AMD Catalyst 13.3 BETA 2 (12.100.17.0 March 14)

asder00 · *Last edited by asder00; 03-19-2013 at 20:21.*

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FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF CATALYST 13.3 BETA:

Improves performance in Far Cry 3 up to 5 percent
Improve performance in Sim City 5 up to 16 percent
Improves latency performance issues seen in Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations

Build Info:
12.10.17-130314a-154593E-ATI
DriverVer=03/14/2013, 12.100.17.0000
Catalyst: 13.3
CCC: 2013.0314.1701.28699
D3D: 9.14.10.0968
OGL: 6.14.10.12172
OCL: 10.0.1124.2

Supported Cards:

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Leon_Bassel · 03-15-2013, 19:28 | posts: 40 | Location: SYRIA

thx asder00

downloading it now

stigbeater · 03-15-2013, 19:31 | posts: 22

thank asder

Extraordinary · 03-15-2013, 19:41 | posts: 2,763 | Location: At my desk

Nice one, thanks asder00

NvidiaFreak · 03-15-2013, 19:44 | posts: 4,777 | Location: 〓ω〓

This is unacceptable, Ati should be a shame of there self. 13.3 driver better be worth it or else a ton of people are going to be very piss. i just don't get it, the best driver to date was 12.11 & ever since then a ton of people are having issue in games in the lastest build of Ati drivers. also why the beta is not in the http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...n_win8-64.aspx page?

Krteq · 03-15-2013, 19:48 | posts: 91 | Location: Czech Republic

What kind of problems do you talking about?

Drivers isn't there yet because asder has a "preliminary access" to those packages

//EDIT: BTW THX Asder

Leito360 · 03-15-2013, 19:53 | posts: 23

The nVidia dude is right... the last good drivers were 12.11 Beta 11, and, by definition, 13.1WHQL, AKA, 12.11 WHQL... anyway... I was having issues with the TR, let's see if this driver delivers.

THANKS ASDER!!!!!

PrEzi · 03-15-2013, 19:53 | posts: 76 | Location: Poland

Thx asder00

DL now.

warlord · 03-15-2013, 19:54 | posts: 342

Quote:

Originally Posted by NvidiaFreak

This is unacceptable, Ati should be a shame of there self. 13.3 driver better be worth it or else a ton of people are going to be very piss. i just don't get it, the best driver to date was 12.11 & ever since then a ton of people are having issue in games in the lastest build of Ati drivers. also why the beta is not in the http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...n_win8-64.aspx page?

O.o wow 13.2 beta was the best to date and it used by tons of people 12.11 maybe used from 20-25 people mostly...lol!!! Keep clean the thread without this crying out loud shame on them, unacceptable etc...AMD goes the right road!!!

EDIT: thnx asder00 for the driver finding speed, it's even faster than lightning

Ghosty · 03-15-2013, 20:06 | posts: 1,295 | Location: UK

Thanks.

NvidiaFreak · *Last edited by NvidiaFreak; 03-15-2013 at 20:12.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krteq

What kind of problems do you talking about?

Look at the post in the Ati driver forum, most of them are about the crashing in games, BSOD, driver stop working when using the internet browser like Firefox or Chrome, IE10 etc... let hope this driver is really a beta & not alpha build because 12.11 was very stable.

Quote:

Originally Posted by warlord

Keep clean the thread without this crying out loud shame on them, unacceptable etc...AMD goes the right road!!!

Crying, what crying i'm saying like it is & you know it that i'm right. if there any issue people need to report it here because no one like a buggy driver that do more harm then good.

eclap · 03-15-2013, 20:13 | posts: 18,320 | Location: Hampshire UK

yess!!! more fps in SimCity!

hulawafu77 · 03-15-2013, 20:15 | posts: 191

Yay, still not what we've been waiting for 2 months now.

NvidiaFreak · 03-15-2013, 20:22 | posts: 4,777 | Location: 〓ω〓

Quote:

Originally Posted by eclap

yess!!! more fps in SimCity!

LOL someone is happy he can play the game smooth now.

redrumy3 · 03-15-2013, 20:30 | posts: 374 | Location: New York

Awesome. Tomb Raider bug was annoying.

