AMD Catalyst 14.4 WHQL released!

AMD has finally released the very latest Catalyst 14.4 drivers that are WHQL certified.

Release notes:

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 3×1 (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.

Download:

Win7 / Win8 32bit

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