AMD Catalyst 13.4 Released, Performance Improvements In Several Games Noted

DSOGaming writes: "AMD has officially released a new set of drivers for its GPUs. AMD’s Catalyst 13.4 come with support for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990, and feature optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark. In addition, there are significant latency performance improvements in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution."

[mushroomwig]

This is probably a stupid question so please forgive me but I've recently bought the 7850, is this something I need to download?

[john2]

yeap, according to the release notes you'll see various improvements in several games

[mushroomwig]

Thank you!

[NYC_Gamer]

Yes,because the update is for all 7xx series gpus.

[mushroomwig]

Thank you for the help.

[starchild]

Good. I hope it helps the crashing in Farcry 3. That is the only game that I have any problems with. I can get a solid 60 fps if I cap the frame rate at 60 with RadeoPro, but the hooking it uses causes the game to crash frequently.

It still crashes even without using a hooking program though, so they need to fix that. It seems to have to do with memory allocation.

[jaymart2k]

Got a 7870

Far Cry 3 with max everything - 31 fps (Stationary), before 28 fps.

Will stick with my current settings, Max except AA at 2x at 47fps(Average)

Just for reference: Battlefield 3 Max everything is 50fps(Average)(64 players match)

Good card but dat Far Cry 3 has been my only problem.

[thechosenone]

highly recommend you check the vid below, best method I've found doing a clean uninstall.

How to Completely Uninstall ALL ATI AMD Drivers and Software.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Prcko]

alrdy 13.5b2 out
http://blogs.amd.com/play/2...

[Agent_hitman]

HD 6000 series is not included in this update?.. Oh snap!

[undercovrr]

So AMD just ditched the 6xxx series?

[LAWSON72]

I downloaded the new beta instead. I hope it brings better performance to far cry 3 because on max with 2xmsaa it stutters occasionally.

[Krosis]

Awesome =)

[urwifeminder]

So happy with my 2nd 7850 2gb oc it has fixed any little issues I had maxing games.

[newsguy]

yay