Support for new GPUs
After what felt like an endless line of Catalyst 13.11 Beta drivers, AMD has now released its new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver that brings support for new products, Crossfire scaling in couple of gaming titles, new AMD Enduro profiles for certain game titles, support for AMD Crossfire frame pacing and long list of resolved issues.
As expected, the new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver supports all Radeon products since Radeon HD 5000 series and is available for 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Windows 8.1 OS.
As far as the release notes are concerned, the list starts off with support for new products including AMD Radeon R9 290, 280 and 270 series as well as AMD Radeon R7 260, 250 and 240 series graphics cards. It also brings improved AMD Crossfire scaling in game titles like Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component), Splinter Cell Blacklist, Saints Row 4, and Metro Last Light.
The new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver also includes new AMD Enduro profiles for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Need for Speed Rivals, Total War?: Rome 2, Battlefield 4, Saints Row 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist and FIFA 14 as well as support for AMD Crossfire frame pacing fix, which ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace, can be enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center and/or on a per application basis, supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560x1600 on a single display.
The resolved issues list for the new driver is quite extensive and there are couple of that caught our eye including intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards, intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications, fix for incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center, Power Tune update to reduce variance of fan speed/RPM on AMD Radeon R9 290 series graphics cards, fix for PCI-E bus speed set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration and bunch of other application specific issues.
As always, you can find the new driver at AMD's support website via link below.
Source: Support.AMD.com.
As expected, the new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver supports all Radeon products since Radeon HD 5000 series and is available for 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Windows 8.1 OS.
As far as the release notes are concerned, the list starts off with support for new products including AMD Radeon R9 290, 280 and 270 series as well as AMD Radeon R7 260, 250 and 240 series graphics cards. It also brings improved AMD Crossfire scaling in game titles like Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component), Splinter Cell Blacklist, Saints Row 4, and Metro Last Light.
The new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver also includes new AMD Enduro profiles for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Need for Speed Rivals, Total War?: Rome 2, Battlefield 4, Saints Row 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist and FIFA 14 as well as support for AMD Crossfire frame pacing fix, which ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace, can be enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center and/or on a per application basis, supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560x1600 on a single display.
The resolved issues list for the new driver is quite extensive and there are couple of that caught our eye including intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards, intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications, fix for incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center, Power Tune update to reduce variance of fan speed/RPM on AMD Radeon R9 290 series graphics cards, fix for PCI-E bus speed set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration and bunch of other application specific issues.
As always, you can find the new driver at AMD's support website via link below.
Source: Support.AMD.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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