Thursday, October 1st 2015
AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Drivers
AMD released a quick follow-up to its recent Catalyst 15.9 Beta drivers, to address a major video memory leak bug that caused the company to pull 15.9 Beta from its download servers. The new Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta drivers address that issue, and carry over the feature-set from 15.9 Beta, including optimization for Star Wars Battlefront Beta, and Fable Legends. It also addresses a bug that caused DirectX Diagnostics (DXDIAG) to not display Direct3D feature-level 12_0 from correctly displaying for Radeon GPUs that support DirectX 12, on Windows 10. Grab the driver from the links below.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta for Windows 10/8.1/7 64-bit | Windows 10/8.1/7 32-bit
53 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Drivers
The memory leak made the internet slow then regardless of browser if you opened 20 + websites the internet search program would crash. Movies, and flash adds exacerbated the issue. It acted similar to when your internet search is virused.
I know this is the issue as when I fixed the driver all went back to awesome. Also this happened previously on some other drivers that were promptly fixed as well. I found this memory leak issue was the problem. In games it is a non issue as each frame is independent. But videos it is a big deal as it needs to buffer both forward and backward and when the ram is full it would grind to a halt.