AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows® Operating System

The AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver can be downloaded from the following links:

• AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 V1.3 Beta for Windows®

NOTE! This AMD Catalyst™ Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.
Installing The AMD Catalyst™ Software Driver
Current driver MUST be uninstalled before updating to AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 driver. For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, please refer to the following support resources:

• How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
• How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows®

• Thief:  Crossfire Profile update and performance improvements for single GPU configurations
• Mantle:  Multi-GPU configurations (up to 4 GPUs) running Battlefield 4 are now supported
• Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 are now supported with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4
• Dual graphics DirectX 9 application issues have been resolved
• Minecraft:  Missing textures have been resolved
• 3D applications no longer see intermittent hangs or application crashes
• Resolves corruption issues seen in X-plane

Known Issues  

• Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath
• Thief does not render the right eye when CrossFire and Stereo 3D is enabled

AMD Radeon™ Graphics Technology Product Family Compatibility
The AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows is compatible with the following AMD products:

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility ​
AMD Radeon™ R9 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series	ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Desktop Product Family
AMD A10 Series APU ​	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
AMD A8 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000D Series
AMD A6 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000D Series
AMD A4 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000D Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000D Series
AMD E2-3000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8280)	AMD E1-2500 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8240)
AMD E2-2000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)	AMD E1-1200 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7310)
AMD E2-1800 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)	AMD E1-300 APU (AMD Radeon HD 6310)

 AMD Mobility Radeon™ Graphics Technology Family Compatibility
AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. The Installation Verification Software is designed to prevent driver download on certain notebook products. This is to help protect against the installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacturer. In such a situation, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by your system vendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system vendor for the most recent drivers for your notebook.

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Discrete Product Family ​
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8000M Series	AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 7000M Series	AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 6000M Series
AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets ​

Consumer Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family ​
AMD A10 Series APU ​	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
AMD A8 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000G Series
AMD A6 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000G Series
AMD A4 Series APU ​ ​	AMD Radeon™  HD 8000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 7000G Series
	AMD Radeon™  HD 6000G Series
AMD A10-5745M	AMD E2-3000
AMD A10-4657M	AMD E2-2000
AMD A10-4655M	AMD E2-1800
AMD A8-4557M	AMD E1-2500
AMD A8-4555M	AMD E1-2100
AMD A8-5545M	AMD E1-1500
AMD A6-5345M	AMD E1-1500
AMD A6-4455M	AMD E1-1200
AMD A6-5200	AMD E-300
AMD A4-4455M	AMD C-70
AMD A4-5000	AMD C-60
AMD A4-4355M
AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets ​

Consumer Tablets with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family

AMD A6-1450 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8250

AMD A4-1250 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8210

AMD A4-1200 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8180

AMD Z-60

AMD Z-01

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

• Any notebook launched after this driver release
• Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems
The AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows® is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

• Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)

AMD Catalyst Mantle Driver Delayed (14.2)

It appears that earlier rumors regarding a major bug with the Catalyst 14.2 driver are true after all and although it was earlier scheduled to appears alongside the EA/DICE Battlefield 4 Mantle patch, it appears that AMD will have to delay it a bit.


According to AMD, the driver team is working overnight to fix the driver and should have more information by mid-afternoon EST (New York time), or later today if you are living somewhere in Europe.

The delay also does not mean that we will not see the driver at all as AMD might only be forced to release it as the Catalyst 14.2 Beta driver in order to have at least something and make the EA/DICE patch usable.

AMD also noted that select members of the press will have the driver in their hands at least a day before the official launch so we expect at least a couple of Battlefield 4 Mantle reviews as soon as AMD gives the green-light

AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows

The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver can be downloaded from the following links:

• AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta for Windows®
• AMD Mobility Catalyst 14.1 Beta for Windows​

NOTE! This Catalyst Driver is provided "AS IS", and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.
Installing The AMD Catalyst™ Software Driver
Current driver MUST be uninstalled before updating to AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta driver. For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, please refer to the following support resources:

• How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
• How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows
Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD's Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

• AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
• It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
• AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
• AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• ​​​​​For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com​

• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series,  7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations​
• ​​​Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
• Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
• Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
• Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level

