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AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL Download
Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/17/2013 10:42 PM [ 254 comment(s) ]
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Download AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL display driver for Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
For AMD Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series users, Microsoft has certified today’s AMD Catalyst 13.1 release as “compatible with Windows 8.” With this driver, these products offer full support for WDDM 1.2, which is an updated model for graphics drivers that Microsoft has developed to ensure smooth performance and wide compatibility in their new operating system.
The AMD Catalyst software suite 13.1 contains the following:
- AMD display driver version 9.012
- HydraVision for Windows Vista and Windows® 7
- Southbridge/IXP Driver
- AMD Catalyst Control Center version 9.012 / AMD Vision Engine Control Center version 9.012
Build Info:
DriverVer=12/19/2012, 9.012.0.0000
9.012-121219a-151592C-ATI
Catalyst: 13.1
CCC: 2012.1219.1521.27485
D3D: 9.14.10.0945
OGL: 6.14.10.12002
OCL: 10.0.1084.4
Sign Date: January 11-16 (Microsoft WHQL)
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.1:
AMD Catalyst Control Center: New 3D settings and profile management user interface:
AMD Catalyst 13.1 features a newly designed 3D application settings page, designed to allow users to more easily adjust and control their 3D settings on a per application basis.
Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11
- Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
- All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
- Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
- Enhanced AMD CrossFire™ scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
- Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
- • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
- Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
- Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
- Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
- Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
- Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
- Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
- 3DMark® 06 – Up to 6%
- 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
- AvP – Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Up to 13%
- Crysis 2: Up to 45%
- DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
- ETQW – Up to 8%
- Hard Reset – Up to 8%
- Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
- Mafia 2 – Up to 40%
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
- StarCraft 2 – Up to 25%
- Skyrim – Up to 45%
- Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 / Windows 7 Operating Systems:
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.
- A sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
- An intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in an AMD CrossFire + Eyefinity setup.
- Missing fonts in XBMC
- No video found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
- Skyrim lighting (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
- Skyrim cloud corruption experience in various in game locations
- A hang playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
- Engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle.
- GPU activity runs at lower values than expected seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
- Corruption seen in Darkness 2 and Carrier Command when using AMD CrossFire configurations
- Adobe Premier Pro CS6 may fail to launch
- Hang experienced with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled on X58 and X78 chipsets
- Corel PaintShop Pro X3 – Hangs at the “Initializing Command Manager” window
- Company of Heroes 2 – display corruption experienced when AA is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Cyberlink Powerdirector 10 crashes intermittently.
- Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor – Flickering experienced when AA is disabled
- Max Payne 3 – Flickering experienced in DirectX 9 mode with forced AA enabled
- Cyberlink PoweDVD 10 – crashes intermittently
- VLC - Green texture corruption seen in 720p MPEG2 video clips
- Black screen encountered when “Alternate DVI mode” is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video
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#4503492 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:25 PM
Quick tests regarding flickering issue on Catalyst 13.1
Skyrim:
Random ingame - Not visible
Flickerspot - Flickered once and then nothing for few minutes
Skin flickering - present but somehow "slower"
Witcher 2 - Enhanced edition:
Flotsam forest - again flickered once and then nothing
Starcraft II
With latest driver i can confirm that flickering IS finally present in this game even for me.
More tests later.
Quick tests regarding flickering issue on Catalyst 13.1
Skyrim:
Random ingame - Not visible
Flickerspot - Flickered once and then nothing for few minutes
Skin flickering - present but somehow "slower"
Witcher 2 - Enhanced edition:
Flotsam forest - again flickered once and then nothing
Starcraft II
With latest driver i can confirm that flickering IS finally present in this game even for me.
More tests later.
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#4503498 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:31 PM
I just tested with the witcher 2 and the game doesnt look fluid. When im walking it starts stuttering while i get a steady framerate of 40 fps. I guess people were right we need to wait for 13.2.
