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loki1944
Adept II

Really disappointing driver issues with AMD in games

I just don't get it:

Forcing disabling of vsync via Nvidia control panel:

Works in STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl; FPS uncapped

Forcing 16xAF via Nvidia drivers:

Works in TES IV: Oblivion

Works in Operation Flashpoint

Playing Combat Mission games on 2014 engine with Nvidia driver:

Works fine

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Forcing disabling of vsync via AMD control panel:

Doesn't work in STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl; FPS locked at monitor refresh rate 

Forcing 16xAF via AMD driver:

Doesn't work in TES IV: Oblivion

Doesn't work in Operation Flashpoint

Playing Combat Mission games on 2014 engine with AMD Driver

Crashes when loading 3d engine

I've verified this with R9 290X, Vega 64, and RX 7900XT AMD cards and GTX 780Ti, GTX 980Ti, GTX 1080Ti, and RTX 3080Ti Nvidia cards. AMD drivers significantly degrade user experience as outlined above; so at a certain point the relatively lower cost of AMD starts to become irrelevant when you realize how inferior AMD drivers are and that they continue to ignore significant broken compatibility as demonstrated with their breaking of Combat Mission drivers about 2 years ago or so. Not acceptable.

I'd hate to go full team green, but issues like this simply are not acceptable in 2023.

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loki1944
Adept II

Updating to add that disabling Vsync via AMD control panel also does not work for Star Wars Galaxies (it DOES work for Nvidia cards).

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