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Warsam71

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Hello Everyone,

We’re happy to bring you our new, special edition driver called Catalyst Omega. This driverwas engineered to take new advantage of the advanced technologies built into our products as we’ve found new ways of using an existing architecture to deliver exciting new features.

Before downloading the driver, I suggest you read the blog which provides information about its features, benefits and how this driver enables developers to deliver outstanding user experiences.

The Catalyst Omega special edition driver is the biggest and the best software upgrade AMD has released this year. It’s our way of saying ‘Thank you’ for providing your feedback by using our Issue Reporting Form all along…very helpful.

Click here to download the driver. (You can choose to use either our Driver Autodetect Tool or select your operating system version which will take you to the corresponding download page).

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 continue to use the Issue Reporting Form to report any issues/bugs you may find.

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[/FONT][/FONT] Hello again everyone,

I have an update for you:

Some users have reported that the Catalyst Omega drivers are failing to install since the drivers are ‘unsigned’ and the device manager shows a Code 52 error.

The Catalyst Omega driver is WHQL certified, so all components are signed.

The root cause is Microsoft update KB3004394 – (Windows Root Certificate Program in Windows) which was pushed yesterday.

Uninstalling the update fixes the driver installation issue.

You can read more about the various issues this update causes here

Note that this update affects both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users since the KB is applicable to both OS versions.
 
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ZGR

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Really excited about this! Thanks for the links!

Edit: Installed fine... Too bad VSR 4K is only supported by the R9 285 though; that was the feature I was looking forward to. Got 3200x1800 working for an RTS game I like, and it actually looks pretty good! Text is a little blurry but textures look fine. Probably gonna go back to 1080p and get a real 4k monitor soon...
 
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Elixer

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Yes, thanks for the heads up & links.

Erm, wait, so these 'omega' drivers get updated 1 time a year ?
Yes, I know there will still be beta drivers, but, only 1 WHQL release a year seems to be asking for trouble, in that, people still need WHQL to deal with the damn DRM hooks that comes with WHQL status, which is *NOT* in the beta drivers!
 
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KaRLiToS

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Hey Warsam71, do you know when we'll get a crossfire profile for Far Cry 4?
 
Bateluer

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Elixer said:
Yes, thanks for the heads up & links.

Erm, wait, so these 'omega' drivers get updated 1 time a year ?
Yes, I know there will still be beta drivers, but, only 1 WHQL release a year seems to be asking for trouble, in that, people still need WHQL to deal with the damn DRM hooks that comes with WHQL status, which is *NOT* in the beta drivers!
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Thats not my take away from the Omega 14.12 release. I assume there will still be the usual quarterly WHQL releases in 2015. There's simply some larger features they've been working on for a while in this pack that they wanted to add a special name to it to set them apart.
 
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Hitman928

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Installed on Windows 7 just fine and fixed my CCC issue. It's late, will try Linux tomorrow.
 
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lixlax

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Seems the issue with the card not wakeing up from zerocore state/sleep is now definateli fixed:thumbsup:
 
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Disappointed in VSR. I have SXGA 1280x1024 display (placeholder until Freesync IPS) connected via VGA-HDMI converter (that is also adding 1920x1080 res) and all VSR gives me is some 1800x1440 and 2048x1536 which is not even my aspect ratio. Also when i actually choose those resolutions in game the picture is becoming both centred and stretched, though i have checked maintain aspect ratio in scaling settings.
Back to GSR (ghetto super resolution) by manually overriding registry for a 2560x2048 resolution, which is a true 4x ssaa that works without a hitch in any fullscreen game.
 
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Red Hawk

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Since the driver notes improvements in Dragon Age Inquisition with MSAA, I went ahead and tested with my 270X. Test settings are 1080p 60 Hz and all settings other than MSAA maxed out. Tested with my 270X at 1120 MHz core clock, 1400 MHz memory clock, thermal limit set to maximum (+20%). Benchmarked with the in-game benchmark. Overclocked with the Catalyst Control Center.

