Matching the competition, AMD/b] have also release a new driver set designed for Ubisoft's latest release. Catalyst 14.11.1 is, in common with AMD's previous game-specific updates, listed as a beta release, whilst a WHQL set should be unveiled at a later stage. They should also incorporate the improvements to Civilization: Beyond Earth performance seen in the 14.9.2beta release of last month.
Both Assassins Creed Unity and Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare (the other title which is addressed within the Catalyst 14.11.1beta) both require a minimum of 4GB RAM, resulting in the new driver being issued only for 64-bit operating systems of Windows Vista or newer vintage.
Release Notes
Performance Improvements
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
- Assassin’s Creed Unity performance optimizations
Known Issues
- Occasional stuttering in Assassin’s Creed Unity in CrossFire mode under specific game settings
- Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire mode
- Quad CrossFire AMD Radeon R9 295X2 may sometimes black screen when loading a game in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- AMD Radeon R9 280X/280 may experience a crash when playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and a video at the same time. If you experience this issue a work around is turning off the video while playing the game.
- CrossFire users may experience intermittent flickering in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare menus. As a work around if this issue is seen restarting the game may cause the issue to disappear.
Important Notes
AMD is currently working with Activision to resolve the following issues in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare:
- Users in AMD CrossFire mode sometimes experience texture corruption
- Negative scaling sometimes being observed at specific resolutions with AMD CrossFire
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
- Assassin’s Creed Unity performance optimizations
Known Issues
- Occasional stuttering in Assassin’s Creed Unity in CrossFire mode under specific game settings
- Small chance of intermittent screen tearing or corruption in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on high settings 4K resolution in AMD CrossFire mode
- Quad CrossFire AMD Radeon R9 295X2 may sometimes black screen when loading a game in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- AMD Radeon R9 280X/280 may experience a crash when playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and a video at the same time. If you experience this issue a work around is turning off the video while playing the game.
- CrossFire users may experience intermittent flickering in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare menus. As a work around if this issue is seen restarting the game may cause the issue to disappear.
Important Notes
AMD is currently working with Activision to resolve the following issues in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare:
- Users in AMD CrossFire mode sometimes experience texture corruption
- Negative scaling sometimes being observed at specific resolutions with AMD CrossFire
