As of today, RadeonPro has reached 1 million downloads through its official website, something I didn’t think of when I launched its first beta in early 2010… It might not sound as a big deal for most of you but, for me, it’s a huge deal and I have to say a big THANK YOU for all people involved directly or indirectly with RadeonPro while it was in development.

Raptr also powers AMD Gaming Evolved App and you all already know it, right?

That also means that I am freezing RadeonPro development for undetermined time, mostly due to time constraints. I really hope you understand it.

Even though that might sounds like bad news for all you who are waiting patiently for RadeonPro infinity release, I hope to further enhance Raptr client apps – even more than they already are – by working together with all brilliant minds at Raptr development team, alongside with new cool and improved features to bring you guys the best gaming experience ever!

This build adds support for AMD Radeon R Series. Besides the support for R Series, it’s still based on RadeonPro 1.x so there’s no improvements compared to 13/Mar build.

Download it from here: http://downloads.radeonpro.info/RadeonPro_Preview_R.exe

Please leave feedback in comments. This build will replace the standard download file when I get enough feedback from users.

Updated 11/4: the previous build carried a small cosmetic bug, showing “Post-processing is not available” when the SweetFX key is pressed but despite that message, SweetFx effects were being applied. Download the installer again from the link above and the message will vanish.

In late August I’ve made an announcement about the upcoming new version of RadeonPro, infinity or RadeonPro 2.0. Sadly, my development rig’s motherboard died a week later, halting temporarily infinity’s development. The motherboard has been replaced a week after but guess what? The mobo arrived with a bad bios…

I’ve requested a new bios chip to EVGA and they kindly sent one for free at September 10th but it arrived just a few days ago, in October 29th. Yeah, it took over 50 days to arrive… but good news is I’ve already got everything up and running again so I’m ready to get back to infinity’s development!

I’m planning a quick fix with support for AMD R7 260 and R9 270/280/290 series video cards which current public build is lacking. If everything goes fine the fix will be available this weekend. After that I will resume infinity development and hope to have something ready for the closed beta until the end of November.

Updated 11/3: New build with support for AMD Radeon R Series

Curious about what to expect from infinity?  Read on!

New and improved features

1. Completely redesigned UI.
2. New profile management with master (template) profiles, meaning you can create a template profile (let’s say SMAA Ultra and DVC is active) and name it like SMAA+DVC, after that it’s possible to assign those template profiles for any game profile that will inherit all settings from the master profile along with own game profile’s settings.
3. New profile assignments: a profile is no longer linked to an executable like in RP 1.xx making possible to share a single profile among several games.
4. Improved monitoring now catches games executed as admin so games started by launchers with elevated privileges will also be detected.
5. Movie recording function does not lock the framerate automatically so it’s possible to record at 30 FPS and still play at 60 FPS.
6. CPU clock/temperatures/load(%) and RAM usage can be displayed in OSD.
7. Improved media organization: movies, screenshots and benchmarks are now categorized and grouped by game and can be browsed and viewed right from infinity’s UI.
8. Cloud storage functions allow easy sharing of screenshots. Also, all games profiles can be uploaded to the cloud and can be synchronized with other computers owned by you.
9. The RadeonPro Support Service is no longer used.

Stuff going to be added soon

• Mobile app with complete monitoring: FPS and GPU/CPU monitoring + graphical charts of current running game.
• Live adjustments of post-processing effects including SweetFX settings using the app. Users will also be able to download profiles made available from other RadeonPro Community users and apply those profiles from the app without leaving the game. Of course not all settings can be applied without a game restart, but most post-processing effects will be in effect right after the profile is loaded up from the app.
• Movie recording with real time AVC/H.264 encoding by GPU using AMD’s VCE (up to 1080p) – I already got the encoding working on GPU and it’s fast, but need to change the container format to MKV as AVI doesn’t play well with AVC/H.264 and that should take some extra time. About VCE, the only downside is the encoding size which will be limited to 1920×1080 and that’s a bit sad…
• Live adjustments of post-processing effects via infinity’s in-game overlay.

Please bear in mind that all this must be considered work in progress and probably will change a bit before public release (and there’s no ETA for it at the moment)

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Updated 10/31: What happened to RadeonPro?

Z-buffer post-processed with Ambient Occlusion

Mortal Kombat uses Unreal Engine 3 and was really easy to add Ambient Occlusion in this particular title. Just open RadeonPro settings, navigate to Ambient Occlusion section and add a new profile with the settings you see in screenshot below:

See “Enable Ambient Occlusion” on top of screenshot? Don’t forget to enable it before trying to use that feature. After adding the Ambient Occlusion profile, create a game profile for MKKE.exe and enable Ambient Occlusion for it. Click here to see the effect applied.

High-end HD 7950/7970 cards can play with Ambient Occlusion at Ultra level without much performance hit, for less powerful cards it’s recommended to use lower quality level to avoid performance decrease.

That’s it, enjoy Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition with enhanced graphics!

I am also working on integration of the new site with the Community and Forums as they currently demand separated accounts in order to allow posting of questions and threads, which is quite annoying…

Due to blog-based nature of the new website, I expect to make it more content rich as well, posting information about upcoming releases and other RadeonPro and hardware/gaming related news and so.

Borderlands 2 with CF and MSI Afterburner

Same test as above with RadeonPro

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