offical AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver

[csbin]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.
Installing The AMD Catalyst™ Software Driver
Current driver MUST be uninstalled before updating to AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta driver. For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, please 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

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows
Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD's Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

• • AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
  • It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
  • AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• ​​​​​For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com​

• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series, 7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations​
  • ​​​Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
  • Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
  • Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
  • Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level

Resolved Issues

• Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
• Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
• Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
• Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
• Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
• Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
• Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
• Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
• Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
• Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
• Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
• Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
• Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
• Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
• F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
• Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
• Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
• Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
• Choppy video playback on 4k Video
• VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
• Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
• Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
• Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
• No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
• Image crashed on Starcraft game

Known Issues

• Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon™ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4™ in future AMD Catalyst™ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4™ and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
• Multi-GPU support under DirectX® and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
• Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire™ technology in BattleField 4™ - AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
• Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm​ application
• AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon™ R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst™ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
• Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4™
• Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming release will enable support
• DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming release will enable support

 

[VulgarDisplay]

A few important workarounds for people attempting to use Mantle in BF4.

Disable your IGP in Device Manager, and set BF4 launch options to 64bit only.

If you leave the IGP on the game will crash when you access the Options menu, and Mantle will not show up at all if you don't select 64bit from the launch options.

My usage so far doesn't show much real difference between dx11 and mantle in my use cases. I already was pretty much pegged at 120fps on a single 7970 at 1125, and a 4.5ghz 2500k. All low settings, except mesh quality ultra, no HBAO/SSAO, and motion blur off. The perf graph does look much more consistent in Mantle for me. The CPU line is just a flat line in 32 players rush servers.

 

[Black Octagon]

^ thanks. Hoping that changes once AMD gets round to optimising for 7000 series

 

[psolord]

Is it me or is it the first time I see specific instruction to remove the old driver first?

And why do we have to remove the older driver ourselves? Isn't the installer of the new driver responsible for that?


Hmmm....!

Thanks csbin.

 

[ICDP]

Is it me or is it the first time I see specific instruction to remove the old driver first?

And why do we have to remove the older driver ourselves? Isn't the installer of the new driver responsible for that?


Hmmm....!

Thanks csbin.

There's an uninstaller in you CP for AMD Catalyst. Use that and it removed old drivers very well.

 

[hclarkjr]

damn my 6950's are not supported!!!

 

[psolord]

There's an uninstaller in you CP for AMD Catalyst. Use that and it removed old drivers very well.

Thanks for the tip but I've been having AMD's cards for a long time now!

Still I'd expect something more user friendly. Like Nvidia's clean install or something. Oh well.

Driver is now installed but:

1) It hanged my computer when I launched the installer, after it decompressed the files. This is the first time I have seen such a lock up of my primary system.

2) I tried disabling crossfire after the drivers were finally installed and the system had gone through its requested restart cycle. The screen went black and the system hanged again.

So far these are the only problems I saw. Let's hope it stays that way.

 

[stahlhart]

Post updates and discussion for the Catalyst 14.1 driver in the sticky on the first page, and do not create duplicate threads.
-- stahlhart