AMD Framepacing Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver for Windows:

Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560x1600 (single display).
OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).
AMD Enduro Technology enhancement - Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
Resolved issues:
Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders
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Build Info:
DriverVer=07/23/2013, 13.200.0.0000
13.20-130723a-159703E-ATI
Catalyst: 13.8
CCC: 2013.0723.1944.33607
D3D: 9.14.10.0989
OGL: 6.14.10.12438
OCL: 10.0.1272.2

AMD Product Compatibility:

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver for Windows:
Support for AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing
Frame Pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in a CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace.
Enabled through the AMD Catalyst Control Center; Globally or on a per application basis.
Frame Pacing is enabled by default.
Supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications, and resolutions up to and including 2560x1600 (single display).

OpenGL 4.3 support – full support for the OpenGL 4.3 feature set
Performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta for Windows:
Metro: Last Light – improves performance up to 7% on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series

OpenGL support for User Profiles and Catalyst Application Profiles:
Users can now create per application 3D setting profiles for OpenGL applications.
OpenGL applications are now supported through Catalyst Application Profile updates (for single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations).

AMD Enduro Technology enhancement - Catalyst Control Center will now show which applications are active on the Performance GPU, and the Power-Saving GPU
Resolved issues:
Resolved crash when enabling AMD CrossFireX™ on some AMD 970 platforms
Improved stability for AMD Radeon HD 7790
Resolved intermittent mouse cursor corruption when rapidly moving the cursor across window borders

 

Thanks for sharing! +1 Rep.

 

About to install this, although for some reason I tend to have issues with the AMD beta drivers. I realize they are beta, and I don't mean installation problems, just other oddities that they seem to sort out on the GA releases..but will give it a go and let you know how it goes.

*Update 1* Installation went well and for the first time in a long series of beta drivers this one doesn't seem to stick my idle clock speeds higher then they should be...at least for now. Running some 3dmark tests to see how it performs.

*Update 2* Well, 3dmark11 ran a bit lower then usual, but I thought that may be the case based on the frame throttle that they introduced (not sure if that's the cause, but it wasn't low enough for me to care). Seems to be running stable...had hoped that with the full implementation of OpenGL 4.3 that I'd finally get to play Doom 3 BFG edition again, or maybe even Strangers Wrath HD...but alas neither are playable with this level of code (at least not by default, there may be work arounds on the web, but I'm strictly going by the driver and games themselves).

Haven't had a chance to try other games, but I've never had an issue with micro-stutter so can't comment on whether these drivers have addressed them or not. Will give a few of the more taxing games a try and see how it does.

 

13.8 breaks Sony Vegas
Both on Windows 7 and 8 (done a fresh install as well!)

 

Honestly,
This driver seems to be more for the Sli/Crossfire users.

 

Installed them and everything works ok. They do improve quite a bit the overall smothness in dx10/11 games. I've also noticed for example that in 3dmark11 frame rate reading is more steady, vantage has lost his jerkiness on some spots despite the high fps number showed and now is really fluid. Not yet tryed on the R2 but on the desktop they have improved a lot the gaming smoothness in BL2, farcry3. Metro last light it's a beauty to play with, maxed out butter smooth.

Gratz AMD!

 

I seem to have lost a large ammount of FPS in SC2....rolling back to try the stable again and confirm.

 

Haven't really noticed anything good or bad since upgrading. Guess i'll leave them for now.

 

I believe that the changes are more noticeable on crossfired systems

 

im having horrible fps on borderlands 2 and batman arkham city. gpu and cpu usage are around 50% or lower. everything else is solid

 

Do these break Enuro? I no longer get the application settings option, whenever I go into CCC all I get is the HydraVision stuff.

 

My manual switching still works. Did you clean install or just install over top?

 

I installed right over top of the Dell drivers.