PC Drivers & Software

[badsantaslay]

so i have amd radeon r9 290x gpu. when i launch fortnite it warns me about outdated drivers but i played anyway. but i wanted to play with stretch so i downloaded amd adrenaline but it couldnt find any drivers so i had to manually install it. so i installed the drivers and the software worked fine. fortnite stopped giving me a warning to. but when i got ingame it was really laggy. it wasnt laggy before i updated the drivers. what should i do?
i use tiny11 OS 
cpu- intel i5 4460
amd radeon r9 290x
16gb ram

[FunkZ]

The 200 and 300 series graphics cards have been moved to legacy status, the last Adrenalin package for Windows for your card was 22.6.1 which is coming up on 2 years old. The R9 290X card is over 10 years old. On top of that you're using a 3rd party OS with questionable hardware support.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with maintaining a legacy gaming rig. I still have an old Athlon X2 and HD 5670 on Windows XP with an air gap for when I want to play legacy games. But trying to use decade old hardware with an unsupported OS to play modern games is literally a crap shoot. If you had it working at all at one point I would suggest go back to that configuration.

[badsantaslay]

okay would you recommend that i use windows 10 instead?
and where do i find old drivers to download?
im starting to think that it isnt the driver or graphics card that is the problem. i think my cpu is bottlenecking my gpu.  since the 290x still can run most modern games pretty well. 

[FunkZ]

Go to the amd.com/en/support page and manually select your card from the drop-downs: Graphics, R9 Series, 200 Series, 290X

Windows 10 goes end of support next year, then you'll be in the same boat with that, but for now at least it's a supported OS.

Haswell and DDR3 is showing its age as well, but not any older than Hawaii right? lol

I used to have a 290X also and ran that for many years cause there really wasn't a generational upgrade clear up through the RX 580. But 4GB VRAM just isn't enough any more, unless if by modern games you mean esports titles at 1080p.

[badsantaslay]

okay, i cant seem to find the same driver as i had earlier. i think i didnt have an amd driver. ive been watching videos of people saying and showing that the 290x is still really good in 1080p gaming in modern games
i downloaded the latest driver from amd and when i launch cs2 my graphic card ascends in temp. and the graphic card goes into safe mode or something. i run the lowest settings on it. at the moment im trying to find a modded driver that unlocks my gpus potentiall

[FunkZ]

The R9 290X reference was always a hot running card. It used the antiquated single blower style fan on a 2-slot design cooler. That's why I converted mine to liquid cooling. You could try blowing the dust out of the heatsink and reapplying thermal paste.

The R9 290X was really good for its day. And it was still good even 3 GCN generations later. Compared to the RX 580 for example, the gains of newer generation cards were single digit percent performance increase.

However RDNA is night and day over GCN. The RX 5000, 6000 and 7000 series cards blow GCN out of the water. Google RX 580 vs. 5700 XT. And under no circumstance would I state that the R9 290X is "still really good" at 1080p in modern games, 4GB VRAM is simply not enough unless you're happy with low graphics settings. That's not "really good" that's "barely adequate".

If you check the link I posted above, the last AMD driver for R9 290X is 22.6.1 - there is no "non-AMD" driver unless you mean a partner supplied driver from Sapphire or PowerColor for example.

[yypang]

may i know what display cable you're using?

[badsantaslay]

hdmi