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Catalyst 15.8 released

Humbug

Beta driver but they are normally solid.

 

Main highlights are performance improvements for below titles

-Batman Arkham Knight

-Ashes of the Singularity in Direct X 12 mode

 

Other big draw is support for Oculus SDK 0.7

 

Apart from that below are the bugs which have been resolved

    • [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

 

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

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Hm. Guess I have to download it again from the website because software update inside the app doesn't work for me.

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Its somewhat funny because DX11 Ashes performance increased more than DX12 on this driver.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedMicroDevices/comments/3j6kdu/ashes_of_the_singularitycatalyst_1571_vs_158_beta/

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Hmm - hopefully this might just fix the issues I've been having - namely with firefox and that would also mean that my card ain't dying.

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I hope they fixed the csgo stretched resolutions not working.

Hi there. Move along, n0thing to see here.

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I hope they fixed the csgo stretched resolutions not working.

Doesn't for nvidia as well. Only when "Monitor" is chosen as a scaler and not GPU

 

Tho how is this tech news exactly? This should be under Graphics card section..

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