Catalyst 13.6 Beta Drivers Available

[jackstar7]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/amdcatalyst13-6winbetadriver.aspx

Not sure if this will show many gains for the average user or what... but do post if you update and see any changes.

Win7x64: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

 

[Chiropteran]

Does this support the 7790? I think I'll test on my bitcoin miner and see, I've had trouble finding a driver that works with a mix of 7790 and other 7 series cards.

 

[The Alias]

"AMD Catalyst Control Center now shows the hardware and software Information pages for AMD discrete GPUs when paired with Intel integrated graphics"

does that mean we'll see a huge increase in amd dgpus in the next steam hardware survey ?

 

[Xarick]

only if steam polls the CCC

 

[BallaTheFeared]

No frame metering or memory controller re-write /\

 

[Xarick]

June is the word on the street.
I am assuming it will be to counter the 7xx line when they are all out.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Does this support the 7790? I think I'll test on my bitcoin miner and see, I've had trouble finding a driver that works with a mix of 7790 and other 7 series cards.

13.4 and 13.5 beta both support the 7790, although I never tried it alongside another 7-series card. I did have a very bad time trying to get the 7790 to work with a 5870 though.

 

[Chiropteran]

It does work, at least for bitcoin mining. Have a 7970 ghz edition and a plain 7790 working together in the same box, happily mining bitcoin, with this 13.6 driver.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I have 13.5 + the cap on the website installed, do I uninstall both to install this, or?

 

[jackstar7]

The CAPs are independent.

 

[tau_]

I want to post my 2 cents here, the HDMI audio issues have not been resolved yet. I did a clean install and installed these new drivers, and yet their is still stutters. The only way to fix it is via registry...

 

[Souv]

I have 13.5 + the cap on the website installed, do I uninstall both to install this, or?

Always install latest cap

 

[psolord]

I want to post my 2 cents here, the HDMI audio issues have not been resolved yet. I did a clean install and installed these new drivers, and yet their is still stutters. The only way to fix it is via registry...

I did have a strange HDMI sound experience as well. Every 3 seconds or so, the sound would skip for half a second and then resume. Is that the stutter you mention?

Can you point me to this registry fix?

Thanks.

 

[nextJin]

June is the word on the street.
I am assuming it will be to counter the 7xx line when they are all out.

That's one sorry ass counter.

 

[tau_]

I did have a strange HDMI sound experience as well. Every 3 seconds or so, the sound would skip for half a second and then resume. Is that the stutter you mention?

Can you point me to this registry fix?

Thanks.

Yea sorry, it skips every so many seconds.
Fix:

open regedit and find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Video\{XXXX...}\0000
( 'XXXX' means device number. There are several device number folder and u should find 'AdapterDesc' in 0000 folder which key value is 'amd radeon HD 7XXX Series'. )

At that '0000' folder, Change 'PP_SclkDeepSleepDisable REG_DWORD' value 0 to 1.
and reboot~!~!~!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...m-radeon/7cd2f452-1422-4363-9c9a-05f7c65a788c

 

[HurleyBird]

These broke 3x1 Eyefinity + 1 extended HDMI audio for me, right after it was fixed in the previous beta. Need to reinitialize the Eyefinity array every time I turn the monitors on

 

[psolord]

Yea sorry, it skips every so many seconds.
Fix:

open regedit and find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Video\{XXXX...}\0000
( 'XXXX' means device number. There are several device number folder and u should find 'AdapterDesc' in 0000 folder which key value is 'amd radeon HD 7XXX Series'. )

At that '0000' folder, Change 'PP_SclkDeepSleepDisable REG_DWORD' value 0 to 1.
and reboot~!~!~!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...m-radeon/7cd2f452-1422-4363-9c9a-05f7c65a788c

That's great mate. Thank you very much.

I did find that key on a different location, than the one described though.




The good thing is that luckily I didn't have to fiddle with that. The new driver seems to have fixed the HDMI stuttering. I watched some Youtube, a few vids with KMplayer and played a couple of hours of Van Helsing and the HDMI Audio was crisp, clear and uninterrupted.

 

[Lepton87]

That's one sorry ass counter.

To me it wouldn't that bad of a counter, If CF worked right and CF fps=single card fps I would have bought 3x7950s instead of the Titan and still spend less of what I spent. 7990 would be indisputably the best card on the market, it now delivers the most fps but we all know the sorry state of CF.

 

[Yuriman]

13.6's provided a considerable increase in bitcoin mining speed for me. Something like 260 -> 288Mhash/s - close to a 10% improvement.

 

[crashtech]

13.6's provided a considerable increase in bitcoin mining speed for me. Something like 260 -> 288Mhash/s - close to a 10% improvement.

Going to 13.6 from what driver? That's a big gain.

 

[Yuriman]

The previous beta - 13.4 I think?

 

[crashtech]

Interesting. I'm on 13.3 right now and it's been good. I might have to try 13.6.

EDIT: So I have 13.6 in now. Not seeing a lot of gains here, but I switch clock speeds a lot and don't keep accurate records. Maybe it's about 1% faster. One thing I do notice is artifacting that used to occur in my browser at higher clockspeeds is gone. Also it seems to run hotter now? Strange.

 

[Dark Shroud]

After installing bitcoin mining on my 6970 stopped. I started getting "hardware errors" in GUI minor, same with the last official driver update.