AMD Catalyst? Notebook Display Driver 13.9 WHQL

Hello everyone,

New official Catalyst drivers for notebook GPUs are available at AMD's website.

Link here:
AMD Catalyst

Release notes:

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF AMD CATALYST™ 13.9

The AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL is AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8.1. It does not include support for Frame Pacing or the very latest AMD CrossFire™ optimizations. AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta includes additional performance improvements and fixes not found in AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL.

AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8.1
Includes WDDM 1.3 support for:
AMD Accelerated Processors (“Kabini” & “Temash” for Desktop, Notebook or Tablet PCs, including: A4-1200, A4-1250, A4-5000, A4-5100, A4-5150, A6-1450, A6-5200, A6-5250, A6-5350, E1-2100, E1-2200. E1-2500, E1-2600, E1-2650, E2-3000, E2-3100
AMD Accelerated Processors (“Richland” for Desktop or Notebook PCs, including: A10-5700, A10-5745M, A10-5750M, A10-5757M, A10-5800B, A10-5800K, A8-5500, A8-5500B, A8-5545M, A8-5550M, A8-5557M, A8-5600K, A6-5345M, A6-5350M, A6-5357M, A6-5400B, A6-5400K, A4-5145M, A4-5150, A4-5300, A4-5300B
AMD Accelerated Processors (“Trinity” for Desktop or Notebook PCs, including: A10-4600M, A10-4655M, A10-4677M, A10-5700, A10-5800B, A10-5800K, A8-4500M, A8-4555M, A8-4557M, A6-4400M, A6-4455M, A6-5400B, A6-5400K, A4-4300M, A4-4355M, A4-5300, A4-5300B
AMD Radeon HD 8000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
Support for AMD Features:
AMD Eyefinity
OpenCL™
OpenGL
UVD
AMD Dual Graphics/AMD CrossFire Technology
AMD Overdrive™
AMD Catalyst Control Center/Vision Engine Control Center
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 enhancements:
The AMD Catalyst Control Center now shows which applications are active on the Performance GPU and the Power saving GPU.



RESOLVED ISSUES

Severe flicker in Far Cry® 3 game cinematic that may continue into gameplay.
BSOD crash when enabling CrossFire in the AMD Catalyst Control Center after installing a third AMD Radeon HD7790 graphics card.
BSOD crash in Windows 8 when display turns off (idle/sleep mode).
AMD Catalyst Control Center crash after creating an Eyefinity Group.
Disappearing mouse cursor in Windows 8 after completing the AMD Catalyst Driver installation and rebooting the system.
Cyberlink PowerDVD stop working with a pop-up error message during playback of a Blu-Ray movie under Power Saving mode.
When Dual Graphics is disabled within AMD Catalyst Control Center, the secondary display connected may not enable.
Frame drops experienced during playback of interlaced Blu-Ray content when all visual quality settings are enabled in AMD Catalyst Control Center.
Significant game performance slowdowns when moving the mouse cursor in World of Warcraft using DirectX 9 rendering mode.
Anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering settings saved within created AMD Catalyst Control Center application profiles do not apply correctly.
Windows 8 Metro applications experience very low FPS when Dual Graphics is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center.

Link:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-9WINReleaseNotes.aspx

 

I wonder if there are any improvements versus the beta 13.10.

 

Well, quoting AMD:
"The AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL is AMD’s first logo certified driver for Windows 8.1. It does not include support for Frame Pacing or the very latest AMD CrossFire™ optimizations. AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta includes additional performance improvements and fixes not found in AMD Catalyst 13.9 WHQL."

It's a weird move, looks almost like a step backwards, at least in relation to 13.10 Beta.

 

So these are older than 13.10b2? Just a first certified driver for W8.1

 

These drivers are from 17.09.2013, so released later than 13.10 Beta. Why they don't include the optimizations from 13.10 Beta and frame pacing, I don't know.

 

Because it takes time from certification submission to release.

 

I am going to try this, 13.10 Beta caused the wierd black boxes in Far Cry 3 that I didn't experience earlier with 13.4 or 13.6 official - can't remember what I had before updating.

 

Best drivers ever to my 7970m, 3Dmark11 6772 points after first try no o/c.
Great performance, no nags at all.

 

So, Llano - APU is not supported by this driver?

 

13.8b2 driver more fresh than this WHQL. After checking the D3D and Opengl version in this Catalyst, it seems just the old 8.1 preview driver got a WHQL sign.

 

I was able to get the hishest 3d mark 11 score ever with this driver..
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx

That is 8194 points on GPU on 1065/1580. All the games I tryed som far are Working great. Its just a shame that Far cry 3 is still problematic in dx 11 with those black boxes...

Othervise great, stable driver.

 

i cant even get it to install for my 8970m...
Packages for install: AMD Catalyst Install Manager..Fail.
over and over again.

i uninstalled all previous amd drivers before.

 

That is true. I looked at the driver more closely, and 13.8 Beta is the driver version 13.200, while this 13.9 WHQL is the driver version 13.152, so indeed it is an older one. That explains, why no recent optimizations and no frame pacing are included in this release, even though it has been released later than 13.8 Beta or 13.10 Beta.

 

^ still don't get it, do you.