Catalyst 13.1 Out Now (New 13.2 Beta Links 3,4&5)

[Rvenger]

Works good for me so far. I just finished Dishonored without anymore texture flickers.

 

[Termie]

Does this driver have the memory rewrite?

Does not appear so.

The notes say it corrects latency issues for the three dx9 games in the Tech Report article (Guild Wars 2, Skyrim, and Borderlands 2), but as stated here, it does not include the memory rewrite that will improve all games: http://techreport.com/news/24285/catalyst-13-2-beta-with-frame-latency-improvements-now-available

 

[Face2Face]

I can confirm the glitches are gone in Skyrim. Just in time for Dragonborn

 

[3lackDeath]

Thanks for the update, will try these out later...

 

[sze5003]

I just realized I got the black screen with the mouse pointer when monitor goes to sleep. I don't remember seeing this before with the 12.11 drivers. I also didn't see it occur in 13.1 until now, when I was running stuff in the background.

Not sure, are you guys going back to previous drivers? Before this, monitor would sleep fine.

 

[lavaheadache]

I just realized I got the black screen with the mouse pointer when monitor goes to sleep. I don't remember seeing this before with the 12.11 drivers. I also didn't see it occur in 13.1 until now, when I was running stuff in the background.

Not sure, are you guys going back to previous drivers? Before this, monitor would sleep fine.

mine has slept and woke fine with this driver

 

[Dankk]

I just realized I got the black screen with the mouse pointer when monitor goes to sleep. I don't remember seeing this before with the 12.11 drivers. I also didn't see it occur in 13.1 until now, when I was running stuff in the background.

Not sure, are you guys going back to previous drivers? Before this, monitor would sleep fine.

If it makes you feel any better, I've been getting this issue with 12.11 and 13.1 as well.

 

[Red Hawk]

I've gotten the mouse on a black screen issue before, but rarely. Most of the time my monitor properly goes to sleep.

 

[Dankk]

I've gotten the mouse on a black screen issue before, but rarely. Most of the time my monitor properly goes to sleep.

Same here; most of the time my monitor properly sleeps, but on rare occasion the monitor just turns black with a cursor on it.

 

[sze5003]

Same here; most of the time my monitor properly sleeps, but on rare occasion the monitor just turns black with a cursor on it.

Ok that makes more sense. Because I've had these drivers since they came out and yesterday was the only time I noticed that.

 

[Whitestar127]

Added Beta link (and credit) to OP.

Hi jackstar7, could you perhaps include "13.2" in the thread title also, to make it clearer?

 

[Rvenger]

If it makes you feel any better, I've been getting this issue with 12.11 and 13.1 as well.

12.11 and 13.1 I have been getting this issue as well. My monitor doesn't go to sleep at all now. I will have to wait and see if this happens on 13.2.

 

[railven]

Just installed these last night with a fresh install of Win8. I look forward to trying them out.

 

[Despoiler]

I can confirm the random texture corruption in World of Tanks is fixed. Great drivers in terms of speed and IQ too.

 

[chimaxi83]

I can confirm the random texture corruption in World of Tanks is fixed. Great drivers in terms of speed and IQ too.

Awesome, looking forward to trying these out. The WoT corruption is annoying as hell.

 

[jackstar7]

Hi jackstar7, could you perhaps include "13.2" in the thread title also, to make it clearer?

Done!

 

[Shamrock]

Confrimed, 13.2 doing great with Skyrim, and rFactor 2 (dx9c).

 

[KevinH]

Fixed Borderlands 2 for me.

YES!

It wasn't just flickering for this particular game. Performance DRAMATICALLY smoother.

 

[Elcs]

13.2 Beta 3's feel much like the 13.2 Leaked Beta, the 13.1 Official and 12.11 Beta 11's for me.

Nothing really stands out as having improved or worsened. However, I don't play mainstream games so much and I typically use RadeonPro for the frame rate limiter at the very least.

 

[Whitestar127]

Wow, the frames are really flying in Skyrim now. Much smoother! But... I noticed something that I didn't notice with my previous driver. There is a very subtle kind of flickering when for instance looking at the ground, preferably some dark dirt or something, and then looking up slowly. There is a subtle flicker on the whole screen.

I will install my older drivers again (12.11 I think it was) and check if I can see it there also. I don't think so, because I hadn't noticed it before. I'll record it in FRAPS and put up a video, but I fear it is so subtle that it might not get caught on video. But it's there, and it's distracting.

Just go outside Whiterun, look at some dirt on the ground and look up slowly. Hard to describe but I'll call it flickering for now, almost in the same manner as when you look at a computer screen through a camera, i.e. in a TV program or something. Only more subtle.

Can anyone else notice this?

 

[footballrunner800]

I was getting the mouse cursor on black screen bug on 13.1. Just installed 13.2 and it hasn't happened all day

 

[sze5003]

I was getting the mouse cursor on black screen bug on 13.1. Just installed 13.2 and it hasn't happened all day

Thanks for the feedback. I'll load these up today.

 

[Rvenger]

I had a nice glitch with flash yesterday. The whole browser window turned black and crashed IE. I am also getting tired of Windows 8.

 

[Dstoop]

I just realized I got the black screen with the mouse pointer when monitor goes to sleep. I don't remember seeing this before with the 12.11 drivers. I also didn't see it occur in 13.1 until now, when I was running stuff in the background.

Not sure, are you guys going back to previous drivers? Before this, monitor would sleep fine.

I've been seeing this issue from 12.10 and later. Frankly, it's not that big of a deal to me so i'm just leaving it. It'll give me the black screen with the cursor maybe 1 in 3 times it goes to turn the monitor off. The only thing I can think of is that the black screen /w cursor is what is actually being rendered while the monitor is off, and the driver is just sometimes "forgetting" to tell the monitor to actually turn off. It's better than the old bug where your pc could totally lock up when it turned the monitor off at least.

As for the flicker. I was still getting it in 13.1 when playing Guild Wars 2. Updated to the 13.2 beta last night and didn't get a single noticeable flicker all night. Theres still issues with the gridlines on some areas of ground and some flickering shadows, but those seem to be unrelated to the DX9 flicker.

The game doesnt seem any smoother, but I didn't notice any microstutter and I run with vsync to begin with, so there's a good chance my performance was already being toned down to the point where those issues didn't happen to keep things at 60 FPS.

 

[jackstar7]

My limited experience with 13.2 Betas has been positive. BF3 showed a smooth graph for me and solid FPS numbers. Definitely need more time to spend checking things out, but so far, so good.