AMD 15.8 Beta Driver Released

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AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta



The AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta contains the following:


  • AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver version 15.201.1151


Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta Windows Driver


  • 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 following link on the Oculus Developer site.

  • Driver packages are now being consolidated into 1 package instead of being spread out over different downloads, Now Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows 10 are all under 1 of 2 installers, 32 bit or 64 bit.



Performance Optimizations


  • Batman™: Arkham Knight - Performance and quality/stability updates

  • Ashes of the Singularity - Performance optimizations for DirectX12


Compatible Operating Systems

AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms


  • Windows 7 SP1 or Higher (32 & 64-bit)

  • Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit)

  • Windows 10 (32 & 64-bit)


Resolved Issues


  • Adobe® Lightroom may crash if GPU rendering is enabled

  • Mouse cursor coordinates may be swapped on some 3x1 Eyefinity configurations

  • The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt - Corruption may be observed when AA is enabled in AMD CrossFire™ mode

  • The Firefox browser may crash while opening multiple tabs (2 or more)

  • Anti Aliasing settings are not retained after Applying in the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center

  • System hangs when launching Call of Duty® - Modern Warfare 3 or Diablo™ III

  • Metal Gear Solid® : Ground Zero may crash when launched

  • Call Of Duty®: Black Ops III - texture corruption observed when launched in DirectX® 11 mode

  • Sword Coast Legends - FRTC settings are not activated in the game

  • Project CARS may experience corruption when AA is set to D2SM

  • A green screen may be observed on some "Llano"/"Ontario" APU's when playing video under Windows 10

  • Watch Dogs™ may experience flickering / corruption after changing game resolution

  • AMD HDMI® Audio is disabled after driver installation

  • F1 2015™ may experience flickering during gameplay or in game benchmarking

  • Call of Duty® - Advanced Warfare may freeze randomly when run in Quad CrossFire mode

  • Text corruption observed when using Windows 10 Mapp application

  • System may hang when installing the driver on a Windows 10 system with 2 or more GPUs

  • "Device being used by another application" error is displayed when attempting audio playback on Windows 7 systems


Known Issues


  • Unable to create an Eyefinity SLS if one of the displays is a MST display device

  • Unable to apply Fill mode in Eyefinity if 2560x1600 and 2560x1440 resolutions are used together

  • DiRT Rally™ crashes during gameplay and benchmarking when launched in DirectX 11® mode on some BENQ 144HZ Freesync monitors

  • Mad Max - Color corruption is observed when Alt+Ctrl+Del is pressed followed by the Escape key

  • Battlefield™ Hardline crashes on pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del while running in AMD Mantle mode

  • Corruption may occur in DiRT Rally™ with CMAA enabled with Portrait SLS and AMD CrossFire™ mode enabled

  • 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

  • Some BENQ 144hz Freesync monitors may lose the signal while uninstalling the driver

  • Assassin's Creed® Unity may experience minor frame stutter when AMD CrossFire™ mode is enabled





GPU Compatibility

The AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta is compatible with the following AMD products.


AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​

  • AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 390 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 380 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 370 Series
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 360 Series
  • 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

"Kaveri", "Godavari", and "Carrizo" series APUs are only supported by AMD Catalyst™ 15.8 Beta on Windows® 7 (32 & 64-bit), Windows® 8.1 (64-bit) and Windows® 10 (64-bit).


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


 
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Gonna download asap. Bout to fall asleep so I'll install in the morn.

Finally a proper driver for Ashes of the Singularity!
I'll report back on DX12 improvements;)
 
Just use frame limiter. I personally quite like Radeonpro, quite handy.

Dont they also have framerate target in CCC?
 
Heyyo,

Just use frame limiter. I personally quite like Radeonpro, quite handy.

Dont they also have framerate target in CCC?

Framerate target Works in DirectX 10 & 11 modes but last I heard doesn't support Dx9... for that? One can always use Rivia Tuner Statistics Server which you can download separately or comes with MSI Afterburner.

I dunno if those "performance optimizations" carry over to the experimental DirectX 12 renderer for Unreal Engine 4.9 but one could always test it out. :)
 
Heyyo,



Framerate target Works in DirectX 10 & 11 modes but last I heard doesn't support Dx9... for that? One can always use Rivia Tuner Statistics Server which you can download separately or comes with MSI Afterburner.

I dunno if those "performance optimizations" carry over to the experimental DirectX 12 renderer for Unreal Engine 4.9 but one could always test it out. :)

It says those optimizations are for the game, so no it won't carry over.
 
Just reporting back on the DX12 Optimizations to the game Ashes of the Singularity, I can confirm some performance improvements;)
In same instances I only get a 5FPS improvement, in other's(like the heavy scenes with many draw calls) I went from about 34ish FPS to about 41FPS- 7FPS increase. All estimations but I didn't take a screenshot of before and after but even without them, just watching the benchmark was immediately smoother.
 
Well as long as there was an improvement its a plus+

Pretty big improvement too. It should only get better as the game progresses into a more stable state and driver improvments keep happening. Since this is the first DX12 game, both AMD and Nvidia have a ton of things to learn and improve on. It'll take time but the future of their drivers being more ready and faster than the other's really revolves around who gets hang of this game first and then applying them to future games:)
 
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