New Beta Driver for AMD Catalyst

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Anonymous
29 May 2014 9:35:28 UTC
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    AMD Catalyst™ Driver 14.6 BETA has been released for Windows® & Linux®.

    What's new?:

    Windows:
    • Performance improvements
    • AMD Eyefinity enhancements
    • AMD Mantle enhancements

    Linux:
    • Ubuntu 14.04 support
    • Install improvements
    • Package & distribution generation options

    [EDIT] This Linux installation guide might be worth a read as it seems to support new options.

    Jeroen
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    New Beta Driver for AMD Catalyst

    30 May 2014 20:15:39 UTC
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      Thanks for the update notice.

      I built the driver for one of my Linux systems running FGRP3 yesterday. So far, the driver has been running stable.

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      http://support.amd.com/en-us/

      31 May 2014 0:47:49 UTC
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        http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64#amd-catalyst-packages

        Came out on the 26th

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        Well, I think that's

        31 May 2014 15:40:39 UTC
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          Well, I think that's significant:
          From http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx:

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          AMD Catalyst™ 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows® Operating System
          Last Updates: 5/27/2014
          Article Number: RN-WIN-B14.6
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          • Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver)
          • Windows 8.0 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

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