Download Driver For AMD Catalyst 13.4

AMD has finally come up with new stable Catalyst drivers. The drivers are available as usual for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, with separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit environments. Recently AMD split the drivers in terms of supported hardware. The drivers now available are suitable for Radeon models from the HD 5000 series. The HD 2000, 3000 and 4000 series, now referred to as Legacy, will follow at a later date. Version 13.4 adds support for some new video cards, among other things, and offers improved performance and improved support for OpenGL 4.3. Of course, several bug fixes have also been made.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.4

• Support added for AMD Radeon HD7790 and AMD Radeon HD 7990
• Catalyst Driver optimizations to improve performance in Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, and 3DMark
• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Boderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Performance gains seen with the entire AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series for the following:
  • Batman Arkham City (1920×1200): Performance improvements up to 5%
  • Borderlands 2 (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 10%
  • Quake Wars (1920×1200): Performance improvements up to 13%
  • Hitman Absolution (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 11%
  • Wolfenstein MP (1920×1080): Performance improvements up to 11%
  • Civilization V (2560×1600): Performance improvements up to 5%
• Delivers support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:
  • GL_ARB_compute_shader
  • GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
  • GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
  • GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
  • GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
  • GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
  • GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
  • GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
  • GL_ARB_program_interface_query
  • GL_ARB_shader_image_size
  • GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
  • GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
  • GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
  • GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

Resolved Issues

• With the Radeon HD7790 graphics card, corruption may be seen in the game Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled
• Texture flickering may be observed in DirectX 9.0c enabled applications
• Corruption observed in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for AMD Crossfire and single GPU system configurations
• Corruption observed on objects and textures in the game, Call of Duty – Black Ops 2
• Corruption observed in the game, Alan Wake (DirectX 9 Mode) when attempting to change in-game settings with Stereoscopic 3D using Tridef
• Corruption observed on textures in the game, Battle Field: Bad Company 2 with forced anti-aliasing enabled
• Adobe Photoshop CS6 experiences screen flicker under Windows 8 based system
• Horizontal line corruption may be observed with forced anti-aliasing enabled in the game, Dishonored
• System hang may occur when scrolling through the game selection menu in the game, DiRT 3
• F1 2012 may crash to desktop on systems supporting AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

Known Issues

• Jumping artifacts, and unsmooth playback of interlaced clips may be experienced using Cyberlink’s Metro UI players
• A black screen may be observed when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supported AMD PowerXpress (Enduro) Technology

The following downloads are available:
AMD Catalyst 13.4 for Windows XP (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 for Windows XP (64bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst 13.4 for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 (64bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.4 for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 (32bit)
AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.4 for Windows Vista, 7 and 8 (64bit)
AMD CrossFireX Application Profiles