AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Windows® Beta Driver (8/1/2013)

[Mr Mean]

The AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following links:

• AMD Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta for Windows®
• AMD Mobility Catalyst™ 13.8 Beta for Windows®

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided “AS IS”, and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver for Windows:

• Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
  • Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
  • Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
  • Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
  • Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560x1600 (single display).
• OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
• Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
  • Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
  • Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
  • OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).
• AMD Enduro Technology enhancement - Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
• Resolved issues:
  • Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
  • Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
  • Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-8WINBetaDriver.aspx

Installing now. Lets get some user feedback!

 

[Fahrenheit]

Hope they fixed the HDMI audio bug

 

[tesfaye]

Hope they fixed the HDMI audio bug

You would think that they'd have this resolved by now. However, Intel seems to have a little trouble there as well -- I have to restart the Windows Audio service sometimes to get my sound back after waking the computer. So, I think the HDMI standard is at fault here. In any case, things aren't nearly as bad as it can get with AMD cards after the 12.4 Catalyst driver release. I can have audio in one app, lose it in another, have stuttering or intermittent audio in a game, have working audio for a while only to lose it after the system goes to sleep, so many possibilities (at least in my system). It's such a mixed bag and very annoying. I've had to resort to homebrewed utilities to keep an audio stream running so it doesn't turn off the output, and even that isn't 100%. This is what happens when you throw copy protection into the signal chain.