I just tested with the witcher 2 and the game doesnt look fluid. When im walking it starts stuttering while i get a steady framerate of 40 fps. I guess people were right we need to wait for 13.2.
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#4503500 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:32 PM
Looking at the release notes I'm starting to think that the slower driver release schedule has more to do with the downsizing of the AMD driver team then it has to do with quality releases.
Octomber + December and no important fix in sight or changes between this and the 12.11 beta. I'm curious if they at least fixed the monstrous memory leak in BF3 on Windows 8.
Looking at the release notes I'm starting to think that the slower driver release schedule has more to do with the downsizing of the AMD driver team then it has to do with quality releases.
Octomber + December and no important fix in sight or changes between this and the 12.11 beta. I'm curious if they at least fixed the monstrous memory leak in BF3 on Windows 8.
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#4503502 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:34 PM
The driver has reintroduced the bug in MPC-HC when full/half float point processing is enabled where you get no video at all. The ugly artefacts in some h.264 video is still present.
The driver has reintroduced the bug in MPC-HC when full/half float point processing is enabled where you get no video at all. The ugly artefacts in some h.264 video is still present.
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#4503504 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:35 PM
Just played BF3 half an hour and these drivers are the best so far. Now, FPS don't go haywire all the time, it's steady like it should be. Great!
Just played BF3 half an hour and these drivers are the best so far. Now, FPS don't go haywire all the time, it's steady like it should be. Great!
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#4503507 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:39 PM
NOOOOOOO!!!! DOWNSAMPLING DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!!! I just tried setting up downsampling after installing the drivers and it tells me that it failed every time!
Anyone able to get it to work?
NOOOOOOO!!!! DOWNSAMPLING DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!!! I just tried setting up downsampling after installing the drivers and it tells me that it failed every time!
Anyone able to get it to work?
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#4503510 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:40 PM
Get error:
"Driver Install: the driver package does not specify a hardware identifier"
with HD5850 . Any ideas ?
Get error:
"Driver Install: the driver package does not specify a hardware identifier"
with HD5850 . Any ideas ?
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#4503515 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:42 PM
First time I ever gotten "warnings occurred during installation" but everthing seems to be working?
First time I ever gotten "warnings occurred during installation" but everthing seems to be working?
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#4503516 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:44 PM
I also got the same message.
I am not able to choose 5.1 sound through HDMI though.
First time I ever gotten "warnings occurred during installation" but everthing seems to be working?
I also got the same message.
I am not able to choose 5.1 sound through HDMI though.
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#4503517 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:45 PM
My installation appeared to be borked and hung for many minutes. Had to restart and clear a few registry entries. All seems ok now however.
My installation appeared to be borked and hung for many minutes. Had to restart and clear a few registry entries. All seems ok now however.
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#4503519 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:47 PM
I also got the same message.
I am not able to choose 5.1 sound through HDMI though.
Hmm I don't use hdmi so I can't check that for you. But good to know I was not the only one with that message. Going to test some games to make sure everything is working.
I also got the same message.
I am not able to choose 5.1 sound through HDMI though.
Hmm I don't use hdmi so I can't check that for you. But good to know I was not the only one with that message. Going to test some games to make sure everything is working.
