AMD Releases New Catalyst 13.12 WHQL Driver

After a line of Catalyst 13.11 Beta drivers aimed at bringing performance improvements and fixes for certain game titles, AMD has now officially launched its Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver. Further additions include support for new Radeon R9 and R7 series products, as well as an impressive list of AMD Crossfire scaling support, new AMD Enduro profiles, further support for AMD Crossfire frame pacing and bug fixes.

The new AMD Catalyst 13.12 WHQL certified driver supports Radeon HD 5000, HD 6000, HD 7000, Radeon R7 and R9 Series graphics cards and will be available for Windows Vista, 7, 8 and Windows 8.1 operating systems. The new driver brings official support for AMD Radeon R9 290, 280 and 270 series and AMD Radeon R7 260, 250 and 240 series graphics cards.

The fix list starts off with improved CrossFire scaling in games like Splinter Cell Blacklist, Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer, Saints Row 4 and Metro: Last Light. AMD CrossFire frame pacing ensures frames rendered across multiple GPUs will be displayed at an even and regular pace, giving a better user experience.

The resolved issues list is quite extensive and mostly focuses on certain application specific issues, and also resolves intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards, fixes intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX 9 applications, includes an update for Power Tune which reduced variance of fan speed/RPM on AMD Radeon R9 series and resolves incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center. Phew!

You can find the new Catalyst 13.12 WHQL driver as well as the full release notes over at AMD's support website via link below.