AMD Releases Catalyst 13.4 WHQL Drivers

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By Niels Broekhuijsen
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AMD releases its Catalyst 13.4 WHQL Drivers.

AMD has released its Catalyst 13.4 WHQL drivers for the Radeon GPUs and IGPs. The driver adds support for the Radeon HD 7990 Malta GPU and the HD 7790 graphics card, and it resolves a number of issues found in a number of games. See the change-log below for more details.

  • Includes support for the for the AMD Radeon HD 7990 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7790 Series
  • Includes support for several new OpenGL 4.3 features
  • Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2,Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
  • Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.
  • Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations
  • Fixes graphical corruption on objects and textures in Call of Duty - Black Ops 2
  • The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct: Fixes image quality issues when enabling Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center
  • Crysis 3: Improves CrossFire performance in 3 and 4 GPU configurations
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Improves CrossFire performance
  • Unigine Heaven: Improves CrossFire performance in 3 and 4 GPU configurations
  • Hitman Absolution: Resolves application issues when running application at 1680x1050 with 8xAA enabled
  • AMD Enduro Technology profile updates:
  • Alien Colonial Marines – acm.exeBioShock Infinite – BioShockInfinite.exeCrysis 3 – Crysis3.exeGodMode – GodMode.exeGrid 2 – grid2.exeHawken – HawkenLauncher.exeNeverwinter – gameclient.exeSimCity – SimCity.exeSniper Elite Nazi Zombie Army – NZA.exeThe Walking Dead Survival Instinct – WalkingDead.exeTomb Raider – TombRaider.exeKapersky Anti-virus - avt.exe

Those feeling adventurous can also try the 13.5 beta. Find the all the drivers here.

Niels Broekhuijsen
Niels Broekhuijsen

Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

11 Comments Comment from the forums
  • tipmen
    So I take it rage is still broken. Anyways, nice to see some crossfire improvements.
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  • wanderer11
    Hitman Absolution: Resolves application issues when running application at 1680x100 with 8xAA enabled
    Pretty sure you meant 1680x1050, unless 168:10 is a new aspect ratio.
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  • wanderer11
    "Hitman Absolution: Resolves application issues when running application at 1680x100 with 8xAA enabled"
    Pretty sure you meant 1680x1050, unless 168:10 is a new aspect ratio.
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  • sincreator
    I'm using the 13.5 beta 2 right now and I can confirm that the stutter in FC3 has GREATLY decreased on my HD7950. About *%!#@%! time! I played last night online for about 3 hours and was able to increase my in game settings and did not need to use the RadeonPro tool to smooth out the frames. http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_5_beta_2_download.html

    IMPORTANT: Uninstall your current drivers first and use atiman uninstaller, or driver sweeper to clean out the leftover files before installing the 13.5 beta 2 driver. Others have had issues that didn't take these steps, according to the posts in the Guru3d forums.
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  • captjack5169
    Still blows up W8 with my 7870. Went back to W7 no prb. /Facepalm
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  • peanutreaper486
    "Resolves application issues when running application at 1680x100 with 8xAA enabled"
    Thank god my monitor's 1680x100!
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  • marcolorenzo
    Does this mean Radeon HD 6XXX users doesn't get any benefits from these and all future Catalyst drivers?
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  • mousseng
    @marcolorenzo: I can't see why that'd be the case - they don't specify that the 7000-series is the only one to get the improvements, and they even state that these drivers work for their IGPs (which, currently, are based on the 6900-series' VLIW4 architecture). I imagine those still on previous-gen hardware will be fine.
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  • marcolorenzo
    @mousseng: Thanks for the reply. I just installed the drivers on my Windows 8 64-bit with a Radeon HD 6990M and for some reason, my Metro apps are not launching anymore. They'd open for a couple of seconds on the splash screen and then go back to the Start screen. The first party apps seem to be working still (excepts for Maps) but everything else are not. This has happened before when I installed the 13.2 Beta drivers but after I reverted back to 13.1, it was fine again. Has anyone else experienced this?
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  • Non-Euclidean
    "Hitman Absolution: Resolves application issues when running application at 1680x100 with 8xAA enabled"
    When are us 3360x200 runners gonna get some respect???
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