AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 BETA Download

Posted by: asder00 on: 11/11/2014 12:56 AM [ 234 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Catalyst 14.11.1 BETA driver. This beta driver works with Windows 7 and 8.1.

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Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Windows® Beta Driver

Performance Improvements

Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
Assassin's Creed® Unity performance optimizations

Known Issues

[408930]: Occasional stuttering in Assassin's Creed® Unity in CrossFire mode under specific game settings
[409235]: Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[408706]: Quad CrossFire AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 may sometimes black screen when loading a game in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare
[409199]: AMD Radeon™ R9 280X/280 may experience a crash when playing Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and a video at the same time. If you experience this issue a work around is turning off the video while playing the game.
[409177]: CrossFire users may experience intermittent flickering in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare menus. As a work around if this issue is seen restarting the game may cause the issue to disappear.

Important Notes

AMD is currently working with Activision to resolve the following issues in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare:

Users in AMD CrossFire™ mode sometimes experience texture corruption
Negative scaling sometimes being observed at specific resolutions with AMD CrossFire™

AMD Product Compatibility

The AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Beta Driver is compatible with the following AMD family products

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility
AMD Radeon™ R9 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility

AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.

AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility
AMD Radeon™ R9 M200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 M200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series
AMD Radeon™ R5 M200 Series	AMD Radeon™ E8860

Compatible Operating Systems

The latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.1 Beta Driver is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows® platforms:

Windows® 8.1 64-bit
Windows® 7 64-bit version with SP1 or higher

Download Locations

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Doom112
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#4956203 Posted on: 11/11/2014 03:53 AM

Puzzling, on a hardware enthusiast site asking about driver updates for 5 year old cards. AMD is a business, not a charity.

That is one the reason why AMD is struggling and do not have stock market or proper PC users.

asder00
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#4956204 Posted on: 11/11/2014 03:56 AM

Tomorrow i will make a mod for hd5 and hd6 cards, it will work unless they removed the support from the driver itself (dlls, sys, etc.).

roadczar
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#4956212 Posted on: 11/11/2014 04:39 AM

Did not work for me. First noticed slowdown in BF4. Confirmed with 5% loss in 3D Mark. Back to 14.9.2.

DeadAsBefore
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#4956217 Posted on: 11/11/2014 05:03 AM

Just removed amd completely with a removal program from this site, and reinstalled the newest driver, and waited for about a minute and it prompted a system reboot and did so, and now it's showing all the correct information on catalyst control center, good ol' 14.11.1 Beta

yay lol]

Weird, for some reason when I look at my details, it says that my Catalyst is still 14.6 and I've tried re-installing to the newer ones like 14.9.2 etc. with no effect. Still says 14.6 on that section. I completely removed amd drivers/control center and so forth and reinstalled the new driver, but it didn't install Catalyst Control Center at all, which was weird. Everything on your list of details screenshot is identical to mine besides the 14.6 Catalyst version, when it's supposed to read 14.11.1 beta instead. I don't get it. It won't seem to update the actual catalyst program itself, or it could just be a weird bug, idk. Any ideas?

Espionage724
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#4956220 Posted on: 11/11/2014 05:18 AM

That is one the reason why AMD is struggling and do not have stock market or proper PC users.

So if I get a 5 year old NVIDIA card, I'm ensured driver updates that benefit (note benefit; not just install) that card?

Doom112
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#4956224 Posted on: 11/11/2014 05:41 AM

So if I get a 5 year old NVIDIA card, I'm ensured driver updates that benefit (note benefit; not just install) that card?

U can check out Nvidia customer support vs AMD customers support in this forum,Nvdia forum so there is no need to argue because facts tell all.

BTW HD6xxx is not even 4 years old that shows how much they care and love their user.

Nvidia is properly supporting GTX 4xx where as poor HD5xxx and HD6xxx user cannot event install new drivers and that is called boycotting ur own user.

Akumajou
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#4956229 Posted on: 11/11/2014 05:46 AM

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Pantsu
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#4956240 Posted on: 11/11/2014 06:17 AM

I tried Cod:AW, 7970/280X CF. Negative scaling and stutters in sp, 4K and 1080p. Yet one more reason to ditch my current setup for the 970.

CPC_RedDawn
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#4956241 Posted on: 11/11/2014 06:23 AM

COD:AW

got a 40MB update and then a 6.1MB update and things have improved.

I find it best to get into party, for some reason I have MUCH better connection and the game runs much smoother this way. Some maps still lag like crap though.

I also turned down textures from Extra to High and put Shadow Map Resolution on Normal.

Game runs a lot better this way.

BuuBuu
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#4956248 Posted on: 11/11/2014 06:46 AM

does it fix this issue : : GPU gets stuck in a low power state after it was previously stressed to max power ?

FunkyMike
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#4956249 Posted on: 11/11/2014 06:56 AM

So if I get a 5 year old NVIDIA card, I'm ensured driver updates that benefit (note benefit; not just install) that card?

They do benefit the card regardless as most optimizations stretch over the entire kernel.

I have an ancient pavilion with an nvidia. Still installs the newest updates and did give me a huge performance boost in old games such as Red Alert 3. Whilst I do not recall the version numbers the update was from this year (2014). Whilst the game was slower with an nvidia driver from early 2013.

The laptop itself being from 2008.

And yup Manhattan (5xxx/ 6xxx rebrands) and Vancouver (6xxx/7xxx rebrands)

Are removed from the inf file.

Very nice AMD.
Another example: AMD totally gimping the 5xxx mobility on windows 8.1 causing it to bootloop just a few driver versions past of officially fixing it after 3 years of waiting and then dropping support.

Classy move.

