AMD Posts its Last Catalyst Driver Before Radeon Software Crimson Edition?

[btarunr]

AMD posted what could be its final release of Catalyst, before the company switches drivers over to the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition, with a slick new configuration utility. Dubbed Catalyst 15.11 Beta, these drivers come with optimization for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, besides game-specific bug fixes for Star Wars: Battlefront, and Ashes of the Singularity.



DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 15.11 Beta for Windows 10/8.1/7 64-bit | Windows 10/8.1/7 32-bit

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[GhostRyder]

Well then, not much for me unfortunately except Star Wars. I plan on playing CoD on XBOX ONE so it looks like its just a quick patch until they get on to Crimson edition.

 

[happita]

This is pretty unusual for AMD to optimize a game that comes out the same day on a driver package. Unusual, but a very welcome change.

 

[F-Zero]

About time AMD modernized it's software. Hope this is a new start for Radeon Technologies Group.

 

[Finners]

Should be another driver released by Tuesday for fallout 4 and then following on form that Star wars. So may be a couple more before crimson.

 

[qubit]

I feel like buying a cheap AMD card just in order to play around with the new control panel.

I do have AMD cards, but they're all really old, HD3850x2 (yup, dual GPU) being the newest.

 

[Finners]

try it! seems new features with these crimson drivers will be thin on the ground. Shader cache seems like a new feature that should reduce stuttering in crossfire configurations so your dual card (if supported) should be able to test that.

Although I doubt it will be supported is quite old now

 

[fullinfusion]

Sweet downloading now.

 

[Divide Overflow]

They work well for me.

 

[INSTG8R]

Just waiting for CoD to finish downloading as that is the only thing this driver that applies to me anyway

 

[Ja.KooLit]

maybe AMD will release crimson edition on their next WHQL

 

[fullinfusion]

maybe AMD will release crimson edition on their next WHQL

Im sure its going to be this month for the crimson edition

 

[F-Zero]

According to WCCFTech Amd will launch Radeon Software Crimson Edition Drivers on the 24th November.

 

[Mussels]

remember, remember, the 24th of november.

 

[Deleted member 50521]

Just updated to 15.11 beta. One thing I noticed is my sleep option is gone after updating. Weird.

 

[GoldenX]

Besides the GUI changes, ¿any word on performance improvements and new features in the Radeon Software?

 

[Finners]

Besides the GUI changes, ¿any word on performance improvements and new features in the Radeon Software?

Only heard of feature called shader cache, which in theory helps with crossfire stutter

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Just updated to 15.11 beta. One thing I noticed is my sleep option is gone after updating. Weird.

Are you sure driver updated correctly? Does sound like a driver that didn't update right.

 

[Aquinus]

Are you sure driver updated correctly? Does sound like a driver that didn't update right.

Sleeping likes to disable itself when hardware being actively used doesn't have non-generic drivers installed. I would agree with you on this one that the HDMI audio driver could be the culprit. Personally, ever since I started using DDU every time I change drivers, I've had hardly any issues.

 

[Deleted member 50521]

I didn't remove all registry junks before install. It seems I have accumulated junk all the way back to Catalyst 15.7 in my registry. After a complete wipe of previous drivers the problem is fixed.