasoning.
First and foremost, as anyone working for a tech site would know, especially someone that's been in this business as long as you, the driver teams are generally busy with working on the drivers for the new stuff before any major new release. As the 390X is right around the corner and it's going to use technology that's never been used before (HBM), I find it hard to ask just what in hell they're doing since the answer is rather obvious.
Second of all, as long as I already have a fully functional driver at hand, I can hardly find a logical reason to demand new drivers every other day or so. And quite frankly, 14.12 Omega has been just about the best driver AMD has rolled out in a long, long time and I haven't had the slightest issue with it. I never even bothered to check for beta stuff. Then again, it's true that I didn't even care about Project Cars, or GTA V and that I run a single-GPU setup and don't have to worry about CrossFire profiles and all that mess. I will be playing The Witcher 3, however, but not for a while (I'm going to grab the Homeworld Remastered Collection first, for the sake of the good old times), and I'm quite sure that I'll have an adequate driver for that (that being the one launched right with the new cards). I do have to go with the "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" saying here. I care a lot more about having a driver that's good enough to satisfy my needs for a longer period of time than I do about changing drivers sooner than socks.
Third, you're bound to get a new WHQL driver with the new series of graphics cards, which is very soon.
