AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.2 Beta Windows® Driver

[MTDEW]

AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.2 Beta Windows® Driver Download
Please note the Catalyst 14.9.1 Beta driver will continue to be listed, along with the Catalyst 14.9 WHQL. This is because Catalyst 14.9.2 Beta driver is only supported on GPU’s supporting GCN hardware.

For instructions on how to uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, you may refer to the following support resources:


· How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
· How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System


Please make sure to read the Feature Highlights and the Known Issues sections to learn more about this version of the driver and use the Issue Reporting Form to report any bugs – Thank you!


Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.2 Windows® Beta Driver Performance Improvements

Mantle API activated for ultimate performance in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Dual Graphics optimizations for KritiKa and SheDiaoZero
Project Cars profile update
Shadow Of Mordor profile update

Resolved Issues

Alien: Isolation: AMD CrossFire™ profile updated to detect new .exe of recent application patch
Total War: Rome 2 sometimes displaying texture corruption when on the campaign map in CrossFire™ configurations
Total War: Rome 2 occasionally stutters when task switching between applications
Watch Dogs occasionally has negative performance in CrossFire™ configurations on medium game settings
Max Payne 3 cinematic cut scenes intermittently show flickering
FIFA 2015 CrossFire™ scaling sometimes underperforming expectations
Metro Redux CrossFire™ scaling sometimes underperforming expectations
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor occasionally shows flashing when running CrossFire™ configurations
White patches occasionally observed in CCC when dragging display icons
Upgrading from previous 14.4 Catalyst™ drivers with dual AMD Radeon™ R9 295 in CrossFire™ may cause a black screen or system hang

Known Issues

[407993]: F1 2014 exhibits minimal scaling in some CrossFire™ configurations
[407864]: Hitman Absolution intermittently crashes when starting a new game on AMD Radeon R9 285
[407834]: FIFA 2015 occasionally displays flickering in Asymmetric CrossFire™ configurations
[407622]: Alien Isolation will sometimes exhibit screen tearing with V-Sync enabled
[407431]: Minecraft sometimes produces corruption when changing video settings in windowed mode. As a work around please select Use VBOs to On in the Video Settings in game.
[407338]: XDMA Quad CrossFire™ configurations in portrait Eyefinity modes sometimes display tearing or stuttering
[407756]: Launching Battlefield 4 in offline mode can occasionally lead to a crash
[408033]: Launching Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ with a 144 Hz display can sometimes cause the app to hang. As a work around lower the refresh rate of the monitor.
[408007]: Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ can sometimes hang on a small limited set of Kaveri mobile APU products when paired with discrete graphics products in Windows 7

Important Notes

AMD is currently working with Firaxis to resolve an issue where the interactive and visual elements of the mouse cursor can become offset. If you encounter this issue, the following workaround is available:

Go to Windows Settings and adjust Text Scaling

Right-Click the Desktop
Select Screen Resolution
Make Test and Other Items Larger or Smaller
Set 100% Default

AMD is working with Firaxis to resolve an issue where graphics stuttering may be observed under high map zoom and high image quality settings.

Multi-monitor gaming in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ does not support multi-monitor configurations. Launching the game in such configurations may cause the game to hang.

Multi-GPU in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ presently supports a maximum of two graphics cards in Mantle. If you are using more than two graphics products with Mantle for this game, it is required that disable the extra linked adapters through Windows device manager.

AMD Issue Reporting Form

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the AMD Issue Reporting Form.

 

[wand3r3r]

Hmm, a number of crossfire things. No mention of BF4 though.

I'm curious if any of these are user submitted bugs.

Installation was hassle free.

 

[f1sherman]

 

[KaRLiToS]

Multi-GPU in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ presently supports a maximum of two graphics cards in Mantle. If you are using more than two graphics products with Mantle for this game, it is required that disable the extra linked adapters through Windows device manager.

This suck

 

[MTDEW]

Edited OP to include full release notes. :thumbsup:
I had originally copy/pasted them from AMDMatt's post on Guru3d forums, and just realized the ones in the official AMD link were more complete.

 

[KaRLiToS]

By the way thanks for posting, I was really waiting for them.

 

[psolord]

I installed the new driver but I was getting freezes again when using crossfire. Actually the machine froze right after the driver was installed and gaming evolved started.

Thankfully, in my frustration I had an epiphany. I disabled ULPS with MSI Afterburner, rebooted and now everything works fine. Wish I had thought of it earlier.

Also I don't know what sorcery is this, but although I uninstalled 14.7 rc3 rebooted and then installed 14.9.2, catalyst still reports 14.7 as catalyst version, lol



Maybe I'll do some DDU tomorrow and a new installation, now that I found the ULPS trick.


Thanks OP for the news.

 

[MTDEW]

Multi-GPU in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ presently supports a maximum of two graphics cards in Mantle. If you are using more than two graphics products with Mantle for this game, it is required that disable the extra linked adapters through Windows device manager.

This suck

Yeah, I think its because Mantle uses SFR instead of AFR in that game.

 

[DeathReborn]

I think I am having one of those weekends where my brain fell out on friday when I left work... I updated to these and lost functionality that for the life of me I cannot find again. All prior updates retained that function so dunno if it was removed or just broken/reset.

I used to right click the top of the window and it would allow me to move the window to 2nd or 3rd monitor (depending on machine setup) but ever since updating to these drivers that is gone. Anyone know where either my brain is or that setting?

