AMD Catalyst 14.9 WHQL Download

KyleStilkey

2014-09-30 20:49

https://twitter.com/Thracks/status/517021267099389953 Just announced that these drivers support Windows 10 for anyone wanting to test it out.

#4926461

Wagnard

2014-09-30 20:56

I found the reason for the yellow error (At least I think) after using DDU stay tune for an update

#4926487

dampflokfreund

2014-09-30 21:11

I'm unhappy with this driver in BF4 and Mental. I have more lags then with the 14.7 RC3. Not playable, going back. Suxxx!

Mental xD

#4926489

The Mac

2014-09-30 21:12

Your mental is lagging? try more fish...

#4926514

Agonist

2014-09-30 21:39

Finally 6950 crossfire working properly in Watch Dogs. Ty AMD, only needed 4 months to do so.

I have Hd 7950 crossfire. So this is awesome to hear that crossfire is working good now in Watch Dogs. Only game I have crossfire issues with.

#4926522

dampflokfreund

2014-09-30 21:55

Exactly! AMD gives me mental disorders with their rubbish support on GCN1 cards!!

Mantle works good for me, and my card is GCN1 🙂 Sure, sure, optimizations can be always done but it's pretty fine for such a new API. Most of it will be in DX12 anyway.

#4926532

CPC_RedDawn

2014-09-30 22:04

I'm unhappy with this driver in BF4 and Mantle. I have more lags then with the 14.7 RC3. Not playable, going back. Suxxx!

Mantle works fine here and gives a very nice improvement over DX11 in BF4 for me on 7970 GCN1 card. 1080p Ultra settings 0xAA and locked fps to 65fps using commandline gametime.maxvariablefps 65. It never drops at all even in 64 player conquest games. Only a couple of maps have slowdowns to 55fps when looking into the distance with tons happening on screen. When I use DX11 same settings my lowest fps is 40fps. That's a pretty big improvement.

#4926638

pipes

2014-09-30 23:40

Bad performance with Watch Dogs and Crossfire R9 290x :-(

#4926687

olymind1

2014-10-01 00:51

#4926700

KyleStilkey

2014-10-01 01:13

Is there any driver where i can play Diablo 3 without serious slow downs to 10-20fps in single player and 3-10fps in multiplayer? Like im viewing slideshows... Not to mention effects corruptions: http://i.imgur.com/zoXEwCk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/44WlUbA.jpg http://i.imgur.com/eV9HXW9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/O9GqCmq.jpg Lightning: http://i.imgur.com/BBFX6RX.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ejdh73g.jpg Cold: http://i.imgur.com/zbIO6TH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tJW5vQK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nWU4wz4.jpg Fire: http://i.imgur.com/RDwRUL4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JhhPlGa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LV84csc.jpg Cave: http://i.imgur.com/XKtWxOn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1A3wwN7.jpg Other effects: http://i.imgur.com/ke3DlBS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/h5GfcWq.jpg I am not the only one who gets these lines in the middle of effects: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14277198081?page=1

No issues here with Diablo 3. I do know that Diablo 3 uses more of your CPU then your GPU but your I5 shouldn't have an issues running this at all. Wish I could help with this but I don't get any slowdowns or issues with this system and my wifes (Maxed Settings).

#4926941

mrrulez911

2014-10-01 09:45

edit Best drivers ever imo. I've got the settings below and it's run with 120-140 frames per second. 3840x2160, MSAA off, AA Post Pro off, HBAO on, all other settings ULTRA, Motion Blur 0%. When I turn on MSAA and AA Post Pro I get like 70-80 fps. I use 2 GBT WF 290X cards. And for now I only tested with DX11, when I've tested Mantle I'll post the results here.

#4926966

Octopuss

2014-10-01 10:33

My monitor still takes AGES to wake up from sleep with this driver. Does anyone else have the same problem? I was thinking it might be related to the card (I have Asus R9 290) itself (as in a hardware problem maybe), but I can't really tell.

#4926989

olymind1

2014-10-01 11:11

about the corruptions & that thread... is diablo a dx9 game? is there a change when you adjust CCC's surface format optimization setting? has this happened since the launch of the game & NEVER on nvidia?

It is. No change. No, but it effects mostly GCN cards, with hd5xxx cards there seems to be no problem, and no one wrote in the thread with nv card. Tried all whql driver from 13.12. No change.

#4927054

Undying

2014-10-01 13:01

Got a first bsod. Some one said it's CPU related (again) so i dont wanna deal with those things i'll go back to 14.7 where everything is fine.

#4927100

Ironjer

2014-10-01 14:20

I tired BF4 with this driver and Mantle was even worse than before, the memory leak triggered after 2 levels, Paracel Storm was unplayable. I had to switch to DX11 and while it wasn't as smooth as Mantle is when it is working properly, at least it was way better, without the huge CPU spikes.

i got better fps stability with DX11 7950 Boost Crossfire in Mantle when explode things fps has huge drop. DX11 run very well at 60fps locked.

#4927121

foxX

2014-10-01 14:35

Speaking of the warning during driver installation. Ever since I switched to Radeon 290 (previous 6950) on Windows 8 I'm getting it on driver update. Beforehand, the screen would just turn black and return with the new driver loaded. After getting the 290, I always have to reboot the computer when updating the driver and go to C:\AMD and relaunch the appropriate setup.exe. As for updating the driver - ever since 2008 (4850) I stopped using any crapware uninstaller. Just installed on top. I average 30 days of uptime (until Windows Update) with everything from virtual machines, to multiple 3D apps, video editors, rendering stuff, etc - so really cba with anything uninstall related.

#4927138

Wagnard

2014-10-01 14:54

Hey guys, I just released an update that should fix in most case the warning message when installing the CAT drivers after after using DDU. If its not fixed for you, please let me know directly by PM so I can fix it.

#4927162

millibyte

2014-10-01 15:23

Seem like good drivers so far aside from the Lost Alpha dx9 crossfire flickering. Every other dx9 game I've tried seems fine.

#4927201

DiceAir

2014-10-01 16:20

It's been a year now and mantle still doesn't work. I know it's in beta but come on AMD. Mantle can suck my harry D..... LOL

#4927204

The Mac

2014-10-01 16:22

Works fine for me.