Guild Wars 2

I’ve done quite a bit of non-scientific testing of various AMD drivers as new betas come out and such. Just wanted to mention that the WHQL 13.9 drivers are still giving the best graphical performance for GW2. It’s a pretty noticeable boost of 5-10 FPS (big difference in WvW fights) over any of the beta or WHQL drivers before or since.

I’m not sure why newer drivers are giving noticeably worse performance, but I thought I’d throw this out there for people who weren’t aware.

actually, its going to depend on your card. Pre HD7000 Series will find that 13.4 will work best for Win7, If they are running Win8/8.1 then 13.12 will work best. Post HD7000 series will find that 13.9 for Win7 and again 13.12 for Win8/8.1

I use 13.12 Drivers on both my laptop (APU+HD7690M) and my Desktop (HD7790). And the performance is a lot better then any Driver before it. And I’m Still running Win7x64SP1.

If you use an APU+Switchable Graphics on your Laptop you cannot use the AMD supplied Drivers, it will break the switchable graphics. You have to download modded Drivers to fix the Broken Switchable Graphic DLL Link

sirsquishy.8531:

If you use an APU+Switchable Graphics on your Laptop you cannot use the AMD supplied Drivers, it will break the switchable graphics. You have to download modded Drivers to fix the Broken Switchable Graphic DLL Link

Break how?

I’ve heard that owners of 6xxx (labeled) GPUs in a switchable graphics setup will want to use a modified driver just because their switchable graphics menu on AMD’s drivers won’t work. My 7660G+7670M laptop has been fine in that regard though with all of AMD’s drivers.

In any case, I’d suggest trying out AMD’s driver first to be sure though.

Espionage.3685:

sirsquishy.8531:

If you use an APU+Switchable Graphics on your Laptop you cannot use the AMD supplied Drivers, it will break the switchable graphics. You have to download modded Drivers to fix the Broken Switchable Graphic DLL Link

Break how?

I’ve heard that owners of 6xxx (labeled) GPUs in a switchable graphics setup will want to use a modified driver just because their switchable graphics menu on AMD’s drivers won’t work. My 7660G+7670M laptop has been fine in that regard though with all of AMD’s drivers.

In any case, I’d suggest trying out AMD’s driver first to be sure though.

Breaks as in the switchable graphic engine/API/DLL doesnt work. So you are LOCKED into using the APU’s GPU (6620 in my case). You need to use a modded non-signed Driver to get it working again on anything newer then 13.4 (13.4 needs to just be installed over 12.10 to work, the same trick does not work for anything newer).