Luego de meses con controladores Betas, AMD finalmente ha lanzado controladores gráficos certificados (WHQL) para sus tarjetas gráficas Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000, HD 7000, Radeon R7 y R9 Series con los nuevos Catalyst 13.12 WHQL, el último lanzamiento oficial de este 2013 compatible con sistemas operativos Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 y 8.1.
Este lanzamiento más que ofrecer un listado de incremento en rendimiento en videojuegos, se enfoca en mejorar el soporte para tecnologías y corregir problemas de funcionamiento en algunos títulos. Entre estas mejoras a nivel general se encuentra el escalamiento de rendimiento en configuraciones CrossFireX, mejor soporte para la tecnología AMD Enduro, y también mejoras con los problemas de “frame pacing”, entre otros arreglos que pueden revisar en las siguiente lista de cambios.
Feature Highlights
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
- Metro Last 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 Issues
- 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 to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
- PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration
- Resolves incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Resolves AMD Steady Video option being grayed out in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
- Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics cards
- Resolves graphics corruption issues found in Starcraft
- Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014
- Resolves flickering water corruption found in World of Warcraft
- 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 Enduro Technology
- Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems
- Resolves the display turning green when using Windows Media Player to view HD .avi format video in an extended desktop configuration
- Resolves Metro applications experiencing frame drops during playback of interlaced video content
- Resolves video playback corruption of .wmv format files in Windows Media Player
Descarga: Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 32-bit / Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 64-bit