AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta - Mantle-Treiber für Battlefield 4 und Star Swarm

Die Techdemo Star Swarm wird durch Mantle enorm beschleunigt.

Mit Battlefield 4 von DICE mit entsprechendem Update und der Techdemo Star Swarm von Oxide Games gibt es inzwischen zwei Möglichkeiten, die Leistungsfähigkeit der neuen Grafikschnittstelle Mantle von AMD zu testen. Allerdings ist dafür auch ein entsprechender Grafikkartentreiber mit Mantle-Unterstützung notwendig, den AMD erst jetzt für die Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung gestellt hat. Der neue Catalyst 14.1 Beta unterstützt alle AMD-Grafikkarten ab der Radeon HD 7000-Serie bis zu den neuen Modellen wie der AMD Radeon R9 290X und auch die neuen APUs der 7000-Serie wie den A10-7850K.

Für Battlefield 4 mit Mantle ist der Treiber allerdings bisher nur optimiert, wenn eine Radeon R9-290(X), eine Radeon R7 260X oder eine der neuen APUs verwendet wird. Bei allen anderen Grafikkarten sind die Leistungsgewinne aktuell laut AMD „limitiert“, an entsprechenden Optimierungen wird jedoch bereits gearbeitet. Der neue Treiber behebt außerdem viele Fehler und verhindert Microruckler bei Crossfire-Systemen durch Frame-Pacing unter DirectX 10 und 11. Für die Installation muss ein vorhandener Catalyst-Treiber zuerst deinstalliert werden.

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Die weiteren Details:

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows

Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD's Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gainof up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support MantleIt is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
• AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUsAMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUsAMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUsAMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUsAMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• ?????For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com?

• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing - Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series, 7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations?
• ???Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular paceSupported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurationsSupported on AMD Dual Graphics configurationsSupported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications???

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows??

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level

Resolved Issues

• Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
• Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
• Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
• Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
• Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
• Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
• Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
• Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
• Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
• Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
• Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
• Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
• Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
• Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
• F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
• Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
• Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
• Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
• Choppy video playback on 4k Video
• VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
• Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
• Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
• Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
• No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
• Image crashed on Starcraft game