AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL

[Mustang]

64 Bit: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win8-64.aspx

32 Bit: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win8-32.aspx#1

 

Feature Highlights

 

​Support for the following new products:

AMD Radeon R9 290, 280, and 270 Series

AMD Radeon R7 260, 250, and 240 Series

​Improved AMD CrossFire​ scaling for the following game titles:

Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component)

Splinter Cell Blacklist

Saints Row 4

Metro Last Light

​New AMD Enduro Technology profiles for the following game titles:

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Need for Speed Rivals

Total War​: Rome 2

Battlefield 4

Saints Row 4

Splinter Cell Blacklist

FIFA 14

​Support For AMD CrossFire frame pacing

Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace

Frame pacing is enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center, or on a per application basis

Frame pacing is supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560x1600 on a single display

Resolved Issues

May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards

Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - Power Tune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM

PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration

Resolves incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center

Resolves AMD Steady Video option being grayed out in the AMD Catalyst Control Center

Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics cards

Resolves graphics corruption issues found in Starcraft

Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014

Resolves flickering water corruption found in World of Warcraft

Resolves intermittent black screen when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep-state if the display is unplugged during the sleep-state on systems supporting AMD Enduro Technology

Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems

Resolves the display turning green when using Windows Media Player to view HD .avi format video in an extended desktop configuration

Resolves Metro applications experiencing frame drops during playback of interlaced video content

Resolves video playback corruption of .wmv format files in Windows Media Player

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks for the heads up Mustang

[javelina1]

thanks, will install and check it out...

[jbrking]

Excellent.

[txmtb]

Any feedback on FPS yet?

I'm still on 13.9 because anything after that caused a FPS hit that wasn't needed.

[streakeagle]

From here: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=34006988

 

beta 9.5 is 13.250, these are 13.251

 

they are basically the same per AMD.

 

So the 13.11 beta is actually newer than the 13.12 WHQL, which is just a slightly tweaked beta 9.5

[Groove]

Mantle?

[Mustang]

Mantle?

 

My guess is this will come early next year in the form of a beta driver.

[SkateZilla]

13.2 Should be WHQL Version of 13.11 Beta 9.5, Slightly newer Version and File Dates though.

[txmtb]

Same issues I've had with the last beta's. 5-6 FPS drop sitting on the runway with identical settings. Doesn't seem too bad but that's around a 25% drop from 13.9.

[Mustang]

Same issues I've had with the last beta's. 5-6 FPS drop sitting on the runway with identical settings. Doesn't seem too bad but that's around a 25% drop from 13.9.

 

If you are trying 1.2.7 the FPS loss might be related to this

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=117800

[txmtb]

It was actually in 1.2.6, I'm still installing 1.2.7.

I test every release using the same mission that I found on here, benchmark.miz.

There is no moving in the pit, only the external aircraft are, so it always yields the same results. Every release since 13.9 has seen the FPS drop from 24-25 to 19-20. 13.12 today was 17-18, went back to 13.9 and FPS went back up to 24-25.

I always remove the old drivers/CCC and run DriverSweeper from 3D Guru to clean everything out, then install the new one and configure CCC the same.

Edited December 19, 2013 by txmtb

[doveman]

It was actually in 1.2.6, I'm still installing 1.2.7.

I test every release using the same mission that I found on here, benchmark.miz.

There is no moving in the pit, only the external aircraft are, so it always yields the same results. Every release since 13.9 has seen the FPS drop from 24-25 to 19-20. 13.12 today was 17-18, went back to 13.9 and FPS went back up to 24-25.

I always remove the old drivers/CCC and run DriverSweeper from 3D Guru to clean everything out, then install the new one and configure CCC the same.

 

Hmm, maybe I should rollback to 13.9 then (currently on 13.10) although you never know if that might have negative effects in other games.

 

Actually I remember that we can just drop the dll in the game folder to use a different version. For 32-bit games using DX9 it's atiumdag.dll and for 64-bit atiumd64.dll . I'll try that with some different versions sometime and see which works best.

 

Perhaps we could get a sticky somewhere prominent where people who've done this can report which driver gives the best results with their GPU (I've got a 6950 (unlocked to 6970) so my results won't be of much use to people with other cards)?

[javelina1]

was considering updating my driver to 13.12. what's the verdict? Do we take a slight FPS hit? Things working ok with DCS 1.2.7?

 

I'm using an HD7870. My current driver is: 13.152.1.8000

[donaldspark]

At least those drivers fixed the Battlefield 4 red screen of death (for me)

[doveman]

For anyone who hasn't already seen it, check this thread for people's experiences with just dropping the different dlls into the bin/ folder http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=119196&page=2