AMD Catalyst 14.9 WHQL Download

Posted by: asder00 on: 09/29/2014 09:34 PM [ 351 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Catalyst 14.9 WHQL (14.301.1001.0 September 15) driver. This driver is WHQL signed and works with Windows 7 and 8.1.

We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 Windows Driver

Support for the AMD Radeon R9 28
Performance improvements (comparing AMD Catalyst 14.9 vs. AMD Catalyst 14.4)

3DMark Sky Diver improvements

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

3DMark Fire Strike

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 5% in Performance Preset

3DMark11

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series - improves up to 4% in Entry and Performance Preset

BioShock Infinite

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – 1920x1080 - improves up to 5%

Company of Heroes 2

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 8%

Crysis 3

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 10%

Grid Auto Sport

AMD CrossFire profile

Murdered Soul Suspect

AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, 4x MSAA, 16x AF) – improves up to 50%
AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 6%
CrossFire configurations improve scaling up to 75%

Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements)

AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling

Batman Arkham Origins:

AMD Radeon R9 290X (4x MSAA) – improves up to 20%
CrossFire configurations see up to a 70% gain in scaling

Wildstar

Power Xpress profile
Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
Performance improves up to 30% on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations

Tomb Raider

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – improves up to 5%

Watch Dogs

AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 9%
AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvement
Improved CrossFire performance – up to 20%

Assassin's Creed IV

Improves CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93% (CrossFire scaling improvement of 25% compared to AMD Catalyst 14.4)

Lichdom

Improves performance for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations

Star Craft II

AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, AA, 16x AF) – improves up to 20%

AMD Eyefinity enhancements

Mixed Resolution Support

A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group

Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays
Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface

Eyefinity Display Alignment

Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors

One-Click Setup

Driver detects layout of extended desktop

Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!

New user controls for video color and display settings

Greater control over Video Color Management:

Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis

Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)

Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display

AMD Mantle enhancements

Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology

Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain

Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)

AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration

JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
Provides fast JPEG decompression
Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression

Resolved Issues

60Hz SST flickering has been identified as an issue with non-standard display timings exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in the AMD Catalyst 14.9 driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display

Users seeing flickering issues in 60Hz SST mode are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from their monitor vendor 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.

4K panel flickering issues found on the AMD Radeon R9 290 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
Screen tearing observed on AMD CrossFire systems with Eyefinity portrait display configurations
Instability issues for Grid Autosport when running in 2x1 or 1x2 Eyefinity configurations
Geometry corruption in State of Decay

Known Issues

[404829]: Horizontal flashing lines on second screen in a clone mode with V-Sync on using AMD Mobility Graphics with Switchable Intel Graphics
[404508]: Display takes a long time to redraw the screen after an S4 cycle
[405432]: Mantle driver will TDR when running Star Swarm on the loading screen
[404660]: GPU gets stuck in a low power state after it was previously stressed to max power
[403032]: Severe flickering observed on default launch of SimCity 4
[403449]: Playing any media sample in full screen in the 2x1/1x2 Fill SLS configuration leads to TDR
[400573]: Intermittent application hang observed while launching Aliens vs. Predator
[400693]: While running performance test, crash is observed with fault module atidxx32.dll
[401386]: Severe corruption and flashing light observed with specific game settings in Grid 2
[401289]: Flashing lights in Batman Arkham Origins game main menu

Download Locations

Download Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 64-bit [ 156462 downloads | Report broken link ]

Download Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 32-bit [ 10938 downloads | Report broken link ]

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Extraordinary
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#4925520 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:13 PM

Nice cheers

Wow, huge changelog this time

Guess they read our p1ss take changelog and got busy

Ironjer
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#4925521 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:16 PM

Finally thanks men. I will try!

lukas_1987_dion
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#4925524 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:19 PM

Finally indeed.. Those drivers are newer than OpenCL 2.0 one?

SlackerITGuy
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#4925525 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:20 PM

Nope, every component is older (build number wise).

TUMIK
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#4925527 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:22 PM

cool left testing ...

SlackerITGuy
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#4925530 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:31 PM

Nice cheers

Wow, huge changelog this time

Guess they read our p1ss take changelog and got busy

Huge changelog compared to 14.4 :rolleyes:

spectatorx
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#4925531 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:32 PM

To me installer shows that ccc and accelerated video transcoding are newer.

