AMD Catalyst 13.x (13.150.100.1) OpenGL 4.3 Beta Driver Download
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Dekaohtoura
TY asder for the release, but I think I'll pass.
Frame Pacing driver is (supposedly) only one week away.
Hope it includes OGL4.3.
CPC_RedDawn
Nope Nope Nope and a little more Nope.
The drivers you get with your Toshiba laptop, either preinstalled ones, or newer ones that come on Toshiba's site will be generally much much older than ones release by AMD. As third party hardware manufacturers tend to take their time uploading the lastest drivers on their site. Either way your GPU is an AMD and therefore the drivers that Toshiba or any other company upload to their site are FROM AMD. They may test beta drivers before uploading them or generally stick to only uploading WHQL drivers. Either way, you would be better off installing these as they are the very latest drivers released so far, if you have any troubles then go to AMD's site and download the official WHQL ones. The same goes for other hardware inside your laptop too, like your processor. Always get your drivers for the manufacturer of the hardware not the manufacturer of the laptop as they just source the parts from each company and stick them together.
ps/ sorry for the long post lol got carried away.
JonasBeckman
The 13.6 beta drivers should have the latest CAP's included already though you should of course install newer versions as they are released.
(And there's no harm in installing the 13.5 CAP1 either.)
EDIT: Or I could have been wrong and 13.5 CAP1 was the newest, whoops. :P
http://www.kn00tcn.net/site/ati-catalyst-profiles/
EDIT: Although I guess this is now the newest if it has a profile file included with the drivers. 🙂
ClockClocker
this looks so ****ed up that i doubt the card is broken. Guess it'S a driver issue.
caleb59
Yes I can also confirm this problem but in my case this issue is not caused by newest AMD Open GL 4.3 drivers, problem occured earlier on older AMD drivers - Firefox looks like s*** on my HD 7850 card - instead Firefox I installed Chrome because of this "artifacts issue" and all looks good now...
Just read my old thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=377483
NiColaoS
Indead... The other time, a Firefox developer told me AMD driver is causing random memory corruptions and this is the reason we see these artifacts.
I got the same screen when I woke my computer up while Firefox was running.
An other solid way to get blue squared artifacts is to press Ctrl + B, open the side bar and start scrolling up-down with mouse wheel ( given you've enough bookmarks in order to able to ).
zbaic
Has anyone checked/tested if this driver includes promised new memory manager for single GCN cards (to combat stattering in various games caused by uneven frame times and spikes) and frame-pacing code for Crossfire?
driver is dated Jul 16 (or 17) so it's quite new/recent and should already include these fixes if they were promised to be delivered by Jul 31..
zbaic
so July 31 driver won't contain a new memory management for single-GPU GCN arch cards?
If not, when can we expect it? In August (beta) drivers, or later ones?
what's your source for these claims, btw?
zbaic
so, if I have a single-GPU GCN (7xxx) card ATM, and Cats 13.6 beta 2 (on Win7 64-bit) installed on my setup,
what should I do: install these drivers or wait for the Jul 31 driver?
Has anyone noticed any (performance/stability/game smoothness/image quality etc) improvements in this driver, compared to Cat 13.6b2 on single-GPU setups (and Win7_64)?
Or should I NOT bother with these and wait for Jul 31 (or even August betas) drivers instead? I'd like to not mess up anything, as I suspect Jul 31 will be older-dated than these ones (WHQL takes time etc)..
ps could anyone check if Doom 3 BFG Edition (OpenGL app/game) works with these drivers (I remember it being broken on 13.5/13.6's)? Maybe they fixed it finally with this OpenGL-4.3-complete beta driver?
zbaic
"AMD never promised a memory manage re-write by any certain time,"
AFAIR they did (at the beginning of 2013, when this issue was hot topic). The timeframe was June/July driver. I think others can confirm it, even back it up with relevant links. Fixing Frame pacing for Crossfire was another, more recent issue.
X7007
Do I need to install the Amd profiles from AMD_Catalyst_13.5_CAP1.05212013
Now Skyrim full patch + 3D tridef Side by Side + Lucidlogix Virtual + Hyperperformance , works 40 Fps minimum .
VirtualVsync is awsome with this game because it makes the mouse move like with Vsync Off, and because you can't disable vsync in Skyrim, it makes it more fun to play without delay.
Before with VirtualVsync it was 25 Fps.
Now I can finally play it.
X7007
No one alive ? Do I need the 13.5 CAP1 ? with those drivers
JonasBeckman
It doesn't cause any problems to always have the latest CAP installed (It just won't be used if the drivers already include a newer version.) but I don't know if these drivers include a newer version with the core files, didn't check.
Newbie2012
I've noticed, my command and conquer collection on origin, these drivers won't work with any of the older games, the one where it is all 2d sprites.
Derko1
Not always true. I installed the CAPs on this driver and my performance in Tomb Raider was cut by more than half. Those caps did not support CF in the game and the ones that come with the driver do.
So it does hurt to simply install them, if you already have something newer.
CPC_RedDawn
Excellent drivers so far, had one crash with Battlefield Bad Company 2 thought it was my overclock but set everything back to stock and same thing happened all other games are perfect.
JonasBeckman
I see, I was under the impression that the C:\Program Files\ profiles .blb file would be ignored if the C:\Windows\System\ profile .blb CAP was newer but I might have understood it incorrectly. 🙂
(Thus you could keep the previous CAP installed even if the drivers already contained a newer set and just upgrade when a newer CAP was released.)
Of course as a single-GPU user there's only a dozen or so improvements that actually apply to my own configuration other than the forced AA disabling that a few titles have been given via these profile updates.
yasamoka
@warlord: Somebody asked RH on Twitter if the frame-pacing driver will work for the 6990, and RH replied: yes.
So I don't really know where the idea that the frame-pacing is only targeted at the 7000 series for now came from. It will apply across the previous generations as well.
Newbie2012
I dunno, I think this frame pacing thing has been blown out of proportion/Nvidia marketing.
I was playing Remember me maxed with xfire over the weekend. Ran perfectly, nice and smooth.
If it is an improvement, all good, but I don't think there will be a stark difference.
The Mac
agreed, people are going the be very disappointed.
Particularly single card users, and xfire people with no issues to begin with.
