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AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL Released

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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

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I'm getting a black screen upon during installing the driver, and it never resolves itself even after reboot. I have to go into safe mode and manually uninstall the display driver to be able to do anything with the PC.

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?
 
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I'm getting a black screen upon during installing the driver, and it never resolves itself even after reboot. I have to go into safe mode and manually uninstall the display driver to be able to do anything with the PC.

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?

Hmm, haven't experienced that yet, so far my only issue is that Gpu-Z isn't showing some things in the sensor tabs (it was working alright in the previous drivers)

EDIT: Though it has happen to me in the past drivers, it hasn't happened in this one
 
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I'm getting a black screen upon during installing the driver, and it never resolves itself even after reboot. I have to go into safe mode and manually uninstall the display driver to be able to do anything with the PC.

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?


No problems here. Working fine with my 7950 on Windows 8.1.
 

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I'm getting issues too. CCC doesn't load at startup, and launching it manually gives me this each time:



The driver itself appears to be working.

 

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Do not know if there is no improvement or correction asus r7 260x dc2oc 2g ddr5 black with crashes
 

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works fine for me so far. though I had the beta driver already installed if that makes any difference. My screen did go black for a while but it started working after a couple min, but that could be due to the tv i'm using with HDMI.
 
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Any point in installing this after already installing the 14.4 RC?
 
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I haven't updated my drivers yet, I still have 13.12 and it's running ok. Any real benefit if I jump on 14.4? Any noticeable improvements to single card setups in BF4?
 
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It said "Mantle improvements" and there are only a couple of Mantle enabled games, so it's possible. Plus, I'm pretty sure there have
been fixes/changes in the multiple betas aimed at BF4 since 13.12
 
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I haven't updated my drivers yet, I still have 13.12 and it's running ok. Any real benefit if I jump on 14.4? Any noticeable improvements to single card setups in BF4?

7870 2GB here on AMD 8320, 14.4 improved SIGNIFICANTLY the performance on BF4 with Mantle activated. While running DX11 i could get 60fps but with some drops to 40, or worse in heavy action parts. With mantle i can keep it on ultra 60fps locked trough the whole thing (im talking about 64 player servers) so i would say that if you play Battlefield 4, 14.4 for the 7 and 8 series it's a blessing!!
 
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Had some problems updating from 13.6 - the display driver didn't want to update automatically. I removed everything from the add/remove and everything seems to be working.
 
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I'm getting issues too. CCC doesn't load at startup, and launching it manually gives me this each time:



The driver itself appears to be working.


Got the exact same problem on Windows 7 64bit.
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.
 
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I'm getting a black screen upon during installing the driver, and it never resolves itself even after reboot. I have to go into safe mode and manually uninstall the display driver to be able to do anything with the PC.

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?


Have u fixed the problem?

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.
 
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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 295X
 

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  • 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 295X

But in my case the reboot does not fix. x(

This is bullshit because the first WHQL driver in the last 4 months is the same that fucks me up! =/
 
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