AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL

[Mustang]

Windows 8.1

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+8.1+-+32

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+8.1+-+64

 

Windows 7

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+32

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64

 

Windows 10

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+32

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64

 

AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 Driver for Windows® Release Notes

 

Article Number: RN-WIN-CAT15-7

 

This article provides information on the latest posting of the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.7.

This particular software suite updates the AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver and the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center. This unified driver has been updated, and is designed to provide enhanced performance and reliability.

 

Package Contents

 

The AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 contains the following:

***8203;***8203;AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver version 15.20.1046

***8203;***8203;Installing the AMD Catalyst™ Software 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

NOTES

This driver is not intended for use on AMD products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their manufacturer for driver support.

When installing the AMD Catalyst™ Driver for Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst™ Driver.

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 Software Suite requires Windows® 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 Software Suite requires Microsoft® .NET Framework 4.5 to be installed. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is included in all AMD Catalyst™ packages.

AMD Product Compatibility

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 driver ***8203;is compatible with the following AMD products.

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility ***8203;***8203;***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series***8203;***8203;***8203;AMD Radeon™ R5 230 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 300 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 200 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series***8203;***8203;AMD Radeon™ R7 300 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series***8203;ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series***8203;***8203; ***8203;***8203;AMD All-In-One Desktop Product Family CompatibilityAMD Radeon™ HD 7600A SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 6600A SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 7450A SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 6350A Series

AMD APU Product Family Compatibility

"Kaveri", "Godavari", and "Carrizo" series APUs are only supported by AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 on Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit) and Windows® 8.1 64-bit.

AMD APU Product Family CompatibilityDesktopMobileA-Series with AMD Radeon™ R7 GraphicsAMD Radeon™ HD 8000D SeriesA-Series with AMD Radeon™ R6 GraphicsAMD Radeon™ HD 7000D SeriesA-Series with AMD Radeon™ R5 GraphicsAMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series***8203;A-Series with AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G SeriesA-Series with AMD Radeon™ R3 GraphicsAMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series***8203;FX-8800P with AMD Radeon™***8203; R7 Graphics***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G SeriesE-Series AMD with Radeon™ R2 Graphics

 

 

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility

 

AMD Catalyst™ Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.

AMD Mobility Product Family CompatibilityAMD Radeon™ R9 M200 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 7000M SeriesAMD Radeon™ R7 M200 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 6000M SeriesAMD Radeon™ R5 M200 SeriesATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series

Compatible Operating Systems

The latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

Windows® 10 (32 & 64-bit)

Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)

Windows® 7 SP1 or higher (32 & 64-bit)***8203;

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 Windows Driver

Windows® 10 Support

This is a Technical Preview driver with full WDDM 2.0 support for Windows® 10 and DirectX® 12 on all Graphics Core Next (GCN) supported products, -AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 and newer graphics products. Official driver support for AMD products will be available when Microsoft launches Windows® 10 on July 29th, 2015.

***8203;NOTE: To ensure stability, users should upgrade to the latest available Windows® 10 Technical Preview build provided by Microsoft before installing AMD Catalyst™ 15.7.

***8203;Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)

VSR provides image quality enhancements to games and Windows® desktop users by rendering images at a higher resolution and then down-scaling the same. VSR support has now been extended to the following products:

AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 280 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 390 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 270 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 380 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R7 260 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R7 370 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R7 360 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 295X2***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 7790 Series***8203;***8203;***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 290 SeriesDesktop A-Series 7400K APUs and above

Below is a list of supported resolutions:

***8203;Target Display TimingSupported VSR Modes***8203;***8203;1366 X 768 @ 60Hz***8203;1600 X 900

1920 X 1080***8203;1600 X 900 @ 60Hz***8203;1920 X 1080***8203;1920 X 1080 @ 60Hz2560 X 1440

3200 X 1800

3840 X 2160 (AMD Radeon™ R9 285, AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series)***8203;1920 X 1200 @ 60Hz***8203;2048 X 1536

2560 X 1600

3840 X 2400 (AMD Radeon™ R9 285, AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series)***8203;***8203;2560 X 1440 @ 60Hz***8203;3200 X 1800***8203;1920 X 1080 @ 120Hz***8203;1920 X 1200 @ 120Hz

2048 X 1536 @ 120Hz***8203;

Frame Rate Target Control™ (FRTC)

FRTC allows the user to set a maximum frame rate when playing an application in full screen exclusive mode. This feature provides the following benefits:

