Artikel-Index:

AMD hat nach einer Wochenendschicht den Catalyst 14.1 Beta V1.6 für Windows und Linux zum Download bereitgestellt, mit dem erstmals Unterstützung für die neue hardwarenähere 3D-Programmierschnittstelle Mantle, Frame Pacing bei Dual-Graphics-Systemen sowie einige HSA-Features geboten werden. Zudem ist die Phase 2 der Frame-Pacing-Technologie für die CrossFire-Gespanne ohne XDMA-Verbindung enthalten.

In die Januar-Ausgabe des Treiberpaketes sind zudem erneut Optimierungen zur Verbesserung der Stabilität und Kompatibilität mit diversen Anwendungen eingeflossen. Eine vollständige Liste der vom Treiber unterstützten Hardware sowie sämtlicher behobener und bekannter Probleme kann den offiziellen Release Notes entnommen werden. Solltet Ihr von Problemen betroffen sein, die darin nicht aufgeführt werden, dann könnt Ihr das offizielle Catalyst Crew Feedback Form verwenden, um das Treiber-Team darauf aufmerksam zu machen. Eine Hilfestellung für das Formular könnt Ihr hier finden.

AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta v1.6 — CCC-Softwareinformation

Die Treiber stehen für Windows 8.1, 8, 7 und Linux zum Download bereit, wobei jeweils sowohl die 32-Bit- als auch die 64-Bit-Version im jeweiligen Installer enthalten sind. Vista-Nutzer können den Treiber ebenfalls installieren, allerdings hat uns AMD zu verstehen gegeben, dass Microsofts ungeliebter Spross in der Qualitätssicherung und Entwicklung nur noch eine untergeordnete Rolle spielt.

Was ist neu?

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows

Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

AMD A10-7850K
AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver:

AMD’s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
Performance gain of up to 45% (versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
- AMD Radeon R9 Series GPUs
- AMD Radeon R7 Series GPUs
- AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs
- AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series GPUs
- AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com

Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series, 7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations

Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
Supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications

Resolved Issues

Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
Resident Evil5 ’s performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
Negative Crossfire scaling with game “The Secret World” in DX11 mode
F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
Choppy video playback on 4k Video
VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
Far Cry 3 — Game flickering while changing resolutions
Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in “High Performance” when playing certain video clips
Image crashed on Starcraft game

Known Issues

Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4 in future AMD Catalyst releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4 and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
Multi-GPU support under DirectX and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire technology in BattleField 4 — AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4
AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4
AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm application
AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4
Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming release will enable support
DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming release will enable support

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Linux:
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new:

Products:

AMD A10-7850K
AMD A10-7700K

Features:

RHEL 6.5 production support
openSUSE 13.1 production support
Ubuntu 13.10 production support
Xserver 1.15 support
Kernel 3.13 support

Resolved Issues:

[386897] : System hang on resume from S4 with OpenGL screen saver running
[387678] : Backtrace occurs when kill X
[387664] : Failed to start X without kernel module loaded
[378620] : OpenCL test failure in CrossFire Mode
[386945] : piglit test “spec/ARB_copy_buffer/overlap” failed
[386710] : piglit test “spec/ARB_draw_buffers_blend” failed
[386818] : piglit test “spec/OpenGL 2.0/depth-tex-modes-glsl” failed
[386941] : piglit test “spec/ARB_blend_func_extended” failed
[386903] : piglit test “spec/OpenGL 3.0/gl‑3.0‑required-sized-texture-formats” failed
[386840] : Viewport goes blank when mouse cursor leaves when run Houdini on Ubuntu
[387596] : piglit test “spec/ARB_framebuffer_object (fbo-scissor-blit)” failed
[389174] : Failed to get fan speed on Bonaire card
[388110] : Intermittent flashing problem when running at 2560x1600
[372656] : Crash when resizing Konsole
[388325] : Brightness cannot be adjusted on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
[388330] : piglit test “spec/ARB_framebuffer_object (fbo-blit-stretch)” failed
[385457] : Blue/white screen after using Google-chrome to run fishietank
[388500] : piglit test “spec/EXT_texture_integer” failed
[388802] : piglit test “spec/ARB_map_buffer_alignment” failed
[386396] : piglit test “spec/ARB_depth_buffer_float/fbo-depthstencil-drawpixels” failed
[389431] : Screens are distorted when connecting an external monitor on some Haswell platforms
[389530] : Blank screen/crash observed while running unigine heaven benchmark in windowed mode
[387124] : OpenCL performance drop observed on Hawaii compared to Tahiti XT
[386940] : piglit test “spec/EXT_texture_sRGB” failed
[392137] : [SteamOS] Failed to return to desktop from steam.
[392015] : [SteamOS] Screen is locked when changing user.
[392014] : [SteamOS] Failed to login Steam sometimes
[391231] : Blank screen observed while running steam games with Big picture

Open Issues:

[390964] : Stuttering and poor performance after playing an OpenGL game for a several minutes on Ubuntu
[393377] : Terminal panel stops refreshing until there is movement from mouse cursor
[392546] : System hang observed while hotpluging the stereo display
[388835] : Corruption and system hang observed while running Sanctuary BM with TFD enable
[392552] : Enabling Overlay: StartX , the screen shows corruption

Achtung! Wie bei allen Beta‑, Release-Candidate‑, Preview- und Hotfix-Treibern sei auch hier der Hinweis angebracht, dass es sich nicht um eine voll umfänglich getestete Software handelt, in der auch schwerere Fehler noch enthalten sein können. Der angebotene Beta-Treiber richtet sich in erster Linie an Enthusiasten, die stets die aktuellsten Features und Optimierungen nutzen wollen. Er sollte jedoch nicht auf Produktivsystemen installiert werden!

Download:

Achtung! Laut AMD sollte vor der Installation des Catalyst 14.1 Beta unbedingt der alte Treiber deinstalliert werden!

Links zum Thema: