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    Default AMD/ATI Catalyst 13.1 WHQL Drivers Available

    13.1 catalyst released today.


    http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads.../ATI_Catalyst/
    http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/..._download.html


    Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.1 (vs. AMD Catalyst 12.10): Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta 11

    Performance gains seen on the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series:
    All game were tested at high / extreme / ultra levels
    Enhanced performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
    Enhanced AMD CrossFire™ scaling performance in Call of Duty Black Ops 2
    Up to 10%-15% more performance in Battlefield 3 in most cases
    • More than 20% in certain missions and sequences (Comrades)
    Up to 7% more performance in Metro 2033
    Up to 10% more performance in DiRT Showdown
    Up to 8% more performance in Sleeping Dogs
    Up to 12% more performance in Civilization V
    Up to 10% more performance in StarCraft II
    Up to 8% more performance in Sniper Elite: V2
    Up to 5% more performance in Max Payne 3
    AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ technology supported platforms has been improved for DirectX® 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications:

    3DMark® 06 – Up to 6%
    3DMark Vantage – Up to 15%
    3DMark 11 – Up to 12%
    AvP – Up to 11%
    Battlefield 3 – Up to 25%
    Call of Duty: Black Ops – Up to 13%
    Crysis 2: Up to 45%
    DiRT Showdown – Up to 62%
    ETQW – Up to 8%
    Hard Reset – Up to 8%
    Just Cause 2 – Up to 90%
    Mafia 2 – Up to 40%
    The Chronicles of Riddick – Up to 4%
    Shogun 2 – Up to 56%
    StarCraft 2 – Up to 25%
    Skyrim – Up to 45%
    Sniper Elite V2 – Up to 60%
    Tom Clancy’s HAWX – Up to 56%
    Unigine Heaven – Up to 33%
    Wolfenstein – Up to 9%
    Resolved Issues for the Windows 8 / Windows 7 Operating Systems:

    This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.

    A sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
    An intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in an AMD CrossFire + Eyefinity setup.
    Missing fonts in XBMC
    No video found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
    Skyrim lighting (missing a lighting pass) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
    Skyrim cloud corruption experience in various in game locations
    A hang playing Dishonored on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
    Engine and memory clocks running too high when the GPU is idle.
    GPU activity runs at lower values than expected seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870.
    Corruption seen in Darkness 2 and Carrier Command when using AMD CrossFire configurations
    Adobe Premier Pro CS6 may fail to launch
    Hang experienced with AMD Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled on X58 and X78 chipsets
    Corel PaintShop Pro X3 – Hangs at the “Initializing Command Manager” window
    Company of Heroes 2 – display corruption experienced when AA is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
    Cyberlink Powerdirector 10 crashes intermittently.
    Company of Heroes : Tales of Valor – Flickering experienced when AA is disabled
    Max Payne 3 – Flickering experienced in DirectX 9 mode with forced AA enabled
    Cyberlink PoweDVD 10 – crashes intermittently
    VLC - Green texture corruption seen in 720p MPEG2 video clips
    Black screen encountered when “Alternate DVI mode” is enabled in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
    Green display corruption seen in Skype webcam video

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    Would love to see benchmarks against 660 ti with the update
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    These are indeed impressive updates. Shows that they are still learning about this new arch and increasing value for customers. Should carry over into the 8000 series which read somewhere is ready just marketing not ready to release them.
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    havent tested them out yet, maybe of over the wkend

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