AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta7 (Oct 28th release) - Gains for bf3/bf4

**Ace22** · 10-29-13, 01:46 AM

AMD Catalyst

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta7 Driver for Windows

Includes all Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6
Increases AMD CrossFire™ scaling up to an additional 20% for Battlefield 4

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6 Driver for Windows

Includes all Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta
Includes support for the new products:
- AMD Radeon™ R9 290X
- AMD Radeon R9 290
Performance improvements
- Batman: Arkham Origins - improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
- Total War™: Rome 2 - improves performance up to 10%
- Battlefield 3 - improves performance up to 10%
- GRID 2 - improves performance up to 8.5%
- DiRT Showdown - improves performance up to 10%
- Formula 1™ 2013 - improves performance up to 8%
- DiRT 3 - improves performance up to 7%
- Sleeping Dogs - improves performance up to 5%
Performance improvements for the AMD APU Series (comparing AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6 to AMD Catalyst 13.9)
- Luxmark (openCL) - improves performance up to 10%
- Winzip 17.5 (openCL) - improves performance up to 20%
- GRID 2 - improves performance up to 4%
- Battlefield 4 - improves performance up to 5%
- Lef4Dead - improves performance up to 10%
Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration

Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays

**Partyball** · 10-29-13, 06:55 AM

Awesome.

**Allane** · 10-29-13, 07:32 AM

I don't even need these beta drivers. With 13.9, my humble 7870 can run everything at Ultra and 2x MSAA and sit at 39% usage. My only limiting factor is my CPU, which lets me pull 70+ fps even in heated situations.

I'm pretty sure the usage is being reported incorrectly, as going from low to Ultra made no difference in GPU usage. However, the temperatures I was seeing for my GPU were consistent with very low usage.

**Echelon** · 10-29-13, 08:27 PM

There was an nVidia driver out also. When I first launched last night the game was unplayable with my i7-3770k / GTX 670. The framerate was horrible it took me forever to exit the game. After the update to the driver it ran like a dream. The in game video test lies. It said my framerate was "Bad" at Ultra, High, and Medium. I played anyway knowing it couldn't be bad on medium. It ran flawless. So I turned them back up.