AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Windows® Beta Driver

[Tokae]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-8WINBetaDriver.aspx

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver for Windows:

This:

Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
Frame Pacing is enabled by default.

Cool! Also more stuff:


Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560x1600 (single display).
OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).
AMD Enduro Technology enhancement - Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
Resolved issues:
Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders


Downloading and hopefully testing this weekend.

*EDIT: Already posted here. BAH!

My Apologies.

 

[Xeon_KI]

Maybe now I'll be able to play games on my computer and not just mine bitcoins and run benches!

 

[Ivy]

AMD was always weak on drivers but i think the stuff should be pretty much fixed soon, they had enough of time in order to adapt to the GCN yet (certainly not easy, the architecture was completly different from anything AMD ever used before). The hardware itself is supreme and it was giving a hard battle to Nvidia, that is certain.

Single GPU is not suffering from (higher than usual) microstudders (for a long time already), no matter what been told, i checked out that matter pretty diligently. But CF is another story from what i heard/checked, so i hope it will be fixed too at some point, prehaps this update.

 

[wetlayed]

Is it recommended to download the beta drivers? I'm still on the 13.4 drivers.

 

[Supertrucker]

If you are using crossfire then yes, if not there is little to be gained if you don't like beta testing drivers.

 

[masterx1234]

after i got the 13.8 beta i noticed worse performance in every single game, in fact it made some games unplayable, wtf is up with that?

 

[Nebulous]

after i got the 13.8 beta i noticed worse performance in every single game, in fact it made some games unplayable, wtf is up with that?

That's what happens with betas. Revert back to your previous drivers that worked best for you.


Sometimes betas drivers work, sometimes they don't. That's why they're called Beta, lol.