Wednesday, December 18th 2013
AMD Releases the Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Graphics Drivers
After months of Catalyst 13.11 betas AMD has now made available a new WHQL-certified graphics driver, the Catalyst 13.12. This release features support for the Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000, HD 7000, Radeon R7 and R9 Series cards and is available for Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1.
Download: Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 32-bit / Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 64-bit
Feature Highlights
Support for the following new products:
Download: Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 32-bit / Catalyst 13.12 WHQL 64-bit
Feature Highlights
Support for the following new products:
- AMD Radeon R9 290, 280, and 270 Series
- AMD Radeon R7 260, 250, and 240 Series
- Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component)
- Splinter Cell Blacklist
- Saints Row 4
- Metro Last Light
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Need for Speed Rivals
- Total War: Rome 2
- Battlefield 4
- Saints Row 4
- Splinter Cell Blacklist
- FIFA 14
- 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) 2560x1600 on a single display
- 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
80 Comments on AMD Releases the Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Graphics Drivers
Just installed and GE does not seem to be there, so maybe it unchecked but didn't display - weird stuff.
You have to look for them.
AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver 32 bit
Description:
Package contains the following graphics drivers and dependent/required software for the products specified in the current version's official release notes for the 32 bit version of Windows Vista:
Display Driver ver. 13.251
OpenCL(tm) Driver ver. 10.0.1348.5
Catalyst Control Center ver. 2013.1206.1602.28764
AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver 64 bit
Description:
Package contains the following graphics drivers and dependent/required software for the products specified in the current version's official release notes for the 32 bit version of Windows Vista:
Display Driver ver. 13.251
OpenCL(tm) Driver ver. 10.0.1348.5
Catalyst Control Center ver. 2013.1206.1602.28764
Stable yet
Reboot
still showed 13.11
went into dev mgr
right clicked display adapter
uninstalled (checked box to delete) driver
Scanned for new hardware changes
microsoft driver was installed
then ran cat 13.12 installer again.
got the above readout.
but its the same number as 13.11
I did a simple uninstall first and show the same driver version string as Solaris17.
I did a clean install
but they were similar drivers. maybe they just didnt update the build number? Not sure I will continue to test tomorrow. I really do not want to go through alot of this for new drivers.
EDIT:: MSI afterburner doesnt even detect a driver.
EDIT 2:: The attached is my current attempt at an install driver is the same build version as the 13.11 betas
EDIT 3:: These drivers dont seem like they were set at 400º for 20min. I have a few reports
Here
Here
that indicate others are running into problems
The Gaming Evolve crap wasn't listed in the list of things being installed. I'm glad they took it out. All the previous Beta Drivers, I unchecked them.
This is good. I thought my card was dying due to all the issues I was seeing in the game.Of course it's not in the WHQL drivers, because raptr is a program in beta. I would expect it to remain in the beta driver releases and to be integrated into the WHQL releases when its beta status is removed.