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AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta is now available

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Highlights of the Windows AMD CatalystTM 13.6 Beta

  • Product support for the new AMD A10, A8, A6, and A4 Series APUs on desktop and mobile platforms
  • Adobe Premiere PRO CC - AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta includes AMD GPU and APU OpenCL 1.2 acceleration
  • Support for AMD Wireless Display for Windows 8 and future Windows releases:
  • Supported on AMD Elite A-Series APUs with select Broadcomm and Atheros Wireless adapters
  • AMD Wireless Display Technology provides the ability to wirelessly display local screen content onto a remote screen in real time. Compliant receiver/TV required.
  • AMD Enduro technology update:
  • Reduces power consumption when running Windows 8 Metro applications - detects when Metro applications have idled and moves them to the integrated graphics component
  • AMD Catalyst Control Center now shows the hardware and software Information pages for AMD Discrete GPUs when paired with Intel Integrated graphics
  • Resolved issues:
  • Resolves HDMI Audio dropout issues on the AMD Radeon HD Series of products
  • Resolves issues with the AMD Catalyst Control Center showing Audio Display messages at incorrect times

AMD's latest CatalystTM Application Profile:  AMD Catalyst 13.5 CAP1 (Can be used with AMD Catalyst 13.4 and AMD Catalyst 13.6 Beta)

AMD Catalyst Application Profiles include support for AMD single GPU, AMD CrossFire, AMD Dual Graphics, and AMD EnduroTM Technology configurations

  • Call of Juarez - Gunslinger - Improves CrossFire performance
  • Company of Heroes 2 - Disables CrossFire support
  • Far Cry 2 (DX9) - Improves single GPU performance
  • Resident Evil 6 - Improves single GPU performance
  • Call of Duty 4 - improves single GPU performance
  • Dark sider 2 - Fixes the corruption in game menu under certain CrossFire configurations
  • Minimum - Improves single GPU performance

The latest available AMD Catalyst CAP can always be found here: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx.

Highlights of the Linux AMD CatalystTM 13.6 Beta Driver:

This release of AMD CatalystTM Linux introduces support for the following new features:

  • Product support for the new AMD A10, A8, A6, and A4 Series APUs on desktop and mobile platforms
  • Ubuntu 13.04 production support
  • Xserver 1.14 support
  • GLX_EXT_buffer_age extension support
  • Resolved Issues:
  • Resolves a black screen seen when starting Team Fortress 2 under cinnamon desktop environment
  • Resolves corruption seen in Team Fortress 2 when running the Dustbowl map
  • Resolves tearing for some OpenGL application with VSYNC (enabled or disabled)
  • Resolves missing taskbar after UVD playback on Ubuntu 12.04
  • Resolves performance drop with XBMC during UVD playback
  • Resolves the error for APL initialization failure
  • Resolves screen corruption when killing X on Ubuntu 13.04
  • Resolves some WebGL conformance test failures

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