AMD Finally Finishes Mantle Drivers, Will Be Available Soon
And they're almost ready for download! Almost.
It took longer than expected, but AMD has finally finished tweaking its Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers. These were originally due yesterday, at the same time as the Battlefield 4 patch but were unexpectedly delayed. Considering the drivers are needed for users to see any optimizations from Mantle, a delay was pretty disappointing.
The good news is that the guys at AMD have finally gotten the driver finished. Last night, the company said it encountered a bug at the last minute and had to delay. AMD said it would give the press 24 hours to evaluate the drivers before pushing forward with a public release. About half an hour ago, AMD sent us the drivers for our own performance evaluations. Though the email didn’t say when we the public release would be, AMD promised to keep us posted.
If everything goes well, hopefully you’ll be able to download Catalyst 14.1 beta this weekend and get your first look at Mantle. If not… Well, we hear there’s a football game you could tune in to on Sunday. That might help pass the time.
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And we haven't see how many developers are going to take advantage.
We are still in wait and see mode. I said this to everybody who is always saying that people should change to either AMD or Intel based on a new soon to be released new tech, software or whatever.
We are terrible at predicting and producers always overestimate the effects.
What are you talking about? Go check the battlelog, and look up 'mantle'.
And we haven't see how many developers are going to take advantage.
We are still in wait and see mode. I said this to everybody who is always saying that people should change to either AMD or Intel based on a new soon to be released new tech, software or whatever.
We are terrible at predicting and producers always overestimate the effects.
Mantle did what it said it was. Lower cpu overhead. there isn't much else to see.
Come'on, the patch just enabled Mantle. It was already in the game.
Who is hating? Some of us are just saying that we should make sweeping statements about how awesome something is before anybody gets to try it.