AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver for Windows is now available!

[Warsam71]

Hello everyone,

Click herehttp://forums.anandtech.com/www.amd.com/drivers to download the driver.

Highlights of the Driver:

Oculus 0.7 SDK Support:
This driver provides support for the Oculus 0.7 SDK on Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. More information on the Oculus 0.7 SDK can be found at the Oculus Developer site: https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/pc/0.7.0.0-beta/Oculus_Runtime_for_Windows/

Performance Optimizations:
· Batman™: Arkham Knight ‐ Performance and quality/stability updates
· Ashes of the Singularity ‐ Performance optimizations for DirectX® 12

Please refer to the Release Notes for information regarding Known and Resolved Issues, CrossFire Profile enhancements and product compatibility.

For instructions on how to uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, you may refer to the following support resources:

How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

[FONT=&quot]Please make sure to read the Known Issues sections to learn more about this version of the driver and use the Issue Reporting Form to report any bugs – Thank you![/FONT]

 

[tg2708]

Any optimizations for Metal Gear Solid V?

 

[3DVagabond]

Performance Optimizations
Batman™: Arkham Knight - Performance and quality/stability updates
Ashes of the Singularity - Performance optimizations for DirectX® 12


Resolved Issues:
[424009] Adobe® Lightroom may crash if GPU rendering is enabled
[423336] Mouse cursor coordinates may be swapped on some 3x1 Eyefinity configurations
[421110] The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt - Corruption may be observed when AA is enabled in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[424127] The Firefox browser may crash while opening multiple tabs (2 or more)
[425168] Anti Aliasing settings are not retained after Applying in the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
[425156] System hangs when launching Call of Duty® - Modern Warfare 3 or Diablo™ III
[424776] Metal Gear Solid® : Ground Zero may crash when launched
[425421] Call Of Duty®: Black Ops III - texture corruption observed when launched in DirectX® 11 mode
[425452] Sword Coast Legends - FRTC settings are not activated in the game
[411945] Project CARS may experience corruption when AA is set to D2SM
[425382] A green screen may be observed on some "Llano"/"Ontario" APU's when playing video under Windows 10
[424330] Watch Dogs™ may experience flickering / corruption after changing game resolution
[425440] AMD HDMI® Audio is disabled after driver installation
[423013] F1 2015™ may experience flickering during gameplay or in game benchmarking
[422551] Call of Duty® - Advanced Warfare may freeze randomly when run in Quad CrossFire mode
[424168] Text corruption observed when using Windows 10 Mapp application
[424222] System may hang when installing the driver on a Windows 10 system with 2 or more GPUs
[424710] "Device being used by another application" error is displayed when attempting audio playback on Windows 7 systems


Known Issues:
[423924] Unable to create an Eyefinity SLS if one of the displays is a MST display device
[423759] Unable to apply Fill mode in Eyefinity if 2560x1600 and 2560x1440 resolutions are used together
[425484] DiRT Rally™ crashes during gameplay and benchmarking when launched in DirectX 11® mode on some BENQ 144HZ Freesync monitors
[425496] Mad Max - Color corruption is observed when Alt+Ctrl+Del is pressed followed by the Escape key
[422806] Battlefield™ Hardline crashes on pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del while running in AMD Mantle mode
[422674] Corruption may occur in DiRT Rally™ with CMAA enabled with Portrait SLS and AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled
[425417] Windows 10 driver installation may halt on some systems with an AMD 990FX chipset and AMD CrossFire™ enabled
As a temporary workaround, please uninstall the existing driver before installing the AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta driver
[425432] Some BENQ 144hz Freesync monitors may lose the signal while uninstalling the driver
[425659] Assassin's Creed® Unity may experience minor frame stutter when AMD CrossFire™ mode is enabled

Release notes

 

[Red Hawk]

Hmm. No enhancements or bug fixes beneficial to me to motivate me to update from the 15.7.1 WHQL driver. I find it interesting that the notes indicate an improvement in DirectX 12 performance for Ashes of the Singularity but say nothing about DirectX 11...

 

[SPBHM]

I find it interesting that the notes indicate an improvement in DirectX 12 performance for Ashes of the Singularity but say nothing about DirectX 11...

realistically if you have a GCN card you probably shouldn't touch DX11 with this game and that's what they think, but yes... I think a lot of people played the Mantle games using DX11 for one reason or another, so they probably should do some work to the DX11 version, considering the performance problems at the moment, but not listing it doesn't mean they didn't, I guess?

 

[digitaldurandal]

Bezel correction back?

 

[guskline]

Helps with Batman Arkham Knight. Good sign.

 

[psolord]

thanks

 

[guskline]

Except it didn't work. Got an error message.

Correction, no more error message. Whoopee! Played Batman Arkham for awhile on rig 2 below with CF 290s.

 

[Hemicrusher]

I had to roll back to 15.7...GTA V was all wonky. Studdering, tearing and weird artifacts.

 

[Gundark]

I'm waiting for GLSL 4.5 implementation. Anyone have any insight?