Download AMD Catalyst 14.8 WHQL Driver

TheDukeSD

2014-08-30 17:51

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#4902726

fasor

2014-08-30 17:55

is the dx9 corruption happening only with GCN gpus or it's happening with hd 5xxx and hd 6xxx also?

as far as i know its GCN 1.0 (7800/270, 7900/280 ...) issue (and maybe GCN 1.1 (7790/260x)) GCN 2.0 (285 and 290 series) is free of it, and before-GCN-generations also have no that corruptions.

#4902727

rflair

Moderator

2014-08-30 17:56

Skyrim bad flickering. Unplayable. Never seen it before like that.

Just finished playing some Skyrim with these drivers, ran great. Also played some Grim Dawn, Van Helsing and TF2, all ran fine.

#4902729

Gizmo

2014-08-30 18:05

First driver since 14.4 that actually works fine with Eyefinity and seems to be fine everywhere else too, albeit hotter than 14.4

These still have the heat issues...wow whats that 8 months so of these 14.x drivers having this issue on some systems(inc mine..again 13.12 Zero issues) without any fix or suggestion of what the issue/trigger might be from AMD...slack 😛uke2: looks like i'll be sticking with 13.12 till maxwell 88xx's hit.....

#4902731

spectatorx

2014-08-30 18:10

Skyrim bad flickering. Unplayable. Never seen it before like that.

With hd7670m in some dx9 games (and few non-dx9) i've seen weird flickering which i was removing by enabling vsync or in game or via ccc, try that.

#4902736

Extraordinary

2014-08-30 18:33

I know a tiny bit of heat isn't the best thing, but is it really that big of a deal? Are you saying your GPU is running near-borderline critical temps or something with 13.12, and newer drivers push you past that?

When 14.4 gave me about 85-90c (2033 REDUX) (With OC and raised PL & vCore obviously or it would be much lower) and 14.8 push it up to about 93c (95c being max) then yea it's quite a big deal

#4902738

Gizmo

2014-08-30 18:49

I know a tiny bit of heat isn't the best thing, but is it really that big of a deal? Are you saying your GPU is running near-borderline critical temps or something with 13.12, and newer drivers push you past that?

Well i tried 14.7rc3 the other day (safemode/ddu ect ect) using GeDoSaTo @4k running spacemarine @99% GPU usage & 100% fan i got 97-98c then a thermal throttle kicked me back to 500mhz untill i rebooted. running 13.12 10 mins later same settings 83c max all night so yep its not just a few degrees under fullload.

#4902776

AbjectBlitz

2014-08-30 20:17

When 14.4 gave me about 85-90c (2033 REDUX) (With OC and raised PL & vCore obviously or it would be much lower) and 14.8 push it up to about 93c (95c being max) then yea it's quite a big deal

Means its using the gpu harder, can only be a good thing squeezing out more perf

#4902778

Nwanko

2014-08-30 20:18

Well i tried 14.7rc3 the other day (safemode/ddu ect ect) using GeDoSaTo @4k running spacemarine @99% GPU usage & 100% fan i got 97-98c then a thermal throttle kicked me back to 500mhz untill i rebooted. running 13.12 10 mins later same settings 83c max all night so yep its not just a few degrees under fullload.

Thats odd,i run cf 1000/1500 1.1V 99% load crysis 3 max temps arround 75 on both cards with 80% fan speed.

#4902787

Rudlin

2014-08-30 20:39

Just finished playing some Skyrim with these drivers, ran great. Also played some Grim Dawn, Van Helsing and TF2, all ran fine.

Could be. Thing is when running Skyrim on a intel chip it was all fine. I suspect something went wrong as I didn't use driver sweeper; instead had drivers cleaned with something else, newer apparantly. I'll try again, uninstalling drivers, driversweep rest of it and clean install on top.

#4902792

Cryio

2014-08-30 20:51

as far as i know its GCN 1.0 issue (and maybe GCN 1.1) GCN 2.0 is free of it, and before-GCN-generations also have no that corruptions.

HD7000/M, HD8000M and some new R cards = GCN 1.0 R9 290X, 290, 260X, 265 + Kaveri APUs = GCN 1.1. There is no GCN 2.0

#4902801

Extraordinary

2014-08-30 21:09

from 5 month catalyst are the same...

Why mess with perfection?

#4902813

Gizmo

2014-08-30 22:05

Thats odd,i run cf 1000/1500 1.1V 99% load crysis 3 max temps arround 75 on both cards with 80% fan speed.

That's about what i have running under 13.12.....99% GPU usage 80% fan(+-5%) about 83c that's with a AB frame lock of 58fps (14.x also ran with the same 58fps lock) Something is awry with the latest sets of drivers for some people & AMD are not forth coming about what changes they've made to cause this extra heat I see people saying its because the driver is using the gpu more/harder more demands on the memory ect ect but i haven't seen any notable increase in performance to warrant the extra heat,have you guys???? there's was a guy on OC.net reporting that 14.7 rc 1-2-3 can cause his system to pull upto 200watts more than 14.4-14.6 on apple to apples testing now that's freaking mad! http://www.overclock.net/t/1501216/amd-catalyst-14-7-rc-driver-for-windows-out-now/150#post_22714389 AMD rep (Warsam71) who posts there says he has the driver team looking at the temp increase but has failed to report back on the issue... http://www.overclock.net/t/1501216/amd-catalyst-14-7-rc-driver-for-windows-out-now/140#post_22708957 But if reports sofar on 14.8 are correct it seems they are still ignorant or aren't bothered about fixing it....

#4902814

BABA-The Hacker

2014-08-30 22:07

Mostly released for new Kaveri models A10-7800, A8-7600 and A6-7400K. And performance is initially based for LINUX ...,

#4902818

kaz050

2014-08-30 22:15

hm is it me or this new driver not letting me open up CCC?

#4902821

Extraordinary

2014-08-30 22:19

is it me or this new driver not letting me open up CCC?

Just you

#4902828

KissSh0t

2014-08-30 22:33

Stupid Question I know.. But will these actually install for Windows 8 "Original" ?

#4902843

Sohaim

2014-08-30 22:57

Good driver, resolved temperature increase issue 🙂

really? thank god, i will be installing these right now to test em.

#4902844

ClockClocker

2014-08-30 23:01

How come that this drivers are not "official" yet?

#4902851

stdavidchen

2014-08-30 23:07

Weird. This new driver give me two BSOD after installing. (I had used DDU to uninstall the 14.7 RC3). Roll back to RC3 now since it is the most stable driver I had ever used for my R9 290.