[AMD] Catalyst 14.11.2 BETA

[DiogoDX]

CATALYST 14.11.2 BETA

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.2 Windows® Beta Driver Performance Improvements

Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
- Up to 5% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ profile

Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
- Up to 50% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.

Important Notes
The AMD CrossFire™ profile for Far Cry 4 is currently disabled in this driver while AMD works with Ubisoft to investigate an issue where AMD CrossFire™ configurations are not performing as intended. An update is expected on this issue in the near future through an updated game patch or an AMD driver posting.

Resolved Issues
[409235]: Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode.
[408892]: World of Warcraft can sometimes exhibit corruption when using CMAA in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[407431]: Minecraft sometimes produces corruption when changing video settings in windowed mode.
[407338]: XDMA Quad CrossFire™ configurations in portrait Eyefinity modes sometimes display tearing or stuttering.

Known Issues
[408723]: System can sometimes hang when upgrading to Catalyst™ 14.11.2 from Catalyst™14.7 in AMD CrossFire™ configurations. As a workaround please completely uninstall previous Catalyst™ software versions before installing Catalyst™14.11.2 beta.
[409518]: Slight performance drops in FIFA 2015 on AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[409502]: Occasional flickering sometimes observed while playing FIFA 2015 in AMD Dual Graphics configurations.
[409638]: Slight Battlefield 4 performance drop on AMD Radeon™ R9 290X in AMD CrossFire™ configuration.
[409628]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 intermittently hangs in Hitman Absolution on new game start.
[408484]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 can sometimes exhibit flickering in Assassins Creed Unity.
[409613]: Assassins Creed Unity can sometimes experience frame stutter on some AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[408706]: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare intermittent black screen when loading game in Quad AMD Crossfire™ configurations.
[409600]: Civilization: Beyond Earth mantle users in AMD CrossFire™ configurations may sometimes experience an issue where they cannot change their game resolution. As a work around please use "Enable MGPU=1" in the games configuration .ini file.

AMD is currently working with BioWare to resolve the following issues:
Flickering is sometimes observed in Dragon Age: Inquisition on a limited number of surfaces in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.

AMD is currently working with Ubisoft to resolve the following issues:
Uneven hair corruption sometimes observed in Assassins Creed Unity when applying "ultra" game settings.
Flickering occasionally observed between windows on walls in Assassins Creed Unity.
Windows/Doors intermittently flash with black textures in Assassins Creed Unity.
Assassins Creed Unity occasionally exits to desktop when "ultra" game settings are applied.

WIN 7/8.1 64 BITS: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD-Catalyst-14.11.2Beta-64Bit-Win8.1-Win7-Nov18.exe
WIN 7/8.1 32 BITS: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD-Catalyst-14.11.2Beta-32Bit-Win8.1-Win7-Nov18.exe

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-11-2-BetaWINReleaseNotes.aspx

 

[KaRLiToS]

Thanks for posting. I just saw them released this afternoon on guru3d and by asder00. (as always)

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I just want to mention that it is very important to REPORT THE BUGS.
They check EVERY REPORTS.
Everytime I see a bug, I fill the form and explain them with the most details I can.
It takes around 2-3 minutes to fill it.

It is much better to report them than to complain on forums where it will only feed the trolls.

Please, Do it for everyone and for yourself.

 

[psolord]

thanks for posting.

somehow it appeared as a non bold thread and didn't see that it was new.

 

[guskline]

Just upgraded. Thanks for the post.

 

[alexruiz]

Those of you who upgraded.
Any comment on the drivers?

 

[Eric1987]

I don't notice a single FPS difference.

 

[VirtualLarry]

CATALYST 14.11.2 BETA

WIN 7/8.1 64 BITS: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD-Catalyst-14.11.2Beta-64Bit-Win8.1-Win7-Nov18.exe
WIN 7/8.1 32 BITS: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD-Catalyst-14.11.2Beta-32Bit-Win8.1-Win7-Nov18.exe

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-11-2-BetaWINReleaseNotes.aspx

Can't download from those links. AMD is now protecting their downloads from direct linking? (WHY??? It's not like they're serving ads from their download pages...)

 

[KaRLiToS]

I don't notice a single FPS difference.

Of course you won't. They are the same drivers as the previous 14.11. But with minor fixes.

 

[psolord]

Those of you who upgraded.
Any comment on the drivers?

Othen than that I had to use DDU to get them to display proper version information, they work great. And that's on a Win8 machine with two days old installation. It is not physically possible that I had done something wrong so the driver cannot install properly.

They came a moment not too soon, since I needed to benchmark stuff on my 5850 cfx system and the previous driver was not supporting HD 5000.

Other than that, is seems to work great.

 

[Bateluer]

I don't notice a single FPS difference.

In general games, or in the specific games listed in the release notes?

 

[psolord]

I just checked far cry 4 after a friends request on another forum.

Single 7950 (1Ghz), 1080p, Ultra settings.

Before the 1.3.0 patch and with the old driver ~45fps with stuttering.

After the 1.3.0 patch and this driver, 60fps easily with little stuttering. Probably vsync+framelimiter will fix it completely.

This is crazy. I cannot remember the last time I saw something like that!