Windows 7: Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta3 Driver for Windows®

• Adds support for the AMD Radeon HD8000M Series

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
• Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
  • Batman Arkham City (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
  • Borderlands 2 (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
  • Quake Wars (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
  • Hitman Absolution (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
  • Wolfenstein MP (1920x1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
  • Civilization V (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
• Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
  • GL_ARB_compute_shader
  • GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
  • GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
  • GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
  • GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
  • GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
  • GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
  • GL_ARB_program_interface_query
  • GL_ARB_shader_image_size
  • GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
  • GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
  • GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
  • GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

Resolved Issues
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
• Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
• Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
• Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
• Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
• Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
• Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
• Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
• System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
• F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

Known Issues
The section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

• Jumping artifacts, and unsmooth playback of interlaced clips may be experienced using Cyberlink’s Metro UI players
• A black screen may be observed when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supported AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

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LOL, you beat me to it.

Brink -

There has been some traffic, in this forum, about the ATI drivers referenced in this post, that don't completely install. I have a HP Laptop dv5-1125nr with Radeon HD 3200 graphics. (1) I tried installing the ATI beta drivers referenced in the post. (2) The install hangs. (3) Used windows Task Manager to stop the install. (4) Went to the Device Manager. (5) Found Display icon. (6) Found and highlighted the installed Microsoft driver. (7) Right-click, selected update the driver, (8) When the option to give a driver for install came up, (9) Browsed to and found the driver left by the failed ATI beta install, (10) Highlighted it, (11) Navigated to the list of drivers that windows allows for install, (12) Selected " ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics (Pre-release - WDDM 1.1) " driver and installed it. Now when I right-click the desktop and select the Catalyst Manager - I can make all the adjustments and see the Video Memory allocation 2D, 3D, etc. I sent feedback to ATI - that by the way is available for all users of the Catalyst Manager on the 1st page of the Manager. I have wanted to share what I found to help others that have had trouble installing these drivers. God's Speed - Patrick C

If I can ask... where exactly does this install hangs? Mine stops at "Enumerating source media for installable packages" it "Analyze" step after selecting custom install.

Greetz,
GHad

GHad - Hello! The place you noted in your message is exactly where the install hangs.

Thanks for your answer. So where on your hard drive did you find the driver exactly when updating via device manager? I had no luck when selecting the ATI directory with "Search subfolders" checked. I also tried various subfolders with no effect. It always says, my actual driver is up to date :-(

Greetz,
GHad

GHad - In the post I made above to Brink - in steps (11) & (12) - browse to Drive:\ATI\beta_w7-64_8-56-1-081203a-74289\Packages\Drivers\LH6A_INF\CH_73489. When You browse to that file when Windows allows you to present a file - even though there are multiple files in that directory - when you navigate to that directory - it will show the driver I specified in the post to Brink. Patrick C

Well I could not resolve this ATI driver issue...

I was using the on-board HD 3200 video in Vista64 when I upgraded to Windows 7 and that worked...
But yesterday I threw in an HD 3650 card and could not get the drivers to load...
Not even the beta 7 driver listed above...even tried Patrick's instructions to no avail...

My only option was to re-install Vista64 and then install the drivers for the card...
Once I finish getting everything loaded and setup tonight, I will upgrade to Windows 7 again and see what happens...

It better work...I like 7 and don't want to go back to Vista...

Bob,

Have you already tried using the Vista ATI drivers in Windows 7 using Compatibility Mode with Vista selected?