AMD Delivers Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.4 Graphics Driver

harry90 · Nov 23, 2013

exodusprime1337 said:
These drivers are def an improvement for COD:GHOST however i'm stilling getting flickering and some choppiness. There is also a new issue where my mouse jumps around in this game. Aside from that everything else i'm playing works great.

I'm also having no issues with the overdrive and cfx panels as noted by others. I did a clean install manually removing reg keys and directories, performed a reboot ran driversweeper and ghostbuster, reboot one more time and install. Other than the fact that COD isn't completely fixed which is bumbing me out, the drivers worked great here.

If your using windows 8.1 make sure you install the Microsoft mouse fix for 8.1.
here is the link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2908279

Red_Machine · Nov 23, 2013

AMD dropped Vista support, yet they still support XP. Yet another reason to stick with the green team.

PopcornMachine · Nov 23, 2013

Kalroth said:
It looks like the common denominator for AMD OverDrive not working and/or performance panel is missing, is the R9 290 series. I guess the beta drivers are fine if you aren't using R9 290 or R9 290X.

I have a 290, and no tab. Cause yet to be determined.

Mussels · Nov 24, 2013

Red_Machine said:
AMD dropped Vista support, yet they still support XP. Yet another reason to stick with the green team.

... its a beta? it doesnt have to cover every OS

adulaamin · Nov 24, 2013

Mussels said:
... its a beta? it doesnt have to cover every OS

You don't get it. Everything RED is bad. Drivers, temps, performance, price (?), if it's RED it ain't worth it.

On topic though, I'll wait for WHQLs before I update drivers for my 7970. Never really been a fan of beta's.

Freedom4556 · Nov 24, 2013

Red_Machine said:
AMD dropped Vista support, yet they still support XP. Yet another reason to stick with the green team.

AMD has already pissed me off dropping 3000 and 4000 series support for Windows 8/8.1. How much harder is it to support those cards over the evergreen family? I've got a backup Q8400 system with twin 1Gb 4870s that I was going to update to 8.1, but not anymore. My overclock to 4890 speeds wont matter much without crossfire.

Red_Machine · Nov 24, 2013

Mussels said:
... its a beta? it doesnt have to cover every OS

No, AMD officially dropped support for Vista months ago. As did Intel; Sandy Bridge was the last IGPU to support Vista, but they still support XP.

uuuaaaaaa · Nov 24, 2013

Great drivers! No more Bsods playing BF4!

Prima.Vera · Nov 24, 2013

Kalroth said:
And you're able to both enable and disable overdrive? You're able change GPU, memory and fan speed?

The 9.4 drivers and CCC seems to otherwise work fine if you aren't overclocking.

I have 57xx series, so probably that's why. Performance in COD:Ghost is disaster just like the others beta. Stuttering, lagging, jumping from 100 fps to 15, and the usual crash after a couple of mins. Complete disaster!

droopyRO · Nov 24, 2013

PopcornMachine said:
I have a 290, and no tab. Cause yet to be determined.

280x here and the tab is there, so it seems be a 290 series problem.

cadaveca · Nov 24, 2013

Kalroth said:
It looks like the common denominator for AMD OverDrive not working and/or performance panel is missing, is the R9 290 series. I guess the beta drivers are fine if you aren't using R9 290 or R9 290X.

If you had a previous driver installed, you need to remove some left-over registry entries and profile folders before CCC works correctly. Common issue for CCC Overdrive for as long as I can remember. I just fixed this on my rig yesterday, actually, and I use 7970's.

I was also stuck with no options other than Hydravision options in CCC, that's what prompted me to do the re-install yesterday that fixed it all.

erocker · Nov 24, 2013

Freedom4556 said:
AMD has already pissed me off dropping 3000 and 4000 series support for Windows 8/8.1. How much harder is it to support those cards over the evergreen family? I've got a backup Q8400 system with twin 1Gb 4870s that I was going to update to 8.1, but not anymore. My overclock to 4890 speeds wont matter much without crossfire.

Red_Machine said:
No, AMD officially dropped support for Vista months ago. As did Intel; Sandy Bridge was the last IGPU to support Vista, but they still support XP.

So you install older drivers that work. That's what I do. I don't see any problem with it.

Serpent of Darkness · Nov 24, 2013

adulaamin said:
You don't get it. Everything RED is bad. Drivers, temps, performance, price (?), if it's RED it ain't worth it.

On topic though, I'll wait for WHQLs before I update drivers for my 7970. Never really been a fan of beta's.

I find it amusing that you're saying this, but in your system's specs, it says the following: "waiting for a 290X w/ an aftermarket cooler otherwise I'm getting a 780Ti."

"You don't get it. Everything RED is bad. Drivers, temps, performance, price (?), if it's RED it ain't worth it.

