AMD drivers update

[dn7309]

Why does AMD rarely have driver updates, and when they do it all betas. While Nvidia just send them out every month?

 

[geoxile]

It used to be monthly but they changed it because they decided the updates were becoming increasingly inconsequential (or worse, they had more bugs than they fixed).

 

[toyota]

Why does AMD rarely have driver updates, and when they do it all betas. While Nvidia just send them out every month?

um Nvidia does not have a monthly driver by any means. heck it may be 6 months in between WHQL drivers sometimes.

 

[desprado]

um Nvidia does not have a monthly driver by any means. heck it may be 6 months in between WHQL drivers sometimes.

but there game support is much much better through drivers.

 

[Techhog]

It used to be monthly but they changed it because they decided the updates were becoming increasingly inconsequential (or worse, they had more bugs than they fixed).

And now they've gone too far with it. It's looking more and more like there won't be another WHQL Radeon driver until sometime next year, perhaps not until the release of Windows 9.

 

[geoxile]

And now they've gone too far with it. It's looking more and more like there won't be another WHQL Radeon driver until sometime next year, perhaps not until the release of Windows 9.

Why are you so concerned with WHQL anyway? They're just paying MS for validation. IIRC that Catalyst 14.8 driver that got pulled for being buggy was WHQL verified. I've had better luck just getting the betas I think

 

[Gloomy]

Driver is out next week, not next year lol.

 

[night.fox]

Driver is out next week, not next year lol.

source?

 

[Gloomy]

source?

twitter:

https://twitter.com/CatalystMaker/status/515506687654899712

 

[night.fox]

thanks man

 

[Elixer]

Why are you so concerned with WHQL anyway? They're just paying MS for validation. IIRC that Catalyst 14.8 driver that got pulled for being buggy was WHQL verified. I've had better luck just getting the betas I think

For the most part, that is correct, however, there is one area where you NEED WHQL drivers.
For WMC, and things of that nature, you can only use WHQL, and that is it. It will not work with non WHQL drivers when you are trying to record "protected" channels.

 

[3DVagabond]

but there game support is much much better through drivers.

 

[Erenhardt]

but there game support is much much better through drivers.

name me 3 games that amd drivers do not support, or go away and never comeback.

 

[Shmee]

Wow you guys just cannot get along can you. I hope OP has gotten at least a partial answer, as these types of threads do not do well for long.

Warnings have been issued.

 

[guskline]

Good news about the driver update.

I read the tweets and it sounds like the official 14.4 drivers will soon be replaced by a new official driver. I'm thankful.

Shmee you have me with the 4930k vs my 3930k but I'm running solid at 4.5Ghz so we are pretty close. Like you, I love my dual Sapphire Tri-X 290s in CF (except for COD Ghost ugh!). I have them water cooled with EK blocks and OH can they OC!:awe):biggrin:

 

[Leyawiin]

um Nvidia does not have a monthly driver by any means. heck it may be 6 months in between WHQL drivers sometimes.

But not usually. They've had five WHQL releases this year. AMD's had one (at least for my HD 7950). That said, I don't have any issue with my games that haven't been there for a long time. Doubt anything new is going to fix something on a 2011 game.

 

[chimaxi83]

Wow you guys just cannot get along can you. I hope OP has gotten at least a partial answer, as these types of threads do not do well for long.

Warnings have been issued.

Posting crystal clear flame bait (which isn't even true) usually does that :ninja:

 

[dn7309]

Posting crystal clear flame bait (which isn't even true) usually does that :ninja:

What kind of bait are you talking about? I have AMD Cat 14.4 that was released in April while I see headline from Techpowerup announcing Nvidia release WHQL drivers on a monthly basis.

AMD betas drivers are causing more problem for my 290X (higher temperate and black screens) so I wanted to know why AMD are slow to release fixes for driver compared to Nvidia.

 

[Wall Street]

AMD betas drivers are causing more problem for my 290X (higher temperate and black screens) so I wanted to know why AMD are slow to release fixes for driver compared to Nvidia.

I think that a big part of it is that AMD has less headcount than nVidia for their driver team and I am under the impression that AMD's driver team has had to put a lot of work into new features like Free-sync and Mantle. Also current AMD drivers support many more architectures, current drivers support VLIW5, VLIW 4, GCN 1st gen (e.g. HD 7970), GCN 1st gen with Boost (e.g. r9 280x), GCN 2nd gen (e.g. r9 290) and GCN 3rd gen (e.g. r9 285). I think that this is too many new features to work on and that they therefore haven't put the resources into just focusing on improvements. I personally am still using the 12.10 release on my HD 7970, which seem bug free but lack performance optimizations for games released in 2014.

 

[Despoiler]

What kind of bait are you talking about? I have AMD Cat 14.4 that was released in April while I see headline from Techpowerup announcing Nvidia release WHQL drivers on a monthly basis.

AMD betas drivers are causing more problem for my 290X (higher temperate and black screens) so I wanted to know why AMD are slow to release fixes for driver compared to Nvidia.

You need to goto Guru3d to get your driver fix.

http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46

 

[taq8ojh]

Why are people obsessed with monthly driver releases? If you were paying attention to Catalyst changelogs from when they still did it, there was virtually nothing in them all the time. That's pointless.

But suure, whoever releases drivers the most frequently is logically the better manufacturer... really?

 

[wand3r3r]

"Catalyst today"
https://twitter.com/CatalystMaker/status/516595310403940352

 

[Attic]

but there game support is much much better through drivers.

Not true. Lay off the green goop.


AMD's last WHQL are the 14.4's from 4/24/2014... that's ridiculous IMO. Users are forced to use beta's. Their beta's are for the most part solid like with nVidia, but personally I don't like using them.


I'd like quarterly WHQL's from AMD. I don't like the beta's, but when I sign on to AMD Driver site, i'm still given 14.4's or much newer Beta's.... I think the WHQL version pre date the Watchdogs fix...

User's should not have to be using beta drivers to get drivers newer than 6 months.

 

[Phaetos]

Slightly confused but, aren't the latest AMD drivers a Catalyst 14.8 WHQL from a few weeks ago?

 

[Abwx]

Slightly confused but, aren't the latest AMD drivers a Catalyst 14.8 WHQL from a few weeks ago?

Curious to ask a question without even checking the state of affairs, i m talking of the OP.