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New beta for AMD.

Resolves an intermittent hang seen in Crossfire configurations with the new Crysis 3 patch.



AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver Last Updated


2/26/2013 Article Number
GPU-200 AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta Release Notes
(Please note that AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta)
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 7 DRIVER

• Resolves an intermittent hang seen in Crossfire configurations with the new Crysis 3 patch.

The AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 driver can be downloaded from the following link:

• AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 7 Driver for Windows® 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista®

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 6 DRIVER

• Resolves minor anti-aliasing corruption seen in Crysis 3
• Improves Hitman Absolution Crossfire scaling
• Fixes graphical corruption on onbjects and textures in Call of Duty - Black Ops 2

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 5 DRIVER

• Crysis 3 multi-player Beta: Improves CrossFire scaling by up to 40%
• Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 10% at 2560x1600 with 8xAA
• New 3D Mark release: Adds CrossFire profile support for the new 3D Mark release under Windows 8

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 4 DRIVER

• Improves performance in the Crysis 3 Multi-Player Beta by up to 50% when 4x and 8x MSAA are enabled.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.2 BETA 3 DRIVER
AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3 for Windows

• Improves performance up to 15% in high MSAA cases for the Crysis 3 beta release
  
  • Future updates will be made to AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta to further improve performance in Crysis 3 for both single GPU and CrossFire configurations
  
  
  
• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2
• Improves single GPU performance up to 50% for DmC Devil May Cry
• Improves CrossFire performance up to 10% for Crysis 2
• Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):
Hardware:

• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

- See more at: AMD Catalyst? 13.2 Beta Driver

AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Windows® Beta Driver
Last Updated 3/15/2013
Article Number RN-WIN-B13.3
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta Driver for Windows® Improve performance in Sim City 5 up to 16 percent Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations The AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following link: AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta for Windows Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith. System Requirements: Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions) Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher) Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher) AMD Product Compatibility: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

Early release of 13.3 Beta 2 download:

This AMD Catalyst 13.3 driver is compatible with AMD Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000 and HD 7000 Series graphics cards. This display driver supports Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 both the 32 and 64-bit versions.Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta Driver:

• Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
• Improve performance in Sim City 5 up to 16 percent
• Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations

Build Info:

• 12.10.17-130314a-154593E-ATI
• DriverVer=03/14/2013, 12.100.17.0000
• Catalyst: 13.3
• CCC: 2013.0314.1701.28699
• D3D: 9.14.10.0968
• OGL: 6.14.10.12172
• OCL: 10.0.1124.2

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

System Requirements:

• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)
• Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher)

AMD Catalyst 13.3 BETA 2 Download

New beta for AMD resolving OpenGL issues:

AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Windows® Beta Drive
Last Updated 3/19/2013
NOTE! AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta3 includes all of the fixes found in previous versions of AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta. Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta3 Driver for Windows® Resolves OpenGL application issues seen with the AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta2 driver The AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta3 Driver can be downloaded from the following link: AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta3 for Windows NOTE! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith. Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.3 Beta2 Driver for Windows® Improve performance in Sim City 5 up to 16 percent Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations System Requirements: Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions) Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher) Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher) AMD Product Compatibility: AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

AMD has released a specific Catalyst™ Performance Driver for the AMD Radeon™ HD7790 graphics card. This driver can be downloaded from the link below:

• AMD Radeon HD7790 Catalyst Performance Driver for Windows®
• AMD Radeon HD7790 Catalyst Performance Driver for Linux

System Requirements:

• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)
• Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Linux Enterprise
• OpenSUSE
• Ubuntu

AMD Product Compatibility:

• Radeon HD 7790

Performance driver for HD7790 only..

AMD Radeon™ HD7790 Catalyst™ Performance Driver
Last Updated 4/17/2013
Article Number GPU-503
AMD has released a specific Catalyst™ Performance Driver for the AMD Radeon™ HD7790 graphics card for both Windows® and Linux based systems. This Catalyst Performance Driver can be downloaded from the links below. Update The Catalyst™ Performance Driver for the AMD Radeon™ HD7790 graphics card for Windows based systems contains an update that resolves Corruption in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled. Download AMD Radeon HD7790 Catalyst Performance Driver for Windows® AMD Radeon HD7790 Catalyst Performance Driver for Linux System Requirements: Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions) Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher) Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher) Red Hat Enterprise Linux SUSE Linux Enterprise OpenSUSE Ubuntu AMD Product Compatibility: Radeon HD 7790

Ref:

AMD Radeon? HD7790 Catalyst? Performance Driver

Early release of Catalyst 13.4. No release notes as of yet:


Build Info:

• DriverVer=03/28/2013, 12.104.0.0000
• 12.104-130328a-155864C-ATI
• Catalyst: 13.4
• CCC: 2013.0328.2218.38225
• D3D: 9.14.10.0969
• OGL: 6.14.10.12217
• OCL: 10.0.1124.2 (Driver Integrated - No longer in /Apps)
• WHQL Sign Date: April 14 (Microsoft)

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series

System Requirements:

• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)
• Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher)

Download:

AMD Catalyst 13.4 (12.104.0.0 March 28) download WHQL

AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Windows® Beta Driver		Back
Last Updated 5/2/2013
Article Number RN-WIN-B13.5
NOTE! You must un-install AMD Catalyst™ 13.4 (if you have already installed AMD Catalyst 13.4) before installing AMD Catalyst 13.5 Beta. The AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta Driver Can Be Downloaded From The Following Links AMD Catalyst 13.5 Beta for Windows AMD Mobility Catalyst 13.5 Beta3 for Windows [for systems supporting Switchable Graphics (Enduro) Technology] NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided “AS IS”, and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith. Feature Highlights of The AMD Mobility Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta3 Driver for Windows® Adds support for the AMD Radeon HD8000M Series Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta Driver for Windows® Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series for the following: Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 4% with Anti-Aliasing enabled Shogun II: Improves performance up to 20% with 8x Anti-Aliasing enabled Tomb Raider: Improves performance up to 6% Bioshock: Improves performance up to 6% Borderlands 2: Improves performance up to 17% Corruption is no longer seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 when TressFX is enabled in Tomb Raider System Requirements: Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions) Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher) Windows Vista (32 & 64-bit versions with SP2 or higher) AMD Product Compatibility: AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series