FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMD CATALYST 13.1:

AMD Catalyst Control Center: New 3D settings and profile management user interface:

AMD Catalyst 13.1 features a newly designed 3D application settings page, designed to allow users to more easily adjust and control their 3D settings on a per application basis.

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

Known Issues

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst 13.1 software suite.

Known issues under the Windows 8 Operating System.

• Sleeping Dogs - game may fail to launch in certain configurations

Known issues under the Windows 7 Operating System.

• Shogun 2 - Total War : flickering experienced when game is run in medium quality mode