Latest AMD Catalyst Graphics Driver for Windows 8

[CountMike]

Unfortunately FreeSync requires monitor with those features and there's just a few like that.

 

[Brink]

New AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

 

[Brink]

New AMD Catalyst 15.4.1 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

 

[Cliff S]

New AMD Catalyst 15.4.1 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

A little reminder about updating drivers:
Do it only if you really need the fixes. Sometimes updating drivers can cause more problems.
For example with these latest if you are not a gamer and you just consume media like youtube and surf the web, these drivers have these 2 known issues:

[417374] Youtube : Random block corruption may be experience with simultaneous 1080p video streams
[417386] Youtube : Microsoft Internet Explorer may crash if exited while Youtube sessions are ongoing

 

[popeye]

"Simultaneous 1080p video streams".........who does that?

"Microsoft Internet Explorer may crash if exited while Youtube sessions are ongoing"...........many use other browsers now, MS has been scrambling for years to bring people back to IE.

Personally like the latest video drivers unless there are known serious issues. These don't seem serious to me.

 

[Brink]

New AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

 

[HOODY]

I don't install beta drivers anymore

I thought AMD would have a WHQL final by now (since dec 14) maybe it won't be long till a 15.5 final is out now.

On the other hand, I don't think there is all that much difference anymore with these updates on my older 7690m xt (6770m) card on this laptop, with 2nd gen I7 2670, but I still like updating lol.

Edit:

Well here it is june, and still no final AMD driver so I assume they are waiting for W10 and have a 15-7

 

[Brink]

New AMD Catalyst 15.6 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

 

[HOODY]

New AMD Catalyst 15.6 Beta driver available. See first post for more details.

so, yet another beta........

 

[CountMike]

Yet more updates for well known system hogger games, nothing special for us ordinary folks.

 

[HOODY]

Yet more updates for well known system hogger games, nothing special for us ordinary folks.

figures...... I assume this old 7690 Xt is at its life end with these driver updates anyway.

 

[CountMike]

Yet more updates for well known system hogger games, nothing special for us ordinary folks.

figures...... I assume this old 7690 Xt is at its life end with these driver updates anyway.

There's was nothing new to driver core for somewhat older GPUs, only some API changes to accommodate holes in top end games since "omega".

 

[stormy13]

Catalyst 15.7 WHQL now available,

Desktop

 

[Brink]

Thank you Richard. First post updated.

 

[Cliff S]

I just got home from work, and installing now:

 

[Cliff S]

I guess they also made some changes to the HDMI sound bypass drivers. Since installing, my music that was ripped using Windows Media Audio 9.2 Lossless VBR Quality 100, 44 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit 1-pass VBR, sounds overdriven.

 

[stormy13]

Blame Realtek for that as it is their chip and drivers that provide the HDMI audio. That and unless there is a newer version available to AMD (likely) from Realtek, the last HDMI driver released by Realtek (standalone download directly from them) is 3 years old.

 

[popeye]

HDMI audio is provided by the graphics card not the sound chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Older graphics cards did need a separate connection but hasn't been that way for quite some time now. My laptop gets HDMI video and audio from the Intel HD 4000 graphics.

 

[stormy13]

There is a Realtek chip on the card for the audio (nothing to do with onboard audio). Without it there would be no audio on the card.

 

[popeye]

I'm not so sure it is necessarily a Realtek chip but you could be right. Still it is up the the graphics card manufacturer to ensure it passes the audio correctly through the HDMI. I don't think Realtek has anything to do with the drivers for it. May be wrong.