AMD Catalyst 13.1

Door Bart van Klaveren, vrijdag 18 januari 2013 10:48, views: 14.459 • Feedback
Bron: AMD, submitter: agoNITE

AMD is met nieuwe Catalyst-drivers gekomen. De drivers zijn zoals gebruikelijk beschikbaar voor Windows XP, Vista, 7 en 8, met aparte downloads voor 32bit- en 64bit-omgevingen. Kort geleden heeft AMD de drivers gesplitst wat de ondersteunde hardware  betreft. De nu beschikbaar gekomen drivers zijn geschikt voor Radeon-modellen vanaf de HD 5000-serie. De HD 2000-, 3000- en 4000-series, die nu als 'Legacy' worden aangeduid, volgen later deze maand. Versie 13.1 heeft onder meer een nieuw scherm voor het aanpassen van de 3d-instellingen en er zijn nu prestatieverbeteringen waar te nemen voor kaarten uit de Radeon HD 7000-familie en Mobility 7970M. Natuurlijk zijn er ook weer diverse bugfixes doorgevoerd.

Feature highlights of the amd catalyst 13.1:

New 3D settings and profile management user interface:
AMD Catalyst 13.1 features a newly designed 3D application settings page, designed to allow users to more easily adjust and control their 3D settings on a per application basis.

Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11
Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels

• Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
• Enhanced AMD CrossFire™ scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
• Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
  • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
• Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
• Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
• Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
• Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
• Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
• Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
• Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3

AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:

• 3DMark® 06 – Up to 6%
• 3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
• 3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
• AvP – Up to 11%
• Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
• Call of Duty: Black Ops – Up to 13%
• Crysis 2: Up to 45%
• DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
• ETQW – Up to 8%
• Hard Reset – Up to 8%
• Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
• Mafia 2 – Up to 40%
• The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
• Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
• StarCraft 2 – Up to 25%
• Skyrim – Up to 45%
• Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
• Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
• Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
• Wolfenstein – Up to 9%

Resolved Issues

for the Windows 8 / Windows 7 Operating Systems:

• A sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
• An intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in an AMD CrossFire + Eyefinity setup.
• Missing fonts in XBMC
• No video found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
• Skyrim lighting (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
• Skyrim cloud corruption experience in various in game locations
• A hang playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• Engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle.
• GPU activity runs at lower values than expected seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
• Corruption seen in Darkness 2 and Carrier Command when using AMD CrossFire configurations
• Adobe Premier Pro CS6 may fail to launch
• Hang experienced with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled on X58 and X78 chipsets
• Corel PaintShop Pro X3 – Hangs at the “Initializing Command Manager” window
• Company of Heroes 2 – display corruption experienced when AA is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Cyberlink Powerdirector 10 crashes intermittently.
• Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor – Flickering experienced when AA is disabled
• Max Payne 3 – Flickering experienced in DirectX 9 mode with forced AA enabled
• Cyberlink PoweDVD 10 – crashes intermittently
• VLC - Green texture corruption seen in 720p MPEG2 video clips
• Black screen encountered when “Alternate DVI mode” is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video

Known Issues

Known issues under the Windows 8 Operating System.

• Sleeping Dogs – game may fail to launch in certain configurations

under the Windows 7 Operating System.

• Shogun 2 – Total War : flickering experienced when game is run in medium quality mode

De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:
AMD Catalyst 13.1 voor Windows XP (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.1 voor Windows XP (64bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.1 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.1 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (64bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.1 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.1 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (64bit)
AMD CrossFireX Application Profiles