Highlights of AMD Catalyst 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_indirect_parameters
        • ARB_shader_group_vote
• 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

Known Issues

• System will TDR or BSOD when encoding with Power Director 11
• Driver installation might result in a black screen when installing on a Dual AMD Radeon R9 295X configuration under Windows 8.1. The issue can be overcome by rebooting the PC; upon reboot the display driver will be installed. The remaining Catalyst components can then be installed.