TheOriginalTO · 03-15-2013, 20:39 | posts: 258

Downloading now, will get back to you about any problems.

Fox2232 · *Last edited by Fox2232; 03-16-2013 at 06:10.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leito360

The nVidia dude is right... the last good drivers were 12.11 Beta 11, and, by definition, 13.1WHQL, AKA, 12.11 WHQL... anyway... I was having issues with the TR, let's see if this driver delivers.

THANKS ASDER!!!!!

Not rly, most people who had problems had problems with artifacting, because card got higher utilization with newer drivers (and proportionally higher fps).
So normal users got fps bump, while unreasonable OCers had to be lower clocks which is for some people's mentality unacceptable.

OpenCL performance is same as 12.11b4 which are best for OpenCL if I count performance/utilization ratio.
With 13.3b2 OpenCL utilization is few percent lower, therefore are scores, temperatures, power draw.

From Direct3D PoV I am pleased @120Hz as for now have not noticed any new broken features.

Jobe · 03-15-2013, 20:46 | posts: 11

Any Arma 3 Improvements ?

Rich_Guy · 03-15-2013, 20:49 | posts: 6,640 | Location: UK

Oooh new drivers, cheers asder!

Quote:

Originally Posted by NvidiaFreak

also why the beta is not in the http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...n_win8-64.aspx page?

It is there

Valagard · 03-15-2013, 21:03 | posts: 963

Quote:

Originally Posted by NvidiaFreak

Look at the post in the Ati driver forum, most of them are about the crashing in games, BSOD, driver stop working when using the internet browser like Firefox or Chrome, IE10 etc... let hope this driver is really a beta & not alpha build because 12.11 was very stable.

Crying, what crying i'm saying like it is & you know it that i'm right. if there any issue people need to report it here because no one like a buggy driver that do more harm then good.

I've used every 13.1 driver, and every 13.2 beta

I've had ONE issue, Planetside 2 sometimes has black squares.

That's it, all my other games run perfectly fine.

No crashes.

No lock ups.

No mega corruption.

No "Framerate hiccups" etc

Ghosty · *Last edited by Ghosty; 03-15-2013 at 21:10.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jobe

Any Arma 3 Improvements ?

Considering Arma 3 is in Alpha state, you won't be getting drivers with optimizations for it anytime soon.

PrEzi · 03-15-2013, 21:18 | posts: 76 | Location: Poland

My initial benchmark results :
Config - as in my profile.

Cat 13.2 B7 :
Unigine Valley
Preset : Extreme HD
1693

Unigine Heaven
Preset : Extreme
1093

3Dmark 2013,
Fire Strike (non-extreme)
6286
Gpu : 7578
Phys : 5523

Tomb Raider, vsync off, Fscreen exclusive,
Quality : Ultimate
min 40,8
max 64,2
Avg 51,4

Cat 13.3 B2 :

Valley :
1701

Heaven :
1097

Fire Strike :
6300
GPU : 7589
Phys : 5571

Tomb Raider :
min 40,8
max 58,4
avg 49,9

One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).

But anyway - since I've not found any other issues - for me, for now - it's a keeper

wazups2x · 03-15-2013, 21:21 | posts: 69 | Location: Utah

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrEzi

One thing I've noticed -
actually now in TR benchmark I DO see corruption of hair (it does now occlude with the model of Lara, on earlier drivers the hair has flown 'around' the model, now sometimes it flows just 'through' the back of Lara's model).

Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.

Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690

Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416

streakpt · 03-15-2013, 21:25 | posts: 259 | Location: Portugal

Useless driver... at least for me... but its good that AMD keeps improving games performance.

PrEzi · 03-15-2013, 21:35 | posts: 76 | Location: Poland

Quote:

Originally Posted by wazups2x

Nothing to do with this driver. A patch was released for Tomb Raider that removed the invisible barrier that caused the hair to float in the air.

Patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=134690

Edit: A new patch was just released for Tomb Raider. So if you were curious here's the second patch notes: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=135416

Hmm... interesting... I do have 718.4 but will now update to latest to see if it was fixed...
But on a sidenote - I've run on the exact same build just different Cat's and on earlier I haven't noticed the issue with hair, on newest - I did...
Something's fishy