Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.11.2 Windows® Beta Driver Performance Improvements
Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
- Up to 5% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Optimized AMD CrossFire™ profile
Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
- Up to 50% performance increase over Catalyst™ 14.11.1 beta in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Important Notes
The AMD CrossFire™ profile for Far Cry 4 is currently disabled in this driver while AMD works with Ubisoft to investigate an issue where AMD CrossFire™ configurations are not performing as intended. An update is expected on this issue in the near future through an updated game patch or an AMD driver posting.
Resolved Issues
[409235]: Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire™ mode.
[408892]: World of Warcraft can sometimes exhibit corruption when using CMAA in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[407431]: Minecraft sometimes produces corruption when changing video settings in windowed mode.
[407338]: XDMA Quad CrossFire™ configurations in portrait Eyefinity modes sometimes display tearing or stuttering.
Known Issues
[408723]: System can sometimes hang when upgrading to Catalyst™ 14.11.2 from Catalyst™14.7 in AMD CrossFire™ configurations. As a workaround please completely uninstall previous Catalyst™ software versions before installing Catalyst™14.11.2 beta.
[409518]: Slight performance drops in FIFA 2015 on AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[409502]: Occasional flickering sometimes observed while playing FIFA 2015 in AMD Dual Graphics configurations.
[409638]: Slight Battlefield 4 performance drop on AMD Radeon™ R9 290X in AMD CrossFire™ configuration.
[409628]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 intermittently hangs in Hitman Absolution on new game start.
[408484]: AMD Radeon™ R9 285 can sometimes exhibit flickering in Assassins Creed Unity.
[409613]: Assassins Creed Unity can sometimes experience frame stutter on some AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
[408706]: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare intermittent black screen when loading game in Quad AMD Crossfire™ configurations.
[409600]: Civilization: Beyond Earth mantle users in AMD CrossFire™ configurations may sometimes experience an issue where they cannot change their game resolution. As a work around please use "Enable MGPU=1" in the games configuration .ini file.
AMD is currently working with BioWare to resolve the following issues:
Flickering is sometimes observed in Dragon Age: Inquisition on a limited number of surfaces in AMD CrossFire™ configurations.
AMD is currently working with Ubisoft to resolve the following issues:
Uneven hair corruption sometimes observed in Assassins Creed Unity when applying "ultra" game settings.
Flickering occasionally observed between windows on walls in Assassins Creed Unity.
Windows/Doors intermittently flash with black textures in Assassins Creed Unity.
Assassins Creed Unity occasionally exits to desktop when "ultra" game settings are applied.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ Omega Windows Driver
Introducing the AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver for Windows, a "Special Edition" driver delivered to enhance the AMD GPU and APU experience. The AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver contains over 20 new features, performance improvements, and significant number of bug fixes and improvements. All improvements will be carried forward in subsequent driver releases.

Virtual Super Resolution (VSR):
Render games at higher resolution and display them at lower resolution. Up to 4k quality gaming on 1080p HD displays
Smoother textures and edges

Game and Engine agnostic solution

Simulates Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) for games that don't support it

Enabled through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center

Select higher resolution in-game settings

Available on AMD Radeon™ R9 290 series, and AMD Radeon R9 285 GPUs

5K Monitor Support:
Unparalleled display performance for professionals and gamers who require the highest resolution available and silky-smooth, fatigue-free graphics
5120x2880 at 60Hz

14.7 million pixels, 218 pixels-per-inch

Dual DisplayPort 1.2 input

Available on AMD FirePro™ and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs

Alienware Graphics Amplifier:
Support for AMD Radeon™ Graphics in Alienware Graphics Amplifier
Expand the capability of the Alienware 13 notebook with a high-performance AMD Radeon graphics card

Drive resolutions up to 4K

Performance that far exceeds the built-in graphics.