 

[Tarvaln]

I'm having the same issues as with the previous drivers. With Crossfire enabled and any game I run will hang my system. Uninstalling the 14.7 RC3 drivers this time also took out my default USB drivers which is cute. And by cute, I mean no usb devices would work once windows booted. Thank god I had an old PS/2 mouse laying around.

I was able to duplicate psolord's success on one boot up but, it was odd and only lasted until my next boot. After installing the the 14.9.2 beta's I noticed that the Steady Video package did not install. I disabled ULPS via the registry. Reran the install manager. Only selected the Steady Video install option. CCC began to reinstall the video driver then the screen went black. Waited 10 mins with the screen still black and no keyboard controls working. Reset the PC. Windows booted. Checked the registry. ULPS had been re-enabled. I disabled it again. Launched Natural Selection 2 and it loaded just fine. Closed the game doubled checked that I was in XFire mode. Thanked god there was a work around and turned the PC off for the night. Next day, booted back up. Launched NS2 and the system locked up. Reset, checked ULPS. It was still disabled and I'm back where I started. With Crossfire enabled any game I run or running AMD evolved will hang my system. One time during the lockup I got BSOD infinite loop error. Not sure why that crash was different.

I'm running 7950's. Has anyone had success with the new beta and Crossfire 7900 series?

 

[psolord]

You having the same issues as I had, while we both have 7950s. Maybe this is not a coincidence. I have Gigabyte's WF3s ver 2. What are yours if I may ask?

As for the lock ups, mine seem to have gone for good, but as i said earlier my system reports Cat 14.7 being installed, but with the D3D version of cat 14.9.2. I didn't reinstall the driver as I said I would. System works fine now and I don't want to press my luck. Not until the next beta at least lol.

I understand that you disabled ULPS the hard way, but I would still suggest to give afterburner a try. Maybe it knows something we don't. :S

 

[Tarvaln]

psolord, I'm using Sapphire 2L and 3L. They are listed and linked in my sig.

I was able to duplicate your results by using MSI Afterburner. I just installed the program. Rebooted as prompted. Checked the "Disable ULPS" in settings. Rebooted as prompted. Natural Selection 2 loaded just fine. I was still on my previous install of 14.9.2.

When I get a day off I'm going to do another clean install of 14.9.2 and see if I can get the same results by using Sapphire Trixx to disable ULPS.

 

[Shmee]

Have they improved the mining issues with the beta?

 

[psolord]

psolord, I'm using Sapphire 2L and 3L. They are listed and linked in my sig.

I was able to duplicate your results by using MSI Afterburner. I just installed the program. Rebooted as prompted. Checked the "Disable ULPS" in settings. Rebooted as prompted. Natural Selection 2 loaded just fine. I was still on my previous install of 14.9.2.

When I get a day off I'm going to do another clean install of 14.9.2 and see if I can get the same results by using Sapphire Trixx to disable ULPS.

Oh yes sorry, didn't notice your sig.

So if you do get a more stable operation of your crossfire, please report back. This should be reported to AMD so they know what to look for in the next releases.

 

[Tarvaln]

*Did a clean install of 19.4.2 Beta today. Also uninstalled MSI Afterburner.
Ran DDU in Safe Mode to wipe driver remains.
**Double checked it with Driver Sweeper, cleaned some files and rebooted again.
Installed 19.4.2. Install Sapphire Trixx.
Disabled ULPS via Trixx.
***Rebooted.
System rebooted. I ran NS2 and it loaded fine.

I think that disabling ULPS is a work around until AMD can fix this issue. I'm not sure why using a 3rd party program to do this worked and just editing the registry did not.


*When I tried to uninstall the drivers through "Programs and Features" I got a "Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid" error. I had to go into the ATI/Bin64 folder and run the setup file to uninstall.

**DDU missed 2 registry entries and a file called "ativvaxy_cz_nd.dat". Not sure what that file does.

***I was not prompted to reboot. I did this because when I tried this with Afterburner it prompted me to reboot

 

[el etro]

*Did a clean install of 19.4.2 Beta today. Also uninstalled MSI Afterburner.
Ran DDU in Safe Mode to wipe driver remains.
**Double checked it with Driver Sweeper, cleaned some files and rebooted again.
Installed 19.4.2. Install Sapphire Trixx.
Disabled ULPS via Trixx.
***Rebooted.
System rebooted. I ran NS2 and it loaded fine.

I think that disabling ULPS is a work around until AMD can fix this issue. I'm not sure why using a 3rd party program to do this worked and just editing the registry did not.


*When I tried to uninstall the drivers through "Programs and Features" I got a "Error applying transforms. Verify that the specified transform paths are valid" error. I had to go into the ATI/Bin64 folder and run the setup file to uninstall.

**DDU missed 2 registry entries and a file called "ativvaxy_cz_nd.dat". Not sure what that file does.

***I was not prompted to reboot. I did this because when I tried this with Afterburner it prompted me to reboot

Ask warsam about the driver problem submission report and ask them about a switch to manually disable the Ulps via Catalyst Command Center.

 

[psolord]

*Did a clean install of 19.4.2 Beta today. Also uninstalled MSI Afterburner.
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***I was not prompted to reboot. I did this because when I tried this with Afterburner it prompted me to reboot

Cool thanks for verifying. It seems there might be a ULPS related problem with 7950s.

I already reported that I had system freezes with 14.9 and 14.9.2 so hopefully they must have found the problem by now.


PS I finally managed to re-operate my tertiary rig and my 5850s worked fine with 14.9.2. and performance is pretty decent as well.