New Catalyst 10.3 Application Profile

[cadaveca]

That simply forces AFR, AFAIK, and only for some apps, not all, as some apps will crash when run in AFR.

If there is no profile, the app will run in "compatibility mode" AFR.

 

[DRDNA]

That simply forces AFR, AFAIK, and only for some apps, not all, as some apps will crash when run in AFR.

Oh ya thats right... That why I sometimes had to rename my games launchers to something the CCC liked...worked well when there wasn't a profile in the CCC.

 

[cadaveca]

Yep, you simply rename the app to something that uses the same engine. However, as developer's customize the engines they use, a fix for one app might break another, hence the profiles.

The Crossfire profiles have always been a part of the driver, although AMD was loath the admit it; the only difference now is that we should get working profiles faster.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Yep, you simply rename the app to something that uses the same engine. However, as developer's customize the engines they use, a fix for one app might break another, hence the profiles.

The Crossfire profiles have always been a part of the driver, although AMD was loath the admit it; the only difference now is that we should get working profiles faster.

Actually, whenever you use 4870 X2 or 5890 and notice low frame rates you can rename the EXE of the game to AFR-FriendlyD3D.exe to see if it improve frame rates. If it doesn't and you want to use one GPU then you should be able to OC your video card to 4870 or 5870 frequency and relabel the game's EXE to ForceSingleGPU.exe to get single GPU performance until a profile is made available.

You can also bookmark this website to get an idea of WHQL Cat Driver updates to see if your game (or new games) are listed as having a profile or not.

 

[cadaveca]

Fantaastic, ECH!!! Also, you can edit off the "D3D.exe", and put "OGL.exe", for OpenGL apps.

 

[erocker]

Actually, whenever you use 4870 X2 or 5890 and notice low frame rates you can rename the EXE of the game to AFR-FriendlyD3D.exe to see if it improve frame rates. If it doesn't and you want to use one GPU then you should be able to OC your video card to 4870 or 5870 frequency and relabel the game's EXE to ForceSingleGPU.exe to get single GPU performance until a profile is made available.

You can also bookmark this website to get an idea of WHQL Cat Driver updates to see if your game (or new games like Singularity) are listed as having a profile or not.

Ah yes. I was just trying out MSI Kombuster and it's funny, the Multi-GPU version was named etqw.exe.

 

[cadaveca]

Yep, but this also lowers the workload put on the gpu by Kombuster! Try another .exe name, and it works faster!

 

[DRDNA]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33960976

So does this profile update over write what ATI set in its profile or does it just add to it?
So what ever games were already in the ATI profiles will stay there and the ones above will get added to it or what?

 

[alexsubri]

Has anybody have any benchmarks or screens on this? How much better is it? I will try later

 

[caveman-jim]

So does this profile update over write what ATI set in its profile or does it just add to it?
So what ever games were already in the ATI profiles will stay there and the ones above will get added to it or what?

It adds and updates.