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AMD Catalyst 13.9 Official WHQL Released

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AMD has released a new set of WHQL drivers for its graphics cards. The red team has not released any changelog at the time of writing, but we’ll be sure to update the story the moment it does. According to Guru3D’s member ‘Seren’, this new driver is around a week older than 13.10 beta, and they are on the 150 branch. In short, some frame pacing improvements that are available on the latest beta driver may be missing from this WHQL driver. But then again, a lot of users prefer the WHQL drivers over the Beta ones. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.9 Official WHQL Released

AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Released, CrossFire Improvements In Rome 2, Saints Row 4, Metro: Last Light

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AMD has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta come with CrossFire performance improvements in Total War: Rome 2, Saints Row 4 and Metro: Last Light. In addition, AMD has included a number of frame pacing improvements for Tomb Raider, Metro Last Light, Sniper Elite, World of Warcraft, Max Payne 3 and Hitman Absolution. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Released, CrossFire Improvements In Rome 2, Saints Row 4, Metro: Last Light

AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Now Available – Includes Frame Pacing Option, Fixes Stuttering

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AMD has finally released the highly anticipated drivers for its graphics cards. Catalyst 13.8 Beta mainly fix the latency issues that have plagued the entire HD 7000 series. This means that the stuttering issues that have been reported in the past few months should be fixed. AMD users can enable/disable the frame pacing fix from their control panels. By default, this option is set On. AMD noted that this option may bring a slight performance drop, so those interested in benchmarking these new drivers should disable it. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Now Available – Includes Frame Pacing Option, Fixes Stuttering

AMD Announced New Titles For Its ‘Gaming Evolved’ Program

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AMD announced today some new titles that will be part of its ‘Gaming Evolved’ program. Among those titles we can find Thief, CryEngine 3-powered Shadow of the Eternals and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. AMD’s Gaming Evolved program is similar to Nvidia’s The Way It’s Meant To Be Played program, and will be interesting to see whether the following titles will include any ‘special’ DX11 features. Continue reading AMD Announced New Titles For Its ‘Gaming Evolved’ Program

AMD Unveils New Dual-GPU At This Year’s GDC 2013, Battlefield 4 Ran On The HD 7990 ‘Malta’

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We are pretty sure that a lot of gamers were impressed – graphically – with what DICE has showcased yesterday. Even though we knew that Battlefield 4 ran on the PC, we did not have any information about the specifications behind the PC system that was used. Thankfully, AMD has unveiled that its upcoming dual-GPU card, HD 7990, codenamed ‘Malta’ was used to demonstrate Battlefield 4. Continue reading AMD Unveils New Dual-GPU At This Year’s GDC 2013, Battlefield 4 Ran On The HD 7990 ‘Malta’

AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta Driver Released

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AMD has released a new set of beta drivers for its graphics cards. According to its key release notes, AMD’s Catalyst 13.3 Beta come with improved performance on both SimCity and Far Cry 3. In addition, these new drivers sport improvements in both Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution. You can find the download link, as well as the full release notes, below. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta Driver Released

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Released, Resolves Minor AA Corruption In Crysis 3

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AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the changelog, the sixth beta version of AMD’s Catalyst 13.2 resolves minor anti-aliasing corruption seen in Crysis 3 and improves Hitman Absolution Crossfire scaling. Moreover, AMD users have been reporting gains on various games and on Unigine’s latest benchmark tool, the Valley, so be sure to upgrade if you want to benefit from these gains. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6 Released, Resolves Minor AA Corruption In Crysis 3

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 Released; Further Improves Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 Performance

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Man, AMD is on fire lately. A couple of days ago, the company has released yet another beta driver for its graphics cards. This is the fifth beta of the 13.2, and it’s perhaps the first time we’ve seen so many updates in so little time. Ironically, Nvidia (who was known for doing something similar in the past) has not been rolling out as many beta drivers these past months as AMD. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 5 Released; Further Improves Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3 Performance