Spotted AMD Catalyst™ 13.10 Windows® Beta Driver now available for download

[KeyboardDemon]

AMD Catalyst™ 13.10 Windows® Beta Driver

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta Driver for Windows:

AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta includes all of the features/fixes found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta2
PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
Rome Total War 2: Updated AMD CrossFire™ profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560x1600 with extreme settings)
resolves corruption issues seen while playing the game
Saints Row 4: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560x1600 with ultra settings)
Metro Last Light: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
improves CrossFire scaling up to 10% (at 2560x1600 with ultra settings)
Includes a number of frame pacing improvements for the following titles:
Tomb Raider
Metro Last Light
Sniper Elite
World of Warcraft
Max Payne 3
Hitman Absolution

[karl751]

Yeah from what I've seen this is performing very well now, I've not actually read anything bad about it yet.

[deejayburnout]

Will have to install this right away.

Not that my card is struggling with any of the games I am playing

[KeyboardDemon]

I just checked out Far Cry 3, this is a game that was suffering from extreme stuttering before, it is still suttering now but I can see an improvement. The only way I could play the game before was to use RadeonPro and limit the maximum frames to 30fps which reduced most of the stuttering effect though I still got it from time to time or when I was turning quickly, having just tried it now I found that by reducing the resolution to 1600x1050 it was more playable, but I would prefer to play it at 1080p with Ultra settings as my hardware should be able to cope with these settings.

[kalniel]

That's not a small driver download!

[AETAaAS]

That's not a small driver download!

I think I read somewhere that they lumped the diff Windows versions and also x86 and x64 versions together.

[kalniel]

I think I read somewhere that they lumped the diff Windows versions and also x86 and x64 versions together.

Yes looks like it, maybe fed up of people using the wrong one

[deejayburnout]

Installed the new drivers but not had a chance to play a game yet to test them.

[timcamnz]

What are your thoughts on the BETA version of the driver? I used to install it thinking the extra .5 fps would make a huges difference to my k/d ratio (in truth it stayed below 1 most of the time.....)

[kalniel]

I used to install it thinking the extra .5 fps would make a huges difference to my k/d ratio

lol

It's not about fps gains for me, I update drivers these days to either get better features (AA modes, frame pacing etc.) or to fix bugs. Last time I reported a bug I was seeing with the WHQL drivers, and after a while AMD emailed me personally to suggest I try a particular beta that had just been released as it should fix it, and to let them know if I still had a problem. It did fix it, so I'm happy with that one (and will move to the WHQL driver once the fix is rolled in).

[Lil-Diabo]

I wasn't lucky with 13.8 and had to revert back to the WHQL drivers.
Been running this for a few days now and I'm very pleased with it.