147625-radeonmod-for-amd

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WARNING! This guide is for knowledgable folks who understand how todo clean driver installs, use Task/Start manager and use the REGISTRY. DO NOT attempt this without aforementioned knowledge! There! You've BEEN WARNED! TIME FOR SOME SCIENCE!
 
Found some tweaks that currently along with haveing the Carbine Nameplate Add-on disabled is making me a happy camper in Wildstar with little to NONE stutter...even Auroria ran pretty smooth. I'm almost tempted to swap back to 8gb ram an see if it still works the same!
 
Anyhoo the scoop is if you have a pretty new Radeon GPU either GCN 1 or 2 head on over and grab the new Crimson driver set. These are new very DX12 compatible(re: performance enhancements) drivers...sorry non-GCN card owners you can't use these drivers BUT the tweaker will still work for you (suggested you have 15.xxx Catalyst). You can grab the tweaker at Guru3D like the topic says its called RadeonMod d-load then unzip somewhere we'll come back to it.
 
Step 1 DRIVERS
 
Goto AMD site grab the new drivers. FYI the minimalist package is just a browser d-load/installer...might as well grab the whole package!
 
While you're there grab the AMD Catalyst Cleaner we will use this first!(NOTE if you have an AMD motherboard the Cleaner will kill any AMD specific chipset drivers as well so just be aware you might have to re-install those! Windows will still boot with default drivers for USB and N/S bridges (don't panic if you do wipe em!))
Why use the cleaner? because it's been shown to reliably uninstal everything AMD better than the driver install tool. ie leftover registry entries. If you wanna double make sure use CCleaner after or some other reliable registry cleaner.
 
Once you've cleaned out the AMD junk, the last step is to head over to Device Manager->Display Device->Uninstall->tik the Uninstall Software for this device cause otherwise Windows keeps a back-up of the driver! We wan't a complete frontal lobe wipe!
 
REBOOT-->Install new Crimson Drivers (you can safely uncheck AMD ACP and of course Gaming Evolved)-->REBOOT
 
STEP 2 BASIC SETTINGS for Crimson UI/CCC
 
We are going set EVERYTHING TO PERFORMANCE VALUES! We want the game running smooth first and foremost...making it pretty comes later! Also use Global settings no profiles!
 
New UI Gaming-->Global Tab
 
Old CCC 3d Gaming Tab
 
Settings: AA->Application Controlled, AA Method->Multisampling, Morphological Filtering->Off, Aniso Mode -> Apllication Controlled, Filtering Quality->Performance, Surface Format Optimization->Off, Wait for VR->Off/unless, Triple Buffering->On/Off are both fine, Shader Cache->Off(this is only availble in the new UI, but fear not for older drivers we can mod/tweak it off!) Tessalation Mode-Override, Max. Tessalation Lvl->Off, Frame-rate Target Control ALWAYS OFF. Close UI.
 
Now one last thing Open the Task Manager->Start-Up and disable Radeon Settings:Host Application OR CCC (if you see AMD ACP/API disable that from starting up too!)
 
REBOOT!...next up! TWEAKING!
 
Step 3 TWEAKS
 
Open up RadeonMod and klik BACK-UP REGISTRY(Unless you know what you're doing...JUST KLIK THE BUTTON!)  and on the 1st tab (0000) scroll till you see the first two values in RED. They should be DisableDMACopy and DisableBlockWrite. They both should have no default value.
 
SET DisableDMACopy value to 1(ON) and DisableBlockWrite to 0(OFF).
 
If you couldn't turn off the Shader Cache in Catalyst UI goto UMD tab scroll down find Shader Cache(it's at the bottom of Gaming Optimization) set value to 3000(OFF).
 
Hit the Restart Driver button on the bottom or better yet just REBOOT!
 
Double check CCC/Radeon Settings didn't load in Task Manager End Task it if it did...run Wildstar (turn off Nameplates) enjoy game!
			
				
	Edited November 29, 2015 by Darth Chua	
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			Also all my settings in-game are set pretty low for Draw Distances, Textures Low, Dynamic Shadows Off, Particle Effects ultra-low,AA-x1, Resolution Normal, Aniso Bi (but normal buffer is fine). Still game looks sweet and running smooth. Most of these graphics tweaks remove graphics calls to disk(ya they put the Shader Cache to disk when you enable it).Even if you use an SSD any disk call is an interrupt waiting to happen. System Interrupts=Stutter.Less interrupts=smoother gaming!
			
				
	Edited November 29, 2015 by Darth Chua	
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			You're right iI will try and clean this up!	
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			Hope that's better!	
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			I will re-iterate that this is for game tweakers if you don't understand any of what I've explained or how todo some of the tasks involved PLEASE DON'T TRY IT! I mostly referenced Windows 10 but everything can be done with older versions IF you know your way around.
			
				
	Edited November 29, 2015 by Darth Chua	
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I'm personally not a fan of any driver cleaners for various reasons.
Other websites and IT people tend to agree with me, but Your Mileage May Vary.
 
I'm wary of people trying these types of things and then having unbootable computers or other issues.  Might want to edit the title to something like '[EXPERTS ONLY] AMD Radeon Workaround' or something.
 
Hopefully we can hear from players on how this tweak works for them.	
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