Resolved Issues

• Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
• Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
• Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
• Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
• Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
• Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
• Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
• Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
• Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
• Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
• Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
• Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
• Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
• Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
• F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
• Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
• Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
• Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
• Choppy video playback on 4k Video
• VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire 
• Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
• Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
• Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
• No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
• Image crashed on Starcraft game 

Known Issues

• Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon™ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4™ in future AMD Catalyst™ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4™ and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
• Multi-GPU support under DirectX® and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
• Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire™ technology in BattleField 4™ - AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs.   A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
• Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm​ application
• AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon™ R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst™ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
• Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4™
• Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4.   An upcoming release will enable support
• DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta.   An upcoming release will enable support

AMD Radeon™ Product Family Compatibility
The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows is compatible with the following AMD products:

​AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility​​​​ ​
AMD Radeon™ R9 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series	ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series​

AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Desktop Product Family ​
AMD A10 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
AMD A8 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series
AMD A6 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series
AMD A4 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series
​​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series
AMD E2-3000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8280)	AMD E1-2500 APU (AMD Radeon HD 8240)
AMD E2-2000 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)	AMD E1-1200 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7310)
AMD E2-1800 APU (AMD Radeon HD 7340)	AMD E1-300 APU (AMD Radeon HD 6310)

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Family Compatibility
AMD Catalyst Mobility is a notebook reference graphics driver with limited support for system vendor specific features. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. The Installation Verification Software is designed to prevent driver download on certain notebook products. This is to help protect against the installing of drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacturer. When used with Windows Vista or Windows 7, the user experience may be limited or compromised. In such a situation, it is recommended to revert back to the driver provided by your system vendor for your specific platform. Please contact your system vendor for the most recent drivers for your notebook.

AMD Mobility Radeon™ Discrete Product Family ​
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8000M Series	AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 6000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 7000M Series	AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 6000M Series	​
AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets ​

Consumer Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family ​
AMD A10 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
AMD A8 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series
AMD A6 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series
AMD A4 Series APU	AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series
​	AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series
AMD A10-5745M	AMD E2-3000
AMD A10-4657M	AMD E2-2000
AMD A10-4655M	AMD E2-1800
AMD A8-4557M	AMD E1-2500
AMD A8-4555M	AMD E1-2100
AMD A8-5545M	AMD E1-1500
AMD A6-5345M	AMD E1-1500
AMD A6-4455M	AMD E1-1200
AMD A6-5200	AMD E-300
AMD A4-4455M	AMD C-70
AMD A4-5000	AMD C-60
AMD A4-4355M	​
AMD PowerXpress™ enabled notebooks using AMD chipsets ​

Consumer Tablets with AMD Accelerated Processor (APU) Product Family

AMD A6-1450 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8250

AMD A4-1250 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8210

AMD A4-1200 utilizing AMD Mobility Radeon™ HD 8180​

AMD Z-60

AMD Z-01

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

• Any notebook launched after this driver release
• Toshiba notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Sony VAIO notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
• Panasonic notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

Compatible Operating Systems
The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

• Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit version)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit version with SP1 or higher)

AMD Issue Reporting Form
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, use the appropriate form.

• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Beta Drivers on Desktop Products​​

AMD Catalyst 14.1 BETA 1.6 (13.350.1005.0 January 31) Download

Download the AMD Catalyst 14.1 BETA 1.6 (13.350.1005.0 January 31) driver. This driver works with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
We have a discussion thread open on this driver right here.
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows
Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD's Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series

• AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
• It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features

• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
• AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
• AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
• AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com

• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series,  7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations
• Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
• Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
• Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
• Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level.
   

Resolved Issues 

• Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
• Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
• Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
• Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
• Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
• Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
• Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
• Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
• Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
• Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
• Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
• Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
• Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
• Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
• F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
• Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
• Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
• Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
• Choppy video playback on 4k Video
• VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire 
• Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
• Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
• Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
• No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
• Image crashed on Starcraft game 

Known Issues

• Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon™ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4™ in future AMD Catalyst™ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4™ and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
• Multi-GPU support under DirectX® and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
• Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire™ technology in BattleField 4™ - AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs.   A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
• Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm application
• AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon™ R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst™ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
• Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4™
• Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4.   An upcoming release will enable support
• DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta.   An upcoming release will enable support