AMD Radeon R9 M370X Struggling to play games (i.e. GTA V) - bootcamp

Guys, with AMD I am not able to play properly even on 1280*800 (with high settings (1320mb of 2000mb)). The game works fine for 7-10 minutes. After that it starts skipping frames.

At the moment I run it at 1200x800 with everything on normal, apart from shaders and reflections which are on high. Antriscopic filtering I keep at x8 and also have FXAA on. I use the steam in game fps counter so I know exactly how its performing rather than self determining if it is "lag free". I get 60 fps when I first load in. Quickly turning the camera drops fps momentarily down to around 50. Then with general play it fluctuates rapidly from 60-40 sometimes even down to 29 for no particular reason. It's bearable but I expect more for £2.5k.

Do you want to try the drivers available at http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/bootcamp ?

Already tried.

1. These are old drivers as denoted by the release date.

2. After installation these drivers dont even detect the GPU.

Dont know, whats wrong with AMD.

DaFireStorm wrote:

It's bearable but I expect more for £2.5k.

From my standpoint, Bootcamp for Apple is a toy. W10 is coming, and may provide some relief. The only AMD cards I have are in Macminis (AMD6630m s).

Gaurav Bhola wrote:

Dont know, whats wrong with AMD.

-AMD (They are trying to get my drivers updated. ..LOL )

-Apple (An executive is in touch with me and he has recently asked for the configuration on which I am playing)

The most logical source to be contacted is apple (of course). Lets see when does this issue get resolved.

What do Executives at Apple and AMD say about this issue?

Not much I'd imagine😉

Apple is still looking into it, they have asked for the configuration on which I am playing. I have sent them the required screenshots.

AMD folks have given me some unique steps to install these drivers. Those unique steps require u to go in safe mode and stuff. I will try those steps in a day or 2.

No luck. Thanks anyway, though.

For everyone who has been having issues playing games with this model of computer. 2015 Macbook Pro with AMD m370x. I have found a solution that has stopped all problems for me, and has resulted in amazing performance in Bootcamp Win 8.1 with all of my games. NO LAGS, NO STUTTERS just smooth gameplay at steady frame rates.

Step One: Install El Capitan public beta

Step Two: update El capitan public beta through the app store

Step Three: reinstall Win 8.1 through Bootcamp. (note though, that it will not auto-boot into the correct partition this time, each time the computer restarts you must hold down the option key and select Windows)

Step four: follow all normal steps for installation, after windows installs you will be prompted to install Bootcamp drivers. CLICK YES!

Step five: you are almost done! When prompted by AMD control panel for any sort of setup, select NO and CLOSE. Do not attempt to update any drivers or tweak any AMD settings.

DONE! FINALLY AFTER PERSONALLY WASTING 30 DAYS TRYING TO FIND A WORKAROUND FOR THIS I HAVE SOLVED IT! Hopefully my instructions will help all who have visited this forum and maybe apple will get their "stuff" together and release an update or something. A $2500 USD computer should not have any issues like this but unfortunately since Steve Jobs passing, apple has had their hands up their butts doing nothing, relying on their enormous customer base to just buy every piece of tech they put out.

thanks and good luck! Please reply back to me if this works for you!

How would updating the OS X partition improve performance on the Windows partition? The whole point of the partition is that they are completely separate...

I'll let you in on a little secret. The bios of the computer that controls the management of its parts on the most basic level is controlled and updated by Osx. I believe that el Capitan had updates that solve these bios issues. I could be wrong, I could be right... It doesn't matter, follow the steps that I say and I guarantee that if you have the same computer as me (m370x) it solves the problems.

You're welcome BTW.

Where to get ELC public beta?

ingoBKK wrote:

Where to get ELC public beta?

You need to sign up for it. nspells154 is correct. There are updates. This thread may get pulled by the ASC Hosts due to the mention of ELC. 😉

How stable is the beta at the moment? I'd rather not screw my Mac side just so I can play 1 PC game...