AMD Catalyst 13.2 BETA download
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PF Prophet
most gw2 issues are due to the current state of the gw2 engine, Anet made some very poor choices when developing gw2.
1. dx9 rather then 11(because they wanted to sell the game to people whos systems are running xp still, even tho they cant really run it properly...)
2. they went with umbra for occlusion culling and rely on it WAY to much, if you ever see what the map looks like in areas they dont expect you to get to, you see alot of visable surfaces that are multi layers of rocks/terrain over rocks/terrain, they know this is an issue and are still working on it....
3. the games dependant on 1 thread for video performance, it has like 46 threads but theres 1 heavy thread that holds everything else back, this is why people with high end intel chips still have perf issues just like AMD users do.
4. the games 32bit without PAE, so its very limited on ram it can use....
word is they are "working on" a dx11 update but thats months out if not more...they are working on perf issues.....still thats months out im sure.....
Still, I was in the WoW beta and.....it was worse on launch then gw2 was, and anet are doing a better job getting stuff fixed then blizzard did with WoW on launch.......Give them time, they will get things worked out eventually.....
MaxBlade
Yes thanks ZealotKi11er and Guru3D for hosting..
xxela
Tried on Far Cry 3 and Hitman Absolution and I can say there is visible improvement towards 12.11 Beta11.
Thanks asder00 and thanks AMD ; good job guys
Haldi
Made some tests on Stuttering in Crossfire!
http://www.****.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=143655#p143655
Doesn't seem to work at all.
If i had enough space i'd make a fresh windows install and try there....
Edit: there in the link instead of **** should be w and s and g and f !
PF Prophet
they must have added that since the last time i checked, they have been being pushed pretty hard by alot of us to get with the times, i mean, its 2013 and they are still using dx9c.....an API released August 6, 2004, rather then a modern api that could not only improve perf but also gfx quality.
From what some of us can figure out from things the anet people have said, this could be because they have been considering a console version of gw2, and since current gen consoles are dx9 level hardware......
also they wanted to capatialize on the market of people who either cant or wont upgrade to windows 7....
also note: properly done dx11 can still benefit people running dx9 and 10 hardware, things like driver level multithreading still works, and dx11 can simply disable or run in software those features that the hardware dosnt support(im in a couple beta's that do this now)
oh well, anet will do what anet will do.....just seems silly to me that they didnt go dx11, sure they would have lost some sales to xp users(who for the most part really cant run the game properly anyway) but they would have gained sales and been able to push the fact they where using modern hardware to its fullest......:/
well its lunch time, im gonna eat 😀
PF Prophet
what a stupid site to filter......ws gf is a very helpful place in my exp.....cant count how many times they have had the info i needed to fix a game problem on widescreen monitors......
The Mac
usually the filters exist because theirs been some trash talking somewhere in the past.
Shaneus
I posted this in the 13.1 WHQL thread, but is there any chance of somehow utilising that HDMI audio fix on the 13.2 beta?
yasamoka
No the 13.2 Beta includes CAPs that are newer than the 12.11 CAP2. Newer = they include the older CAPs (one of which is 12.11 CAP2).
GhostXL
Strange, I see no new caps installed at all...
Kaleid
13.2 should provide a more smooth framerate compared to 12.11 betas:
http://techreport.com/review/24218/a-driver-update-to-reduce-radeon-frame-times
Edit: Yes it does, Skyrim is a lot smoother, very positive. I hope we see more of this!
The Mac
stand alone cap installs go to a different area than bundled ones.
Heres the differencies between the cap in this driver and the 12.11 cap2, so you can test these games and check for improvement:
3dMark Vantage (cfx)
Battle Forge (cfx)
Aliens Vs Predator (cfx)
Lost Planet 2 (cfx)
F1 2012 (cfx)
3DMark 11 (cfx)
Crysis 2 (cfx)
Battlefield 3 (cfx)
Dirt Showdown (cfx)
Crysis 3 (unreleased)
Medal of Honor: Warfighter (cfx)
Tomb Raider (unreleased)
Nexuiz (cfx)
Blacklight: Retribution (cfx)
FarCry 3 (single card)
Skyrim (cfx & single card)
GuildWars 2 (cfx & single card)
Borderlands 2 (cfx & single card)
Rise of the Triad (unreleased)
TheOriginalTO
So, Worth it for a 5870M or stay with 13.1 / other recommendations?
TheOriginalTO
GhostXL
Right I know its installed with the driver, but the old style showed the applications in a list and you could select them. I guess that method has been removed and it's all automatic, and you can't manually select and force it from the drop down menu anymore.
Other than all of that, this driver is amazing for sure. It has everything 13.1 had and a bit more. Sure I understand it doesn't have everything that the official 13.2 will, but its a better driver than 13.1 from my experiences.
Yes they started developing it in 07', but that does not mean changes can't still be made. They mentioned that they would support DX11 after it started development, and decided to drop it. It could have been a choice to enable or not. From what I understand, they still have plans to make it DX11 in the future, just how GW1 rendered in DX9 or 8.1 if you didn't have a DX9 card when factions released.
Dekaohtoura
Just got back from work.
Downloading and looking forward to try 'em.
Thank you asder (you, the leaker (!) as well).
Terepin
And they were recycling it over and over again for the past 5 years. So go figure it out...
redrumy3
Did you use amd uninstall utility ?
Haldi
Some other Crossfire Useres here who don't see any difference ?
densou
:stewpid:
MPC-HC ought to run with LAV Filters: best improvement ever over own integrated FFDshow and related. You could find plenty of how-to about LAV on MPC-HC through the web :infinity:
else Mad Vr for x86 build (warning: heavily GPU dependent)
