AMD 14.9.1 Beta Driver

[Priller]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst14-9-1BetaWINReleaseNotes.aspx

 

Last Updates: 10/6/2014 

Article Number: RN-WIN-CAT14.9.1B

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AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Beta Driver for Windows®

Due to a small number of isolated usability issues in last week's AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 driver that were reported by end users, we are providing an updated driver that addresses those usability issues. If you are not facing any problems we recommend you continue to use the latest AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 driver which is available at www.amd.com

The AM D Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following links:

• AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Beta Driver for Windows® 7 & Windows® 8.1 32bit
• AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Beta Driver for Windows® 7 & Windows® 8.1 64bit

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided with it.

Package Contents

The AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Beta Driver contains the following:

• AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver version 14.301.1004

If you had issues with 14.9 then this is for you. If you did not have issues with 14.9 then there is no performance change between the two as it is simply a crash/bug/stability fix.

[Phllips]

Im new to the red side and ive only ever installed drivers once. I got all the amd software things but do i still need to manually install the drivers or is there a inbuilt thing to make it easier??

[Priller]

Im new to the red side and ive only ever installed drivers once. I got all the amd software things but do i still need to manually install the drivers or is there a inbuilt thing to make it easier??

 

It's best to install the drivers manually.

[Spongy141]

Wait, what exactly where the problems for 14.9 anyways?

[CatCloud]

What part of this is news material? 
No issues with my drivers...guess im lucky?

[iruixos]

Wait, what exactly where the problems for 14.9 anyways?

 

I didn't run into any issues until my friends and I started a Wargame: Red Dragon match. I got in game, placed my FOB and CP unit, then the game froze. Tried twice.

 

I then uninstalled 14.9, re-installed 14.7 RC3 and it was fine after that.

[Guest]

I still don't have any issues with 14.9, so I'll stick with it for now. I hope that this fixes the issues that some people have reported though.

[A10-FTW]

14.9 run perfect on my 7850 (i love AMD)

[Valentyn]

It took 3 clean install attempts to get 14.9 working properly on my system.

 

1st: Upgrade from 14.4, horrible performance. My second card didn't work at all. FireStrike score of 6872

 

2nd: Removed 14.9, ran DDU to clean, installed 14.9 cleanly. Not much of an improvement, FireStrike score of 8649. Second card still having issues

 

3rd. Removced 14.9, ran  DDU to clean, installed 14.4. Ran FireStrike: got 10608. Got my old performance back. Then uninstalled, ran DDU to clean, and installed 14.9 for the 3rd time.

Success, FireStrike of 10763, full Crossfire, performance up in some games, and temps seemed lower.

[A10-FTW]

It took 3 clean install attempts to get 14.9 working properly on my system.

 

1st: Upgrade from 14.4, horrible performance. My second card didn't work at all. FireStrike score of 6872

 

2nd: Removed 14.9, ran DDU to clean, installed 14.9 cleanly. Not much of an improvement, FireStrike score of 8649. Second card still having issues

 

3rd. Removced 14.9, ran  DDU to clean, installed 14.4. Ran FireStrike: got 10608. Got my old performance back. Then uninstalled, ran DDU to clean, and installed 14.9 for the 3rd time.

Success, FireStrike of 10763, full Crossfire, performance up in some games, and temps seemed lower.

wow, 3 installs what cards you have ?

 

oh i see now, i love that mac :wub:

[Valentyn]

wow, 3 installs

 

what cards you have ?

 

AMD FirePro D700's. Never had an issue on 14.4, but upgrading to 14.9 killed the FirePro control centre, and effectively turned off the second card. It got stuck in low power at 150Mz

 

3rd time's the charm though, full FirePro control panel, Xfire, ECC, 10-bit support. Only issue is that with 14.9 my cards are now detected as 7900 series, despite still having full FirePro features, and control. 

 

 

[A10-FTW]

AMD FirePro D700's. Never had an issue on 14.4, but upgrading to 14.9 killed the FirePro control centre, and effectively turned off the second card. It got stuck in low power at 150Mz

 

3rd time's the charm though, full FirePro control panel, Xfire, ECC, 10-bit support. Only issue is that with 14.9 my cards are now detected as 7900 series, despite still having full FirePro features, and control. 

 

 

that is a cool machine man 6GB of Vram (and is Hynix)

 

you should made a post with your experience so far on that mac friend  

[EChondo]

Wait, what exactly where the problems for 14.9 anyways?

Supposedly crashing and instability for games and general system processes.

 

I'm still on 14.7, but I'll have to try these soon, I'm just too lazy to restart my machine

[Spongy141]

Supposedly crashing and instability for games and general system processes.

 

I'm still on 14.7, but I'll have to try these soon, I'm just too lazy to restart my machine

Switched from a 270x to a 280x (temp only sadly) and now BF4 wont start (it crashes when it's about to load the map) so I'm going to see if these drivers fixes that.

[Valentyn]

that is a cool machine man 6GB of Vram (and is Hynix)

 

you should made a post with your experience so far on that mac friend

 

Oh, I probably should do something like that when I have more free time.