Tuesday, January 29th 2013
AMD Releases Catalyst 13.2 Beta Targeting Crysis 3 MP Beta, Frame Latency Issues
Hot on the heels of NVIDIA's GeForce 313.95 Beta drivers, AMD launched Catalyst 13.2 Beta, targeting EA's release of Crysis 3 multiplayer open-beta. The driver improves performance by up to 15 percent, but in highly specific scenarios, vaguely put by AMD as "in high MSAA cases." There is no general performance improvement announced, but that future Catalyst releases could address performance. Catalyst 13.2 Beta also addresses frame latency issues related to three titles, TES5: Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2. Single GPU performance for Devil May Cry is improved by up to 50 percent. CrossFire systems running Crysis 2 could see a 10 percent performance improvement. Lastly, a texture-flickering issue seen with DirectX 9.0c applications is resolved.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta
23 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 13.2 Beta Targeting Crysis 3 MP Beta, Frame Latency Issues
I winder if this is abut the Z-fighting being reduced which all cards have regardless of AMD or nVidia or if this about the flicker/image corruption.
Either way the corruptions I am experiencing are very rare to the point where I do not see them often enough to revert to an older driver.
Will have to try these out.
As far as texture flickering issues go, a lot of the blame can go out to many games with sloppy texture placement. This happens with all brands of cards and drivers can't do a thing about it. So, whatever texture flickering that was actually caused by drivers, were supposedly fixed.
The biggest improvement I noticed was in skyrim in places where the FPS is generally a bit on the low side(like whiterun), the lower FPS does not seem to impact the feeling of responsiveness or smoothness as much as it did with former drivers.
Lets hope they can keep improving their drivers for other games(or fix the apparent fault memory management):toast:
I did play crysis 3 with these hammerON but only with these drivers.
Can't say I have observed any image corruptions aka flickers either.
Appears the drivers are going to be solid for GCN architecture, just took a long time for them to become solid when they released the 7xxx series in some systems.
ArmA 2/DayZ didn't like 13.1's for me. After about 10 minutes into a game my GPU usage would go down to 12% or so and stay there. With these beta's, I'm getting better performance with that game than with any other driver. This pretty much goes for every other game I play.
Unless there's a new game coming out that I want that requires new drivers, I'm sticking with these for a while. :)
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