Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[boogieboy]

i hate how AMD is promoting there new 7000 series of cards.. the new Beta 12.11 only improves performance for 7xxx series in Far Cry 3 not 6xxx series. AMD Sucks and failed to release proper drivers yet.

 

[Erick Aguilar]

i hate how AMD is promoting there new 7000 series of cards.. the new Beta 12.11 only improves performance for 7xxx series in Far Cry 3 not 6xxx series. AMD Sucks and failed to release proper drivers yet.

Oh geez, grow up.

 

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Let's keep this friendly shall we.

 

[Bungee18]

Only difference I've encountered is that the windows experience index does not seem to be able to complete the task with the new driver installed.

That's about it, running great with my HD7770

Installed 12.11 Beta 11
Running great with my HD7770 too.
WEI completed with out any problems and increased from 7.5 to 7.6 on both video scores. Maybe your issue is not driver related?
Also I was able to re-enable hardware acceleration in FF without any crashes so far. With 12.10 and hardware acceleration enabled it crashed every 5 minutes.
A few FPS gain in Company of Heroes (everything set to max., AA enabled, 1600x900) and tf2.
All stuttering gone from CH.
Cheers!

Correction: WEI improved 'cause I had increased GPU clock from 1020 to 1095 and Memory clock from 4600 to 4985. WEI completed without problems though.

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Only difference I've encountered is that the windows experience index does not seem to be able to complete the task with the new driver installed.

That's about it, running great with my HD7770

Installed 12.11 Beta 11
Running great with my HD7770 too.
WEI completed with out any problems and increased from 7.5 to 7.6 on both video scores. Maybe your issue is not driver related?
Also I was able to re-enable hardware acceleration in FF without any crashes so far. With 12.10 and hardware acceleration enabled it crashed every 5 minutes.
A few FPS gain in Company of Heroes (everything set to max., AA enabled, 1600x900) and tf2.
All stuttering gone from CH.
Cheers!

Correction: WEI improved 'cause I had increased GPU clock from 1020 to 1095 and Memory clock from 4600 to 4985. WEI completed without problems though.

Hm.. strange. The issue only came up when I switched graphics cards..
But I haven't tried it on this 7770 Vapor X, only the stock version.

 

[Solarstarshines]

You fellas are alot bolder then me I gave up on Beta's untill the complete product is released had to many CF issues with them Beta drivers

 

[BugMeister]

my 6870's are loving this driver..

Skyrim is pure magic, and FarCry3 purrs like a kitten..

 

[brianzion]

hi all just had a tweet from Andrew D @CatalystCreator

Just a heads up - we will be posting logo certified Catalyst 13.1 on Wednesday. You can also expect new beta drivers in the next few weeks

https://twitter.com/CatalystCreator

 

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[brianzion]

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]

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]

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

 

[stormy13]

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]

Now they're upped on AMD's Site!

 

[Solarstarshines]

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]

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]

Thank you. First post updated.

 

[BugMeister]

- runs lovely..!!

 

[brianzion]

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