AMD ha lanzado hoy una nueva versión de sus controladores gráficos Catalyst, concretamente una versión RC (Release Candidate) de los Catalyst 14.4 que indican una maduración tras la versión beta que hará que durante las próximas semanas llegue la versión con el certificado WHQL.
Los AMD Catalyst 14.4 RC traen pleno soporte a la API OpenGL 4.4, y mejoras para equipos basados en configuraciones CrossFire además de mejoras de rendimiento en Battlefield 4 (y solucionar bugs)bajo la API Mantle. Estos controladores gráficos también llegan para dar soporte a la AMD Radeon R9 295X, a toda la serie gráfica Radeon R9 200, y a unas ya maduras AMD Radeon HD 5000, 6000, 7000 y 8000 Series.
Puedes descargar los controladores desde el siguiente enlace.
Lista de cambios completos:
- Support for the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X
- CrossFire™ fixes enhancements:
- Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
- Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
- Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
- Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
- Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
- Eyefinity 3×1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
- Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
- Full support for OpenGL 4.4
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- ARB_buffer_storage
- ARB_enhanced_layouts
- ARB_query_buffer_object
- ARB_clear_texture
- ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
- ARB_texture_stencil8
- ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
- ARB_multi_bind
- ARB_bindless_texture
- ARB_spare_texture
- ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
- ARB_indirect_parameters
- ARB_compute_variable_group_size
- ARB_shader_draw_parameters
- ARB_shader_group_vote
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- Mantle beta driver improvements:
- BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
- BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system
Known Issues
- System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
- Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1 on specific platforms (see below). The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.
- ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z (990FX)
- ASUS Maximus VI Extreme (Z87
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (X79)