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#4503523 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:48 PM
For info:
For info:
Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11
Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
Enhanced AMD CrossFire scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
3DMark® 06 Up to 6%
3DMark Vantage Up to 15%
3DMark 11 Up to 12%
AvP Up to 11%
Battlefield 3 Up to 25%
Call of Duty: Black Ops Up to 13%
Crysis 2: Up to 45%
DiRT Showdown Up to 62%
ETQW Up to 8%
Hard Reset Up to 8%
Just Cause 2 Up to 90%
Mafia 2 Up to 40%
The Chronicles of Riddick Up to 4%
Shogun 2 Up to 56%
StarCraft 2 Up to 25%
Skyrim Up to 45%
Sniper Elite V2 Up to 60%
Tom Clancys HAWX Up to 56%
Unigine Heaven Up to 33%
Wolfenstein Up to 9%
Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
Enhanced AMD CrossFire scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
3DMark® 06 Up to 6%
3DMark Vantage Up to 15%
3DMark 11 Up to 12%
AvP Up to 11%
Battlefield 3 Up to 25%
Call of Duty: Black Ops Up to 13%
Crysis 2: Up to 45%
DiRT Showdown Up to 62%
ETQW Up to 8%
Hard Reset Up to 8%
Just Cause 2 Up to 90%
Mafia 2 Up to 40%
The Chronicles of Riddick Up to 4%
Shogun 2 Up to 56%
StarCraft 2 Up to 25%
Skyrim Up to 45%
Sniper Elite V2 Up to 60%
Tom Clancys HAWX Up to 56%
Unigine Heaven Up to 33%
Wolfenstein Up to 9%
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#4503530 Posted on: 01/17/2013 11:57 PM
Did you look at your log to see what the error was?
This was mine:
Driver Install: the driver package does not specify a hardware identifier
Hmm I don't use hdmi so I can't check that for you. But good to know I was not the only one with that message. Going to test some games to make sure everything is working.
Did you look at your log to see what the error was?
This was mine:
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#4503536 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:02 AM
Thanks a lot asder00. Downloading.
Thanks a lot asder00. Downloading.
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#4503539 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:02 AM
The new "3D Application Settings" page is better than before:
We can now see all the parameters at once without the need to scroll down. Thanks for the reduction of extremely huge "Blank" borders the layout had before.
Also, the new way of setting an individual Application settings is much better too... it's in the same page as 3D Application Settings and now we can edit or correct these individual App settings just by changing the desired setting and hit "save"!
(Before, we had to go in the Profiles Page to erase the profile we created and start over... or we could use the app settings as "global settings", correcting it, then applying it again to the specified app... that was complicated)
ALSO
I only hope the creator of that downsampling tool will release an update, because it's a HUGE downer to me....
i feel like i lost my highest (and my primarily used) resolution!
And.... Thanks to Asder00 and Hilbert!
The new "3D Application Settings" page is better than before:
We can now see all the parameters at once without the need to scroll down. Thanks for the reduction of extremely huge "Blank" borders the layout had before.
Also, the new way of setting an individual Application settings is much better too... it's in the same page as 3D Application Settings and now we can edit or correct these individual App settings just by changing the desired setting and hit "save"!
(Before, we had to go in the Profiles Page to erase the profile we created and start over... or we could use the app settings as "global settings", correcting it, then applying it again to the specified app... that was complicated)
ALSO
NO downsampling for me too :
I only hope the creator of that downsampling tool will release an update, because it's a HUGE downer to me....
i feel like i lost my highest (and my primarily used) resolution!
And.... Thanks to Asder00 and Hilbert!
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#4503542 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:06 AM
I have just noticed the same. I will try to post an update as soon as a fix or newer version of the downsampling utility is released.
I have just noticed the same. I will try to post an update as soon as a fix or newer version of the downsampling utility is released.
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#4503548 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:12 AM
This... and the HDMI sound issue... are by far the MOST IMPORTANT things that I need. I can not use the drivers without these things. I wonder if my HDMI sound issue is related to the down sampling issue also...
Have all of you gotten the issues with installation warning at the end also?
I have just noticed the same. I will try to post an update as soon as a fix or newer version of the downsampling utility is released.
This... and the HDMI sound issue... are by far the MOST IMPORTANT things that I need. I can not use the drivers without these things. I wonder if my HDMI sound issue is related to the down sampling issue also...
Have all of you gotten the issues with installation warning at the end also?
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#4503552 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:16 AM
I don't remember seeing any warning after installing these.
Have all of you gotten the issues with installation warning at the end also?
I don't remember seeing any warning after installing these.
