AMD Catalyst 13.9 Drivers Are Out

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AMD just sent word that the new Catalyst 13.9 drivers are now out.

AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8.1 (.NET 4.5 support is required for the AMD Catalyst 13.9 Catalyst Control Center).

Includes WDDM 1.3 support for:
  • AMD Accelerated Processors (Kabini & Temash) for Desktop, Notebook or Tablet PCs, including:
  • A4-1200, A4-1250, A4-5000, A4-5100, A4-5150, A6-1450, A6-5200, A6-5250, A6-5350, E1-2100, E1-2200. E1-2500, E1-2600, E1-2650, E2-3000, E2-3100
  • AMD Accelerated Processors (Richland) for Desktop or Notebook PCs, including:
  • A10-5700, A10-5745M, A10-5750M, A10-5757M, A10-5800B, A10-5800K, A8-5500, A8-5500B, A8-5545M, A8-5550M, A8-5557M, A8-5600K, A6-5345M, A6-5350M, A6-5357M, A6-5400B, A6-5400K, A4-5145M, A4-5150, A4-5300, A4-5300B
  • AMD Accelerated Processors (Trinity) for Desktop or Notebook PCs, including:
  • A10-4600M, A10-4655M, A10-4677M, A10-5700, A10-5800B, A10-5800K, A8-4500M, A8-4555M, A8-4557M, A6-4400M, A6-4455M, A6-5400B, A6-5400K, A4-4300M, A4-4355M, A4-5300, A4-5300B
  • AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series
  • AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
  • AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
  • AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series

Support for AMD Features:
  • AMD Eyefinity
  • OpenCL™
  • OpenGL
  • UVD
  • AMD Dual Graphics/AMD CrossFire™ Technology
  • AMD Overdrive™
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center/Vision Engine Control Center
 
It's about time they released non-beta drivers; it has been like 5 months since the last release.
 
These are just the 13.4 with windows 8.1 logo support, aren't they?
 
AMD are just confusing everybody with there cheap-ass non WHQL drivers, then when they do bother to pay for certification, its weeks after the latest beta driver has been released...
 
Wow that statement is so biased in the way it was portrayed.

They explained long ago why, just as nvidia, they were gonna move away from a monthly WHQL cycle, and instead produce multiple testing beta drivers and just a couple WHQL drivers a year.

And you make it sound like certifications are granted instantly >.< ... What were you doing these last few 9.6 years?
 
AMD are just confusing everybody with there cheap-ass non WHQL drivers, then when they do bother to pay for certification, its weeks after the latest beta driver has been released...

Complain to Microsoft then, by the time a driver gets WHQL certified, a company (AMD,Nvidia, Intel, etc) has normally already produced their new driver package. The beta drivers are more a "here's what we've done while we wait for Microsoft to get off their *** and slap a WHQL logo on our last drivers". But that'll make the titles too long, so the companies just use "beta" to describe them.
 
They explained long ago why, just as nvidia, they were gonna move away from a monthly WHQL cycle, and instead produce multiple testing beta drivers and just a couple WHQL drivers a year.
Major difference between AMD and Nvidia:
- Nvidia does multiple betas and, when they believe it's ready, submit the latest one for certification. This is a straightforward linear workflow. All driver versions are a progression of the previously-released version.
- AMD appears to branch their code when they do a WHQL release. All further certified drivers are based on the branch (until a new branch is created). Newer trunk builds are released as beta drivers. Drivers based on older code may come out AFTER drivers based on newer code.

That's what the person you quoted was complaining about.
 
Major difference between AMD and Nvidia:
- Nvidia does multiple betas and, when they believe it's ready, submit the latest one for certification. This is a straightforward linear workflow. All driver versions are a progression of the previously-released version.
- AMD appears to branch their code when they do a WHQL release. All further certified drivers are based on the branch (until a new branch is created). Newer trunk builds are released as beta drivers. Drivers based on older code may come out AFTER drivers based on newer code.

That's what the person you quoted was complaining about.

Who cares?

thats why its called a Beta.
 
Complain to Microsoft then, by the time a driver gets WHQL certified, a company (AMD,Nvidia, Intel, etc) has normally already produced their new driver package. The beta drivers are more a "here's what we've done while we wait for Microsoft to get off their *** and slap a WHQL logo on our last drivers". But that'll make the titles too long, so the companies just use "beta" to describe them.

Nope, I blame AMD for cutting back on driver support. I also blame AMD for creating confusion for it's customers with is "will they, won't they" driver release schedule.

And don't get on the subject of CAP releases, that's yet another fricken nightmare.

Personally, I do not need AMD to WHQL every single driver, and I also don't require a monthly schedule, but SOME kind of schedule would be nice, instead of the perpetual beta releases, followed by a WHQL driver that has already been superseded weeks before it's release, containing issues which are fixed by using the "older" beta drivers... I don't care what anyone says, it is confusing for many people.

Wow that statement is so biased in the way it was portrayed.

They explained long ago why, just as nvidia, they were gonna move away from a monthly WHQL cycle, and instead produce multiple testing beta drivers and just a couple WHQL drivers a year.

And you make it sound like certifications are granted instantly >.< ... What were you doing these last few 9.6 years?

Please read above... :rolleyes:
 
I'm still running Vista 64 :( The release notes do not state support for Vista. Will this still work?

I'm running their 13.8 Beta 2 drivers on a 7800 right now no problems.
 
I'm still running Vista 64 :( The release notes do not state support for Vista. Will this still work?

I'm running their 13.8 Beta 2 drivers on a 7800 right now no problems.

I'm 99% sure they will, since the code base is pretty much the same.
 
Just installed this package over the 13.10 drivers. I'll report back if I notice anything worth mentioning.
 
Does this fix the weird browser/shockwave issue where the mouse jumps around for a couple of seconds when you start streaming?? (from 13.8b2)

It happens so often with HBO-Go, at this point I'm just waiting for the screen to lock up lol
 
Does this fix the weird browser/shockwave issue where the mouse jumps around for a couple of seconds when you start streaming?? (from 13.8b2)

It happens so often with HBO-Go, at this point I'm just waiting for the screen to lock up lol

Confirmed, issue is fixed with 13.9.

Weird.
 
Installed a few days ago. Only issues so far is my memory is running full tilt at 1575 and my GPU only clocks down to 500. Water cooled so it's not a biggie.. but it'd be nice if the function to clock both down when idle was not broken from one release to the next.
 
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