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Download the AMD Catalyst 13.2 BETA 7 driver

This AMD Catalyst 13.2 BETA 7 driver is compatible with AMD Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series graphics cards. This display driver supports Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8. There are no full release notes released just yet, but given the timing, this most certainly is an optimized Crysis 3 driver.

With this driver, these products offer 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.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 7 DRIVER
(Please note that AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta)

Resolves an intermittent hang seen in Crossfire configurations with the new Crysis 3 patch.

Build Info:
DriverVer=02/26/2013, 12.100.17.0000
12.10.17-130226a-153761E-ATI

Crysis 3 multi-player: Improves CrossFire scaling by up to 40%
Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 10% at 2560x1600 with 8xAA
New 3D Mark release: Adds CrossFire profile support for the new 3D Mark release under Windows 8

AMD Catalyst 13.2 is now available, and includes the following updates:

Improves performance in the Crysis 3 Multi-Player Beta by up to 50% when 4x and 8x MSAA are enabled.
Improves performance up to 15% in high MSAA cases for the Crysis 3 beta release
Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2
Improves single GPU performance up to 50% for DmC Devil May Cry
Improves CrossFire performance up to 10% for Crysis 2
Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.

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#4542092 Posted on: 03/02/2013 04:59 PM

I've had 0 issues with Chrome with any AMD beta driver.

Same here.

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#4542181 Posted on: 03/02/2013 07:14 PM

ditto

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#4542451 Posted on: 03/03/2013 02:13 AM

Had the random Chrome idling issue too, did some research and found a temp fix. Go to Chrome Properties->Shortcut Tab->Target and than add this to the end of the line "--disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer"

Full line should read (example): "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

After doing this my idling issues stopped..
Hopefully Chrome or AMD can address the issue in a future release.

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#4542452 Posted on: 03/03/2013 02:16 AM

You need to reproduce it, consistently, and report it.

They cant fix what they cant reproduce.

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#4542815 Posted on: 03/03/2013 05:45 PM

Its crysis 3 its unoptimized for ATI hardware.

so why has it the 'AMD gaming evolved' in the credits then? :3eyes:

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#4542845 Posted on: 03/03/2013 06:30 PM

so why has it the 'AMD gaming evolved' in the credits then? :3eyes:

Because the only thing AMD cares about if it supports Eyfinity or CFX, not whether it actually runs well. Just look at Far Cry 3 or any number of AMD Evolved games. Just because it has that logo doesn't mean it actually runs well.

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#4542858 Posted on: 03/03/2013 06:45 PM

Not sure if it changed or not in later betas, but I was on beta 5, and it caused my computer to BSoD when I tried recording gameplay of GW2 with Evolve.

That was the only game that had an issue too with recording strangely. Reverted to 13.1, and I no longer crash.

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#4543162 Posted on: 03/04/2013 01:18 AM

Because the only thing AMD cares about if it supports Eyfinity or CFX, not whether it actually runs well. Just look at Far Cry 3 or any number of AMD Evolved games. Just because it has that logo doesn't mean it actually runs well.

and 9 times out of ten its a users system that's at fault or incorrectly setup , amd spends millions on getting their logo in games

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#4543318 Posted on: 03/04/2013 08:59 AM

Because the only thing AMD cares about if it supports Eyfinity or CFX, not whether it actually runs well. Just look at Far Cry 3 or any number of AMD Evolved games. Just because it has that logo doesn't mean it actually runs well.

Well. DeusEX: HR runs perfectly. I always had trouble with games which had Nvidia logo. Usually stupid things as no Vsync in game menu...

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#4543356 Posted on: 03/04/2013 10:29 AM

Any idea when we will see new beta drivers? I am still waiting on far cry xfire fix.

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#4543429 Posted on: 03/04/2013 12:47 PM

hi

seems to be that steam big picture crashes with this driver (cf or single card)

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#4543537 Posted on: 03/04/2013 02:35 PM

Sometimes when I right click in firefox, the box with properties etc comes out invisible. Weird.

Other than that I have had good performance with these.

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#4543592 Posted on: 03/04/2013 03:32 PM

So when's the damn officials so I can get these frame rendering improvements in all my games?

SURE TAKING FOREVER AROUND HERE.

All jesting aside, I am annoyed we haven't gotten a "Used in all games" version, and just the "Used in specific games" beta's

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#4543756 Posted on: 03/04/2013 06:26 PM

So when's the damn officials so I can get these frame rendering improvements in all my games?

SURE TAKING FOREVER AROUND HERE.

