AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta Download

PieEyedPiper

2014-02-26 01:57

Everything is great so far. Thief runs well, bf4 w/ mantle runs beautifully. Even a small boost in firestrike extreme. Loving AMD right now.

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KissSh0t

2014-02-26 02:04

BF4 finally runs good with Mantle now for me... yay~!~!~!

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yasamoka

2014-02-26 02:42

Your full of ****. Mantel has no impact on a system like that

HAHAHahahah.a..h...a? His system is by FAR the system to have the biggest boost in FPS, given that his 290 CF is crazily bottlenecked by even the fastest CPUs in BF4 MP, especially when aiming for 120FPS. So...no. It is.

Well, it looks like we all gave it a good go and AMD has failed. I guess the only logical sense is to switch to Nvidia. I mean how long is everyone just going to eat these lies from AMD? They promised Mantle. They said 20%-40% performance increase. No one is seeing anything like that at all. It made it worse if anything. Stuttering-crashing. Something else they have to fix. If you think AMD is good after this whole mantle thing you are nuts.

You're nuts and screws if you think Mantle has failed. It's succeeding in front of my very eyes, and I'm getting more than "20-40%" boost. 1-0, bye.

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The Mac

2014-02-26 03:10

reported

Seriously, thats is about the most blatant trolling ive seen in here in a while. You'd think they would at least change their system stats before doing this. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.....

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sapo_joe

2014-02-26 03:30

Very nice to see that after 2 years I can just install a new driver over the older and everything is smooth... Wasn't the case on my old Radeon 5670! 🙂

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millibyte

2014-02-26 03:32

Cool to see that mantle's starting to flex it's muscles. Happy for all you B4'ers!

#4772934

Skinner

2014-02-26 03:40

I am disappointed about the vsync issue with 290x CF but man !!! BF4 is so smooth with Mantle !! I am impressed !!

Everything else besides the v-sync issue is working great indeed! All the left eyefinity/fov issues on 4K mst screens ingame are fixed, that deserves a big compliment. It seems the blackscreening is also a thing of the past, but I want to confirm that after a days hopefully. Now if I gonna get rid of that tearing I can finally play.

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Aaron123

2014-02-26 03:43

BF4 does not have anymore stuttering using mantle! Performance is up to par with this release. 14.1 was complete crap compared to these! Will be testing BF4 some more....I only played for about 30 minutes lol

#4772941

WolfPT

2014-02-26 03:47

Reinstalled Win 8.1, installed it, played BF4. wow. Just that. Thanks Asder00.

#4772950

glutto

2014-02-26 04:03

So are the DirectX issues from 14.1 beta are sorted out? DirectX was quite.... unusable in 14.1..... I'm not too sure why I'm interested in this right now. I have no games to test this with, and my hardware probably can't take full advantage of it. I guess it's neat to tinker with until it becomes more wide-spread. :hatty:

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dynamez

2014-02-26 04:23

Everything else besides the v-sync issue is working great indeed! All the left eyefinity/fov issues on 4K mst screens ingame are fixed, that deserves a big compliment. It seems the blackscreening is also a thing of the past, but I want to confirm that after a days hopefully. Now if I gonna get rid of that tearing I can finally play.

Yeah, everything works great but the vsync ****.. god how i hate tearing.

#4772962

The Mac

2014-02-26 04:31

@rich_guy no sticky clocks for me on this one. Might try an additional DDU and see if it clears up.

#4772964

MerolaC

2014-02-26 04:33

This set it's not good for me. I haven't tried BF4 yet, and I think I won't either. I ratter play with DX11 until something stable for my machine comes around. I have artifacts on Thief ("jumping" screen (I double checked my clocks, so, that's not the problem), although, this ONLY happens when I enable the exclusive fullscreen mode) and somewhat bad performance, and the cause seems to be the lack of exclusive fullscreen mode, since when I enable it, the game runs without a performance penalty but, I have the aforementioned bug. All of this does not happen with Cat 13.12 Another example of a game that does not work so good is Tomb Raider, I have lower performance than with Cat 13.12. Around 10~15 fps less from 60 to 50-45 fps depending on the scene, while with 13.12 is a loss of 5 fps in the same scenes So, all in all, I'll wait for something more stable, maybe I pass a couple more of betas before I return to it.

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sapo_joe

2014-02-26 04:57

Mantle with my rig is BUTTER SMOOTH!!! A pleasure to play! A pity it doesn't support HD3D yet.... It'll be just perfect!

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Aaron123

2014-02-26 05:36

i have similar hardware as you and still experience the memory leak when disabling one card. Render.DrawScreenInfo 1 still shows it slowly filling up with memory and then starting to stutter. Post back after you play some more, i'm curious if everything remains okay for you, and not for me 🙁.

Well iv played for awhile longer and i still don't have any stuttering. Did you do a clean install? Try putting your card at stock clocks and re run the game. I had problems when i OC mine. I also dont have crossfire, so that might be your issue

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Aaron123

2014-02-26 05:38

i have similar hardware as you and still experience the memory leak when disabling one card. Render.DrawScreenInfo 1 still shows it slowly filling up with memory and then starting to stutter. Post back after you play some more, i'm curious if everything remains okay for you, and not for me 🙁.

And how exactly did you get tha CPU to 4.5ghz? LoL! iv got mine at 3.8ghz @1.26v and it never goes over 32 degs celcius!

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The Mac

2014-02-26 05:49

no sticky clocks, no deskstop/chome corruption this ones a keeper.

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Aaron123

2014-02-26 05:57

i have similar hardware as you and still experience the memory leak when disabling one card. Render.DrawScreenInfo 1 still shows it slowly filling up with memory and then starting to stutter. Post back after you play some more, i'm curious if everything remains okay for you, and not for me 🙁.

Also, Do you have your cores parked? Mine were parked and i unparked them. Im using Windows 8.1

#4773020

jonny30bass

2014-02-26 06:44

Mantle is still broken for me. Using Mantle and Ultra settings for BF4, my framerate is in the 20's, but with dx11 my framerate is in the 40's. My specs are a 7970m and i7 920xm with 8 GB of RAM. Mantle also stutters like crazy. It is unplayable on my setup.

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Coldblackice

2014-02-26 07:27

What's the general word on these with DirectX games? (like Starcraft 2, for example)