Als Änderungen gibt AMD die vollständige Unterstützung vom OpenGL 4.4 an sowie zahlreiche Optimierungen bei Spielen insbesondere bei einem CrossFire-Verbund mehrerer Grafikkarten.
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AMD Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate für Windows 7/8 (32bit/64bit)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows
- 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_shader_draw_parameters
- ARB_shader_group_vote
- OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
- 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