News - AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta is Thief launch driver, Mantle improved

[HEXUS]

The driver will be available at around noon EST (17.00 GMT).

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[mtyson]

It is now available to download with release notes:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

[kalniel]

Thief - an exclusive AMD Gaming Evolved title

WTF AMD? Thief is available on PC (inc. nvidia and intel graphics), XBOX360, XBox1, PS3, PS4... very exclusive..

And I'm really glad it's not exclusive - propitiatory features etc. are to the detriment of games.

[zarnywoop]

Which is ironic since you cannot mantle in the new Thief game.

[Letchy]

Would Mantle even be a significant boost for me? I have one of the lower end AMD cards... (7770). I haven't noticed a huge difference is games so far.

[crossy]

Well I was using that "fancy" AMD Gaming Experience thing last night (to play Crysis) and it was telling me that my 13.12 driver was "current".

Would Mantle even be a significant boost for me? I have one of the lower end AMD cards... (7770). I haven't noticed a huge difference is games so far.

I didn't think that Mantle support was very widespread, so doubtful that you'd see any difference, plus the game has to support Mantle and I thought that BF4 and Thief were the lead titles.

If you're on Steam you could try downloading the Star Swarm demo and give that a couple of run through's to get some figures for your system. Then again, there's some real heated debate over exactly what circumstances Mantle is worth the trouble. 7770 is a GCN card so yes, you should see some improvement, but no idea if you're talking <5% or something more significant.

[Nobull]

Is it just me or are those screenshots very meh? The graphics don't look impressive to me at all. They look 4 years old.