Results:

14.11.2 Beta Drivers:
No MSAA: 37.8 FPS average, 29.6 minimum
2x MSAA: 29.7 FPS average, 23.9 minimum
4x MSAA: 25.6 FPS average, 20.9 minimum

14.12 WHQL "Omega" Drivers:
No MSAA: 37.7 FPS average, 28.4 minimum
2x MSAA: 29.3 FPS average, 22.9 minimum
4x MSAA: 25.7 FPS average, 20.00 minimum

So, no significant variance between the last beta driver and the new "Omega" driver in Dragon Age Inquisition for MSAA performance, on my system at least. Still, all the new features in this driver set make it worthwhile, and I'm optimistic that true performance improvements in Dragon Age Inquisition are forthcoming as it's a brand new game.

Edit: Looking further down in the release notes, I found this line:

"[410393] Minor stuttering may be seen in Dragon Age Inquisition on Single and Multi GPU configurations​"

I wonder if this is the same as the cutscene stuttering glitch people have talked about with DAI, or just some general stuttering when walking around where it feels like the game is stuttering a bit as it loads new assets. Either way, good to know AMD is tracking performance issues in DAI and will hopefully address them.
 
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Mem

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Skurge said:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_14.12_Performance/5.html

Only 3 games though. Two of which show no improvement. The Third showing very large gains.
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According to The TechReport here http://techreport.com/review/27481/catalyst-omega-driver-adds-more-than-20-features-400-bug-fixes


It has 400 bug fixes so seems that was the main focus of these drivers.


I also like this option down the road,
AMD is cooking up a "phase 2" driver that will add VSR capabilities (with 4K downscaling) to additional cards, including everything from the Radeon R7 260 up. That driver is expected in the January-February time frame.
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KaRLiToS

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Charlie98

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Creig said:
Interesting. I wonder if it's worth downloading and installing for the 7770 on my HTPC.
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I'm kind of leery... I installed the last Catalyst update on my HTPC's 6450, and it borked it up so bad I had to recover the OS. Personally, I'm not touching it.
 
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thilanliyan

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Is there any special procedure for installing on a 290 Xfire setup?
Errors I am getting (was getting them with 14.6 RC2 as well):
*System hangs at a black screen after Windows logo if restarted. Must do a full shutdown.
*Unless I manually increase the memory clocks after booting, system hangs at a black screen within a minute of getting into Windows.
*Can't disable XFire...hangs instantly when I try.
 
Bateluer

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Red Hawk said:
Since the driver notes improvements in Dragon Age Inquisition with MSAA, I went ahead and tested with my 270X. Test settings are 1080p 60 Hz and all settings other than MSAA maxed out. Tested with my 270X at 1120 MHz core clock, 1400 MHz memory clock, thermal limit set to maximum (+20%). Benchmarked with the in-game benchmark. Overclocked with the Catalyst Control Center.

Results:

14.11.2 Beta Drivers:
No MSAA: 37.8 FPS average, 29.6 minimum
2x MSAA: 29.7 FPS average, 23.9 minimum
4x MSAA: 25.6 FPS average, 20.9 minimum

14.12 WHQL "Omega" Drivers:
No MSAA: 37.7 FPS average, 28.4 minimum
2x MSAA: 29.3 FPS average, 22.9 minimum
4x MSAA: 25.7 FPS average, 20.00 minimum
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With my 290X, I also get identical performance numbers.

50/38 on the 14.11.2s, 49/38 on the 14.12s.
 
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I want to do comprehensive benchmarking vs 14.11.2 before installing Omega.

But I'm 2 lazy ATM :(

How hard is to enumerate 3840x2160 VSR for R9 290/X?
I mean 2GB Tonga has it. And nothing for Tahiti/GCN1.0 ... rly?

Still VSR alone makes this the best driver ever for me
 
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futurefields

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any word on Advanced Warfare? I am apparently cpu bottlenecked in that game due to having an amd gpu.
 
KaRLiToS

KaRLiToS

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f1sherman said:
I want to do comprehensive benchmarking vs 14.11.2 before installing Omega.

But I'm 2 lazy ATM :(

How hard is to enumerate 3840x2160 VSR for R9 290/X?
I mean 2GB Tonga has it. And nothing for Tahiti/GCN1.0 ... rly?

Still VSR alone makes this the best driver ever for me
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Sorry misread.
 
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