AMD Catalyst 13.8 BETA (13.200.0.0 July 23) Download

Posted by: asder00 on: 08/01/2013 04:43 PM [ 603 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Catalyst 13.8 BETA (13.200.0.0 July 23) Driver. This Beta driver works with Windows 7 and 8.

This Beta driver works with Windows 7 and 8 (32 and 64-bit). Later tonight we'll also have an article ready for you guys on the new Framepacing technology that this driver is going to enable.We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here. Windows 8.1 users have reported an issue, you can read about a user fix here.

Build Info:

DriverVer=07/23/2013, 13.200.0.0000
13.20-130723a-159703E-ATI
Catalyst: 13.8
CCC: 2013.0723.1944.33607
D3D: 9.14.10.0989
OGL: 6.14.10.12438
OCL: 10.0.1272.2

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver for Windows:

Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing

Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560x1600 (single display).

OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:

Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series

OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:

Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).

AMD Enduro Technology enhancement - Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
Resolved issues:

Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders

System Requirements: