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[Santarine]

FYI:

13.4 WHQL 13.4 CAP1

13.5 Beta2

Edited by Santarine, 24 April 2013 - 10:44 AM.

[Mechteric]

I'm confused, how come their website still only has 13.3 as beta and 13.1 as release?

http://support.amd.c..._vista64.aspx#1

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 24 April 2013 - 11:02 AM.

[Viper69]

What are these new ones supposed to help out in MWO? Anyone try either yet?

[Santarine]

13.4 Release Notes

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
  
• Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
  
• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
  
• Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
  
  • Batman Arkham City (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
    
  • Borderlands 2 (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
    
  • Quake Wars (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
    
  • Hitman Absolution (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
    
  • Wolfenstein MP (1920x1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
    
  • Civilization V (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
• Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
  
  • GL_ARB_compute_shader
    
  • GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
    
  • GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
    
  • GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
    
  • GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
    
  • GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
    
  • GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
    
  • GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
    
  • GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
    
  • GL_ARB_program_interface_query
    
  • GL_ARB_shader_image_size
    
  • GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
    
  • GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
    
  • GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
    
  • GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

Resolved Issues
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
  
• Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
  
• Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
  
• Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
  
• Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
  
• Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
  
• Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
  
• Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
  
• System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
  
• F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

Known Issues
The section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• Jumping artifacts, and unsmooth playback of interlaced clips may be experienced using Cyberlink’s Metro UI players
  
• A black screen may be observed when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supported AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

[Tarl Cabot]

CapperDeluxe, on 24 April 2013 - 11:02 AM, said:

I'm confused, how come their website still only has 13.3 as beta and 13.1 as release?

http://support.amd.c..._vista64.aspx#1

You may need to clear out your cache, it is showing the new drivers.

[Santarine]

13.5 Beta2 Release Notes


NOTE! You must un-install AMD Catalyst 13.4 (if you have already installed AMD Catalyst 13.4) before installing AMD Catalyst 13.5 Beta

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta Driver for Windows®

• Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series for the following:
  
  • Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 4% with Anti-Aliasing enabled
    
  • Shogun II: Improves performance up to 20% with 8x Anti-Aliasing enabled
    
  • Tomb Raider: Improves performance up to 6%
    
  • Bioshock: Improves performance up to 6%
    
  • Borderlands 2: Improves performance up to 17%
• Corruption is no longer seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 when TressFX is enabled in Tomb Raider

[Mechteric]

Tarl Cabot, on 24 April 2013 - 03:55 PM, said:

You may need to clear out your cache, it is showing the new drivers.

apparently they had updated the page by the time I got home after work yesterday

[Youngblood]

13.4 worked great.

13.5 Beta 2 immediately stopped sending video input to my second monitor after install. It's a monitor that's VGA only, so I have it through a VGA-to-Mini-DisplayPort if that's a thing for you.

AMD CCC still recognizes the monitor and extends my desktop to it, though.

[Ebonkosh]

I patched today and I run a 7970 with the 13.4 drivers. Now I get driver unsupported and it exits the game. Great. I will try a full reinstall and see if it works.


Ebonkosh

[Spyder228]

I updated to 13.4 yesterday. I haven't had a crash yet due to video driver crapping in either MWO or Farcry 3. I think we finally have a driver Cryengine likes. I still get flickering textures, but that's an MWO bug.

EDITED as FC3 does not use the CryEngine.

Edited by Spyder228, 02 May 2013 - 08:26 AM.

[Mechteric]

Spyder228, on 01 May 2013 - 05:41 AM, said:

I updated to 13.4 yesterday. I haven't had a crash yet due to video driver crapping in either MWO or Farcry 3. I think we finally have a driver Cryengine likes. I still get flickering textures, but that's an MWO bug.

FYI Farcry 3 is not a CryEngine game. It uses the Dunia Engine 2.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 01 May 2013 - 06:50 AM.

[Lusankya]

Installed the new 13.4 drivers and everything works great. I'm using a HD6850.

[F lan Ker]

S!

The 13.4's with their CAP1 seem to work just fine in MWO. And in other games too.

[GizmoGecko]

I've recently updated to 13.4 and now the game is graphically unplayable for me, which is a first. 'Mechs in the mechlab are but a grey silhouette and in game it's all funky with purple whirls everywhere and weird colours... I reinstalled the game and reinstalled the drivers, and no change.

Trying the 13.6 beta drivers now.

Edited by GizmoGecko, 27 June 2013 - 02:20 PM.

[GizmoGecko]

13.6 beta drivers have made no change.

I remember being at around 12.4, and so it must be something between 12.4 and 13.4 that has ruined my day.

Any advice or possibly solutions would be highly appreciated.

Edited by GizmoGecko, 27 June 2013 - 02:28 PM.

[Tarl Cabot]

1. Did you do a complete driver install first?
2. Check video card settings and set antialiasing to application control.

[GizmoGecko]

Tarl Cabot, on 27 June 2013 - 02:31 PM, said:

1. Did you do a complete driver install first?
2. Check video card settings and set antialiasing to application control.

Was a complete driver install both times.

The 13.6 beta driver made it very laggy (I've never experienced lag with my 6870 Vapor X) and everything was negative, so I'm going to completely remove the driver software and put 13.4 on, then I'll have a look at the AA.

Thank you! I'll post back when I've done all that.


Just had a BSOD half way through my uninstall... I'm scared

Edited by GizmoGecko, 27 June 2013 - 03:03 PM.

[GizmoGecko]

Setting the AA to 'Use application settings' worked!

Thank you very much Tarl! You've saved me from hours or possibly day of torment!

[Tarl Cabot]

Excellent to hear that you are up and going!!

This is not the only game where Nvidia and ATI/AMD cards/drivers handles things, humm, differently. Add on top of that the internal testers systems are rarely set to default user settings, having already been tweaked and such, never mind the equipment being used.

The above scenario fits both small and big companies. It is not until something hits the general population with all of their equipment and settings, at which time feedback is provided that points them to a way to track down and correct the issue. There will be times though, even if they are aware of it, that specific items are not changed/improved on.