Now i wonder... keep 14.401 or install 14.9?

Extraordinary
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#4925534 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:35 PM

Huge changelog compared to 14.4 :rolleyes:

Huge changelog compared to last WHQLs, all other drivers since 14.4 have been betas/leaks, can't expect them to only list changes since the last beta on a WHQL driver

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#4925537 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:38 PM

If somebody gets these downloaded is there any chance you could upload Win 7 x64 package to Mega as the download is dropping out and having to start again, I have horrible internet atm is running at about 28k

incneet
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#4925540 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:45 PM

here 13k

Extraordinary
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#4925543 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:50 PM

MEGA

The Mac
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#4925545 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:50 PM

Can anyone verify the dx9 issues are resolved so i can delete all the DLLs i scttered around?

WILDMAKC
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#4925551 Posted on: 09/29/2014 08:55 PM

MEGA

tnx.

caleb59
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#4925556 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:00 PM

Are they kidding? Stable drivers and still so much unresolved issues? I'm afraid to install this...

Known Issues
: Horizontal flashing lines on second screen in a clone mode with V-Sync on using AMD Mobility Graphics with Switchable Intel Graphics
: Display takes a long time to redraw the screen after an S4 cycle
: Mantle driver will TDR when running Star Swarm on the loading screen
: GPU gets stuck in a low power state after it was previously stressed to max power
: Severe flickering observed on default launch of SimCity 4
: Playing any media sample in full screen in the 2x1/1x2 Fill SLS configuration leads to TDR
: Intermittent application hang observed while launching Aliens vs. Predator
: While running performance test, crash is observed with fault module atidxx32.dll
: Severe corruption and flashing light observed with specific game settings in Grid 2
: Flashing lights in Batman Arkham Origins game main menu

spectatorx
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#4925557 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:00 PM

Can anyone verify the dx9 issues are resolved so i can delete all the DLLs i scttered around?

In changelog, in section "resolved issues" is this stated:

Geometry corruption in State of Decay

The Mac
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#4925562 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:04 PM

I saw that but i dont play that game

mine were weird stuff like blocking on shader effects and things.

Cramming the 14.4 dlls in the directories fixed them.

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#4925563 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:05 PM

AMD Catalyst 14.9 Driver for Windows and Linux available for download

Hello everyone,

The Catalyst 14.9 Driver for Windows & Linux is out now; please click the link below to visit the site to download it:

• Windows (64-bit)
• Windows (32-bit)
• Linux

As with earlier versions, please use the Issue Reporting Form Issue Reporting Form to report any bugs and make sure to read the Feature Highlights and the Known Issues sections to learn more about this driver.

Download Link
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

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#4925567 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:06 PM

delete

The Mac
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#4925568 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:06 PM

Matt:

1. you hant actually put any links in.
2. Already posted up top in the OP.

@extraoridinay:

He is, he used to be LtMatt, and was hired by AMD.

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#4925570 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:07 PM

Matt:

1. you hant actually put any links in.
2. Already posted up top in the OP.

I was about to reply something similar but figured his thread may have been merged

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#4925573 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:13 PM

To me installer shows that ccc and accelerated video transcoding are newer.

Now i wonder... keep 14.401 or install 14.9?
I'm curious whether this WHQL is superior to asder00's 14.x RC1 (14.410.0.0 September 2) OpenCL 2.0?

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#4925576 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:17 PM

So which ones are better , 14.9 or 14.x 410

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#4925577 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:17 PM

A word of waring for R9 290(X) Crossfire users! I have encountered the same black screen hang on PC shutdown as the one in 14.300.1005.0 August 27. Will disable ULPS and report back!

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#4925580 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:19 PM

Matt:

1. you hant actually put any links in.
2. Already posted up top in the OP.

@extraoridinay:

He is, he used to be LtMatt, and was hired by AMD.

Thank you Mac, corrected now.

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#4925581 Posted on: 09/29/2014 09:20 PM

waiting for feedback, until all the ''im downloading it now'' pages are done. (usually until page 4, comes the feedback).

thanks asder.

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