Daphniii Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hey guys I'm currently looking to buy a new graphics card and I've been hearing good things about AMD r9 390, does anyone have experience with this graphics card and do they recommend it to play second life? If not what card do you recommend to run SL on ultra settings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 There is one known problem that's specific to the AMD R series of cards and it's a bit of a deal breaker. The bug affects all viewers on systems that suffer from it. Details: http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-16829 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Jetaime Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Interesting. I and my partner have an AMD R9 200 series cards and have none of those problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Yeah, it's an odd one. I doubt it affects all system with an AMD R series card (as you just verified too) because there would have been more screams. What's "special" about those affected systems, I really have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphniii Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 so do you guys think its not worth getting? is there a card that i can get around the same budget that will give me great performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Daphniii wrote: so do you guys think its not worth getting? What do you think? A specific card, named in the title . . . and the feed back is negative with jiras and pictures and circles and arrows with a complete paragraph on it being the worst card for SL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Tally Ho cards should work best with any viewer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphniii Posted November 10, 2015 Author Share Posted November 10, 2015 Thank you for your irrelevant response, clearly the card is a different version and CLEARLY the issue doesnt exist with every R9 series, it is also evident that it could be a VRAM issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Daphniii wrote: Thank you for your irrelevant response, You are welcome. I'm glad you saw the Irrelevance as it has nothing to do with anything in the general discussion forum. Now if you posted this in the technical forum or answers then perhaps my response would have been different. Or Perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Faulds Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 The nVidia GeForce cards work beautifully with minimal problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DejaHo Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Bobbie Faulds wrote: The nVidia GeForce cards work beautifully with minimal problems I agree. And so did the Tally Ho's! There are many. PS But not the R9 390 AMD on secondlife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirLeighBastard Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Bobbie Faulds wrote: The nVidia GeForce cards work beautifully with minimal problems Would you use a parachute that the salesman said had "minimal" problems? ***Call me Sir Nicol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Pasternak Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I have an R9 380 and I can tell you the linked problem happens to me. As an IT / Break fix technician I can also tell you this is not a problem with VRAM. That is just a punt by LL because they don't want to spend the resources finding a fix, and AMD certainly doesn't care about the tiny SL userbase that has their cards. IOW, Don't buy the card if that is going to bother you. I just turn off AML and it goes away, or I live with it. Otherwise, the card is awesome for the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Haystack Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 This sucks beyond believe since I was looking at the exact same card, R9 390 8GB. Frankly with a card like that I wouldn't settle for anything other than ultra settings since my current (pretty old) AMD 6770 1GB is capable of some pretty impressive pictures. Right now I cannot think about buying something that wouldn't work with SL, so for the TC I guess the nVidia equivalent is the GTX970, but not only that one (at my retailer) costs a bit more, it also only has 4GB of VRAM and if that wasn't bad enough it's not really 4GB, it's 3,5GB + (ultra slow) 500MB. So frankly, maybe just wait till spring for a new line up of GPUs, that's what I probably gonna do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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