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AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta

So far these 13.2 Beta 3 drivers have been great. I noticed right away that in FSX that the texture issue was completely resolved... and the big one for me, being an occasional EVE Online player is that the issue of the whole screen flipping colors and acting crazy until you flipped to fixed window and back to full screen is resolved... I know it was a texture issue as that is where it would start, and now its finally fixed... Also testing in Just cause 2 with my xFire 7970M, I am able to run the game with EVERYTHING on HIGH or above with maximum AA and AF and with vSync on, it never goes below 60... well maybe a little, but the rate average is 60... Before a one or two would drop it to 51 to 53...

A few other games like FSX which had the texture problem, is now much smoother...

I have to say that IMHO and it is Humble... that the 13.2 Beta 3 drivers are much better than the 13.1's already... The EVE issue has been a problem for a while, and I knew that it wouild be addressed with the texture issue and the memory controller update I believe is in the works... Maybe more speed will be dug out of the GCN architecture... Right now looking back while the previous months have been rough, it seems that AMD is finally working on the driver... or I like to think that maybe the GCN type was forced out before it was ready, and they ended up having to re-write the driver all over, which would account for the long delay and now the catch up and near constant flow of driver updates..

So far I would rate the drivers as follow:
12.10 and previous: 4/10
12.11 Beta 8: 7/10
13.1: 8/10
13.2 Beta 3: 8.5/10

The last one would be higher but its only a beta and the final should be better, but only the WHQL will show... other wise the highest a beta driver can get is a 9....
 
RHelme said:
So far these 13.2 Beta 3 drivers have been great. I noticed right away that in FSX that the texture issue was completely resolved... and the big one for me, being an occasional EVE Online player is that the issue of the whole screen flipping colors and acting crazy until you flipped to fixed window and back to full screen is resolved... I know it was a texture issue as that is where it would start, and now its finally fixed... Also testing in Just cause 2 with my xFire 7970M, I am able to run the game with EVERYTHING on HIGH or above with maximum AA and AF and with vSync on, it never goes below 60... well maybe a little, but the rate average is 60... Before a one or two would drop it to 51 to 53...

A few other games like FSX which had the texture problem, is now much smoother...

I have to say that IMHO and it is Humble... that the 13.2 Beta 3 drivers are much better than the 13.1's already... The EVE issue has been a problem for a while, and I knew that it wouild be addressed with the texture issue and the memory controller update I believe is in the works... Maybe more speed will be dug out of the GCN architecture... Right now looking back while the previous months have been rough, it seems that AMD is finally working on the driver... or I like to think that maybe the GCN type was forced out before it was ready, and they ended up having to re-write the driver all over, which would account for the long delay and now the catch up and near constant flow of driver updates..

So far I would rate the drivers as follow:
12.10 and previous: 4/10
12.11 Beta 8: 7/10
13.1: 8/10
13.2 Beta 3: 8.5/10

The last one would be higher but its only a beta and the final should be better, but only the WHQL will show... other wise the highest a beta driver can get is a 9....
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So do you think I should install this driver for my Gigabyte WF 7950?
 
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