AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta3

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta3 177 MB

As
promised alongside last week’s release of the Catalyst 13.1 WHQL
drivers, AMD has shipped out the first public beta for the next version
of their drivers this week, Catalyst 13.2 Beta 3.

The latest beta
makes a couple of additions that will be of particular interest to
hardcore gamers. On the application support side, like NVIDIA’s beta
release yesterday these are the first drivers that specifically target
Crysis 3, itself having just been released in beta form as a multiplayer
beta. AMD is citing up to a 15% performance improvement here in
scenarios with high degrees of MSAA, while promising further
improvements as the game and the drivers both march towards a final
state.

Meanwhile these drivers are also the first driver set
from AMD to address some of the frame latency issues Tech Report’s Scott
Wasson has turned up over the last couple of months. His own testing of
an earlier version of these drivers found that frame latency was
significantly reduced in a few different games he tested, including
Skyrim, Boderlands 2, and Guild Wars 2.