Friday, April 25th 2014
AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL Released
AMD released a WHQL-signed version of its Catalyst 14.4 software suite, its first in four months (the previous one being 13.12 WHQL). The driver builds on the Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate the company shipped out a little earlier this month, to lend immediate support for Radeon R9 295X2, which hit the shelves on the 21st. The four highlights of Catalyst 14.4 include support for the R9 295X2, CrossFire frame-pacing improvements for a number of games, full support for OpenGL 4.4 API, and bug-fixes for AMD Mantle API.
Among the games AMD worked to improve CrossFire performance of, include Crysis 3, which sees improved frame-pacing; Far Cry 3, which sees improved 3-GPU and 4-GPU scaling; Anno 2070, which sees an overall CrossFire scaling improvement of 34 percent; Titanfall, which sees reduced game flickering an micro-stutter; and Metro: Last Light, which sees 10 percent improvement in CrossFire scaling. The driver also addresses bugs related to 3x1 Eyefinity setups using three Ultra HD displays. For gamers running Battlefield 4 with its Mantle renderer, AMD addressed the performance slowdown seen when switching windows using Alt+Tab; and fuzzy textures when playing the game on rotated displays.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL for Windows 8/7/Visa 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit
Among the games AMD worked to improve CrossFire performance of, include Crysis 3, which sees improved frame-pacing; Far Cry 3, which sees improved 3-GPU and 4-GPU scaling; Anno 2070, which sees an overall CrossFire scaling improvement of 34 percent; Titanfall, which sees reduced game flickering an micro-stutter; and Metro: Last Light, which sees 10 percent improvement in CrossFire scaling. The driver also addresses bugs related to 3x1 Eyefinity setups using three Ultra HD displays. For gamers running Battlefield 4 with its Mantle renderer, AMD addressed the performance slowdown seen when switching windows using Alt+Tab; and fuzzy textures when playing the game on rotated displays.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL for Windows 8/7/Visa 64-bit | Windows 8/7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit and 64-bit
52 Comments on AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL Released
And @ all the ppl that use DDU and all the other shit un-installers, why use them?
Keep it simple and use the ccc uninstaller in add/remove programs..thats it!
Ive lost a lot of time pissn around going into safe mode and doing this n that, and sense I stopped using those programs I haven't been having any issues with drivers.
They are located in AppData->Roaming (and Local). Find the ACE folder(s) and delete them.AMD now has another separate uninstall utility to get what the driver package doesn't uninstall. Safe Mode isn't needed, unless you're having issues. I don't know why they just don't have a better uninstaller included with their driver packages instead of making other programs for it.
Well, sounds like a great time to convert to using UEFI and GPT for booting. Bye bye, MBR. Hopefully a clean install will go over a bit better.
Edit: 14.4 installed nicely after a clean install of Windows. I have nothing to test it out with yet as I have to re-install applications and such, but so far so good.
R7 240 in a DC7700p fresh win install no problems
A10-7700K over the previous version some problems but now : perfect
update:
A10-7700K + Gigabyte R9 270X OC : recognized at start driver updated all smooth
Your best bet is to fill out this form and explain the issue: www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D25AD12B5A
Crossfired 7970 / single 30" / Win7 x64. :cool:
In this driver set (14.4 WHQL) the ULPS bug is back: 99% usage on GPU2 during gaming (any game), may result in system crash (co-depending on overall load..).
Disble ULPS in Registry to workaround the issue and make all games run correctly again (even load distribution on both GPUs) in crossfire.
I am using two HD6950 twin frozr II 2gb cards.. Any driver or CCC version other than the old 13.11 totally disables my crossfire and doesn't even give me the option to enable/disable..
I was having issues with BF4 (namely the "disconnected from EA online 1" error so I thought, let's update and see if that works.. well now each card is showing up independantly.. They are still cabled together, but Furmark and GPUz both show them as Gpu 1 & Gpu 2...
I had this problem before and after finally installing back down to 13.11 I was able to get the crossfire enabled again..
PLEASE!!!!
Build list
Asus Z87-C
Haswell 4670k OC @ 4.4
Samsung 840 pro 256gb
WD 1 tb
8 GB Crucial
Windows 7 64bit
2 6950 twin frozr ii (2 gb each)
Suggest complete removal of ANY vga drivers (intel, AMD, NVIDIA)
Use this tool.
www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
After remove of old drivers, install the new 14.4 driver. I have read somewhere that sometimes you to install 2 times. I dont know but Ive tried installing twice. Nothing happen. but still, it wouldnt affect anything anyway.
If I were you, I will give it a try. And like I said, uninstall ALL video drivers. If I mean ALL, that includes INTEL, AMD and NVIDIA. Remember to create a restore point first so you can always revert back if things mess up. but I have used DDU like hundred times and it was by far the greatest video drivers I have ever used
I guess I'm going back to 13.11 for now and see if I get the "disconnected by EA" crap again..
Thank you Night Fox for the suggestions.