News AMD releases Catalyst 15.7 driver bundle

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  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Gareth Halfacree, 9 Jul 2015
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  2. Hg

    Hg The game known as life

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    About time!
    AMD are not helping themselves in the GPU wars with their lacklustre approach to updating drivers to support/optimise games when they are released.
    There has been only a handful of releases in the past 12 months for AMD drivers compared to Nvidias approach of a new driver for every major game release and more in-between.
     
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  3. MrGumby

    MrGumby CPC 464 User

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    Shame the Nvidia drivers have been poor though.
     
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  4. rollo

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    AMD stopped the monthly update crap which was getting painful most did not know what issues the install would cause and never updated anyway. 3-4 launches a year has improved the quality over quantity that it was before.

    Nvidia does a new release for every game they sponsor about 8-12 a year it works out and with most new gpu launches.

    Most people are probably at least 2-3 driver Revisions behind anyway.
     
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  5. V3ctor

    V3ctor Tech addict...

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    Do they even test this?

    My 2x HD7970's matrix platinum are with lots of problems.

    1 - one of the cards is at 1050mhz in the GPU, the other is at 1100 (stock). I get loads of lag every 2 seconds. Had to switch crossfire off and on again everytime I reboot my pc.

    2 - playing GTA V (only tested), when i hit pause, the game lowera to 6fps... In the pause menu 6fps!!

    3 - one of the GPUs enters in safe mode in GTA V and in 3dmark after a few minutes... One is at 500mhz and the other at 1100mhz...

    What the hell AMD?
     
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  6. jb0

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    Updated!
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    Aaaand the AMD giant mouse cursor bug is back. Awesome.
     
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