AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (14.200.1004.0 August 11) Download

Posted by: asder00 on: 08/14/2014 08:00 PM [ 360 comment(s) ]

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Download the AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (14.200.1004.0 August 11) driver. This driver works with Windows 7 and 8.1.

This update adds support for CrossFire and Dual Graphics for Plants vs. Zombies, Assassin's Creed IV shows improved CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93% and there are improvements to be found with AOC monitors. We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC3 Driver for Windows

Includes all improvements found in the AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC driver
Display interface enhancements to improve 4k monitor performance and reduce flickering.

Improvements apply to the following products:

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series
AMD Radeon R9 270 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series

Even with these improvements, cable quality and other system variables can affect 4k performance. AMD recommends using DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2 certified cables with a length of 2m (~6 ft) or less when driving 4K monitors.

Wildstar: AMD Crossfire profile support
Lichdom: Single GPU and Multi-GPU performance enhancements
Watch Dogs: Smoother gameplay on single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC Driver for Windows

Includes all improvements found in the AMD Catalyst™ 14.6 RC driver
AMD CrossFire™ and AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics profile update for Plants vs. Zombies
Assassin's Creed IV - improved CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93%
Collaboration with AOC has identified non-standard display timings as the root cause of 60Hz SST flickering exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display.

Users are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from AOC that will resolve flickering at its origin.
Users are additionally advised to utilize DisplayPort-certified cables to ensure the integrity of the DisplayPort data connection.

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows

Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements):

AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
AMD Radeon R9 290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling

3DMark Sky Diver improvements:

AMD A4-6300 – improves up to 4%
Enables AMD Dual Graphics/AMD CrossFire support

Grid Auto Sport:

AMD CrossFire profile

Wildstar:

Power Xpress profile
Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
Performance improves up to 24% at 2560x1600 on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and multi-GPU configurations.

Watch Dogs:

AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvements

Battlefield Hardline Beta:

AMD CrossFire profile

Known Issues

Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in flickering
AMD CrossFire™ configurations with AMD Eyefinity enabled will see instability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
Catalyst™ Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder

Build Info:
DriverVer=08/11/2014, 14.200.1004.0000
Catalyst: 14.7 RC3
CCC: 2014.0811.2303.39561
D3D: 9.14.10.01044
OGL: 6.14.10.12967
OCL: 10.0.1526.3
Mantle: 9.1.10.0020

Download Locations

Download Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (32/64-bit) - EU Mirror [ 19804 downloads | Report broken link ]

Download Catalyst 14.7 RC3 (32/64-bit) - US Mirror [ 9265 downloads | Report broken link ]

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Baldassano
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#4893863 Posted on: 08/14/2014 07:53 PM

Im going to try these, as every single day i come back from lunch my damn PC is at a black screen waiting from a BSOD cause Ati cant fix their stupid wake up problem.. Driving me bat****.

That being said, i doubt its fixed

Octopuss
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#4893867 Posted on: 08/14/2014 07:58 PM

Oh damn I hoped it wouldn't be a beta this time.

lukas_1987_dion
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#4893868 Posted on: 08/14/2014 07:58 PM

So dx9 games are still not fixed? If true time to look around ''green'' for real this time :-(

doom5
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#4893869 Posted on: 08/14/2014 07:59 PM

So dx9 games are still not fixed? If true time to look around ''green'' for real this time :-(

I've heard about these DX9 issues, but what exactly are they? Is there a video that shows them?

Espionage724
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#4893870 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:00 PM

So dx9 games are still not fixed? If true time to look around ''green'' for real this time :-(

Did you try it yet, or are you just assuming?

I'm not on Windows, but my DX9 apps worked fine last checked. Of course, it could just affect games outside of the 5-6 I tried on two totally different GPUs.

I've heard about these DX9 issues, but what exactly are they? Is there a video that shows them?

From what I understand, it involves texture corruption. I haven't seen anything like it though personally, but as I mentioned, it could just "conveniently" not affect any of the games I tried.

lukas_1987_dion
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#4893872 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:00 PM

^^ Artifacts mostly and textures corruption in State of Decay, DAO, Mass Effect games etc..

Changlelog after more than month is a joke.

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#4893877 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:07 PM

Looks like yet another month for my trusty 14.4s then if that's the only changelog

DrunkenDonkey
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#4893894 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:22 PM

Don't trust changelogs

A lot of things just don't make it in there, besides, this changelog looks like comparison to latest stable, i.e. the dx9 corruption that showed in previous RC is not gonna make it in there, the only way is to try it for yourself (never seen dx9 corruption with 14.7 rc1 btw)

Rich_Guy
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#4893895 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:22 PM

Looks like yet another month for my trusty 14.4s then if that's the only changelog

Trusty 13.12 WHQLs for me

jaju123
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#4893897 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:23 PM

I hope they're working on something big. This changelog is like they're pretending nothing is wrong. My computer still starts half the time to a black screen, and there was that massive temperature hike after 14.6. Both are still not fixed.

