15.5 Beta - PCARS And The Witcher 3 Driver

[Dicehunter]

AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta for Windows®

This driver release is recommended for The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt and Project Cars.


This article provides information on the latest posting of the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta.


This particular software suite updates the AMD Catalyst Display Driver and the AMD Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been updated, and is designed to provide enhanced performance and reliability.


Package Contents

The AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta contains the following:

• AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver version 14.502.1014.1001.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Windows Driver
Crossfire Profile Update for

• *The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt

Performance Improvements for the following

• The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt : Up to 10% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products
• Project Cars - Up to 17% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products

Compatible Operating Systems

The latest version of the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

• Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)

NOTES

• This driver is not intended for use on AMD products running in Apple Boot Camp platforms. Users of these platforms should contact their manufacturer for driver support.
• When installing the AMD Catalyst™ Driver for Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst Driver.
• The AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta Software Suite requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.
• The AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta Software Suite requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 to be installed. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is included in all Catalyst packages.
• AMD Eyefinity technology is designed to give gamers access to high display resolutions. As pixel count grows, the graphics "horsepower" required to drive the displays at a reasonable frame rate can increase dramatically. Depending on the game and system configuration, users may notice texture corruption and reduced frame rates when running games in multi-monitor Eyefinity modes.

Know Issues

• ​​*The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt : [FONT=&quot]To enable the best performance and experience in Crossfire, users must disable Anti-Aliasing from the games video-post processing options. Some random flickering may occur when using Crossfire. If the issue is affecting the game experience, as a work around we suggest disabling Crossfire while we continue to work with CD Projekt Red to resolve this issue[/FONT]

• [FONT=calibri, sans-serif]Project CARS: Corruption may be observed if Anti-Aliasing is set to DS2M when run in Crossfire mode. As a workaround we suggest using a different Anti-Aliasing method.[/FONT]

GPU Compatibility

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta is compatible with the following AMD products.

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​

AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series
AMD Radeon™ R9 280 Series
AMD Radeon™ R9 270 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 260 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 250 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 240 Series
AMD Radeon™ R5 230 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series


AMD All-In-One Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​

AMD Radeon™ HD 7600A Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 7450A Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6600A Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6350A Series


AMD APU Product Family Compatibility

Windows 8.1 32-bit with Kaveri APU is currently not supported by AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta driver.

Desktop + Mobile

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics
A-Series AMD Radeon™ R6 Graphics
A-Series AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics
A-Series AMD Radeon™ R3 Graphics
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series


AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility

AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features.


AMD Radeon™ R9 M200 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 M200 Series
AMD Radeon™ R5 M200 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000M Series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series


Download Links


Windows 7 - 32 Bit - Click Me


Windows 7 - 64 Bit - Click Me


Windows 8.1 - 32 Bit - Click Me


Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit - Click Me

 

[NeverBackDown]

I downloaded/installed this yesterday and played W3. I did not notice any differences on my 7950. It does say R9/R7 but I figured since it's technically a R9 280 it would have helped, but nope didn't see anything improve. Still hovered around 40fps.

 

[Dicehunter]

I downloaded/installed this yesterday and played W3. I did not notice any differences on my 7950. It does say R9/R7 but I figured since it's technically a R9 280 it would have helped, but nope didn't see anything improve. Still hovered around 40fps.

Could be a bios difference that's doing that or maybe more, Odd that you saw no improvement though

 

[NeverBackDown]

Could be a bios difference that's doing that or maybe more, Odd that you saw no improvement though

Ya i'm not sure. At first the performance got way worse. Like I was having an avg of 20FPS.. figured bad driver but then when I went to look at Afterburner it said my clocks were at 480/750mhz.. I forgot that updating drivers resets AB to the ULPS AMD has. Just re-enabled my original profile of 960/1500 and jumped back up to 40FPS. Just in case someone has that issue I mentioned it