AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL Drivers Released, Massive Improvements .

[TechFan@ic]

The highlights of this update are improvements of up to 25% in Far Cry 3, 10%-15% in Battlefield 3 and 12% in Civilization V. All the game tests are performed at maximum detail levels at 1600p resolution.

Mobility 7970M performance is improved for DirectX 9, 10, 11 applications by up to a whopping 90% in Just Cause 2, 62% in DiRT Showdown and 60% in Sniper Elite V2.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Catalyst-13-1-WHQL-Driver-A-Major-Improvement-for-Radeon-HD-7000-322254.shtml

Also 13.2 drivers (which will be released very soon), have successfully adressed the frame latency issues.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Catalyst-13-2-Beta-Driver-Benchmarks-Look-Promising-322097.shtml

[TechFan@ic]

Another piece of interesting software has been released along with the new drivers.

It's called AMD CleanUninstall Utility, which removes any & all catalyst driver files to allow for a clean install of newer drivers without causing any compatibility issues.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Releases-Driver-Uninstall-Utility-322303.shtml

[EChondo]

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[andrews013]

In Far Cry 3 on a 7970 I got on average 20% better, which allowed me to turn on msaa.

[Brandonsr]

Very nice! Looks like I will be updating my drivers.

[NapalmX]

downloading... I will test also and let people know! 7950 here.

[zer0]

good drivers. using it right now.

[Mindmyself]

I can't instal the driver for my HD 7970 for some reason. Every time I try to install 13.1, it says that there was a warning message while the setup was running, and I can't open Catalyst either since it says that it does not exist. I tried reinstalling the driver several times, even tried to completely sweep the driver, but still no change.

Going back to 12.8 was no problem what so ever.

[Blake]

why post non-AMD website for AMD drivers?

[Kev]

AMD has really gotten their act together with their drivers. They had a stigma of sucking for a long while.

[wnxhaja]

Software Upgrade :)

[Agons]

Woot! I'm so excited, I'll be downloading new drivers as soon as i get home!