N3MBOT
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#4893898 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:23 PM

Szaby59
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#4893899 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:24 PM

^^ Artifacts mostly and textures corruption in State of Decay, DAO, Mass Effect games etc..

Changlelog after more than month is a joke.

Mass Effect 2 and 3 works fine for me.

cyclone3d
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#4893902 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:27 PM

Espionage724
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#4893904 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:29 PM

this is all they have done after so much time?
and i was dreaming to see an alternative to Nvidia shadowplay...
that was dreaming high , i know , but still this changelog is ridiculous, i wonder why they even bother to put these out.
not trying to be a hater but they are giving reason to everyone that thinks AMD drivers are done by a couple of monkeys.

Pft, at least you guys have a new driver. the Linux driver is still stuck at 14.6 Beta 1.

Was looking forward to trying Catalyst again with 14.8, but I guess that'll have to wait. Open-source drivers are kind of broken on my 7850 currently (try dealing with video playback and random browsing unrelated to video that locks the entire OS up).

HerrFornit
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#4893909 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:34 PM

disappointing, Nvidia scores with new versions.

Downsampling shall come with 20.1, I've heard.

Looks like nb wanna try it.

Marko93
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#4893911 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:37 PM

this is all they have done after so much time?
and i was dreaming to see an alternative to Nvidia shadowplay...
that was dreaming high , i know , but still this changelog is ridiculous, i wonder why they even bother to put these out.
not trying to be a hater but they are giving reason to everyone that thinks AMD drivers are done by a couple of monkeys.

Raptr Game DVR is already good enough alternative to ShadowPlay.. I record BF4 with practically no FPS drop, and Mantle support is incoming..

N3MBOT
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#4893912 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:38 PM

Pft, at least you guys have a new driver. the Linux driver is still stuck at 14.6 Beta 1.

Was looking forward to trying Catalyst again with 14.8, but I guess that'll have to wait. Open-source drivers are kind of broken on my 7850 currently (try dealing with video playback and random browsing unrelated to video that locks the entire OS up).

that even makes it worse, they are bad all around i see.

i just wonder if they are even planing to make a move to counter the Nvidia GPU recording function.
its especialy important since i cannot even use Mantle if i want to record my gameplay, wich is constant , i see this "silence" as them ignoring one of the most important features on their cards while loosing terrain everyday to the competition , which is just plain stupid.

N3MBOT
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#4893914 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:39 PM

Raptr Game DVR is already good enough alternative to ShadowPlay.. I record BF4 with practically no FPS drop, and Mantle support is incoming..

source?

and besides correct if im wrong but raptr uses the same resources as any other video recorder software right?

velocityx
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#4893915 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:40 PM

I agree they should expand their driver department. Software nowadays is very important and even tho mantle is superb in itself, the driver team is left in the dirt kinda.

and i dont mean expand to put out new drivers more often, but more like feature wise and bug fixing.

waltc3
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#4893916 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:41 PM

The linked drivers here take me to the 14.7 RC1 AMD page--which AMD put up July/10/14. I've been running them for a month. Eh? (These are not new drivers--at least, not the ones the G3D link currently is displaying.)

Yep--these are the drivers I downloaded on 7/13/14--it's weird. The link on the Rage3d site listing the 14.7's has been changed back to an AMD page showing the 14.4's (title of the thread still says 14.7RC1, however.)...!

Guys, somebody at AMD is playing fast and loose with urls...

These are *old* drivers....Haven't seen this before...!

Where the "RC3" came from I have no idea at all...!

Edit: Judging by all of the posts made subsequent to this I guess it's true what they say about leading the horse to water... Does no one care that AMD released these betas more than 30 days ago? (I guess not.) :banana:

One Day Later: I boot up this morning to a Catalyst notification taking me to the 8/12 RC3 driver page...that did not exist yesterday. Very strange. Anyway, I now have the actual 14.7RC3's, for what it's worth...

The Mac
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#4893917 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:41 PM

this is all they have done after so much time?
and i was dreaming to see an alternative to Nvidia shadowplay...
.

Already exsists, its in the Gaming Evolved app. 20 minute buffer, works Windowed and works with Xfire.

lukas_1987_dion
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#4893919 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:43 PM

Mass Effect 2 and 3 works fine for me.

I did not say they do not work for me... But sometimes (especially on faces) I see artifacts, but they are not present in this drivers, will test State of Decay next..

The Mac
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#4893920 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:43 PM

source?

and besides correct if im wrong but raptr uses the same resources as any other video recorder software right?

http://raptr.com/TinyDino/news/53d67283036a484c36/improvements-to-amd-gaming-evolved-gameplay-capture-and-sharing

no, its hardware based for GCN just like shadowplay

kx11
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#4893922 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:46 PM

so no chance for a custom resolution ?

well i bought 290x , it'a 3 days old aaaaaaaaand i'm selling it

The Mac
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#4893923 Posted on: 08/14/2014 08:47 PM

im pretty sure it does have custom res...

If not, who cares - run it through handbrake.

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