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solarmystic · (This post was last modified: 03-19-2014 10:03 PM by solarmystic.)

The 11.11a drivers are "praised" on these forums for their rock solid stability in PPSSPP with the 2xxx/3xxx/4xxx cards.

They are not praised for providing the best performance in modern 2013/2014 titles for your card. If you have a "legacy" status card to begin with, you should temper your expectations when running the latest games.

Yes, Thief (2014) runs like utter tripe with these drivers on my system, the game stutters like there's no tomorrow, especially when using the 64bit executable. But then again, performance in that game is rather horribly optimized, even on vastly superior systems considering the engine they're using (Unreal Engine 3).

Dark Souls runs acceptably however. (stable 30-35+ FPS when rendering resolution is set to 1600x900 using DSFIX 2.2 and enabling the Framerate unlocker option. No other frills.). Even then, it's a rather heavily CPU limited title that is threaded poorly, prefers higher CPU clocks to multiple cores (doesn't even max out my dual core Core 2 and lousy 4670 and yet it performs average at best.) and your low clocked AMD tri core CPU wouldn't help.

Saints Row 3 (and 4 by extension) has always had performance issues on AMD cards, especially when combined with lower end CPUs. They were acknowledged by Volition themselves, some of which remain unresolved and unpatched to this day, even after they've promised to resolve them.

You have to make a choice. I decided to stick to 11.11a because as a dedicated tester of PPSSPP, being able to run PPSSPP crash-free and problem-free is more important to me than having the absolute best performance in those titles.