Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4
Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
- Batman Arkham City (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
- Borderlands 2 (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
- Quake Wars (1920x1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
- Hitman Absolution (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Wolfenstein MP (1920x1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
- Civilization V (2560x1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
- GL_ARB_compute_shader
- GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
- GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
- GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
- GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_shader_image_size
- GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
- GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
Resolved Issues
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4
- With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
- Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
- Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
- Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
- Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
- Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
- Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
- System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
- F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology
Known Issues
The section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD’s Catalyst™ Software Suite, AMD Catalyst™ 13.4
- Jumping artifacts, and unsmooth playback of interlaced clips may be experienced using Cyberlink’s Metro UI players
- A black screen may be observed when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supported AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology