Clock blocker for AMD Fiji chips and maybe earlier cards

5x1p3

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Tried it on the fury x they have been reports of people using it on older AMD cards and getting good results.
Hi,

personally on horizons i have found it to remove most of the judder even when landing on moons while keeping my card at 40 degrees.

http://www.comroestudios.com/ClockBlocker/Doc/index.html

hope it helps


i5 4690k @ 4.7Ghz watercooled
16 GB DDR3 1600mhz vengence ram
Fury X Clock Blocked
250gb SSD
Windows 10
Oculus 8.0
Steam VR beta
 

5x1p3

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i5 4690k @ 4.7Ghz watercooled
16 GB DDR3 1600mhz vengence ram
Fury X Clock Blocked
250gb SSD
Windows 10
Oculus 8.0
Steam VR beta

X55 Rhino
Proflight Combat rudder pedals

DK2
CV1 pre ordered
and a divorce hahah

i would like to say thank to FD, your game is not perfect but my god its good.
 

5x1p3

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20160219_212747.jpg Evil inside
 

Tucker Dale

Tucker Dale
Hello there,

Do I have to change some of the settings of the clock blocker?

I just installed it but can't see any changes in performance. What made a nice difference for me is to start Virtual Desktop first and than launch ED through the game section of Virtual Desktop. Somehow it gave me significantly better performance in stations, rings and on planet surfaces. With this method I'm even able to drive the SRV on a planet while the next landable body is very close, so you can see both planet surfaces at the same time.

I mean something like this:

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What still bothers me is, that after a short time in Supercruise i always get strange judder. It feels like a very smooth kind of judder, but not like the kind of judder you get in a station when you are running on too high settings. It is hard to describe but it is very noticeable.

My current settings are on high, except no Anti Aliasing and Ambient Occlusion deactivated.

My System:

i7 6700K (currently not overclocked)
16GB Ram
R9 Nano - Power Limit @ +50% and Core Clock @ 1030 MHz (Crimson 16.1)
Dk2 with 0.8 SDK and current Steam VR version (Steam not running while launching ED)

Win 10
Elite installed on a SSD
 
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5x1p3

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with crimson 16.1.1 you get judder again on windows 10.

make sure its 16.1 also turn tessalation off or low in your crimson profile, its well known games screw this setting up for AMD cards to show decrease in performance as well as AMD throttling the power management hence clock blocker, once you get the Fiji chip clock blocked and focused on VR it is a monster.

all the benchmarks on youtube show the fury dip in frametime but i have run the same benchmarks with it blocked and you can clearly see the 980 ti is not as far ahead as nvidia would like + having 30/40 degrees EXTRA on top of a furys temp and being more expensive. my fury x has never been over 40 degrees @ 25 degree ambient temp.

when crossfire is deployed correctly in ED VR i will be getting another for 8GB HBM.

as for getting myself an Nvidia card, i honestly dont think i will ever buy an Nvidia card again, sure you had a s**t time with the 295x lol who wouldn't in VR where its not properly supported but in a game that properly supports it i bet it walked all over your new card, the temps on the older amd stuff was scary unless you managed it correctly.

i could of bought the water force 980 ti but it really was not worth the additional cost and a fan cooled gpu was not what i was looking for.

its just a preference thing and i dont want this to turn into a handbags at dawn fan boy riot, i put this up to let other fiji owners know about clock blocker.

@ tucker dale just load the app up and it will sit there until you launch a 3d application it will detect it and trick your GPU into max stock clock make sure you are keeping it cool though as if it gets to hot it will thermal throttle and that is bad news.

You can use MSI Afterburner to monitor temps & loads of all your hardware + you can adjust your GPU fan speeds to keep it cool when it is under load

I also reduced my paging file to 1GB for a crash dump, since you have an SSD and 16GB ram it may be worth looking into reducing your page file. Page files can cause small amounts of judder in games and will reduce the life of your SSD due to how it read/writes to your drive for no real reason.

hope it helps
 
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Tucker Dale

Tucker Dale
Thanks again 5x1p3!

May I ask which version of Steam VR you are running?

I checked my frames in Supercruise when the smooth judder appeared, and it was exactly 37.5 fps.

I tried booth running Windows 10 on 60Hz and ED on 60Hz (checked both Window and Fullscreen mode) and i tried Windows 10 on 75Hz and ED on 75Hz. The smooth judder appeared in both scenarios and i got 37.5 fps after some time in Supercruise and especially when i came close to a station. I also tried disabling and enabling Vsync, but without a change.
 

5x1p3

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I have messaged you, I am using steam vr beta 984177

looks like you may have to reload your drivers but check on AMD forum for help with wiping the old ones first

https://community.amd.com/message/2706438#2706438

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I use build 984177 Steam VR Beta, i had problems with my screen only refreshing at 60hz. so i dropped it down to 720p in windows display settings and it fixed it, but now im using steam vr beta i can keep it in windowed mode and it allows for 75fps.

supercruise used to be a pain for me before crimson 16.1 then they released 16.1.1 and it broke again.

Try getting rid of your current drivers all together and reinstall crimson 16.1

https://community.amd.com/message/2706438#2706438
 
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