AMD Releases Catalyst 14.12 Omega Software

btarunr · Dec 9, 2014

AMD released Catalyst 14.12 Omega, its annual feature-set upgrading driver update. This driver introduces new video image quality enhancement features, game image-quality enhancements, and a usual load of game-specific performance updates, and bug-fixes. Features that stand out include Virtual Super Resolution, which is essentially identical in function to NVIDIA's Dynamic Super Resolution, which lets you "simulate" higher game display resolutions than your display is capable of; and frame-pacing improvements that make certain games seem more fluid.

Among the video quality enhancements are Fluid Motion Video, which adds fluidity to Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD 14, Video Contour Removal, which removes artifacts from compressed video, 1080p detail enhancement, and a brand new 1080p to 4K video upscaling algorithm, which reduces upscaling artifacts. Game specific performance improvements target Batman: Arkham Origins, Bioshock Infinite, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Grid 2, Sniper Elite III, and Rome: Total War, among others. AMD is promising up to 19 percent performance improvement, compared to, and we kid you not, Catalyst 13.12. Grab the driver from the link below.

DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.12 Omega

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btarunr · Dec 9, 2014

Mini review shortly.

Laurijan · Dec 9, 2014

I tried to find the download link - no luck.

Jstn7477 · Dec 9, 2014

Laurijan said:
I tried to find the download link - no luck.

Here you go: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-with-dotnet45-win8.1-64bit.exe

flmatter · Dec 9, 2014

btarunr said:
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 14.12 Omega

Link works fine

Laurijan · Dec 9, 2014

flmatter said:
Link works fine

Ok in the download description it doesnt say omega but the file name when starting the download is omega

Steevo · Dec 9, 2014

I would like to see what Fluid Motion has to offer, 24P Blu-Ray content, even when my display output is set to 24Hz is jumpy, if they made it more globally available, like Netflix, Flash player, HTML5 I would love to use it since 60-70% of my computers time is spent on that anymore.

Solaris17 · Dec 9, 2014

Steevo · Dec 9, 2014

Dammit guys, you are breaking the download site!!!! LOL

200KBps

Octopuss · Dec 9, 2014

All I care about is a fix for the damn black screens. I hope it does contain something like that.

Laurijan · Dec 9, 2014

How do i run my GPU at 4K with a display only 1080p? I installed Omega but i dont find the option.

flmatter · Dec 9, 2014

Octopuss said:
All I care about is a fix for the damn black screens. I hope it does contain something like that.

black screens? what is this you talk of? I have r9 280x in crossfire with no issues..... you OC your card/s?

natr0n · Dec 9, 2014

I should have read vsr was only for higher end gear...

oh well

takomako · Dec 9, 2014

so since i have r9 270x i shouldn't be so happy about those drivers right? at least not as happy as the r9 290 owners!

Octopuss · Dec 9, 2014

flmatter said:
black screens? what is this you talk of? I have r9 280x in crossfire with no issues..... you OC your card/s?

I'm tired of repeating it over and over across several forums. You'll have to google it up.

TRWOV · Dec 9, 2014

hummm... it doesn't detect my Athlon 5350 as compatible hardware. I suppose it's for A-series only.

Going back to 14.11.2 beta

EDIT: Going to the drop down menu and manually selecting Athlon series gives the correct file. Running 3dmark

Steevo · Dec 9, 2014

Works fine on my 5870, no new options for me, also Avast in Heuristic mode with password protection is annoying as fuck. "Hey, we see you are installing this, hey you said OK about this but what about this other signed driver, hey what about this other file from the same archive you said OK to just a few milliseconds ago"

Also something reset my tray icons so that most were not shown.

zo0lykas · Dec 9, 2014

Octopuss said:
All I care about is a fix for the damn black screens. I hope it does contain something like that.

what the hell is black sreen? over 14 years using amd gpu, and never have any black sreen

H82LUZ73 · Dec 9, 2014

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 8.1 - 64

This Just 14.11.beta 2 as 14.12 i Take it ? Someone using a TV as monitor let me know if the color saturation is not working still at 1650x1080 and below,What i mean is the color saturation greys out no sharp crisp clear colors below 1980 res.

Mescalamba · Dec 9, 2014

Small side-note..

..anyone remembers Omega drivers for ATi? They still exist btw.

Octopuss · Dec 9, 2014

Mescalamba said:
Small side-note..

..anyone remembers Omega drivers for ATi? They still exist btw.

Yeah, the site is even more horrible than 10 years ago, with "god bless you" stuck to every single post by the guy.
It's also not not updated for years.

I was using those drivers back then because I believed they were doing something. Thinking about it now, it was probably mostly placebo (but nowhere near what PAX "drivers" are

).

Laurijan · Dec 9, 2014

Where to enable Virtual Super Resolution in Catalyst?

natr0n · Dec 9, 2014

Laurijan said:
Where to enable Virtual Super Resolution in Catalyst?

VSR Requirements

AMD GPU: AMD Radeon R9 295X2/R9 290X/R9 290/R9 285

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/amd-catalyst-14-12-driver-the-omega-driver,2.html

redundantslurs · Dec 9, 2014

i think this update fixed my freezing problem on my 7950, would go to sleep and not wake up unless i push the reset button, don't seem to do it anymore.

flmatter · Dec 9, 2014

Laurijan said:
Where to enable Virtual Super Resolution in Catalyst?

R9 280x owners do not get the VSR.... yet.... ? maybe?

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