AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/27/2014 12:15 PM [ 485 comment(s) ]

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Download AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver

The AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta driver is notable release for us for a couple reasons:

Mantle is now enabled for notebooks based on AMD Enduro technology
Mixed-resolution AMD Eyefinity configurations are now supported for SLS
Performance improvements for Watch Dogs
Performance improvements for Murdered: Soul Suspect

Please read: Windows 8.1 is supported with this Beta driver whilst Windows 8 is not.

Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver)
Users should upgrade (for Free) to Windows 8.1 to take advantage of the new features found in the AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta
AMD Catalyst 14.4 will remain available for users who wish to remain on Windows 8

A future AMD Catalyst release will allow for the WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7 driver) to be installed under Windows 8.0 for those users unable to upgrade to Windows 8.1

Watch Dogs:

AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4xMSAA – improves up to 25%
AMD Radeon R9 290X - 2560x1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 28%
AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 92% scaling

Murdered: Soul Suspect:

AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4xMSAA – improves up to 16%
AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 93% scaling
AMD Eyefinity Verbesserungen:

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 desktops
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 technologyEnables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update).
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

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

Download Locations

Download Desktop Driver Windows Vista/7/8.1 32 and 64 bit [ 43857 downloads | Report broken link ]

Download APU and Mobile Driver Windows Vista/7/8.1 32 and 64 bit [ 13233 downloads | Report broken link ]

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fragba1t
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#4826042 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:09 AM

I posted about this in the 'Upcoming AMD Catalyst 14.6 driver slides' thread and confirm they are fine.

Edit: Watch Dogs runs quite a bit better for me now, before it would dip below 30fps every so often, haven't seen it below 40fps yet!

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#4826043 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:10 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded. The original link has stopped working, too many people downloading i suspect.

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#4826044 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:12 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded. The original link has stopped working, too many people downloading i suspect.

yes, please.

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#4826046 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:14 AM

It didn't stop to work, it just need long time to start download, up to few minutes. I was wondered with it too and that's why i said their download works a bit weird.

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#4826047 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:14 AM

What do you think, can we expect from this driver performance increase on HD5850 in WatchDogs?

fragba1t
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#4826057 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:25 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded. The original link has stopped working, too many people downloading i suspect.

I'm doing that now, but with my crappy internet it'll take about 30 mins!

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#4826059 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:27 AM

I'm doing that now, but with my crappy internet it'll take about 30 mins!

thanks for your efforts dude.

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#4826060 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:28 AM

I'm doing that now, but with my crappy internet it'll take about 30 mins!

Much appreciated.

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#4826068 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:35 AM

Much appreciated.

keep hammering the link, it'll eventually start downloading, but it's slow, getting 90kb/s so another 45 minutes to go :/

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#4826070 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:36 AM

Thanks for the upload

Downloading!

spectatorx
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#4826074 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:37 AM

OMG... I'm pissed... Totally... 3rd release in a row which can't detect my tv, now i'm typing from my second 4:3 display plugged via vga because tv plugged via hdmi is not detected. I have to revert to 14.3... again...

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#4826076 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:39 AM

weird ^ never had any issues with detecting my TV, using HDMI.

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#4826081 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:46 AM

Please upload to an alternate host whoever gets it downloaded.

h**ps://w**.oboom.com/2WAV0NSA/AMD-Catalyst-14.6-Beta-V1.0-Windows-May23.exe

sorry no direkt link i have >10 posts :puke2:

spectatorx
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#4826083 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:47 AM

I have no idea what causes it and how to fix it in other way than reverting driver to elder version.

I reported it to amd with 14.4.

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#4826091 Posted on: 05/27/2014 10:53 AM

h**ps://w**.oboom.com/2WAV0NSA/AMD-Catalyst-14.6-Beta-V1.0-Windows-May23.exe

sorry no direkt link i have >10 posts :puke2:

thanks, I guess it'll be helpful to some

fragba1t
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#4826112 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:13 AM

Wow, that took forever but for what it's worth - https://mega.co.nz/#!8ZEgCJyI!CXHI7xITu4GPvqE8TkZXTRc7x7wHqB5JwPp6a0QOKpY

Tip - if you're going to upload to Mega for others to download from, sign up for an account! That took 10 minutes in itself.

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#4826115 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:14 AM

h**ps://w**.oboom.com/2WAV0NSA/AMD-Catalyst-14.6-Beta-V1.0-Windows-May23.exe

sorry no direkt link i have >10 posts :puke2:

Not sure if you could have chose a worse file sharing site. But thanks anyway.

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#4826118 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:17 AM

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#4826119 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:17 AM

Thank you!

fragba1t
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#4826121 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:24 AM

Thank you!! This one flies!

You're welcome! Nice to give something back (albeit small) to this great site.

Hope they work as well for everyone as they have for me.

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#4826123 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:27 AM

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#4826128 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:32 AM

It seems like the crossfire GPU2 99% bug is gone, finally, again, but Watch Dogs isn't using my second GPU. 0%, stuttering just like previous drivers.

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#4826130 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:33 AM

fragba1t, i did add your link to first post, thx for sharing :-)

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#4826134 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:52 AM

Getting this error every time I try to open CCC:
i.imgur.com/27A8uFN.png

Didn't noticed any other problems or any improved performance in Watch_Dogs.

edit: By the way; did a clean install of the drivers after cleaning with the latest DDU.

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#4826136 Posted on: 05/27/2014 11:56 AM

Hmm, no increased performance here neither.

EDIT: working now, see below

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