Friday, January 31st 2014

AMD Catalyst Mantle Driver Delayed

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btarunr
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As mentioned in our older article from Thursday, AMD discovered a major bug with its Catalyst 14.2 driver at the last minute, which threw a wrench in the works at the company. The driver was originally slated to come out in sync with DICE' update of Battlefield 4 on Thursday. AMD now tells us that their teams have been working overnight to fix the driver, and should have their next status update for us by mid-afternoon EST (New York time), later today. That update doesn't necessarily mean a driver release at that point in time, and so AMD might be forced to label it Catalyst 14.2 beta, keeping up with its calendar-based driver version naming. Catalyst 14.1 beta was expected to ship the first public distribution of Mantle, AMD's ambitious 3D graphics API to rival Direct3D and OpenGL.

AMD also mentioned a 24 hour exclusive period for press to evaluate the driver before public release, so it looks like your download will be at least 36 hours away.

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36 Comments on AMD Catalyst Mantle Driver Delayed

#26
Crap Daddy
I was trying to say they were done and released by the companies who produced the software and not by independent reviewers. I can't wait to see those but it seems there's no driver available yet.
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#27
fullinfusion
Vanguard Beta Tester
Crap DaddyI was trying to say they were done and released by the companies who produced the software and not by independent reviewers. I can't wait to see those but it seems there's no driver available yet.
Ahh I hear ya and me too!

Bring it to us already!!!!
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#28
The Von Matrices
To delay a beta driver, the issue had to have been catastrophic. AMD released beta drivers every few days during the end of last year, and even though those semiweekly releases had major issues all their own, AMD still released them.

I want frame pacing support, yet it gets tied up due to an issue in Mantle and delayed again. But what's another 36 hours after waiting 3 months past their promised date?
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#29
natr0n
Press gets it 24 hour ahead of public. Some sites already have the driver.

Some time today it should be out for all of us.
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#32
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
Prima.Veraonly for Kaveri 7850K APU
Redundancy is important.
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#34
Prima.Vera
Battlefield 4 Medium Quality 720P 1080P

AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) DX11 162 160
AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) Mantle 102 102


Battlefield 4 Ultra Quality DX11 720P 1080P

AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) DX11 90 78
AMD A10 7850K (R9-290X) Mantle 150 86

Those are some interesting numbers. Interesting if they are not typo. :)
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#36
Slomo4shO
Let me get this straight.... This patch was to be released in the middle of December. First it was DICE that was at blame for the delay of implementation. DICE finally launches their patch and all of a sudden AMD finds a critical bug at the very last minute? WTF was the driver team doing the last month and half? You would think a reputable company would actually have some foresight into such issues considering they were afforded an additional month and half to implement these drivers...
Knows issues with the current Mantle driver build:

Now I am not too interested in the issues as they will be solved and this is a Beta driver, but it does tell the current state of what current product are actually supported, have a peek.
  • Press evaluation build: Installing AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta on top of an existing AMD Catalyst revision may cause a system hang. Ensure the provided installation instructions are utilized to avoid this issue.
  • Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire technology in BattleField 4
  • Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4 in future AMD Catalyst releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4 and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
  • Multi-GPU support under DirectX and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
  • Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
  • AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
  • Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4
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