Supported on select AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 series GPUs and newer

Perfect Picture Enhancements:
AMD Fluid Motion Video – Smooth Blu-ray playback with lower power APUs
High quality frame rate conversion

Interpolates frames using GPU compute

Removes video judder

Available on AMD 7000 Series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R7 & R9 series GPUs


Contour Removal – Improved algorithm for compressed videos
Removes compression artifacts without disturbing video details

Available on AMD Athlon™ APUs, AMD 7000 series APUs, and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs


Perfect Picture Additions:
1080p Detail Enhancement now for APUs
Provides look-and-feel of 1080p video to lower-resolution content

Improves frequency response and controllability of overshoot and noise immunity

Available on AMD 7000 series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs


Ultra HD-Like Experience - Makes 1080P videos 4K-like
Combination of:
Fluid Motion Video

Detail Enhancement

Adaptive upscaling



Available on AMD Radeon™ R7 260 and higher

Frame Pacing Enhancements for AMD Dual Graphics:
Includes enhancements for
Metro 2033

World of Warcraft

3DMark 11

Sniper Elite V2

Tomb Raider

Hitman: Absolution

GRID 2

Alien: Isolation

Batman: Arkham Origins

BioShock: Infinite

Unigine Valley Benchmark

Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Metro 2033 Redux

Sniper Elite 3

Assassin's Creed Unity

Metro: Last Light


AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing improvements:
Designed to reduce stuttering from graphics memory intensive applications: Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3

OpenCL™ 2.0 Support:
New features give GPUs more freedom to do the work they are designed to do
Shared virtual memory
Enables host and device kernels to directly share complex pointer based data structures, eliminating explicit transfers between the host and devices while increasing programming flexibility.


Device-side Enqueue
Updated for improved programmability and increased application efficiency


Generic address space
Enables functions to be written without named address spaces which increases flexibility and saves time by eliminating the need for multiple functions to be written.


Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 WHQL
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ performance optimizations
Mantle API activated for ultimate performance in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™


Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
Up to 30% performance increases with FXAA and lower game resolutions

Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance


Assassin's Creed® Unity performance optimizations
Single GPU performance improvements

Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance


Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
Up to 15% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.

Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance


Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
Up to 50% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.


Year over Year Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 13.12 WHQL*
Up to 19% more performance since launch in some games on AMD Radeon R Series GPUs

Up to 29% more performance since launch in some games on various AMD APUs

*Measured across various AMD Radeon R Series GPU and AMD APU configurations in over 30 game titles
Driver Efficiency Improvement:
Driver optimization for multi core CPUs allows up to 15% more performance for some AMD platforms

Resolved Issues:
14.9 Install issues for intermittent crash or black screen after install

14.9 Catalyst™ Control Center issues have occasional AMDMantle64.dll error popups during install

[406244] Online video can sometimes crash when watching YouTube videos with hardware acceleration enabled

[406590] Watching online flash videos in Google Chrome sometimes causes the browser to hang when hardware acceleration is enabled

[406493] Displays that go in to sleep mode intermittently causes the display to not wake up

[404081] AHCI Chipset Drivers can sometimes cause the system to crash on boot-up

[405807] 144Hz displays in AMD CrossFire™ configurations can cause intermittent crashing when launching D3D Applications

[403996] Game stuttering or screen tearing in Quad CrossFire™

[402133] State of Decay textures can intermittently extrude beyond their boundaries or be corrupted

[405738] HDMI audio stays disabled when a connected TV is disabled and then re-enabled

Known Issues:
[410367] System black hangs/BSOD upon resuming from S3/S4 sleep on AMD Radeon™ R9 285 configured in AMD CrossFire™ mode

[410293] With AMD CrossFire™ enabled, Timeout Detection Recovery (TDR) occurs during actual gameplay when YouTube Mix moves to the next song in Firefox®

[408368] Some artifacting will be seen in certain scenarios with AMD Fluid Motion Enabled

[407622] Screen tearing on enabling VSync with Alien: Isolation game

[407934] Frame drops may occasionally be observed playing back progressive Blu Ray content on some AMD Kaveri APU configurations

[407095] 3D movies cannot be viewed using Power DVD on some AMD Kaveri APU configurations with only 2GB of single channel memory

[407175] Catalyst Control Center Video Quality settings may not be available or retained if the "Enforce Smooth Video Playback" option is not selected on some AMD HD series GPU's.

[406495] Pull down detection fails to lock in Metro Video playback applications

[410255] A system restart or hang may be observed on sleep/resume while transcoding video with Media Espresso

[410398] A black screen may be experienced when attempting to enable Eyefinity after changing the display mode (Portrait, Landscape)

[410391] Primary display may not be retained after disabling Crossfire while in Eyefinity mode

[409705] Enabling or disabling Crossfire may lead to one side of the 4K MST display being shown as black

[410393] Minor stuttering may be seen in Dragon Age Inquisition on Single and Multi GPU configurations​