Edit:

Maybe they are testing the waters with this. First the removal of all 5xxx and 6xxx mobility products from their web page .. Now they are slowly working their way into removing the desktop lines.

jsolo
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#4956253 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:11 AM

Feel that much better that I'm in the middle of switching my work to NVIDIA this year. Wish I had started sooner. We're going to have several hundred machines still running 5000/6000 series cards for at least the next 2 years, so much for me having unified driver versions in my system images. Every month this year AMD has managed to lower my expectations even further, can safely say we are never going back, been burnt far too many times.

cyclone3d
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#4956265 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:42 AM

Looks like they did fix some bugs in this beta vs 14.9.2.

In 14.9.2 I was getting some weird flashing on specific textures in Crysis. Played for about an hour tonight after installing this new beta and it appears that it is fixed.

GPU usage and temps also seem a bit lower in Crysis as well.

haz_mat
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#4956266 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:43 AM

Always entertaining seeing the drones who think anyone cares that they're going back to nVidia. I guess only computer miracle workers are able to run AMD anymore....

The Mac
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#4956273 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:51 AM

word...

Espionage724
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#4956275 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:52 AM

- Driver does not contain chipset drivers (AHCI, USB Filter, IOMMU, etc); 14.9.2 does
- PCI Bus driver is 12/12/2013, 13.251.3.0000
- Audio Bus driver is 08/15/2013, 9.002.0.0000
- HDMI driver is 02/21/2014, 9.0.0.9905

Here's the chipset drivers from 14.9.2 in-case anyone needs them and doesn't feel like re-downloading 14.9.2: http://puu.sh/cM1iY/7c1d7ee03c.zip

big ROBOT bill
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#4956276 Posted on: 11/11/2014 07:53 AM

Just had a quick play of CoD MW single player and the drivers ran fine, seemed smooth and fast. Good enough for me.

DiceAir
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#4956289 Posted on: 11/11/2014 08:43 AM

This driver works better but not nearly 100% for cod:aw. I get 100% cpu usage and about 60% per gpu. How can this game be more demanding than BF4

crz
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#4956304 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:21 AM

Anybody tried them with BF4 and Mantle Crossfire?! DX11 Crossfire is s**t, for example when your tank/APC is attacked by scout chopper and you deploy active protection the framerate tanks. Or Siege of Shanghai becomes a mess after levolution on 64 players server. Mantle Crossfire did not have these performance issues.I don't know if it is the July patch or the driver but somebody should fix this mess, it has been broken for months now.

Having DA: Inquisition on preorder and coming out in about a week using the same Frostbite 3 engine I am worried the Mantle Crossfire memory leak and the DX11 Crossfire performance issues will also be present.

Fox2232
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#4956307 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:22 AM

Flaming about support of beta drivers...

jonson
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#4956309 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:24 AM

Mantle Crossfire memory Leak in BF4

Did not work for me. First noticed slowdown in BF4. Confirmed with 5% loss in 3D Mark. Back to 14.9.2.

DiceAir
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#4956310 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:28 AM

Have you tested with Mantle ?

It seems the Mantle Version is the same on this beta driver. I doubt they fix the mantle crossfire memory leak in BF4.

I give it a try. But i feel that my patience with AMD comes to an End. After over 10 years using AMD GPU/CPU´s i am nearly done with them. Tired of being third grade gamer. They promote AMD GPU´s with Mantle and BF4 and it simple dont work out. The Memory leaking is so blatant. First it eats the Vram then it eats up the System RAM and you end with stuttering 5 fps in Game.

I think they simple dont care. Time to buy a GPU from the Pros @ Nvidia.

If AMD continue to release somewhat useless drivers and not supporting mantle then I see that they will loose almost 50% of their customers. Once nvidia releases new graphics cards after 900 series i will make my move back to them. With dx12 coming out mantle can kiss my hairy ass goodbye.

crz
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#4956315 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:38 AM

Flaming about support of beta drivers...

I'm sorry about derailing the CoD/AC driver thread but everybody has different expectations about what the beta drivers should fix. I guess everybody hopes their issues will be fixed first. I'll give it a try in the evening with BF4 but I do not expect miracles.

Seth-01
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#4956316 Posted on: 11/11/2014 09:39 AM

Have you tested with Mantle ?

It seems the Mantle Version is the same on this beta driver. I doubt they fix the mantle crossfire memory leak in BF4.

I give it a try. But i feel that my patience with AMD comes to an End. After over 10 years using AMD GPU/CPU´s i am nearly done with them. Tired of being third grade gamer. They promote AMD GPU´s with Mantle and BF4 and it simple dont work out. The Memory leaking is so blatant. First it eats the Vram then it eats up the System RAM and you end with stuttering 5 fps in Game.

I think they simple dont care. Time to buy a GPU from the Pros @ Nvidia.

I agree ! if they don't fix the memory leak in BF4 using Mantle before Christmass, my next GC will be a nVidia !

thatguy91
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#4956332 Posted on: 11/11/2014 10:07 AM

I agree ! if they don't fix the memory leak in BF4 using Mantle before Christmass, my next GC will be a nVidia !

I believe they are working on a better driver, the recent drivers are basically just maintenance releases. I do have some evidence to support this statement... the OpenCL 2.0 driver from September. Despite being a couple of months older it has later versions for the components. This does not mean they contain the fixes that these lower versioned component drivers have been given, just that they are on a different codepath. It seems AMD are spending most of their effort on getting that driver right, and just keeping a small amount of effort on maintaining this driver codepath. This isn't a bad thing, I'm guessing the newer codepath also has preliminary proper support for DirectX 12 and Windows 10, even if it isn't fully implemented upon release.

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