Aww, thats a shame. Explains my patchy results in messing with it.
As jakobx said, would be more useful on those old games that do like 500fps.
Well it is the firt implantation of it, i dont know what the technical reason is for get it work on DX10+ games and not on DX9 ones, this dont mean they will not extend it to DX9 then. I can imagine that as most games are today DX11... they have start by that.
I dont know, maybe it is different from a windows7 - vista, that how it should implemented on DX9 for windows 8-10.
Yes, the long history of that never happening gives great faith in such an evolution of events.
In reality, i remember pretty well seeing AMD and Nvidia offtly gaining pretty much 10-15% performance after release on newer driver, this was the case with 5870, this was the case with 7970 ( who was suddenly close the 680 even before the Ghz updated gpu's ).. Nothing magical there. This will not change much the situation, but at least i can imagine, some work can be done when so far only 1 driver for Fury have been released.
If i speak for the 5870 and 7970 its because i know well the case, as overclockers we was wait the second, third drivers, because we was know we will obtain for free a 15-20% gain on score only by them. ( it was allways the case with AMD and 3Dmark at release ). And even today with the 15.7, everyone have got a nice suprise ( score increase and physic score fixed on Firestrike ).
But somewhat i think he think to the 290x vs 780TI situation where now, the 290x is clearly and largely in front of the 780TI in most review. And the 780TI was slighty faster of the 290x when released.
This is not a question of driver ( even if some games have been patched, performance fixed ), but too the games used and resolution who have change ( 1080p was the main res, with some 1440p result, now 1440p is main resolution on most reviews with "4K" on upper res ). ( in addition the 700 series seems dont get much love for newer games )
Easy too see as suddenly. the 290x seems closer of the 980 performance that the 780TI.