AMD ha lanzado sus nuevos controladores AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL, los primeros controladores certificados en 3 meses luego de los Catalyst 13.1 WHQL lanzados a inicios de año y que vienen con importantes mejoras y arreglos. Además AMD también libera los Catalyst 13.5 Beta con mejoras no presentes en la release oficial (13.4 WHQL)
Estos controladores coinciden con el lanzamiento de la Radeon HD 7990 de AMD agregando soporte para esta tarjeta y la Radeon HD 7790,lanzada a mediados demarzao, además de actualizar algunos componentes de software, agregar mejoras de rendimiento en algunos juegos, resolver algunos problemas en Windows y soluciona los problemas de latencia en los cuadros por segundo en varios videojuegos. A continuación y listado con los cambios y problemas resueltos y los respectivos enlaces de descarga para Windows.
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4
- Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
- Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
- Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
- Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
- Batman Arkham City (1920×1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Borderlands 2 (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
- Quake Wars (1920×1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
- Hitman Absolution (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Wolfenstein MP (1920×1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Civilization V (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
- GL_ARB_compute_shader
- GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
- GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
- GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
- GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_shader_image_size
- GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
- GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
Resolved Issues
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4
- With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
- Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
- Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
- Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
- Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
- Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
- Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
- System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
- F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology
AMD Catalyst 13.5 BETA
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.5 Beta Driver for Windows®
- Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series for the following:
- Far Cry 3: Improves performance up to 4% with Anti-Aliasing enabled
- Shogun II: Improves performance up to 20% with 8x Anti-Aliasing enabled
- Tomb Raider: Improves performance up to 6%
- Bioshock: Improves performance up to 6%
- Borderlands 2: Improves performance up to 17%
- Corruption is no longer seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7790 when TressFX is enabled in Tomb Raider
Enlaces de descarga:
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows 8 32-bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows 8 64-bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows 7 & Windows Vista 32-bit Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows 7 & Windows Vista 64-bit Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows XP 32-bit Driver
AMD Catalyst 13.4 WHQL (Windows XP 64-bit Driver