never settle amd 12.11 game bundles

[Rollo]

Rollo,

It´s nice to see that your opinions are more balanced now (not only "NVIDIA is great"; "AMD is crap").

But I think some guys will never understand. I can´t imagine a company that does EVERYTHING wrong or EVERYTHING right.

Congratulations.

That bundle is so good I had a 7970 in my cart to replace the 670 Superclocked I have in my secondary rig. Only thing that kept me from pulling the trigger was loss of value due to FleaBay/PayPal fees + depreciation, and thought the 670 SC and 7970 probably aren't that far apart performance wise.

Came down to "I'm going to end up paying $100 to get these games and a little more performance if I do this".

That said, that game bundle kicks a$$- were I buying a GPU for the secondary rig, 7970 would be it. (have 3d monitors on primary rig)

[owikh84]

Can you test with Tessellation on instead?

Mixed results with tess on

[Lanek]

I still don't know the difference between regular and NET 4.0 versions of the drivers, anyone care to explain? thanks

One is bigger as it include Net4.0 for peoples who dont have it installed .. i believe this is just for this. ( specially for Vista fresh install i believe )

The AMD Catalyst Control Center/ AMD Vision Engine Control Center requires that the Microsoft® .NET Framework SP1 be installed for Windows Vista. Without .NET SP1 installed, the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center will not launch properly and the user will see an error message.

[TuKo]

Any numbers with 2x 7970 or 1x 7990 ?

[knightwolf654]

3930k @ 3.8ghz
2x HD 7970 @ 1050, 1500 Crossfire
32gb of ram ddr3-1333 (i know its slow.)
P9x79 Deluxe.

12.8 = P14463 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4726274
12.11 = P15174 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4726531

[BababooeyHTJ]

Did anyone actually test crossfire?

[Lanek]

Did anyone actually test crossfire?

Only a little bit, and sadly most of my games are not installed yet. If i have more time i will test a bit more. ( if i can find my old "benchmark"; or it is useless as comparaison ) ..

[knightwolf654]

Did anyone actually test crossfire?

See post 80, i dont have any hard numbers right now, but my FPS did jump in BF3. i have also had crysis 2 crash and the drivers crashed once when coming off the screen saver.

[BababooeyHTJ]

See post 80, i dont have any hard numbers right now, but my FPS did jump in BF3. i have also had crysis 2 crash and the drivers crashed once when coming off the screen saver.

Which beta is that with?

So far beta 3 has been stable for me. I haven't done any before and after testing but performance doesn't seem off in any game that I tried other than Clear Sky.

[tbone8ty]

7870 bundles seen anywhere?

edit: http://blogs.amd.com/play/this-holiday-never-settle/

coming soon

[knightwolf654]

i'm using beta 3 as well. i updated to the 12.10 application profiles and that seems to have fixed my issues with crysis 2. I have not seen any other issues while coming out of the screen saver either.

[s1nykuL]

Liking the driver Nice bundle too

I got Sleeping Dogs with my 7970, which I have played for a total of 30 minutes

[kromosto]

test is with my 5870 got a %0.45 improvement on 3dmark2011

[=[PULSAR]=]

Let me get this straight, we still have to pay for moh with the bundle?

[kromosto]

Let me get this straight, we still have to pay for moh with the bundle?

we have to pay for moh with the bundle but ea have to pay me for make me spend my time on that crap.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Let me get this straight, we still have to pay for moh with the bundle?

Yeah, you still have to pay for what is probably the worst game in the bundle.

[kromosto]

Yeah, you still have to pay for what is probably the worst game in the bundle.

it doesnt need a bundle to be worst

but what is really worst is i cant get the bundle as it is limited to specific stores . now my problem is bigger before 12.11 i was %100 getting 680 bot now 7970 or 680 which is better i dont know

[Rattle]

I got my new reference 7970 for a total of $281 after instant $50 off and another 5% off from my CC for ordering from TD and then I sold some games to bring it down to $281, still have a couple of the game keys unused lol.

The only game worth a damn with this new bundle is sleeping dogs which is really good actually, and possibly hitman. UBI and DICE/EA can die in fire.

[Starscream]

Anyone know what stores in Europe wil be ofering the Never Settle game bundle with the cards?
Cause so far i have found no stores in the Netherlands or Germany that will add the gaming bundles.

[Chickenfeed]

Yeah, you still have to pay for what is probably the worst game in the bundle.

The game isn't half bad actually. I personally wouldn't have spent $60 on it but not bad by any means. If you have BF3 Premier you can get the game for 50% off ( any version, console, digital or pc )

[Soultaker52]

Wow, this is fantastic! Great job AMD! I ALMOST wish I didn't grab the 660Ti for the girlfriend last week... but since she and I are mainly playing Borderlands 2 (pretty physx, lol), I think I'm okay with it. Still though, fantastic deal and bundle. This sort of performance increase by a driver this late in the game is pretty out of the ordinary!

[Tuvok-LuR-]

Damn, I was set to buy a 670 and now this makes it all so hard!!!
I'd get a 7970 immediately but Borderlands 2 is the game I wanna play the most and it makes that even harder...

[Olivon]

Anyone know what stores in Europe wil be ofering the Never Settle game bundle with the cards?
Cause so far i have found no stores in the Netherlands or Germany that will add the gaming bundles.

Only RDC and TopAchat (same house) got the bundle in France Starscream.

[kromosto]

Damn, I was set to buy a 670 and now this makes it all so hard!!!
I'd get a 7970 immediately but Borderlands 2 is the game I wanna play the most and it makes that even harder...

dont worry got myself a 7970 yesterday and on everytihng max (but didnt try full physics yet) 100+ fps all the time

EDIT: tried it physics maxed and still 100+ fps with 3770 stock.

[SKYMTL]

Yeah, you still have to pay for what is probably the worst game in the bundle.

The game isn't THAT bad. I've been playing single player for the last few days and while it is repetitive (find terrorist -> car chase -> find terrorist -> foot chase -> repeat all over again), I find the gameplay to be straightforward and the graphics to be well above average. My only issue with these new shooters is that it feels I now need all 10 fingers on the keyboard due to a crazy number of actions being needed in-game.