Leshcat AMD UnifL Catalyst Graphics Driver 14.1 Beta 1.6 64-bit

Leshcat AMD Catalyst Driver Changes:

- CCC profiles should be now unlocked.
- “Restore Point” option is now available.
- FTC is now set to FFFF for AMD 68xx series (DEV_68A8).
- Updated AMD Graphic Driver (ver. 01/31/2014, 13.350.1005.0000).
- Includes Intel HD Graphics (Legacy, ver. 8.15.10.2827).
- Includes Intel HD Graphics (Modern, ver. 9.17.10.3347).
- Updated Intel HD Graphics (Modern, ver. 10.18.10.3379).
- Updated AMD HDMI audio driver: Windows 7: 7.12.0.7718 / Windows 8: 8.0.0.8815 / Windows 8.1: 9.0.0.9904.

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows:

- Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products: AMD A10-7850 and AMD A10-7700K
- Support for 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
- 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

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

Resolved issues 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
- 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
- Crysis 2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
- Crysis 2 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 of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta:

- 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

Intel Graphics Driver: 9.17.10.3347 Fixes:

- Resolved content protection related issues when upgrading to Windows 8.1.
- Resolved error, “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”, seen after closing and re-opening the laptop lid while playing video.
- CyberCiege game: Some textures and objects are no longer missing.
- Quake4 game: Display no longer blanks during gameplay.
- 3D screensaver such as “3D Text” no longer hangs after running for a long time.
- Resolved error, “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered”, seen after unplugging a D-sub cable from a mini DP-VGA dongle while playing video.
- Mouse cursor no longer disappears after the laptop lid is set to Sleep when closed, system is restarted, then lid is opened.
- Resolved no HDMI display (connected via a dock) seen when attempting to set Extended Display configuration.
- Resolved issue where the Operating System Information in the Intel Graphics Control Panel does not match the installed Operating System’s version.
- Resolved issue where the secondary display is inactive after changing the resolution and refresh rate in Extended Display configuration.

Intel Graphics Driver: 9.17.10.3347 Known Issues:

- Error message appears when closing lid while playing Blu-ray Disc content on Intel WiDi.
- WinDVD shows error message when attempting to play a Blu-ray Disc.
- Corruption seen when activating ground level view in Google Earth.