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Download AMD Catalyst 13.3 BETA 2 Drivers
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/15/2013 09:37 PM | 174 comment(s) ]
AMD issued a new Beta driver, this is Catalyst 13.3 BETA 2 (12.100.17.0 March 14). The driver offers a number of fixes and performance increments Far Cry 3 and Sim City 5 as well as latency fixes for Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution. It also resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations.
You can download the driver from this page.
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#4554491 Posted on: 03/15/2013 09:46 PM
Any Arma 3 Improvements ?
Any Arma 3 Improvements ?
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#4554492 Posted on: 03/15/2013 09:49 PM
Oooh new drivers, cheers asder!
It is there
Oooh new drivers, cheers asder!
also why the beta is not in the http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win8-64.aspx page?
It is there
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#4554505 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:03 PM
Look at the post in the Ati driver forum, most of them are about the crashing in games, BSOD, driver stop working when using the internet browser like Firefox or Chrome, IE10 etc... let hope this driver is really a beta & not alpha build because 12.11 was very stable.
Crying, what crying i'm saying like it is & you know it that i'm right. if there any issue people need to report it here because no one like a buggy driver that do more harm then good.
I've used every 13.1 driver, and every 13.2 beta
I've had ONE issue, Planetside 2 sometimes has black squares.
That's it, all my other games run perfectly fine.
No crashes.
No lock ups.
No mega corruption.
No "Framerate hiccups" etc
Look at the post in the Ati driver forum, most of them are about the crashing in games, BSOD, driver stop working when using the internet browser like Firefox or Chrome, IE10 etc... let hope this driver is really a beta & not alpha build because 12.11 was very stable.
Crying, what crying i'm saying like it is & you know it that i'm right. if there any issue people need to report it here because no one like a buggy driver that do more harm then good.
I've used every 13.1 driver, and every 13.2 beta
I've had ONE issue, Planetside 2 sometimes has black squares.
That's it, all my other games run perfectly fine.
No crashes.
No lock ups.
No mega corruption.
No "Framerate hiccups" etc
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#4554510 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:07 PM
Considering Arma 3 is in Alpha state, you won't be getting drivers with optimizations for it anytime soon.
Any Arma 3 Improvements ?
Considering Arma 3 is in Alpha state, you won't be getting drivers with optimizations for it anytime soon.
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#4554521 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:18 PM
My initial benchmark results :
Config - as in my profile.
Cat 13.2 B7 :
Unigine Valley
Preset : Extreme HD
1693
Unigine Heaven
Preset : Extreme
1093
3Dmark 2013,
Fire Strike (non-extreme)
6286
Gpu : 7578
Phys : 5523
Tomb Raider, vsync off, Fscreen exclusive,
Quality : Ultimate
min 40,8
max 64,2
Avg 51,4
Cat 13.3 B2 :
Valley :
1701
Heaven :
1097
Fire Strike :
6300
GPU : 7589
Phys : 5571
Tomb Raider :
min 40,8
max 58,4
avg 49,9
One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).
But anyway - since I've not found any other issues - for me, for now - it's a keeper
My initial benchmark results :
Config - as in my profile.
Cat 13.2 B7 :
Unigine Valley
Preset : Extreme HD
1693
Unigine Heaven
Preset : Extreme
1093
3Dmark 2013,
Fire Strike (non-extreme)
6286
Gpu : 7578
Phys : 5523
Tomb Raider, vsync off, Fscreen exclusive,
Quality : Ultimate
min 40,8
max 64,2
Avg 51,4
Cat 13.3 B2 :
Valley :
1701
Heaven :
1097
Fire Strike :
6300
GPU : 7589
Phys : 5571
Tomb Raider :
min 40,8
max 58,4
avg 49,9
One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).
But anyway - since I've not found any other issues - for me, for now - it's a keeper
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#4554528 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:21 PM
One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).
Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.
Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690
Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416
One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).
Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.
Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690
Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416
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#4554534 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:25 PM
Useless driver... at least for me... but its good that AMD keeps improving games performance.
Useless driver... at least for me... but its good that AMD keeps improving games performance.
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#4554558 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:35 PM
Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.
Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690
Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416
Hmm... interesting... I do have 718.4 but will now update to latest to see if it was fixed...
But on a sidenote - I've run on the exact same build just different Cat's and on earlier I haven't noticed the issue with hair, on newest - I did...
Something's fishy
Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.
Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690
Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416
Hmm... interesting... I do have 718.4 but will now update to latest to see if it was fixed...
But on a sidenote - I've run on the exact same build just different Cat's and on earlier I haven't noticed the issue with hair, on newest - I did...