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#4503557 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:20 AM
ok.
I went back to the 12.11s to make sure that the error wasn't there and that sound was working... and it is. So it's def at 13.1 problem.
Hopefully it's a mistake they made and it's fixable.
I don't remember seeing any warning after installing these.
ok.
I went back to the 12.11s to make sure that the error wasn't there and that sound was working... and it is. So it's def at 13.1 problem.
Hopefully it's a mistake they made and it's fixable.
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#4503559 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:21 AM
Thank you sir... I don't know if you are member of that German forum where the author had released that tool, just to make him AWARE that his tool have been broken by this newest driver and probably any Drivers from now on...
And to tell him that his work is really appreciated by me! (At every Frame my computer produces)
And now, I cannot enter my games anymore because they are set for an higher resolution that is not currently valid... I have to delete all my games' settings or enter the games in safemode, if there's one...
Thanks again!
I have just noticed the same. I will try to post an update as soon as a fix or newer version of the downsampling utility is released.
Thank you sir... I don't know if you are member of that German forum where the author had released that tool, just to make him AWARE that his tool have been broken by this newest driver and probably any Drivers from now on...
And to tell him that his work is really appreciated by me! (At every Frame my computer produces)
And now, I cannot enter my games anymore because they are set for an higher resolution that is not currently valid... I have to delete all my games' settings or enter the games in safemode, if there's one...
Thanks again!
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#4503560 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:22 AM
Installation completed without error
Seems to have fixed my 2nd display stuttering when watching a video and using the PC on 1st display at the same time
Installation completed without error
Seems to have fixed my 2nd display stuttering when watching a video and using the PC on 1st display at the same time
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#4503561 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:26 AM
Installation completed without error
Seems to have fixed my 2nd display stuttering when watching a video and using the PC on 1st display at the same time
I wonder if this is going to be a 79xx specific issue... since it does say something about the manufacturer not being set in my error.
Installation completed without error
Seems to have fixed my 2nd display stuttering when watching a video and using the PC on 1st display at the same time
I wonder if this is going to be a 79xx specific issue... since it does say something about the manufacturer not being set in my error.
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#4503563 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:27 AM
new drivers for days i guessed that amd guys were dead. loll wel i wil try them as soon as i can hope much of the garbage are fix ore from some comentes above maybe not we wil see
new drivers for days i guessed that amd guys were dead. loll wel i wil try them as soon as i can hope much of the garbage are fix ore from some comentes above maybe not we wil see
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#4503566 Posted on: 01/18/2013 12:29 AM
The new "3D Application Settings" page is better than before:
We can now see all the parameters at once without the need to scroll down. Thanks for the reduction of extremely huge "Blank" borders the layout had before.
Also, the new way of setting an individual Application settings is much better too... it's in the same page as 3D Application Settings and now we can edit or correct these individual App settings just by changing the desired setting and it "save"!
(Before, we had to go in the Profile Page to erase the profile we created and start over... or we could use the app settings as global settings, correcting it, then applying it again to the specified app... that was complicated)
Reminds me of Nvidia's 3D settings page back when I used to run an Nvidia card before my upgrade to 7970. That page was one thing I missed the most. Glad to see something as efficient deployed by AMD!
The new "3D Application Settings" page is better than before:
We can now see all the parameters at once without the need to scroll down. Thanks for the reduction of extremely huge "Blank" borders the layout had before.
Also, the new way of setting an individual Application settings is much better too... it's in the same page as 3D Application Settings and now we can edit or correct these individual App settings just by changing the desired setting and it "save"!
(Before, we had to go in the Profile Page to erase the profile we created and start over... or we could use the app settings as global settings, correcting it, then applying it again to the specified app... that was complicated)
Reminds me of Nvidia's 3D settings page back when I used to run an Nvidia card before my upgrade to 7970. That page was one thing I missed the most. Glad to see something as efficient deployed by AMD!
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