AMD Catalyst 13.5 B2 (12.102.3.0 April 16)

Working fine for me however as usual I did not install CCC or the CAP's.


Edit; I see AMD still likes to mislead users with these ridiculous graphs....:wanker:

 

lol...

 

Jesus, the scaling on that graph is ridiculous... wow.:thumbdown

 

Nah, graphs are ok, so the driver, everything is fast and smooth.! 13.5b2 with 13.4cap1 + 13.4 hydravision, no CCC problems or anything, all are working. Give some respect, because some have faulty systems with broken registry and entries, that doesn't mean AMD has anything to do with it, learn to live with that. It's never too late starting debugging your personal errors, cheers.!

 

People having issues on their own system? Pure blasphemy! Any and all issues related to anything graphics is AMD's fault and AMD's only, we all know this :banana:

Joking aside, I do agree people should check their own system for faults

 

I agree with everything you wrote except that the above graph is NOT "ok."

The graph's Y-axis begins at 90%, therefore making anyone who looks at it believe, at least initially, that the performance increases are MUCH larger than their actual 4 to 18% values. Hell, just look at the bars for Borderlands 2. Visually, the graph tells your brain that there's a 175% increase in performance, while in reality it's only around 18%! :banana:

It's a visual lie... a trick... a marketing gimmick. Sadly, it's also Marketing 101.

 

Fixed

 

Ditto. Same card and problem.

 

Meh...both AMD and Nvidia do this...it's deception either way. As soon as I take a look at it, I perform some cerebral cleansing and forget that graph ever existed. I just keep the values I have read off the graph in my mind if anything.

 

Agreed, even Nvidia's problems are AMDs fault!

 

While I agree it is not always driver's fault, my system has a fresh windows installation. I am not complaining though.

I ll give it another try later.

 

LOL, fair enough! Did I mention that the font used in the graph sucks too? Perhaps they intentionally made the text difficult to read? hmmm... I bet they did.

 

Artifacts? weird

So i installed the 13.4 drivers and in black ops 1 i right away started noticing artifacts.. Very very fast flashes of what seemed to be black areas. So i went ahead and recorded it with fraps and i was really confused by my findings. It took me a while to pause the video i made on the perfect spot where it occured but after a while i finally got it.

Here is a picture of what i found
http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u607/RandalMcdaniels/trees_zpscc2c3436.jpg

Here is another screenshot of 1 frame before that you can see its just normal
http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u607/RandalMcdaniels/trees0_zps837a8247.jpg

Trees? wtf? Could there be a cache problem or something where there are models left over in the gpu frame buffer? I find this so strange.

Here is another example

Normal
http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u607/RandalMcdaniels/trees4_zps58556339.jpg

1frame later
http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u607/RandalMcdaniels/trees3_zps0a670d51.jpg

freakin weird huh

After reading what i posted i realized people might think i faked this so i will eventually upload a clip of this happening on my youtube channel (scalz420) but right now i need to shrink the file size as it is nearly 2gb from recording with fraps

 

For me this new beta seems best drivers till now. 7970m. AC3 stoped crashing. It always crashed 10-50 min. now I played 3 hours straight. Duno if it added any fps. AC3 fps is very jumpy.

I hope that from now AMD drivers is going to get better and batter

 

My experience with this driver:
Works very well for about 30-40 minutes and then I start to notice some slight micro-stutter.

Nevertheless I'm very happy. Much better than 13.3 that were unstable for me.

 

13.5b2 is a keeper for me

Bioshock infinite benchmark comparison for me @ 1080p gigabyte 7870 1ghz edi
LVL 7 bench:

LVL 6 bench:

 

they working really great on my 7970m as well, GW2 at least felt much smoother than before, TERA too didn't gained fps but smoothness overall increased, keeper

 

Had a couple of TDR event with 13.4 but not with this one. Everything work and perform as it should.

Now i can't wait for the prototype driver and get another 7950.

 

Exactly same here. I hope in the future SLI and Crossfire won't bring so many issues with them.

 

Arg,

Choosing to test 13.5b2 + 13.4 cap 1 with my 5970 = last game crashing many time, losing +25 fps with all games, unigine heaven losing 1000 pts and all my games are "visual deformation" with all texture...

Update 1 : Just 13.4 + caps 1 : lost 10% any games, unigine heaven -250 pts.

Update 2 : return too 13.5b2 : lost Unigine heaven -150 pts but Dead island riptide gain +40% (!!!).

"Mars war log pc game" crashing for me with 13.5b2 driver