All jesting aside, I am annoyed we haven't gotten a "Used in all games" version, and just the "Used in specific games" beta's

Same here. And I think that means that drivers with rewritten memory management will be 13.3 or later. That obviously sucks.

p.s. anyone here use lucid logix on p8z77 asus motherboards?

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#4543799 Posted on: 03/04/2013 06:50 PM

Just curious. I have Gigabyte's WF3 and with 25% fans I have 27 in idle. Rooms temp is 21C.

What cooler you are using?

BTW, no spikes on my GPU with this driver. :3eyes:

Nothing special - just the default (dual) fans that came with my card.

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#4544052 Posted on: 03/04/2013 10:41 PM

Hello everyone, I've created account just to share what I notice.

Im impressed by the way how these drivers improves the performance in GW2. Its simply amazing. I got main problem that makes me not able to use them tho.

I record a lot with Dxtory - pretty much on daily basis - but with these drivers it is impossible due to an error. Everytime I press recording button, the screen just freezes. Sometimes it is possible to stop recording, refresh the application and I can see the screen again but during that time, the screen is just stack in one place.

Im not sure did anyone report it but it is confirmed to be 13.2 bug as reverting drivers to 13.1 resolves the problem entirely - except the fact Im losing performance again :s

Hope that helps! Cheers!

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#4544114 Posted on: 03/04/2013 11:37 PM

Hello everyone, I've created account just to share what I notice.

Im impressed by the way how these drivers improves the performance in GW2. Its simply amazing. I got main problem that makes me not able to use them tho.

I record a lot with Dxtory - pretty much on daily basis - but with these drivers it is impossible due to an error. Everytime I press recording button, the screen just freezes. Sometimes it is possible to stop recording, refresh the application and I can see the screen again but during that time, the screen is just stack in one place.

Im not sure did anyone report it but it is confirmed to be 13.2 bug as reverting drivers to 13.1 resolves the problem entirely - except the fact Im losing performance again :s

Hope that helps! Cheers!
This is somewhat interesting. I use a totally different program, but it too has issues with recording in GW2 with 13.2 (beta 5 at least)

Not sure if it changed or not in later betas, but I was on beta 5, and it caused my computer to BSoD when I tried recording gameplay of GW2 with Evolve.

That was the only game that had an issue too with recording strangely. Reverted to 13.1, and I no longer crash.

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#4544314 Posted on: 03/05/2013 04:52 AM

i assume fraps records fine? certain sets of apps capture in different ways

plus there was that xsplit crashing issue that went on for a few drivers

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#4544324 Posted on: 03/05/2013 05:18 AM

i assume fraps records fine? certain sets of apps capture in different ways

plus there was that xsplit crashing issue that went on for a few drivers

Dxtory captures directly from the videocard frame buffer, fastest way but could be error prone

I've had zero issues capturing with Dxtory and Skyrim though, and its one of the modified frame render games

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#4544370 Posted on: 03/05/2013 07:21 AM

on this driver your dxtory in skyrim is not broken like the above users in GW2?

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#4544482 Posted on: 03/05/2013 11:00 AM

Any news on the new beta incoming? Tomb Raider's TressFX is freaking heavy...

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#4544517 Posted on: 03/05/2013 11:52 AM

Man Tressfx is gorgeous but gives you a 10fps dip. On the other hand 660ti users are getting 15-20 fps dips so I'm happy Nixxes optimized this game so good for AMD. Hopefully we can get a beta by tomorrow (as usual)

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#4545559 Posted on: 03/06/2013 04:42 AM

why would it not give a dip? tesselation dips, cuda water dips, physx dips

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#4545611 Posted on: 03/06/2013 06:58 AM

why would it not give a dip? tesselation dips, cuda water dips, physx dips

Well my videocard is somewhat old but it gives insane drops during the close-up looks and cutscenes that they're pretty much unwatchable. It's like 5-10 FPS during the cutscenes with TressFX enabled. And it's only ONE head while PhysX, tesselation etc etc affects a lot of stuff.
I didn't read a lot of news about TR and TressFX in general but it looks to me that they implemented that TFX at the last moment and didn't have much time to optimize it.

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#4545685 Posted on: 03/06/2013 09:37 AM

Tomb raider is absolutely gorgeous, its running fairly consistantly at 60FPS for me with all settings max + TressFX, but tressfx is showing some weird behaviour, almost flickering - i'm putting that down to crossfire though and like mentioned above I think Tressfx may have been a little rushed so bound to have some issues here and there.

Overall, very pleased with Laras tits.

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