Reduced GPU power consumption

Reduced system heat

Lower fan speeds and less noise

This feature is supported on applications using DirectX® 10 or higher and on the following AMD graphics products:

***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 280 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 390 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 270 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R9 380 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R7 260 SeriesAMD Radeon™ R7 370 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R7 360 SeriesAMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series ***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2***8203;***8203;AMD Radeon™ HD 7700 Series***8203;AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series

 

 

AMD FreeSync™ and AMD CrossFire™ Support

 

***8203;***8203;AMD FreeSync™ and AMD CrossFire™ can now be used together in applications using DirectX® 10 or higher. Please note, this feature is currently not supported on systems configured in AMD Dual Graphics mode.

AMD CrossFire™ Profile Enhancements

AMD Catalyst™ 15.7 includes enhancement for the following games since AMD Catalyst™ Omega:

Battlefield: Hardline

Evolve

Far Cry® 4

Lords of the Fallen

Project CARS

Total War: Attila

Alien: Isolation™

Assassin's Creed® Unity

Civilization®: Beyond Earth™

FIFA 2015

GRID Autosport

Ryse: Son of Rome

Talos Principle

The Crew

Grand Theft Auto V

Dying Light

The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt

Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ Omega Driver

Single GPU performance on Windows® 8.1 based system:

Up to 7% in Far Cry® 4 on AMD Radeon™ R7 and AMD Radeon™ R9 200 series and up *

Up to 10% in Tomb Raider on AMD Radeon™ R7 and AMD Radeon™ R9 200 series and up *

 

Resolved Issues:

 

[413076] Second Life - Avatar rendering is corrupted when hardware skinning is enabled

414307] Star Trek Online - Block corruption is observed if MSAA is enabled

[412702] A black screen is observed when setting up a 3x1 SLS with 3 HDMI monitors

[411847***8203;] Leadwerks : A crash is observed with a "Pure Virtual Call" error message***8203;

[410367] System black hangs/BSOD upon resuming from S3/S4 sleep on AMD Radeon™ R9 285 configured in AMD CrossFire™ mode

[410293] With AMD CrossFire™ enabled, Timeout Detection Recovery (TDR) occurs during actual gameplay when YouTube Mix moves to the next song in Firefox®

[407622] Screen tearing on enabling VSync with Alien: Isolation game

[407175] AMD Catalyst™ Control Center Video Quality settings may not be available or retained if the "Enforce Smooth Video Playback" option is not selected on some AMD Radeon™ HD Series graphics adapters.

[410398] A black screen may be experienced when attempting to enable Eyefinity after changing the display mode (Portrait, Landscape)

[410391] Primary display may not be retained after disabling AMD CrossFire™ while in AMD Eyefinity mode

[409705] Enabling or disabling AMD CrossFire™ may lead to one side of the 4K MST display being shown as black

[410393] Minor stuttering may be seen in Dragon Age Inquisition on Single and Multi GPU configurations***8203;

 

Known Issues:

 

The following known issues only apply to systems using Windows® 8.1 or Windows® 7 SP1 and later:

[422853] Some systems may experience minor performance drop from 15.15 to 15.20 in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with HairWorks enabled

[422800] Some Kaveri APU based systems may experience minor performance drop on PCMark8 video_group_chat & Casual Gaming tests

[422797] Display profiles are not retained after driver upgrade from 14.502 to 15.20

[422671] Flickering corruption occurs in Dirty Rally with Advanced Blending enabled

[422944] Fire in Total war Attila may experience corruption when in AMD CrossFire™ mode

[422621] With quad AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled, TDR or blank display occurs when launching DirectX® 9 application in full screen

[419871] BSOD observed when performing an express uninstall of the display driver in 4K resolution

[422056] 3DMark Farandole may crash when AMD Mantle is selected from the test suite

[422291] Battlefield 4 triggers TDR and crash when running in AMD Mantle mode

[422249] DLL missing popup message may be encountered when performing an express uninstall of the display driver. This will not impact the uninstall process

[422342] Cyberlink PowerDVD plays 3D content in 2D mode

[421570] Audio driver is banged out for non-primary ASIC after enabling CF and rebooting system

[421719] Flickering and intermittent display blanking out with LG31MU97 if resolution is set above 1920x1080

[422675] Intermittent BSOD occurs when launching a race in Dirt Rally

[422674] Corruption may occur in Dirt Rally with CMAA enabled with Portrait SLS and AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled

[422672] Flickering corruption may occur in Dirty Rally when changing settings during gameplay

[422671] Flickering corruption may occur in Dirty Rally with Advanced Blending enabled

[421388] AMD Radeon™ R9 390 Series may experience screen corruption in 3Dmark11 "Deep Sea" Demo

[422806] Battlefield: Hardline crashes on pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del while running in AMD Mantle mode

[422623] Rage: In game cinematic may stutter when quad AMD Crossfire™ mode is enabled

[421110] The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt - Corruption may be observed when AA is enabled in AMD Crossfire™ mode

Edited July 8, 2015 by Mustang

[SkateZilla]

should support Windows 10 too.

