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AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows out now

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.

Scratch the above Sam(but many thanks for offering to help), just tested the 14.6's and is now working on everything except for Thief Mantle, DX is working though.

Great to see the bug reports are working.:)
 
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!

Will you ever add "Dynamic Vsync" or "Adaptive Vsync" to the driver?

It's one of the best ever features I've come across and is only available through a third party tool for AMD or Nvidia control panel. I used to love that feature on the green side :(

RadeonPRO is not an option as it doesn't work with many new games
 
I have a MSI 7970 BE
i7 920 OCd ast 3.2

so mantle doesnt apply to me ?

Is mantle a watch dogs game?

Im having low fps at watch dogs so was wondering if the 14.6 beta driver will help me, google directed me here coz theres a conversation about the 14.6 driver.

So how do i obtain this mantle device/software ?
 
I have a MSI 7970 BE
i7 920 OCd ast 3.2

so mantle doesnt apply to me ?

Is mantle a watch dogs game?

Im having low fps at watch dogs so was wondering if the 14.6 beta driver will help me, google directed me here coz theres a conversation about the 14.6 driver.

So how do i obtain this mantle device/software ?

Your GPU is compatible, though not as much as the newer Hawaii cards like the 290/X

It will do nothing for Watch Dogs, though this driver may improve performance anyway.

Mantle is an API that replaces DirectX in Games that have it.

What Mantle does

Mantle is the harmony of three essential ingredients:

  1. A driver within the AMD Catalyst™ software suite that lets applications speak directly to the Graphics Core Next architecture;
  2. A GPU or APU enabled with the Graphics Core Next architecture;
  3. An application or game written to take advantage of Mantle.
Mantle reduces the CPU’s workload by giving developers a way to talk to the GPU directly with much less translation. With less work for the CPU to do, programmers can squeeze much more performance from a system, delivering the greatest benefits in gaming systems where the CPU can be the bottleneck.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx


If you have BF4 you may find better performance if you turn on the Mantle API.

But Unfortunately Whatch Dogs does not support Mantle.
 
Ignore the Window mode. just run it full screen :)

oh i see the mantle option on Bf4, so I can just enable that in the settings of both games right?


Yes. in BF4 select Mantle and then restart the game to make it take effect.

In Thief select Options and then enable Mantle.



In BF4 if you want the OSD that you see in my screenshot? go to the BF4 directory and add the highlighted lines into the user.cfg



PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
Render.DrawScreenInfo 1
Perfoverlay.DrawGraph 0
PerfOverlay.Enable 1
 
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Has thief released a patch to enable crossfire in mantle yet ? Had a quick go yesterday was getting same usage on both cards but gpu2 only runs @ 300/150 where as 1st was at 1080/1400
 
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