." Seems like your opinion is pure rhetoric to me.

Back to the topic:

the new Beta Driver is a lot more stable than 13.11 Beta v9.2 when dealing with Tri-fire R9-290x. v9.2 would BSOD here and there because of the Atkdmpkfd.sys. It probably crashed because it couldn't sustain it's stability. v9.4 seems to be a lot more stable. There's no BSOD, and the scaling for Tri-fire has increased. Image quality seems to be a lot crisper in almost all games I've played. BF4 looks the same, but my FPS average has shifted upwards. Tessellation in PS2 seems to have been improved with Tri-fire. Amp Stations and Bio Labs are rendered at 300 to 600 meters a lot better than before. Averaging 140 to 200 FPS in the Warp-Gate with Ultra Settings. Large 100+ player fights is still seeing above 30 FPS due to CPU bottleneck-ing in PS2.

Kalroth · Nov 24, 2013

cadaveca said:
If you had a previous driver installed, you need to remove some left-over registry entries and profile folders before CCC works correctly. Common issue for CCC Overdrive for as long as I can remember. I just fixed this on my rig yesterday, actually, and I use 7970's.

I was also stuck with no options other than Hydravision options in CCC, that's what prompted me to do the re-install yesterday that fixed it all.

When I do an upgrade from beta 9.2 to beta 9.4, the performance panel is there but it isn't functional.
When I do a clean install, the performance panel is not there at all.

I've never had this issue happen before, and I've done plenty of both clean and unclean installs. But that's just my anecdotal experience anyways.

Red_Machine · Nov 25, 2013

erocker said:
So you install older drivers that work. That's what I do. I don't see any problem with it.

Why on earth would I use drivers that are months out of date? I wouldn't even be able to use the latest cards with them, AMD basically kicked every Vista gamer in the balls and ran away laughing. :nutkick:

erocker · Nov 25, 2013

Red_Machine said:
Why on earth would I use drivers that are months out of date?

Simple, they work. Besides, if you have a choice why would any gamer use Vista? Also, Microsoft stopped mainstream support of Vista on April 2012.

Personally... good. Vista was a mistake of an O/S.

Why are you complaining? You don't seem like an AMD user.

Red_Machine · Nov 25, 2013

I'm arguing on principle. The reason I'm using the 8800 Ultra with my GTX 580 is because Intel don't provide Vista drivers for my IGPU. It boggles my mind that the difference between Vista, 7 and 8 is so little, yet they arbitrarily decided to stop supporting Vista while continuing to support the archaic soon-to-be-killed-off XP.

erocker · Nov 25, 2013

It's all probably just due to popularity. People still seem to love XP. Vista... not so much.

Red_Machine · Nov 25, 2013

The drivers for Vista and 7 were technically the same, which is why they were included together in the same packages and XP was separate. So if they're the same, it doesn't take a lot of time/money/resources to continue with them, does it?

erocker · Nov 25, 2013

Beats me! I don't make drivers. It's too bad Microsoft couldn't of just fixed Vista's memory management.. We probably wouldn't of needed 7. Maybe it's just AMD's way of saying "Stop using Vista!"

harry90 · Nov 25, 2013

erocker said:
Beats me! I don't make drivers. It's too bad Microsoft couldn't of just fixed Vista's memory management.. We probably wouldn't of needed 7. Maybe it's just AMD's way of saying "Stop using Vista!"

only reason I had vista back in 2007-08 was to run crisis series on DirectX 10. other than that vista sucks bad.

refillable · Nov 25, 2013

I thought it was not long ago that I downloaded 12.11!! Time goes fast does it?

refillable · Nov 25, 2013

I could not see any reason how can 'dropping a vista support' could affect my preference (or any other person's preference) on GPU, whether it's AMD, intel or nVIDIA. Nobody likes to use that disgusting Vista!

Mussels · Nov 25, 2013

refillable said:
I thought it was not long ago that I downloaded 12.11!! Time goes fast does it?

i remember signing up here to PM urlyin, and trying to figure out how to pronounce his name, asking about ATI tool and overclocking whatever GPU i had at the time. now THAT was a long time ago

hckngrtfakt · Nov 25, 2013

erocker said:
So you install older drivers that work. That's what I do. I don't see any problem with it.

That's not always an alternative as some recent games require current driver releases.

For example, any driver past 13.4 would give me a PCI Bus driver error after enabling crossfire,...
I then reverted back to 13.1, and all drivers load correctly, except now that i want to run NFS Rivals,
it wont allow me to because the game requires at least 13.4.

Hopefully these beta9.4 help or bring some kind of fix to the table. ... (doesn't hurt to try)

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AMD Delivers Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.4 Graphics Driver

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