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    Try tweeting CatalystCreator

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Zymphad, Jul 19, 2012.

  1. Zymphad

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    Try tweeting CatalystCreator.

    It's a real shame that for AMD, the only reason they stay afloat is because of their GPU sales and the fastest growing market for AMD is mobile. Mobile crushes desktop sales. So why is it, we get inferior support than desktop? We also pay a lot more. We pay likely around $500 for our 7870, but how much do desktop users pay?

    https://twitter.com/CatalystCreator/

    I think we should tweet him every day until he responds. I will tweet and ask him to work with Clevo to provide proper support for the flagship mobile GPU that has the worst support, every day.
     
    Zymphad, Jul 19, 2012
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    I like this idea. They seem to keep up with their numerous Twitter accounts. They certainly post on them a lot.
    You've got my support, Man.
     
    trayeberle, Jul 19, 2012
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  3. Zymphad

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    Yeah, thinking the only way AMD will pay attention is to just bombard them. I'll do what the other thread suggested, fill out that form and tweet.
     
    Zymphad, Jul 19, 2012
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    CatalystCreator needs more love, he wants more tweets. He needs to know your frustrations!
    - Supposedly this is the dude who overseas the development of CCC!
     
    Zymphad, Jul 19, 2012
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    do they have a facebook acount?? Twitter is not that popullar in this part of the world so I dont hava an aount there
     
    mahalsk, Jul 20, 2012
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    They probably do, but it wouldn't his personal account and the dude who handles the development of AMD drivers for consumer/Gamers uses that Twitter account to communicate with all of us.

    Creating an account is easy and fast. I only have this account to try and get AMD to listen to mobile users.

    I tweeted him again today.

    CatalystCreator NEEDS you to let him know of your complaints. Just pound his Twitter account with 7970M driver issues!

    I've just been spamming FIX 7970M ENDURO ISSUES!
     
    Zymphad, Jul 20, 2012
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    Yeah we need to do something deffinitelly, I dont wanna wait half a year to get normal drivers. ALso I've spotted the the check for the petition ended and there will be non.
    I'll probably create that account and adress the issues there to get some answers.
     
    mahalsk, Jul 20, 2012
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    I already tweeted him :p

    Best Regards to all
     
    MeNtAl_DaRkNeSs, Jul 20, 2012
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    It's another day. Tweet CatalystCreator again. He wants to know about your passion for Enduro and the 7970M!
     
    Zymphad, Jul 21, 2012
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    Ok I just created a twitter acount and tweeted this guy right away, and will retweat him every day or even more offten till I'll get some kind of ressponse. The wait for some normal drivers is getting long. still dont know if this is the right person as the issue is probabaly with enduro which is a combination of intel/amd system. I think that sager or clevo should teka closer look at those drivers. But how to adress those issues effectively to them?? I dont know...
     
    mahalsk, Jul 21, 2012
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    Andrew (CatalystCreator) still hasn't acknowledged there is an issue with Enduro/7970M. Time to tweet him and add this to your daily routine until he gets the message!
     
    Zymphad, Jul 23, 2012
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    Ah if only they had not folded the catalyst test team I could have just talked to him directly, I was even on the mobile driver team :s

    They also got rid of terry aka catalyst catcher which was also very sad.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 23, 2012
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    This is the official twitter from AMD?
    I am willing to help and everything, but this really is a contact that can bring results?
     
    spettow, Jul 23, 2012
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    It's not the official. But that is the tweet page for the person in charge of AMD driver development. It is his official page.
     
    Zymphad, Jul 23, 2012
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    Ok! Tweet sent. It is almost unbelievable that even with so many people complaining on the forums, the developers were not aware of the problems with enduro

    One question: I was experiencing terrible framedrops with max payne 3 (ultra settings, with directx 11). FPS drops constantly from 60 to 30. It was expected, according to Notebookcheck (average fps with enduro: 38, without: 61).

    I changed to directx 9 (instead of 11), and the FPS increased considerably. With vsync enabled, remains almost always in 60 FPS.
    This would be expected in any card, or has something to do with the problems of enduro
     
    spettow, Jul 23, 2012
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    Spam filters will catch, umm, spam. If you spam twitter, does the spam filter catch it??? Not a twit, so not so familiar with it, but my spam filter filters, ummm, spamming. Asking, just because I don't know on twitter, but if it does, then your not accomplishing anything.
     
    Abidderman, Jul 24, 2012
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