Something's fishy
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#4554578 Posted on: 03/15/2013 10:52 PM
tombraider is still ****ed lol
even after the recent update + graphics card update, when i enable tressfx with crossfire enabled, my game freezes with sound loop, and it happens randomly most of the time when fmv`s apear lol, with tressfx off though its smooth sailing :/
also they still have not fixed hardware acceleration corruption, when viewing flash stuff or steam videos or websites with flash videos my screen completely corruption i managed to get rid of it by pressing ALT+F4 i tryed taking a screenshot
but all that appears in the screen shot is a perfectly uncorrupted desktop lol
i wish i never bought these 7 series cards, there nothing but problem after problem....think im going nvidia next....
to be perfectly honest i think its the displayout ports on 7 series cards that have the issues, i mean i have had hdmi audio out issues with these cards from day 1 and sometimes they work when i reboot other times there broken when i reboot or working but disabled lol
tombraider is still ****ed lol
even after the recent update + graphics card update, when i enable tressfx with crossfire enabled, my game freezes with sound loop, and it happens randomly most of the time when fmv`s apear lol, with tressfx off though its smooth sailing :/
also they still have not fixed hardware acceleration corruption, when viewing flash stuff or steam videos or websites with flash videos my screen completely corruption i managed to get rid of it by pressing ALT+F4 i tryed taking a screenshot
but all that appears in the screen shot is a perfectly uncorrupted desktop lol
i wish i never bought these 7 series cards, there nothing but problem after problem....think im going nvidia next....
to be perfectly honest i think its the displayout ports on 7 series cards that have the issues, i mean i have had hdmi audio out issues with these cards from day 1 and sometimes they work when i reboot other times there broken when i reboot or working but disabled lol
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#4554598 Posted on: 03/15/2013 11:01 PM
tombraider is still ****ed lol
even after the recent update + graphics card update, when i enable tressfx with crossfire enabled, my game freezes with sound loop, and it happens randomly most of the time when fmv`s apear lol, with tressfx off though its smooth sailing :/
also they still have not fixed hardware acceleration corruption, when viewing flash stuff or steam videos or websites with flash videos my screen completely corruption i managed to get rid of it by pressing ALT+F4 i tryed taking a screenshot
but all that appears in the screen show is a perfectly uncorrupted desktop lol
i wish i never bought these 7 series cards, there nothing but problem after problem....think im going nvidia next....
Try playing it with one card if Crossfire is giving you issues
. so far i have not play games yet but it seem that the display has stop error stop for now.
tombraider is still ****ed lol
even after the recent update + graphics card update, when i enable tressfx with crossfire enabled, my game freezes with sound loop, and it happens randomly most of the time when fmv`s apear lol, with tressfx off though its smooth sailing :/
also they still have not fixed hardware acceleration corruption, when viewing flash stuff or steam videos or websites with flash videos my screen completely corruption i managed to get rid of it by pressing ALT+F4 i tryed taking a screenshot
but all that appears in the screen show is a perfectly uncorrupted desktop lol
i wish i never bought these 7 series cards, there nothing but problem after problem....think im going nvidia next....
Try playing it with one card if Crossfire is giving you issues
. so far i have not play games yet but it seem that the display has stop error stop for now.
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#4554609 Posted on: 03/15/2013 11:06 PM
Strangely, 1/2 way through the install, I get logged out and have to re-sign in on Windows 8 x64. Driver is installed by CCC is nowhere to be found, and as an Eyefinity user I need that.
Tried 4 times now
EDIT
Working on the 5th time, re-downloaded and did a custom install instead of express.
Strangely, 1/2 way through the install, I get logged out and have to re-sign in on Windows 8 x64. Driver is installed by CCC is nowhere to be found, and as an Eyefinity user I need that.
Tried 4 times now
EDIT
Working on the 5th time, re-downloaded and did a custom install instead of express.
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#4554617 Posted on: 03/15/2013 11:12 PM
I've seen performance increase notes for games not even released yet in the past on drivers/caps :p
Considering Arma 3 is in Alpha state, you won't be getting drivers with optimizations for it anytime soon.
I've seen performance increase notes for games not even released yet in the past on drivers/caps :p
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#4554626 Posted on: 03/15/2013 11:18 PM
I am probably missing something, but
1) where is BETA 1?
2) where is 13.2 BETA 8?
What in the hell is AMD doing with all this?
I am probably missing something, but
1) where is BETA 1?
2) where is 13.2 BETA 8?
What in the hell is AMD doing with all this?
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#4554630 Posted on: 03/15/2013 11:20 PM
Lots of crashing with 13.3 beta2 on the desktop. IE10 do not like them, so back to 13.2 beta7
Lots of crashing with 13.3 beta2 on the desktop. IE10 do not like them, so back to 13.2 beta7
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The nVidia dude is right... the last good drivers were 12.11 Beta 11, and, by definition, 13.1WHQL, AKA, 12.11 WHQL... anyway... I was having issues with the TR, let's see if this driver delivers.
THANKS ASDER!!!!!
Not rly, most people who had problems had problems with artifacting, because card got higher utilization with newer drivers (and proportionally higher fps).
So normal users got fps bump, while unreasonable OCers had to be lower clocks which is for some people's mentality unacceptable.
OpenCL performance is same as 12.11b4 which are best for OpenCL if I count performance/utilization ratio.
With 13.3b2 OpenCL utilization is few percent lower, therefore are scores, temperatures, power draw.
From Direct3D PoV I am pleased @120Hz as for now have not noticed any new broken features.