[Mustang]

should support Windows 10 too.

 

Edit: links updated.

Edited July 8, 2015 by Mustang

[SkateZilla]

gonna give these a go inside windows 10..

 

unless something has changed with VSR on 7900, then I'll get them a chance on Win7

[Brisse]

These include the dx11 overhead improvements we previously seen on Windows 10 TP drivers and 15.15.

 

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=5117743&postcount=955

[*Rage*]

I got a modest 1-2 fps bump in 15.7.

 

The bonus however is that raptr game recording is now working in DCS! Unfortunately I cant seem to play the files its recording (mp4?). Any ideas?

[SkateZilla]

raptr or plays.tv?

 

These are doing fine so far using dll injection, I may install them completely this weekend.

[*Rage*]

raptr or plays.tv?

 

Nothing shows up in my Raptr gallery even though the recordings are in the designated folder.

 

Sigh..

[SkateZilla]

yeah raptr has been weird recently, I had to stop using it.

[*Rage*]

After it updated automatically today it works great in DCS!

[*Rage*]

Raptr works but causes my trackir to crash.

[flyco]

I tried updating AMD catalyst, but it removed my Eyefinity set-up, and duplicated 2 of my monitors. I tried to reinstall my latest preset with no effect.

 

Anyone any suggestions?

[SkateZilla]

delete all presets and make new ones, happens everytime I update drivers.

[weeb]

Skates got a point here. This is not my games machine that I use for the sim, it's recommended to remove all the drivers, now I did that yesterday on this machine, and it was only when the machine was rebooting that I had a flashback to "do you want to remove all AMD software, it took out my AHCI drivers, my USB 3 drivers, my ability to access 5 GB hard drives, tried system restore and it just laughed at me, failed to carry out system restore, no files have been changed. I loved amd cards, value for money, performance wise they rocked but I've bought a 980ti, simply because I was able to take it out of the box, set source on 55 inch telly et voila, working. :)

[SkateZilla]

Skates got a point here. This is not my games machine that I use for the sim, it's recommended to remove all the drivers, now I did that yesterday on this machine, and it was only when the machine was rebooting that I had a flashback to "do you want to remove all AMD software, it took out my AHCI drivers, my USB 3 drivers, my ability to access 5 GB hard drives, tried system restore and it just laughed at me, failed to carry out system restore, no files have been changed. I loved amd cards, value for money, performance wise they rocked but I've bought a 980ti, simply because I was able to take it out of the box, set source on 55 inch telly et voila, working. :)

 

I jever use quick removal for that reason.

[Strut]

I use a AMD Radeon HD 7970 factory Overclocked, my settings are GPU @ 1100Mhz and High performance memory clock settings @ 1650. I have my game resolution set to 2569x 1440 all settings on High. So far i have no problems with this driver, i have a very substantial increase in frame rates, and game performance is great. I use a lot of mods including Sweet FX and Highways terrain mods. I am very happy with the gains and performance with these drivers.

[Mustang]

Noticed that AMD put a 15.7.1 driver out today

 

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/amd-catalyst-15-7-1-driver-download.html

[SkateZilla]

might be related to Win8

[SkateZilla]

I meant windows 10 Release WHQL drivers.

[Mustang]

Installed fine this evening in Win 8.1 x64, time to test :)

[neoshi]

In other games, im having issues with AA letting me see through all objects. Haven't tested DCS yet

[Lumper]

15.7 did not work for me in Win10, it stopped CCC from being shown. I installed 15.7.1 and now everything in Win10, appears to be working. Both DCS and BMS work in Win10-64. Frame rates are good at 60 hz, will try to set my 3-1 eyefinity to 120 and 144 tomorrow to see how it is working.

[Mustang]

Thread bump, this driver may be useful for those using Oculus

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Oculus07SDK-Driver.aspx