Those of your running AMD cards in your PC rigs may see a huge improvement to the way one of the year’s biggest releases performs on your machine.
AMD released a new driver for its graphics chips today that the company specifically optimized for Fallout 4 along with Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate and Star Wars: Battlefront. This is a crucial update considering that Fallout 4 was having some issues — especially in terms of framerate — on AMD hardware. It’s not that Bethesda’s open-world role-playing game didn’t hit 60 frames per second on an R9 390X, for example. The problem was primarily that AMD cards had more instances where the framerate would experience drastic drops compared to equivalent hardware from Nvidia, according to tests by benchmarking site GamersNexus.
Here you can see Digital Foundry explaining that things can start to fall apart for AMD chips:
With the new drivers, which are available now, AMD has worked its magic and essentially fixed how Fallout 4 runs. Hardware website Ocerclock3D found that the R9 Fury X card, AMD’s top-of-the-line device, now only dips down to around 94 frames per second when set to a resolution of 1080p. Prior to the update, this card was getting down to as low as 74 frames per second.
The Raw Fury X now occasionally outperforms the GTX 980 Ti, which is Nvidia’s latest top-of-the-line release (although it’s a tiny bit less powerful than a Titan X), when the resolution is set to 4K.
This all means that you PC gamers can now go back to gloating about how much better your experience with games is than people who do all their playing on Xbox One or PlayStation 4.