Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[brianzion]

i notice in the ccc desktop manager the internal update has gone and now we have a link instead

 

[BugMeister]

..meanwhile, along comes 13.2 BETA
AMD Catalyst 13.2 BETA (12.100.0 January 1) Unofficial - Guru3D.com Forums

 

[fireberd]

I tried it on my Win 7 64 bit system and it bombed installing. I had to power off the PC with the power switch and then had to run chkdsk as the SSD drive was corrupted. I tried it again, just to see and it bombed again and did not reinstall the video card driver as it left it at 640X480 resolution.

I had to restart and install the older version to get my system working again.

I have an AMD Radeon HD7770 video card.
I had to reinstall 12-10.

With all the problems, I'm not going to attempt to install it on my Win 8 system.

 

[jmallamo]

I hope 13.2beta is better than 13.1... which seemed to get choppy with crossfire 7970s. I dropped back to 12.11beta since it has been working great. Glad I found this thread.

 

[azasadny]

I hope my son doesn't have problems with this update and his HD 7750!

 

[M1GU31]

I had no issues updating the the latest driver with my 6870. Everything runs great on my end.

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Just finished installing 13.1 after having 12.11 for a while.
No issues during installation whatsoever, so that made me happy.

Game performance is good, I did notice an increase in performance with skyrim as advertised by AMD, that made me even happier considering I run the game with a bunch of MODS.

Now to test FSX, and Rise of Flight..

 

[shinigami8671]

Hey guys,i think i have 12.10 (as stated in the catalyst column of catalyst control center) And a friend told me some new drivers came out in the last few days.Now my question,which version and are they performing well? Not interested in Beta drivers,too risky.

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Hey guys,i think i have 12.10 (as stated in the catalyst column of catalyst control center) And a friend told me some new drivers came out in the last few days.Now my question,which version and are they performing well? Not interested in Beta drivers,too risky.

Read back a couple of pages.

If you are not a reading let me sum it all very vaguely.
To some people, they were problem free, and create an improvement.
To some other people, it caused trouble, and some had to perform restores in their system.
Some others reported issues with 13.1, but were gone when they tried 13.2Beta.

So. Backup your data, create a restore point before installing the driver. Follow proper instructions with driver installation, and give it a go.

 

[NoN]

Gotten some lags and screen flickerings with v12.10 and now it does looks a little smoother with v13.1, but it is also about parameters that i might have set and me pushing a little a HD 7770 Oc.

PS: Install was pretty easy and smooth with v13.1.

 

[shinigami8671]

ok thanks Erick.

 

[NoN]

Looks AMD reloaded the v13.1 drivers on their site because they swapped x64 HD Audio driver from x32 and vice versa...but only x64bits have been corrected at this time of the day. This is mainly for Windows 8

twitt

 

[jmallamo]

Here's some data from my rig: And one of my HD audio drivers will not load. nedd to disable the device... going back to 12.11beta.

Cat 12.11beta
Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:70.8
Scores:1784
Min FPS:21.4
Max FPS:167.7
Hardware

Binary:Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU flags:3499MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series 9.10.8.0 CrossFireX 3072Mb
Settings

Render:direct3d11
Mode:2560x1600 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:4x
Occlusion:enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric:enabled
Tessellation:extreme
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2012

Cat 13.1:

Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:59.5
Scores:1499
Min FPS:20.4
Max FPS:142.6
Hardware

Binary:Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU flags:3500MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series 9.12.0.0 CrossFireX 3072Mb
Settings

Render:direct3d11
Mode:2560x1600 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:4x
Occlusion:enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric:enabled
Tessellation:extreme
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2012

 

[NoN]

W864a Driver version from 01/17/2013 is atihdw83.sys and the reloaded driver W864a Driver version from 01/21/2013 is atihdw86.sys.

Amd says it shouldn't be an issue for Windows 7.

 

[jmallamo]

Oops

Please ignore my last post regarding Unigene performance. I had my OC settings wrong - too low volts - actually suprising 13.1 didnt crash. Will give it another try.

But 12.11 does not have the HD Audio driver problem, which was still present iin the latest 13.1. This is present in both the device manager, and reduced audio devices in CCC.

 

[Phone Man]

W864a Driver version from 01/17/2013 is atihdw83.sys and the reloaded driver W864a Driver version from 01/21/2013 is atihdw86.sys.

Amd says it shouldn't be an issue for Windows 7.

When I go to AMD to download it still shows 01/17/2013 release date. Where is the new one?

Jim

 

[NoN]

W864a Driver version from 01/17/2013 is atihdw83.sys and the reloaded driver W864a Driver version from 01/21/2013 is atihdw86.sys.

Amd says it shouldn't be an issue for Windows 7.

When I go to AMD to download it still shows 01/17/2013 release date. Where is the new one?

Jim

AMD didn't changed the date...and release notes either, but when you DL and install you can see the changed driver inside the folders.

 

[Phone Man]

W864a Driver version from 01/17/2013 is atihdw83.sys and the reloaded driver W864a Driver version from 01/21/2013 is atihdw86.sys.

Amd says it shouldn't be an issue for Windows 7.

When I go to AMD to download it still shows 01/17/2013 release date. Where is the new one?

Jim

AMD didn't changed the date...and release notes either, but when you DL and install you can see the changed driver inside the folders.

Thanks, I will download it again as I have not updated yet.

Jim

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Encountered an issue so far.
When playing videos online on youtube so far, sometimes the video might start playing but with a green screen.
It gets fixed by playing it again. There is also a rare stutter/lag in both video/audio.
I'll try 13.2 beta and see if it fixes it later when I get home from work.

 

[shinigami8671]

Updated yesterday and i think im having a few issues,not sure.
This happened twice,paused a video (was watching on PC offline) and when i resumed after a few mins...well there was no video,just sound.Had to restart the player. Also the flash player in my browser acts up sometimes (never happened before,just today) and the the browser freezes like its under heavy load,after a few mins i get the message that flash player stopped working. After that i had to close it from the taskbar every time.