Wednesday, July 8th 2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Software
AMD released the Catalyst 15.7 WHQL driver suite, its first WHQL-signed Catalyst driver in 212 days (since 14.12 Omega). These drivers add official support for all the new AMD Radeon R9 300 series and R9 Fury series graphics processors launched in the past two months, and comes with a ship load of new features and game optimizations. They also include WDDM 2.0 support, letting you use them with Windows 10.
To begin with, Catalyst 15.7 WHQL adds support for AMD FreeSync in CrossFire setups, on DirectX 10 and higher 3D applications. Features such as VSR (virtual super-resolution) and FRTC (frame-rate target control) are now official. CrossFire profiles have been added/improved for over a dozen games since 14.12 Omega. Frame-rates have been increased for Far Cry 4 and Tomb Raider.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL for Windows 8.1/10 64-bit | Windows 8.1/10 32-bit | Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 7 32-bit
To begin with, Catalyst 15.7 WHQL adds support for AMD FreeSync in CrossFire setups, on DirectX 10 and higher 3D applications. Features such as VSR (virtual super-resolution) and FRTC (frame-rate target control) are now official. CrossFire profiles have been added/improved for over a dozen games since 14.12 Omega. Frame-rates have been increased for Far Cry 4 and Tomb Raider.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL for Windows 8.1/10 64-bit | Windows 8.1/10 32-bit | Windows 7 64-bit | Windows 7 32-bit
114 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Software
I unistalled all the drivers with ati unistaller too but nothing same thing so now im with the beta because i cant upgrade for some reason.
Edit: i used ddd too and after the driver installation was complete at reboot my screen tell me hdmi no signal input XD so i dont know what to do.
With the way the movement, gunplay and response times are slower in this game compared to prior GTAs, you need the performance as smooth as possible. Some of the firefights have felt downright geriatric.
Haven't tried to fix it yet or reinstall, but I'll be doing that later.
I take it this is supposed to work with W7 64 bit because when I add it into my spec info on AMD's site it shows 15.7. Anyway, I uninstalled it and put 14.12 back on for now, and was going to try either overwriting 15.7 onto 14.12, or using AMD's auto detect and install on their site, but after everything I've heard, I'm not sure it's even worth it.
Seems they need to tweak this thing some more. The thought of going Nvidia next upgrade is looking better all the time.
Uninstalling and cleaning now and going to try to reinstall, see what happens.
So now Windows and GPU-Z detect it as 15.7. Only difference is, now Device Manager lists it as R9 200/ HD7000.
I first ran the GTA V bench again and saw a slight increase in FPS, averaging 58 FPS now vs 55. Minimum frame rates though increased a whole 5 FPS from 30 to 35. A near 17% increase on resisting frame dipping. I haven't really played yet since it was late last night when I finally got the driver installed, but if gameplay is smoother it will probably have a lot to do with the higher Min FPS.
I did however fire up Doom 3 BFG Edition just to check out the VSR, which I of course enabled in CCC, as well as 65 FPS in FRTC. Currently I'm limited to 2560x1440 on VSR due to using a DVI to HDMI adapter to get the RGB 4:4:4 option, but I plan to test some games at 4K on straight HDMI.
That said, I wasn't expecting VSR to work the way it does for desktop use. CCC after rebooting showed a popup stating it detected a high DPI display and asked if I wanted to enable VSR for desktop. I clicked yes and I now have a 2560x1440 res option in Windows res selector.
Rather than making 1080p look clearer, in both desktop and games it looks as if it's actually displaying a 1440p res. What I mean is the fonts and HUD get noticeably smaller. I was assuming it's just supposed to add more clarity to each pixel while in 1080p.
Anyway, I put my desktop res back down to 1600x900 because W7 does not holistically adjust fonts when re-sizing them. Files, folder names, etc, become extremely difficult to read.
Can someone explain to me why it is not just a clearer 1080p I'm getting? I'm kinda worrying it will harm my 1080p limited display. Is VSR enhancing 1080p, or over-driving the res of the display?
BTW, I've got both GPU Scaling and VSR enabled in CCC.
Maybe it's a 2D 3D thing.
Reason mine probably looks ok on 1920x1200 as i believe the display can do it as back in XP days it used to be a option
Why? Is the 7970 limited to that?
On W10 the cap is 3200x1800, but on W7 I'm only seeing 2560x1440.
AMD uses hardware to do the VSR, while Nvidia uses shaders, so I'm not sure they'll ever open 4K for the 7000 series, but it would be nice for older games.
www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1077050
HardOCP talks about the cap as well, and it being hardware related, but they seem to be saying the 1800p cap is related to the 290s, so my card could very well be limited to 1440p.
"If you have a 1080p display you can run at 2560x1440 VSR or 3200x1800VSR and 3840x2160 VSR but only on R9 285..."
www.hardocp.com/article/2014/12/08/introducing_new_amd_catalyst_omega_driver/2#.VaG8_vlViko
Eventually I'll be using W10, but I really hadn't planned on switching until Dx12 games come out. Right now I'm really more concerned about how stable this driver is, esp since a lot of people have mentioned having strange problems.
edit for post above: 7970 is indeed limited to 2560x1440. hardware limit.
Anyways, so far gameplay wise I've been testing 15.7 on GTA V at 1080p and it runs pretty well. Seems to be a bit smoother.
Might try reinstalling an older game to play at 1440p. Maybe RTCW or something.
EDIT:: nvm the ones i the OP are labeled for windows 8.1 this is the link for the actual 10 drivers and they installed fine on both 10166 and 63
support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+64
@btarunr
support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+10+-+32