AMD is eindelijk weer eens met nieuwe stabiele 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 op een later tijdstip. Versie 13.4 voegt onder meer ondersteuning voor enkele nieuwe videokaarten toe, en biedt verbeterde prestaties en verbeterde ondersteuning voor OpenGL 4.3. Natuurlijk zijn er ook weer diverse bugfixes doorgevoerd.
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.4Resolved Issues
- Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
- Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
- Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
- Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
- Batman Arkham City (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Borderlands 2 (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
- Quake Wars (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
- Hitman Absolution (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Wolfenstein MP (1920x1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Civilization V (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
- GL_ARB_compute_shader
- GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
- GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
- GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
- GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_shader_image_size
- GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
- GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
Known Issues
- With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
- Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
- Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
- Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
- Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
- Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
- Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
- System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
- F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology
- Jumping artifacts, and unsmooth playback of interlaced clips may be experienced using Cyberlink’s Metro UI players
- A black screen may be observed when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supported AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology
De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:AMD Catalyst 13.4 voor Windows XP (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 voor Windows XP (64bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (64bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.4 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.4 voor Windows Vista, 7 en 8 (64bit)
AMD CrossFireX Application Profiles