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AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta V6

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AMD sends word that the new Catalyst 13.11 Beta V6 drivers are now available. Highlights for the new drivers are as follows:

Includes support for the new products:
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 Series

Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon R9 200 Series, AMD Radeon R7 200 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
  • Batman Arkham Origins – Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing improvements; improves performance up to 38% with MSAA 8x enabled
  • Total War: Rome 2 – improves performance up to 10%
  • Battlefield 3 – improves performance up to 8%
  • GRID 2 – improves performance up to 7%
  • Dirt Showdown – improves performance up to 10%
  • Saints Row IV – improves performance up to 7%
  • Crysis Warhead – improves performance up to 4%
  • Dirt 3 – improves performance up to 7%.
  • Sleeping Dogs – improves performance up to 5%
  • Includes AMD Enduro profile update for F1 2013

Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration
  • Automatic “plug and play” configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays
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Just installed and... whoa. What's this shiny new "AMD Gaming Evolved Control Center - powered by Raptr" all about?
 
its a comunity system, like steam but cross platform.

im guessing you didnt watch the webstream...
 
I always love driver release notes with "we increased the framerate of this specific game by 5% with this specific card" when by and large no one can tell a difference between the new driver and the one shipped just before it unless the old one was breaking a certain game.
 
Dwango said:
I always love driver release notes with "we increased the framerate of this specific game by 5% with this specific card" when by and large no one can tell a difference between the new driver and the one shipped just before it unless the old one was breaking a certain game.
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You probably wouldnt notice 5% true.

But when you count up all the 5% + 2% + 8% + 15% improvements since when the card was first released you will surely notice the difference. ;)
 
Dwango said:
I always love driver release notes with "we increased the framerate of this specific game by 5% with this specific card" when by and large no one can tell a difference between the new driver and the one shipped just before it unless the old one was breaking a certain game.
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Optimizations are optimizations. I'm not going to complain about 5%, especially when compounded.
 
Raptr is optional, BTW, you can chose to install or not install it if you do a "Custom" driver install.
 
NukeDukem said:
Just installed and... whoa. What's this shiny new "AMD Gaming Evolved Control Center - powered by Raptr" all about?
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I believe RAPTR is AMDs answer to the GeForce experience thing.....supposed to automatically fine tune your games to certain specs or something like that.
 
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So, I take it most people think the RAPTR stuff amd is using is crap? I get that its trying to be similar to the Nvidia experience software but I have absolutely no problem tweaking all of my games myself.
 
I didn't bother installing raptr. Dunno if it is crap, but I have no need for it. Like many others I'm sure, I enjoy tweaking my games to my preference. Even if I was on nVidia I wouldn't bother with their solution - who is to decide what is "optimal" when it is entirely subjective to me at my computer and how much coffee/beer/weed I've had prior to my gaming session? I happen to know people who have no problem playing a game at slideshow framerates. Yeah, ghetto, but hey its all in the eye of the beholder.

I see this as a lost opportunity to better educate gamers about distinguishing the differences between settings and their impact on performance. Maybe I like crisper textures and I am willing to sacrifice seeing some jaggies - or maybe I like a smoother image and am willing to sacrifice the crisp textures for less jaggies. The more you know!
 
raptr doesnt really bother me, it was kinda nice to leave BF4 beta rounds amd seeing it was tracking my average fps. was getting around 60fps average in windows 7 and 65-70 in windows 8.

8120 @ 4.4ghz and 1 7950.
 
Did they ever document what actual Skyrim improvements were made? There was a tweet about it after beta 1 was released.

Edit: Nevermind, found out it was up to 9%.
 
I pitched Raptr. It did little to nothing. I am concerned that while playing anything that puts the 7950's to work cause the fans to run higher than usual. Usually my system is pretty quiet.

Been playing POE lately and all I hear is six Windforce fans. :(
 
Raptr has a Quality slider so you can go from Performance --> Balanced --> Quality. I had it set Crysis 3 automatically and I had really nice frame rate. It picked some nice settings that kept my frame rate from dipping during multiplayer. You can stream to Twitch.tv with the client. And if you take the time to sign up for Raptr so it can track your time played during games there are nice rewards like free skins for some of the sponsored games it tracks.

I got a free copy of Rift and some cosmetic swag for the game. I got a 25% off coupon for one purchase on Gamefly, I got free gold to spend in numerous F2P games like Warframe for example. I got free exclusive vehicles in Defiance. I got Closed Beta access to some games. I got a code for 25% off Shadow Warrior on Steam. They have had things such as free DLC for Assassin's Creed 3 and other games.

All in all not a bad thing from what I've seen. I don't get advertising from them so zero complaints from me.
 
i like the ie overlay.

no more alt-tabbing out.

some games crash after a couple tabs out to the desktop.
 
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Keeps crashing my CS:GO right when I get into a game.
Got my first competitive cooldown for matchmaking because I couldn't connect. 240 wins and it finally happened. :-(
 
with the release of a new flagship -- you would think AMD would take the time/energy to release something that isn't BETA.

Sure it might be an improvement, and a higher frequency of new drivers, but had I shelled out 1200 dollars for a set of 290xs I'd be slightly miffed about getting a beta driver that's not fully tested with Win7/8

I run xfire 7970's and the latest string of drivers (past few months) is pretty hit or miss. Some would work, others just flat wouldn't. The ones with great performance game would have a crippling bug in it while the ones that worked had crappy performance I cut AMD lots of slack but they are even starting to piss me off with their half assedly run driver department.
 
I've been using AMD drivers for years, but I have 0 crossfire experience. I've never really had too many issues, but I would stick to the same games for years, too.

Personally I like having the option of beta drivers from AMD. I want to say that it shows they are often actively working on specific issues when they release multiple betas of a single version. I don't have a reference for how Nvidia does this. The only glaring difference I see is that AMD likes to roll out drivers for multiple architecture platforms and Nvidia's drivers are more specialized for GPU platform series, no?

This driver philosophy from AMD seems similar in a way to their (supposed) efficiency with cross-platform development. They are shooting for drivers that work for everybody but it does seem like perhaps that approach is meeting with some difficulty of late.
 
collegeboy69us said:
with the release of a new flagship -- you would think AMD would take the time/energy to release something that isn't BETA.

Sure it might be an improvement, and a higher frequency of new drivers, but had I shelled out 1200 dollars for a set of 290xs I'd be slightly miffed about getting a beta driver that's not fully tested with Win7/8

I run xfire 7970's and the latest string of drivers (past few months) is pretty hit or miss. Some would work, others just flat wouldn't. The ones with great performance game would have a crippling bug in it while the ones that worked had crappy performance I cut AMD lots of slack but they are even starting to piss me off with their half assedly run driver department.
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Titan first driver sucked ass.

7970 had a controller that makes drivers hard to write due to the driver needs to be written optimized specifically for every game as they cant do a generic approach.

the 290 series will work better with a generic approach
it seems to already show that with early drivers producing good results in crossfire.
so in some sense the 290 fixes the crossfire issues
 
Is frame pacing for eyefinity fixed yet? I want to pickup some cheap 7970s but not until this problem is fixed. I may end up with a single 290x at this rate.
 
Wow, just playing Arkham Origins here on a 7850 and upgraded from 13.11 (beta 1?) to beta 6 and the frame rates almost doubled.

I was getting playable conditions (~40fps) on the benchmark with maxed out settings with MSAA before but now I'm getting just under 80fps.
 
I haven't seen that big of a jump in framerates with anything. The biggest change is in the fan speed.
These 7950's are loud now. 60% fan for 73*C at load.

Never was this loud or hot prior to 13.11.
 
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