chameleoneel
Supreme [H]ardness
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I haven't seen anything drastic change in AMD's drivers since 2008.
They work. CCC looks the same. My performance never really drastically improves or gets worse. I don't have flickering screens, mouse cursor corruptions, none of that.
So boring.
It got to the point with my 5870 where I went about a year without updating my drivers.
Depends upon what games you play and what card generation you have, I suppose. Some recent games have actually required newer drivers, to play. Others have definitely shown issues with older drivers, even though there isn't an actual enforced requirement to update.
AMD's HD7 series had lots of improvements in 2012 (finally fixed wide issue with inconsistant GPU utilization) and 2013 (major improvement in frame times). For that matter, most AMD cards had huge frame timing improvements, in 2013. and I've regularly seen newer games get some notable performance improvements stated in driver release notes.