AMD Catalyst 14.9.2 BETA Download
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FunkyMike
shankly1985
Guys things dont stay new for ever. I expect everything AMD could do for them line up is already done.
Seren
RzrTrek
theoneofgod
sidspacewalker
Tested and I can confirm that this driver has had no effect on the Mantle stuttering in Battlefield 4. DX11 still runs smoother with framedrops in the larger maps. This framedrop is not solved by reducing settings, lowering resolution.
shadow_craft
FunkyMike
mtdew332
the9quad
AMD Beta 14.9.2 results for BF4 DX 11 vs Mantle...
All done 2560x1440 on Ultra:
60 second run on test island so network and players wouldn't effect the run. I also tried to run through it in the same pattern, so I am not just standing still.
No I do not pull 200+ fps for >90% of the time while playing on 64 man servers,lol.
DX11 AVERAGE FRAMERATE: 205.3 FPS
http://imageshack.com/a/img913/6504/s37xVN.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img911/9033/W1tvXr.png
[spoiler]http://imageshack.com/a/img540/3485/lWRF5Z.png[/spoiler]
MANTLE AVERAGE FRAMERATE: 222.7 FPS
http://imageshack.com/a/img537/363/kuCi54.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img743/3665/dUrkDe.png
[spoiler]http://imageshack.com/a/img743/2379/Q0Ualq.png[/spoiler]
A couple pretty big spikes on mantle that are't present in DX11, and DX11 felt smoother to me. Even though I am above 200 fps 97% of the time with mantle (and only 66% of the time in dx11), those spikes are jarring as heck. What you cant see in the chart is the spikes in Mantle go up to 80ms so we are talking 200fps+ all the way down to 13 FPS......so that still needs fixed. It feels liek you just hit a brick wall when it happens. The DX11 spikes are to 80+ fps and they aren't really noticeable.
On a positive note, if they smooth things out, it looks like I would gain ~10% performance over DX11 if it wasn't for those stutters. And you can see mantle is pretty tight except for those two big spikes, but holy smokes they are huge.
NOTE-The graphs are behind spoilers because they are big pics. I am thoughtful sometimes..
The Mac
spectatorx
Windows 8.1 x64 version installed on windows 10 technical preview x64 without issues. Will play some games later and report any issues.
Mareak
THANK YOU!! downloading it now!! Hope this driver fix BF4 stuttering as well!! lets give it a go!
kakarot
Well this is a first. The driver is not even showing up on the list during install so they are no go. Everything else is available except for the driver:bang:
Edit -Actually these are missing when I try custom install;
Display driver
hdmi audio driver
ACP application
Back to .1 beta
Fox2232
tiptop
http://i.imgur.com/rPZa8g8l.jpg
Oh really?! Are you sure? Like TOTALLY sure? Because your beautiful NVIDIA dropped its support of all GPUs older than a 400 series in July 2014. Their latest WHQL drivers (344.48) have no mention of 8800 GTX or GTX 260.
http://i.imgur.com/r7eI0UUl.jpg
Umm, what are you talking about? Just visited the AMD site, and all the links to their HD 6000 and HD 5000 series (and their specs) are there, e.g.: Products We Design > Desktop Graphics > HD 6000 Series > AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 6970 Graphics > Specs.
crisrodrigues
Anyone tried crossfire in Shadow of Mordor with this driver? Here I can play some minutes just fine, then it crashes the computer.
garikfox
Freshly installed Windows 8.1 just to install this new driver, at the end of installing 14.9.2 it crashes the Realtek Audio driver. This is a serious bug in my opinion.
mux
Still lags with BF4 and Mantle at 1440P. :-( Again rolling back to 14.7RC3.
veggiesaurus