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AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 & 14.11.2 Beta Drivers for Windows®

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Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Windows® Beta Driver

Performance Improvements

Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
Assassin's Creed® Unity performance optimizations

Known Issues

[408930]: Occasional stuttering in Assassin's Creed® Unity in CrossFire mode under specific game settings
[409235]: Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[408706]: Quad CrossFire AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 may sometimes black screen when loading a game in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare
[409199]: AMD Radeon™ R9 280X/280 may experience a crash when playing Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and a video at the same time. If you experience this issue a work around is turning off the video while playing the game.
[409177]: CrossFire users may experience intermittent flickering in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare menus. As a work around if this issue is seen restarting the game may cause the issue to disappear.

Important Notes

AMD is currently working with Activision to resolve the following issues in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare:

Users in AMD CrossFire™ mode sometimes experience texture corruption
Negative scaling sometimes being observed at specific resolutions with AMD CrossFire™


Catalyst 14.11.1 Beta Release Notes





Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.2 Windows® Beta Driver Performance Improvements

Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
- Up to 5% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ profile
Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
- Up to 50% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.

Important Notes

The AMD CrossFire™ profile for Far Cry 4 is currently disabled in this driver while AMD works with Ubisoft to investigate an issue where AMD CrossFire™ configurations are not performing as intended. An update is expected on this issue in the near future through an updated game patch or an AMD driver posting.

Resolved Issues

[409235]: Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode.
[408892]: World of Warcraft can sometimes exhibit corruption when using CMAA in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[407431]: Minecraft sometimes produces corruption when changing video settings in windowed mode.
[407338]: XDMA Quad CrossFire™ configurations in portrait Eyefinity modes sometimes display tearing or stuttering.

Known Issues

[408723]: System can sometimes hang when upgrading to Catalyst™ 14.11.2 from Catalyst™14.7 in AMD CrossFire™ configurations. As a workaround please completely uninstall previous Catalyst™ software versions before installing Catalyst™14.11.2 beta.
[409518]: Slight performance drops in FIFA 2015 on AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[409502]: Occasional flickering sometimes observed while playing FIFA 2015 in AMD Dual Graphics configurations.
[409638]: Slight Battlefield 4 performance drop on AMD Radeon™ R9 290X in AMD CrossFire™ configuration.
[409628]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 intermittently hangs in Hitman Absolution on new game start.
[408484]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 can sometimes exhibit flickering in Assassins Creed Unity.
[409613]: Assassins Creed Unity can sometimes experience frame stutter on some AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[408706]: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare intermittent black screen when loading game in Quad AMD Crossfire™ configurations.
[409600]: Civilization: Beyond Earth mantle users in AMD CrossFire™ configurations may sometimes experience an issue where they cannot change their game resolution. As a work around please use "Enable MGPU=1" in the games configuration .ini file.

AMD is currently working with BioWare to resolve the following issues:

Flickering is sometimes observed in Dragon Age: Inquisition on a limited number of surfaces in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.

AMD is currently working with Ubisoft to resolve the following issues:

Uneven hair corruption sometimes observed in Assassins Creed Unity when applying "ultra" game settings.
Flickering occasionally observed between windows on walls in Assassins Creed Unity.
Windows/Doors intermittently flash with black textures in Assassins Creed Unity.
Assassins Creed Unity occasionally exits to desktop when "ultra" game settings are applied.


Catalyst™ 14.11.2 Beta Release Notes
 
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They've been slacking with crossfire profiles lately. Not too happy with team red, when you have Nvidia releasing profiles for B game releases and we can barely get triple A
 
Well I avoid crossfire like the plague. I only use AMD/ATI card singly. If I want to play with two, I go Nvidia SLI. But, all that being said, I'm happy with my R9 290 and HD 7850 in their current roles. :thup:
 
My MSI R9 290x Gaming OC card died on me 3 months into its life. Went back to a dual 6970 crossfire setup until the RMA gets finished. I tried to load the 14.11.1 driver for my setup and it did not list the actual display driver in the list of things to install when I hit 'custom'. Hopefully this driver does! Not too happy with AMD recently.
 
I can only hope these drivers start getting more refined for the 290/x's
getting sick of all these old now issues.
 
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