AMD Driver Catalyst 14.4 beta

AMD ha da poche ore rilasciato la sua nuova versione di driver beta, giunti alla 14.4.

La nuova versione è compatibile con le schede video della serie 5000 sino alla ultima RX-2XX, oltre che con le APU delle famiglie A ed E.

Questa versione di driver vede l’aggiunta del supporto per la nuova R9-295X2, inoltre vengono ottimizzati alcuni profili Crossfire, specie quando è attiva la tecnologia Frame Paging.

Dal supporto ufficiale AMD, si possono leggere le seguenti note di rilascio:

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows

• Support for the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X
• CrossFire™ fixes enhancements:
  • Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
  • Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
  • Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
  • Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
  • Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
  • Eyefinity 3×1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
  • Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
• Full support for OpenGL 4.4
  • OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
    • ARB_buffer_storage
    • ARB_enhanced_layouts
    • ARB_query_buffer_object
    • ARB_clear_texture
    • ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
    • ARB_texture_stencil8
    • ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
    • ARB_multi_bind
    • ARB_bindless_texture
    • ARB_spare_texture
    • ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
    • ARB_indirect_parameters
    • ARB_compute_variable_group_size
    • ARB_shader_draw_parameters
    • ARB_shader_group_vote
• Mantle beta driver improvements: 
  • BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
  • BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system

Known Issues  

• System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
• Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1 on specific platforms (see below).   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.
  • ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX)
  • ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (Z87
  • ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (X79)

I driver sono disponibili a questo link, previo inserimento della vostra tipologia di hardware.