PRESS RELEASE
The latest available Certified AMD Catalyst Windows and Linux drivers can be found at www.amd.com
Highlights of AMD CatalystTM 14.4 Windows Driver
- Support for the AMD Radeon R9 295X
- CrossFire fixes enhancements:
- Crysis 3 - frame pacing improvements
- Far Cry 3 - 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
- Anno 2070 - Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
- Titanfall - Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
- Metro Last Light - Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
- Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
- Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
- Full support for OpenGL 4.4
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- ARB_buffer_storage
- ARB_enhanced_layouts
- ARB_query_buffer_object
- ARB_clear_texture
- ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
- ARB_texture_stencil8
- ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
- ARB_multi_bind
- ARB_bindless_texture
- ARB_spare_texture
- ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
- ARB_shader_draw_parameters
- ARB_shader_group_vote
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- Mantle beta driver improvements:
- BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
- BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system
Highlights of AMD CatalystTM 14.4 Linux Driver
- Support for the AMD Radeon R9 295X
- Ubuntu 12.04.4 support
- Full support for OpenGL 4.4
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- ARB_buffer_storage
- ARB_enhanced_layouts
- ARB_query_buffer_object
- ARB_clear_texture
- ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
- ARB_texture_stencil8
- ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
- ARB_multi_bind
- ARB_bindless_texture
- ARB_spare_texture
- ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
- ARB_shader_draw_parameters
- ARB_shader_group_vote
- Resolved Issue highlights:
- Corruption and system hang observed while running Sanctuary BM with Tear Free Desktop enabled
- Memory leak about hardware context
- EGL create context error for glesx
- GPU hand in CrossFire Mode
- [Piglit] Test "spec/arb_vertex_array_object" failed
- [Piglit] Test "glx/GLX_EXT_import_context/free context" failed
- [Piglit] Test "spec/ARB_seamless_cube_map" failed
- Piglit] Test "texture swizzle with border color" failed
- Glxtest failures observed in log file
- Blank screen observed while running steam games with Big picture
- 4ms delay observed in the glxSwapBuffers when vsync is enabled
- RBDoom3BFG the game auto quit when use the security camera terminal
- ETQW segmentation fault
- Open Issues
- Performance on some Steam OS games is lower on 1GB graphics memory cards, compared with 2GB graphics memory cards
- Some Piglit tests cause a system hang under Ubuntu
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