Il colosso in rosso, alias AMD, ha rilasciato nella giornata di oggi nuovi driver WHQL, Catalyst 13.12, per schede video Radeon. I driver Catalyst 13.12, sono i primi WHQL ad introdurre il supporto ufficiale alle nuove schede video R9, R8 e R7; fino ad oggi infatti erano stati rilasciati solo driver beta per queste schede.
Tra le novità più interessanti, oltre che a migliorie a livello di performance, segnaliamo l’introduzione di alcuni fix utili a diminuire il face pacing in configurazioni Crossfire con schede video in parallelo.
I driver sono disponibili per Sistema Operativo Windows 7, Windows 8 e Windows 8.1 a 32bit e 64bit. Di seguito il changelog con tutte le novità:
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