AMD Posts Catalyst 13.10 Beta Drivers
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AMD has released its Catalyst 13.10 Beta drivers that bring performance improvements to CrossFire systems.
AMD has posted its new Catalyst drivers, the 13.10 beta. The driver comes in a single file for all platforms, so it works on Windows 7 and 8, on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Due to this though, the driver is also a 235 MB download. The driver carries multiple fixes as well as performance improvements, particularly on CrossFire systems. Below is a snippet from the release notes with the most relevant information:
- AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta includes all of the features/fixes found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2
- PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
- Rome Total War 2: Updated AMD CrossFire™ profile
- improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560x1600 with extreme settings)
- resolves corruption issues seen while playing the game
- Saints Row 4: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
- improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560x1600 with ultra settings)
- Metro Last Light: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
- improves CrossFire scaling up to 10% (at 2560x1600 with ultra settings)
- Includes a number of frame pacing improvements for the following titles:
- Tomb Raider
- Metro Last Light
- Sniper Elite
- World of Warcraft
- Max Payne 3
- Hitman Absolution
The drivers are available for download here, and here for mobile systems.
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Keep up the steady progress, AMD!
Keep up the steady progress, AMD!
Its still ATI !!
Hurry up AMD, get to stable.
Seriously? How did QA not catch this one?
Seriously? How did QA not catch this one?
I've used cards from multiple vendors over the years, and Nvidia has had their fair share of screw ups - software and otherwise.
No working drivers since april despite they released 1-2 drivers every month since then.
I am running my 7790 on driver version 12.1 and have huge sound issues and driver crashes, which fix those sound issues every now and then. So it's clearly a driver issue. (with a new windows installment)
I will never buy an AMD card again, because what logic is that: 7790 not part of 7xxx series. Every new (beta)driver works for every HD 4xxx-7xxx card, BUT the 7790. There was no mention of this in the card description or details.
No working drivers since april despite they released 1-2 drivers every month since then.
I am running my 7790 on driver version 12.1 and have huge sound issues and driver crashes, which fix those sound issues every now and then. So it's clearly a driver issue. (with a new windows installment)
I will never buy an AMD card again, because what logic is that: 7790 not part of 7xxx series. Every new (beta)driver works for every HD 4xxx-7xxx card, BUT the 7790. There was no mention of this in the card description or details.
The 13.10 drivers are working on my 7790, I don't use the sound output from the card though.
No working drivers since april despite they released 1-2 drivers every month since then.
I am running my 7790 on driver version 12.1 and have huge sound issues and driver crashes, which fix those sound issues every now and then. So it's clearly a driver issue. (with a new windows installment)
I will never buy an AMD card again, because what logic is that: 7790 not part of 7xxx series. Every new (beta)driver works for every HD 4xxx-7xxx card, BUT the 7790. There was no mention of this in the card description or details.
The 13.10 drivers are working on my 7790, I don't use the sound output from the card though.
It's not that all these new drivers aren't working per se on the HD 7790.
It's just that they are extremely unstable and don't fix the static sound my PCI-soundcard produces when the GPU is under load. For some reason this problem gets fixed when the error "display driver has stopped working and has been recovered" occurs, but this error occurs so randomly that I can't reproduce it manually to make the static sound stop.
So here is the driversituation for the 7790 if you really run this card for long amounts of time:
12.1: runs relativly safe especially in games this driver never failed. "display driver has stopped working and has been recovered" occurs at least once a day but only while browsing and scrolling pictures or watching youtube videos. After this most of the time the problem with static sound ceases to exist as long as the PC isn't restarted.
13.4: Display driver crashes every 30min even in games. Totally unusable
13.6&13.8: When windows turns off the monitor (power saving) there is a high chance it won't come back to windows, but to bios (computer restart). Additionally the sound problem persists.
13.10: "Worked" for 1 day without crashes, but the sound problem persists. Today I was away from PC for some time (monitor got turned off). When I came back and moved the mouse the PC started to restart. Needless to say I won't "test" this driver any longer.
As gaming isn't the only thing I do with my PC, those random restarts are just unacceptable. A lot of hard work can be lost just by talking to someone for a short period of time. I'm glad I didn't lost some work-progress due to them, but to keep it that way I have to use driver vers. 12.1.
So technically every new driver works for some short time-period for the HD 7790.
But they are far from usable: Random restarts without warning or any way to stop them are the worst, it makes working on the PC a nightmare. Driver crashes every 30min makes it impossible to game with this card.
The fact stands: AMD failed to release a usable driver since april for the HD 7790 and even this one driver can't handle PCI soundcards (It magically learns to do this after it crashed one time for the remaining session, but crashing shouldn't be a driver-routine)