AMD Beta GPU drivers or nawh?

[Thedudely1]

So I just reinstalled Windows and I'm downloading my GPU drivers. I have an 290X by the way. Then I got thinking. Should I download the beta drives or the standard ones? From my understanding a lot of people just get the beta drivers because they have the newest bug fixes and optimizations. At least that's what I did. So anyway my question is have any of you AMD or Nvidia users had any problems that have to do with you using beta drivers? Whether that be crashes, bugs or anything really. I don't think I have, so I just stick with the beta drivers.

[Aytex]

beta

[PlayStation 2]

Beta drivers are normally better than standard drivers. This normally means only one or two games won't run fine but fixes a ton of issues in many other.

Go for it

[Oshino Shinobu]

I saw a post earlier saying that the most recent Beta drivers caused a major memory leak. Don't know if it was a one off, or just for a specific version of Windows, but there's always more chance that there will be issues with Beta drivers. 

[nj4ck]

I always use beta drivers, rarely with any problems. If you do encounter any issues, rolling back to stable ones is easy enough,

[Thedudely1]

I saw a post earlier saying that the most recent Beta drivers caused a major memory leak. Don't know if it was a one off, or just for a specific version of Windows, but there's always more chance that there will be issues with Beta drivers. 

I was reading the beta notes for the most recent beta drivers (15.9.1 Beta) and it listed "[77609] A video memory leak can occur when browser and other windows are resized" as one of the resolved issues so I think that was a problem and they fixed that.

[Dietrichw]

I saw a post earlier saying that the most recent Beta drivers caused a major memory leak. Don't know if it was a one off, or just for a specific version of Windows, but there's always more chance that there will be issues with Beta drivers. 

 

That was 15.9, the next day AMD released 15.9.1 which fixed it

[Dietrichw]

AMD beta drivers are actually really good. The only difference is that they aren't WHQL tested and go straight to users which doesn't mean much if you have seen some of Nvidia's latest WHQL drivers which have been bad with multiple monitors. Even some WHQL drivers from AMD are bad. WHQL tested doesn't mean anything anymore as it doesn't catch a lot of issues like it used to

[Humbug]

AMD beta is really good.

 

The only reason it's beta is because they haven't got WHQL certification from Microsoft.