AMD rilascia un nuovo pacchetto di driver con certificazione WHQL per le schede grafiche AMD Radeon.
AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL è il nome della nuova versione di driver, dove hanno apportato diverse migliorie anche in configurazioni Crossfire riducendo i fastidiosi lag di microstruttering.
Ecco la le novità apportate in questi driver:
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.12 Microsoft certified driver (vs. AMD Catalyst 13.9)
Support for the following new products:
- AMD Radeon™ R9 290, 280, and 270 Series
- AMD Radeon™ R7 260, 250, and 240 Series
Improved AMD CrossFire™ scaling for the following game titles:
- Call of Duty®: Ghosts (multiplayer component)
- Splinter Cell Blacklist
- Saints Row 4
- MetrLast Light
New AMD Enduro™ Technology profiles for the following game titles:
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Need for Speed Rivals
- Total War™: Rome 2
- Battlefield 4
- Saints Row 4
- Splinter Cell Blacklist
- FIFA 14
Support For AMD CrossFire frame pacing
- Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
- Frame pacing is enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center, or on a per application basis
- Frame pacing is supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560×1600 on a single display
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.12 (vs. AMD Catalyst 13.9)
- May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon™ R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
- Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®? 9 applications
- AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series – Power Tune update treduce variance of fan speed / RPM
- PCI-E bus speed is nlonger set tx1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
- Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics cards
- Resolves Corruption issues found in Starcraft
- Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014
- Resolves intermittent black screen when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supporting AMD EnduroTechnology
- Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems
