AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows out now

Warsam71 · 27 May 2014 at 20:28

Hello everyone,

In case you missed it; we just released the Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows driver today.

Similar to earlier versions please make sure to read the Feature Highlights and Known Issues sections for more information about the driver and use the Issue Reporting Form to report any issues or bugs you may find. Thank You!

LtMatt · 27 May 2014 at 20:35

Warsam71 said:
Hello everyone,

In case you missed it; we just released the Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows driver today.

Similar to earlier versions please make sure to read the Feature Highlights and Known Issues sections for more information about the driver and use the Issue Reporting Form to report any issues or bugs you may find. Thank You!

Thanks Sam.

Can confirm its working very nicely on Battlefield 4.

tommybhoy · 27 May 2014 at 20:46

Thanks warsam.

Any word whether you have managed to address the native Stereoscopic 3D bug(Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Thief, Hitman etc-basically all of them) on 290 series yet?

In summary, I have never been able to select in game stereoscopic 3D in all the GE titles with the 290-where as tridef works straight off as it should.

I have submitted bug reports before, but wondering whether AMD is aware of this bug and possibly find out any information regarding it, appreciate any feedback.

Warsam71 · 27 May 2014 at 20:48

LtMatt said:
Thanks Sam.

Can confirm its working very nicely on Battlefield 4.

Great, thank you for your feedback LtMatt

Warsam71 · 27 May 2014 at 20:51

tommybhoy said:
Thanks warsam.

Any word whether you have managed to address the native Stereoscopic 3D bug(Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Thief, Hitman etc-basically all of them) on 290 series yet?

In summary, I have never been able to select in game stereoscopic 3D in all the GE titles with the 290-where as tridef works straight off as it should.

I have submitted bug reports before, but wondering whether AMD is aware of this bug and possibly find out any information regarding it, appreciate any feedback.

Hello tommybhoy,

I will look into this for you. Could you please send me a trust with your system specs, any error messages, and a short description? This will help me keep track of everything better - hope you don't mind.

JamesM · 27 May 2014 at 21:19

Mother of god.

This patch has fixed Mantle for me with a 7990.

Gone from low settings and dx11 on my AMD 8320 to get decent FPS to Mantle and high settings and i'm still getting over 100 easy.

Love it love it love it

LtMatt · 27 May 2014 at 21:23

JamesM said:
Mother of god.

This patch has fixed Mantle for me with a 7990.

Gone from low settings and dx11 on my AMD 8320 to get decent FPS to Mantle and high settings and i'm still getting over 100 easy.

Love it love it love it

Welcome to Mantle gaming, enjoy your stay. Luckily ive been here for a few months now and going back to DX11 just isn't an option, except for when im running comparison benchmarks with PG Tips.

ICDP · 27 May 2014 at 21:28

Thanks for the update. So far these drivers are working great for me.

MyBrainz · 27 May 2014 at 21:31

JamesM said:
Mother of god.

This patch has fixed Mantle for me with a 7990.

Gone from low settings and dx11 on my AMD 8320 to get decent FPS to Mantle and high settings and i'm still getting over 100 easy.

Love it love it love it

Glad to see Mantle running good for u now. What do u have ur AA at James? And how much VRAM is it using?

JamesM · 27 May 2014 at 21:50

i'm still getting fps drops

I prefer FPS over quality so tend to run everything on low anyway but hopefully the new monitor and 4770k coming tomorrow might help that

LtMatt · 27 May 2014 at 21:51

JamesM said:
i'm still getting fps drops

I prefer FPS over quality so tend to run everything on low anyway but hopefully the new monitor and 4770k coming tomorrow might help that

Are you running quad fire? Cos Kaap said it was working poorly for him on Mantle.

MyBrainz · 27 May 2014 at 21:54

JamesM said:
i'm still getting fps drops

I prefer FPS over quality so tend to run everything on low anyway but hopefully the new monitor and 4770k coming tomorrow might help that

If u put the 2 Terrain options on Medium setting.. that is actually the REAL Low settings

Matson · 27 May 2014 at 21:55

Sam I thought I would post this here for you too...

For some reason watchdogs still isn't working with crossfire on my 290 cards even though this driver was supposed to fix that issue. Im still getting negative scaling no matter what settings or AA method I use.

This still seems quite broken with crossfire on 14.6 drivers.

even in the menu screen its laggy... and no matter where I look around in game... even if I look at the floor the fps stay around the same with crossfire enabled..

I gained about 5fps on a single card with the new drivers but the difference is massive with crossfire enabled...

This is on a single 290..maxed out...supersampling set to on in the config file... 33fps

Same area...same settings...crossfire enabled..12fps lol. That's quite a difference.

JamesM · 27 May 2014 at 22:12

LtMatt said:
Are you running quad fire? Cos Kaap said it was working poorly for him on Mantle.

Nah single GPU

Dicehunter · 27 May 2014 at 22:39

Why does it say may 23 at the end of the driver ?

BS Dave · 27 May 2014 at 22:45

Ok so this Mantle still isn't optimised for 7000 series, and they won't work with free sync either... Bad news for anyone who bought a 280...

snips86x · 27 May 2014 at 22:48

Matson said:
Sam I thought I would post this here for you too...

For some reason watchdogs still isn't working with crossfire on my 290 cards even though this driver was supposed to fix that issue. Im still getting negative scaling no matter what settings or AA method I use.

This still seems quite broken with crossfire on 14.6 drivers.

even in the menu screen its laggy... and no matter where I look around in game... even if I look at the floor the fps stay around the same with crossfire enabled..

I gained about 5fps on a single card with the new drivers but the difference is massive with crossfire enabled...

This is on a single 290..maxed out...supersampling set to on in the config file... 33fps

Same area...same settings...crossfire enabled..12fps lol. That's quite a difference.

This is a game issue, not driver issue. The developer has their work cutout.

Gerard · 27 May 2014 at 22:50

snips86x said:
This is a game issue, not driver issue. The developer has their work cutout.

Ubisoft? Pfft, considering half the stuff they leave unfixed in some of their games I wouldn't hold my breath. :eek:

MarkeR · 27 May 2014 at 22:50

Matson said:
Sam I thought I would post this here for you too...

For some reason watchdogs still isn't working with crossfire on my 290 cards even though this driver was supposed to fix that issue. Im still getting negative scaling no matter what settings or AA method I use.

This still seems quite broken with crossfire on 14.6 drivers.

even in the menu screen its laggy... and no matter where I look around in game... even if I look at the floor the fps stay around the same with crossfire enabled..

I gained about 5fps on a single card with the new drivers but the difference is massive with crossfire enabled...

This is on a single 290..maxed out...supersampling set to on in the config file... 33fps

Same area...same settings...crossfire enabled..12fps lol. That's quite a difference.

Matson

I had the same problem with my 7950s, still negative scaling after installing 14.6 with xfire.

Solution, I had accidentally run the installer without uninstalling my previous drivers.

Went into the program uninstall area within windows control panel and used the AMD installer to remove all drivers CCC etc, rebooted ran the setup from the extraction folder, rebooted and I now get 55 - 85 fps ultra settings with temporal @ 1080p...

So in essence, it does look like an install problem ..

Matson · 27 May 2014 at 23:15

I kinda managed to fix it in a way lol... for some reason it was when I had Temporal SMAA enabled... I clicked it down to SMAA and it went from 12 fps up to 50.

This is with supersampling enabled in the watch dogs config aswell.
So basically with SMAA + supersampling on a single card im getting 30 fps crossfire 50.
Single card with Temporal SMAA + supersampling I was getting 30 fps crossfire 12 fps.