AMD Releases Catalyst 13.2 Beta Drivers
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AMD has released the latest 13.2 Beta drivers to the public.
The new Catalyst 13.2 Beta drivers improve performance in various games including Crysis 2, Crysis 3 (Beta Release), Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2 and Devil May Cry.
The driver changes apply to the HD5000, HD6000, HD7700 series and above.
- Improves performance up to 15% in high MSAA cases for the Crysis 3 beta release
- Future updates will be made to AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta to further improve performance in Crysis 3 for both single GPU and CrossFire configurations - Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2
- Improves single GPU performance up to 50% for DmC Devil May Cry
- Improves CrossFire performance up to 10% for Crysis 2
- Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.
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How about Farcry3?
Unfortunately nothing was mentioned in the release notes about Far Cry 3. This seems like a smaller update, although it might contain a few fixes or performance improvements that haven't been mentioned in the release notes. I wouldn't be able to say anything about that though. 12.11beta/13.1 did have some nice FC3 performance improvements though. Do consider, this is still a beta release.
Nvidia driver lately is full of crap.
Worse for Far Cry 3, IMO. The first beta was better. With beta 3 I was having some really weird issues. Alot of flashing boxes, and some really weird issues with certain road surfaces. The road groves looked almost like looking at it through water. Very weird texture glitch.
what are you taliking about? you dont have an AMD card, but you think their driver is better? On what are you basing that information? and on what basis is nvidia driver full of crap?
Anyway, hopefully thefind a fix for the latency and farcry 3 bugs when the proper non-beta driver is released.
Let´s be realistics....... don´t be a fanboy.
Yeah, being realistic about it, ATI drivers have always been absolutely crap. Look back 10 years, its the same problem they have always had, and apparently will always have. I'd love to own the performance of the new ATI cards for their price, but EVERY single time I get burned with bug after bug after bug on game after game after game, on every single generation. I quit buying ATI for the last time 3 years ago. I recently built a computer for someone who insisted on an AMD 7970, and the very first time he tried to play dota2 he had fatal errors from his graphics card. DOTA2.
How any company has the same major problems for so many years blows my mind, I don't understand why everyone who makes drivers hasn't been fired and completely restructure the department.
I must say i have never had problems with ati or now amd drivers, just take up good driver installation practices of fully removing and clearing old drivers before installing newer drivers rather than installing over the top of older drivers.
also i must say this is the best driver i have had for my 7870 so far even directx9 games not mentioned appear to have stuttering reduced/gone, i cannot wait for the memory scheduler rewrite to help stuttering in dx10/11 games.
Yes. It actually fixed some Crossfire problems for me, as in Borderlands 2 would run slower if ran with Crossfire. Now it works like a charm.
And they suck less than when the class action lawsuit was filed against Nvidia when they lied about their GPU calculation problem for 4 years. I would rather have a driver issue than have to replace the video card completely
I've gone from 580s to 680s with no stutter in SLI. I couldn't say the same when I had a single 5850 or 2x5850s or 3x5850s. The only time I had no stutter with the AMD/ATI cards was with only one card in my system. I couldn't figure out why my framerate was so good with crossfire, but the video would stutter at various times. Once I replaced the 5850s with my 580s, I was sold on Nvidia. No driver errors. No stutter.
In my opinion, again based on my personal experience, there's a reason you pay a little bit more for Nvidia cards.
But I never went through having to ever replace any of my cards or having to deal with GPU calculation lies.
At any rate, I think the AMD cards are entirely capable, but the driver team doesn't quite have it together and haven't for (at least 2) years. It will be hard to convince me otherwise at this point since I haven't had to deal with any issues with SLI. When you fork out lots of good money for these things, you don't want to have to deal with reduced performance due to stuttering or other driver-related issues.