Driver Update: AMD Catalyst 13.12

AMD has finally released new stable Catalyst drivers after a long series of betas. The drivers are suitable for Windows Vista and above, with separate downloads as usual for 32bit and 64bit environments. The drivers are suitable for Radeon models from the HD 5000 series. There are no new drivers yet for Windows XP and the HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 series, which are now referred to as Legacy. The changelog for this release can be found below.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.12

• Support for the following new products:
  • AMD Radeon R9 290, 280, and 270 Series
  • AMD Radeon R7 260, 250, and 240 Series
• Improved AMD CrossFire scaling for the following game titles:
  • Call of Duty: Ghosts (multiplayer component)
  • Splinter Cell Blacklist
  • Saints Row 4
  • Metro Last Light
• New AMD Enduro Technology profiles for the following game titles:
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • Need for Speed ​​Rivals
  • Total War: Rome 2
  • Battlefield 4
  • Saints Row 4
  • Splinter Cell Blacklist
  • FIFA 14
• Support For AMD CrossFire frame pacing
  • Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
  • Frame pacing is enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center, or on a per application basis
  • Frame pacing is supported on DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications using resolutions up to (and including) 2560×1600 on a single display

resolved issues

• May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
• Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications
• AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – Power Tune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
• PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration
• Resolves incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Resolves AMD Steady Video option being grayed out in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics cards
• Resolves graphics corruption issues found in Starcraft
• Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014
• Resolves flickering water corruption found in World of Warcraft
• Resolves intermittent black screen when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep-state if the display is unplugged during the sleep-state on systems supporting AMD Enduro Technology
• Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems
• Resolves the display turning green when using Windows Media Player to view HD .avi format video in an extended desktop configuration
• Resolves Metro applications experiencing frame drops during playback of interlaced video content
• Resolves video playback corruption of .wmv format files in Windows Media Player