Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

brianzion · 17 Jan 2013

16 hrs ago tweet from Andrew D @CatalystCreator
Andrew D @CatalystCreator

Quick update, looks like the WHQL cert logs are coming back late today, so Catalyst 13.1 should be live tomorrow

NoN · 17 Jan 2013

Thought so...At least they're coming late but very soon!

As i'm on some games actually, i'll be pleased to have those quick to run on them.

Lakes · 17 Jan 2013

I hope this will cure my classic Desktop redraw/lag/trail problem.

stormy13 · 17 Jan 2013

Not up on AMD's site yet but you can get them here,

AMD Catalyst 13.1 (9.012.0 December 19) AMD Official WHQL - Guru3D.com Forums

and the release notes,

Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11

Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
- Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
- Enhanced AMD CrossFire™ scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
- Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
  - • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
- Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
- Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
- Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
- Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
- Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
- Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:
- 3DMark® 06 – Up to 6%
- 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
- 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
- AvP – Up to 11%
- Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Up to 13%
- Crysis 2: Up to 45%
- DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
- ETQW – Up to 8%
- Hard Reset – Up to 8%
- Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
- Mafia 2 – Up to 40%
- The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
- Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
- StarCraft 2 – Up to 25%
- Skyrim – Up to 45%
- Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
- Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
- Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
- Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

AMD Catalyst Software Suite Version 13.1 Release Notes

NoN · 17 Jan 2013

Now they're upped on AMD's Site!:)

Solarstarshines · 17 Jan 2013

So it's Official thank God man
Can't use those Beta drivers now hopefully my nice oc will stick when I update and i can roll back to the nice 1125/1500 for my 7970's

Solarstarshines · 17 Jan 2013

One thing i did notice they didn't update the CAP

I know they did this a few weeks ago because Farcry 3 is on there list but since then other games could or should be on the list to make them smoother and more playable I been playing alot of need for speeds and intense graphics havn't had issues but would be nice to see more games

Brink · 17 Jan 2013

Thank you. First post updated. :)

BugMeister · 17 Jan 2013

- runs lovely..!!

brianzion · 18 Jan 2013

lots of fixes/bugs :)

Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 / Windows 7 Operating Systems:

This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.

A sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
An intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in an AMD CrossFire + Eyefinity setup.
Missing fonts in XBMC
No video found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
Skyrim lighting (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Skyrim cloud corruption experience in various in game locations
A hang playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
Engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle.
GPU activity runs at lower values than expected seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
Corruption seen in Darkness 2 and Carrier Command when using AMD CrossFire configurations
Adobe Premier Pro CS6 may fail to launch
Hang experienced with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled on X58 and X78 chipsets
Corel PaintShop Pro X3 – Hangs at the “Initializing Command Manager” window
Company of Heroes 2 – display corruption experienced when AA is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
Cyberlink Powerdirector 10 crashes intermittently.
Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor – Flickering experienced when AA is disabled
Max Payne 3 – Flickering experienced in DirectX 9 mode with forced AA enabled
Cyberlink PoweDVD 10 – crashes intermittently
VLC - Green texture corruption seen in 720p MPEG2 video clips
Black screen encountered when “Alternate DVI mode” is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video
Known Issues
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.
Known issues under the Windows 8 Operating System.
Sleeping Dogs – game may fail to launch in certain configurations
Known issues under the Windows 7 Operating System.
Shogun 2 – Total War : flickering experienced when game is run in medium quality mode