Monday, August 19th 2013
AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2 Drivers Released
AMD released the second edition of Catalyst 13.8 Beta driver suite, marked by "V2." The drivers bring with them a bucket-list of game specific performance improvements, beginning with up to 25 percent on Saints Row 4 at 1920 x 1080 and Ultra settings enabled; up to 9 percent on Splinter Cell: Blacklist at 2560 x 1600 and Ultra settings; improvements on single-GPU and CrossFireX performance with Final Fantasy XIV; improves single-GPU performance on RIPD; CrossFire performance on Minimum and Castlevania Lords of Shadow.
Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2 also fixes image quality issues with Van Helsing, display corruption when enabling anti-aliasing through Catalyst Control Center, for Far Cry 3 and FC3: Blood Dragon; random corruption issues on Doom 3 BFG Edition, and CrossFire frame-pacing issues with World of Warcraft, Sniper Elite, Watch Dogs, and Tomb Raider.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2
Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2 also fixes image quality issues with Van Helsing, display corruption when enabling anti-aliasing through Catalyst Control Center, for Far Cry 3 and FC3: Blood Dragon; random corruption issues on Doom 3 BFG Edition, and CrossFire frame-pacing issues with World of Warcraft, Sniper Elite, Watch Dogs, and Tomb Raider.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2
46 Comments on AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta V2 Drivers Released
It's funny: when 13.8b1 came out, FC3 played beautifully. Then I reinstalled 13.4 to test something, and after then going back to 13.8, I seemed that some occasional stuttering came back. Strange.
Tested briefly with the 13.8b2 and it seemed perhaps a little better, but it wasn't perfect. I think there's something going on with my system, some remnants left over affecting it (despite my attempts to clean it all out).
All in all, I can't complain. But I'd like to hear your feedback Justin on your setup, to compare :)
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So that silly .NET Framework is not fucked up every single time you install beta drivers. And someone at AMD better fix this crap soon...
bsod said failed to rest video driver, timed out.
ULPS is not disabled.... I didnt use my computer for like 10 mins, no video, no browser open, 2nd gpu doesnt "idle".
I switch to beta 1, and few minutes after, 2nd gpu "idle"
What finally seemed to fix it for me was to disable crossfire, then reenable it shortly thereafter. After doing that, gpu2 kicked just in while gaming. Alternatively you could disable ulps
actually I dont use overdrive. I OC'd my card with trixx and I dont disable ULPS as I dont OC much.
My cards has "lights".... vapor x 7950.... Previous beta, it eventually switch off "gpu 2" when im not playing. When I start to play, 2nd card switch on....
"known Issues of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2 Driver for Windows:
CrossFire configurations (when used in combination with Overdrive) can result in the secondary GPU usage running at 99%"
Eventually, I experienced this already at Beta 1. It seems AMD didnt fix this yet. It seems they rush Beta 2.
Right now I switch back to 13.4 as i get annoyed by the beta 1 running the 2nd gpu all the time even I dont use extensive video... or gaming. I also just installed the CAP cause I always crash in Metro Last Light whereas 13.4 is not that much crashes
I am going to go back to 13.4 and see if it's the same.
Uninstalled 13.8 B1 and went back to 13.4 and this issue seems to be gone!
Either way other games are going to have to deal since I am wanting best performance I can get for Saints Row IV when it comes out over here.
Weird stuffs
Edit: downloaded off of the dutch mirror.
Although it appeared .NET 4.5 was forced installed instead of skipping it for some reason.
I just reinstalled the driver from TPU's dutch mirror, didn't give me an error this time.
Weird stuff. I should've made a screeny of the error, but sadly I didn't. It was just a generic unsigned driver error though, so don't know if it matters.
Anyway, if noone else can replicate it, I suppose some error crept in at my side?