Friday, September 6th 2013
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AMD Rolls Out the Catalyst 13.10 Beta Driver
AMD has now made available a new Catalyst driver, the 13.10 version for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. This driver comes with a beta tag and supports the Radeon HD 7000, HD 6000 and HD 5000 Series cards. There's also a mobile version of 13.10 which supports the Mobility Radeon HD 8000M, HD 7000M, HD 6000M and HD 5000M cards. Download links are just below.Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Driver for Windows:
- AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta includes all of the features/fixes found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2
- PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
- Rome Total War 2: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with extreme settings)
resolves corruption issues seen while playing the game - Saints Row 4: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings) - Metro Last Light: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 10% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings) - Includes a number of frame pacing improvements for the following titles:
- Tomb Raider
- Metro Last Light
- Sniper Elite
- World of Warcraft
- Max Payne 3
- Hitman Absolution
40 Comments on AMD Rolls Out the Catalyst 13.10 Beta Driver
This is why I hate AMD's Crossfire...
Played saints row The Third:-
Closed out, noticed windows Aero is in basic mode, yet the GPU is stuck at full speed as if under load.
Checked GPU-Z, GPU appeared to be still running under load.
Half a minute later windows aero pops up and GPU goes into idle mode.
This did not happen when I played GRiD 2 or Warframe.
I should add I also run Windows 8
I have not noticed any flashing textures.
I've updated from the 13.6 to 13.10 and all of my performance tests have shown a DRAMATIC increase in performance. Hell i even ran Windows Exp. and it bumped up 2 points in 2d and 3 points in 3d gaming.... :wtf:
First of all, I have a big problem when using 13.9, 13.8 BETA, or 13.10 BETA with my Sapphire HD7790 Dual-X. The problem is when I run 3D application the GPU clock is always stuck at 300 Mhz. Tried to find the solution on the internet but didn't found any and surprised that I'm not alone in this one (just try to Google : "7790 300 Mhz").
I tried a lot of solutions such as :
1. clean install any AMD related drivers
2. disabling ULPS
3. reverting my card clock back to default (1075/1600, I used to clocked it at 1200/1600)
4. updating my mobo's BIOS (tried 3 version 1,6 ; 1,7 ; 1,8)
5. do a clean install using a spare HDD
ALL of these steps FAILED, still stuck at 300 Mhz when running 3D application.
And then I tried something different : playing with power limit (PL).
When I said I reverted my card to default clock I changed the PL to +20% and 0%, all of it FAILED to solve the problem (still stuck at 300 Mhz).
Proof :
0% : i.imgur.com/aY4MEbQ.png
20% : i.imgur.com/2ihhsrj.png
And then I tried to move the slider to +1%, fired up GPU-Z render test and VOILA the problem disappear :D : i.imgur.com/eyj3fQF.png
I keep trying upping the PL, 2,3,4,5,6,7%, all goes fine but when at 8% the annoying bug is coming back. So for my card the save range is +1-7%.
That's it. If you're facing the same problem as I, I suggest try upping your PL to some value that higher than 0% and then try found the maximum value until the bug coming back.
Thanks for reading :D
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