New Beta Driver for AMD Catalyst

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Topic 197597

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.

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New Beta Driver for AMD Catalyst

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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Well, I think that's

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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