GTA V is almost upon us, meaning that both AMD and NVIDIA have released new optimized drivers for Rockstar’s title. AMD’s Catalyst 15.4 Beta comes with Crossfire profiles for a number of titles (like GTA V, Dying Light, Mortal Kombat X and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. On the other hand, NVIDIA’s GeForce 350.12 WHQL comes with SLI profiles for GTA V, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty and Project CARS.
Those interested can download the new NVIDIA drivers from here and the new AMD drivers from here.
Here is the changelog for the AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta driver:
Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.4 Beta Windows Driver
New Crossfire Profiles for:
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Dying Light*
- Galactic Civilizations III
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Mortal Combat X**
- Sleeping Dogs : Definitive Edition
Crossfire Profiles updates for:
- Battlefield Hardline
- Far Cry 4
- Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Sniper Elite 3
Fixed Issues:
- [416712] Battlefield 4: A memory leak may be experienced on certain AMD Radeon GPU’s
- [416302] Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash on first launch when in High Performance Mode
- [416363] Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash on launch on certain AMD graphics products
- [416667] Far Cry 4: Stuttering may be experienced with custom settings when run in AMD Crossfire mode
- [416320] Far Cry 4: Screen tearing may be experienced even after enabling vsync
*AMD is currently working with Techland to resolve the following issue:
- [417173] Distant objects may flicker in Dying Light when AA is enabled in AMD Crossfire mode. As a workaround, users may disable AMD Crossfire mode if this issue is impacting their game experience.
** AMD is currently working with NetherRealm Studios to resolve the following issue:
- [417323] Flickering is sometimes observed on a small number of surfaces in Mortal Combat X when using AMD Crossfire. As a work around, users may disable AMD Crossfire mode if this issue is impacting their game experience.
And here is the changelog for the NVIDIA GeForce 350.12 WHQL driver:
What’s New in Version 350.12
Just in time for the highly anticipated title Grand Theft Auto V, this new GeForce Game Ready driver ensures you’ll have the best possible gaming experience. With support for GeForce SLI technology and for one-click game setting optimizations within GeForce Experience, you’ll have the best possible performance and image quality during gameplay.
Application Profiles Added or updated the following SLI profiles:
• Assassin’s Creed: Rogue – Added SLI
• Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! – Added SLI
• Project CARS – Updated SLI
• Victor Vran- Added SLI3D Vision Profiles Added or updated the following profiles:
• Grand Theft Auto V – Excellent rating
• Heroes of The Storm – Excellent rating; disabled control panel AA|• Mortal Kombat X – Fair ratingSoftware Modules
• HD Audio Driver – version 1.3.33.0
• NVIDIA PhysX System Software – version 9.15.0324
• GeForce Experience – version 2.4.1.21
• CUDA – version 7.0Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 8.1 Fixed Issues:
- [Windows 7-x64] Apollo 11 Demo textures and shadows appear to be very dark.[200091673]
- SLI profile needed for Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty! [1625016]
- SLI profile needed for Assassin’s Creed Rogue. [1622977]
- Unable to capture display EDID correctly using the Manage EDID function on an LG 4K monitor. [1619506]
- [SLI, Windows 7-x64] Unable to enable 3D Surround. [1611837]
- [Quadro K2000, Windows 7-x64] Massive rendering slowdown (under one fps) when a simple skinned mesh is added to a scene with the Unity game engine. [1606822]
- [347.88, Battlefield Hardline] Kepler GPUs crashing with DirectX error messages.[1606797]
- [Windows 7-x64] DirectX apps fail to start if MOSAIC is started with a custom resolution. [1603050]
- EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner report extremely large GPU power percentages (TDP). [1599233]
- DSR is not working in games when an audio receiver is used in between the display and graphics card. [1596984]
- [GTX590, Windows 7-x64] DiRT 3 center display is out of range in 2D Immersive Gaming mode. [922824]
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Good for owners of both brands.
Yep
Hell I’m even tempted to fire up the 3D Vision for GTA 5.
Yeah with Excellent rating you can’t go wrong.
I’m definitely trying it when I get the game, which may be a while. Money is tight.
I’ll try it in 3D today, and I’ll let you know what it’s like, maybe get a crew together when you’re ready perhaps.
Thank you Nvidia let’s see this driver in action!
Why amdsucks? I know you are a fanboy. You can hate AMD and love nvidia, but creating a profile called amdsucks is showing me that you are a troll
no i just don’t like AMD!
Well. You hate without reasons? If you hate something, and you use AMD logo, and your name is AMDsucks i think you are crazy. If i hate something, i dont name it
🙁
I dont want so sound bad, but i m honest
To do something without reason basically fulfill definition of insanity.
Remeber nV always have Bad breath trolls rolling on sites and whiming on AMD they don’t even Have !
Sometimes they have multiple accounts 😉 with AMD specs on some ! To spread Hate ex. “AMD drivers suck” WTF The are Great.
And i have Radeon and nV and don’t have problems with drivers on both sides -> But i prefer Radeon cuz its Beter IMO (GCN is Great really DX11_1 + DX12_3 + Mantle + FreeSync etc.)
My Main Gaming RIG is AMD Only ! CPU x6 + 280X and now i’m plaing Dying Light and i have 60FPS average on Ultra noAA 1792:1344 85Hz with nV features ON 😀
STOP Whiming START Plaing !
“Remeber nV always have Bad breath trolls rolling on sites ”
It’s the same for some AMD fanboys too.
“But i prefer Radeon cuz its Beter IMO (GCN is Great really DX11_1 + DX12_3 + Mantle + FreeSync etc.)”
Which feature from DX you use and it doesn’t run well on NV GPUs too? I would say there is no one. For FreSync, you have alternative solution for NV GPUs. The only one advantage is Mantle. It offers better performance, but that has nothing to do with GCN. If you make HW close API for NV architectures, performance would be in the same level.
IMO my Bro, i’m not Trolling. Just Prefer Radeon 😉 thats all.
Greets
Maybe, i feed him because i am a troll. I can be crazy, but not like a troll.
GTA5 runs and looks amazing so far.
Even at 1440p, I haven’t had a hiccup yet.
This makes me a very happy person.
Yep same here, Runs great at 1440p.
Just got word that my pre-order copy got delayed due to shipping issues. So upset right now.
I wish I could. The game is apparently 60 gigs big and my ISP would likely assassinate me if I tried to download it. Will wait eagerly for that FedEx van to show.
The new Nvidia driver was actually causing me constant crashes. After rolling back to the previous driver I can play normally, and there is no performance different that I could tell.
color me impressed. even though its too late i didn’t expect the game to be optimized. good job and they are selling it like cupcake. it’s rare to see 2k reviews so soon for a game on steam.
I see some performance increase in Unity. Better complete it before my retail copy of GTA 5 arrives 😀
Mostly getting 60 and was able to boost textures and some options past recommended without a performance hit but a lot of drops even at recommended specs. AMD driver is bad and glitchy at the minute. May try some SMAA injection later and see how it goes but FXAA coverage is actually very good for once instead of a smeared mess. They really did take the time with this port. Shame AMD dropped the ball. Hearing no issues at all Green team side.
tested with and without driver. same result, not a single fps boost. it was 59fps and still is 59fps. with 4xmsaa it might drop to 54 55fps sometimes
im using amd/windows 8.. but in amd link its only for windows 7 and 8.1… which 1 need i choose?