Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows: Watch Dogs performance improvements: - AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4x MSAA – improves up to 25% - AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 28% - AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 92% scaling Murdered Soul Suspect performance improvements: - AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 16% - AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 93% scaling AMD Eyefinity enhancements: - Mixed Resolution Support - A new architecture providing brand new capabilities - Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes) Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group: - Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors - Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays. - Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface. Eyefinity Display Alignment: - Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors - One-Click Setup - Driver detects layout of extended desktops - Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click! - New user controls for video color and display settings Greater control over Video Color Management: - Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis - Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays) - Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display AMD Mantle enhancements: - Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology - Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain - Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain - Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain - Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update) AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration: - JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform - Provides fast JPEG decompression - Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression Known Issues: - Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode - Enabling Temporal SMAA in the AMD Catalyst Control center under a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering - AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle - Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text - Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder Important Notes: - Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver) - Users should upgrade (for Free) to Windows 8.1 to take advantage of the new features found in the AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta - AMD Catalyst 14.4 will remain available for users who wish to remain on Windows 8 - A future AMD Catalyst release will allow for the WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7 driver) to be installed under Windows 8.0 for those users unable to upgrade to Windows 8.1 - This Catalyst Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided with it.
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