Friday, April 25th 2014
AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL Released
AMD released a WHQL-signed version of its Catalyst 14.4 software suite, its first in four months (the previous one being 13.12 WHQL). The driver builds on the Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate the company shipped out a little earlier this month, to lend immediate support for Radeon R9 295X2, which hit the shelves on the 21st. The four highlights of Catalyst 14.4 include support for the R9 295X2, CrossFire frame-pacing improvements for a number of games, full support for OpenGL 4.4 API, and bug-fixes for AMD Mantle API.
Among the games AMD worked to improve CrossFire performance of, include Crysis 3, which sees improved frame-pacing; Far Cry 3, which sees improved 3-GPU and 4-GPU scaling; Anno 2070, which sees an overall CrossFire scaling improvement of 34 percent; Titanfall, which sees reduced game flickering an micro-stutter; and Metro: Last Light, which sees 10 percent improvement in CrossFire scaling. The driver also addresses bugs related to 3x1 Eyefinity setups using three Ultra HD displays. For gamers running Battlefield 4 with its Mantle renderer, AMD addressed the performance slowdown seen when switching windows using Alt+Tab; and fuzzy textures when playing the game on rotated displays.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL for Windows 8/7/Visa 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit
Among the games AMD worked to improve CrossFire performance of, include Crysis 3, which sees improved frame-pacing; Far Cry 3, which sees improved 3-GPU and 4-GPU scaling; Anno 2070, which sees an overall CrossFire scaling improvement of 34 percent; Titanfall, which sees reduced game flickering an micro-stutter; and Metro: Last Light, which sees 10 percent improvement in CrossFire scaling. The driver also addresses bugs related to 3x1 Eyefinity setups using three Ultra HD displays. For gamers running Battlefield 4 with its Mantle renderer, AMD addressed the performance slowdown seen when switching windows using Alt+Tab; and fuzzy textures when playing the game on rotated displays.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL for Windows 8/7/Visa 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit
52 Comments on AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL Released
This is strange because the release candidate worked fine before this, and I just reverted to the release candidate and everything is back to working. I even performed a clean uninstall using AMD's utility before attempting to instal the WHQL driver. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
EDIT: Though it has happen to me in the past drivers, it hasn't happened in this one
The driver itself appears to be working.
R9-290x - Windows 8.1 x64.
been fixes/changes in the multiple betas aimed at BF4 since 13.12
Uninstalling the drivers and a run with DriverFusion followed by a fresh installation solved the problem.
Probably a problem with converting settings to the new CCC version.
Another weird thing I get is that the first time I run the setup I always get "warnings occured" at the completion step eventhough I don't see anything odd in the log.
Whenever I run the setup again I get the normal completion message.
I'm having the same problem, while installing the new 14.4 (rc or whql) the screen goes black and the only way back is to use a restore point to before the driver.
Using w8.1 with R9 290.
- Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1. The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.
Perhaps it's not just isolated to the 295XThis is bullshit because the first WHQL driver in the last 4 months is the same that fucks me up! =/
gigabyte vga?