AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta Video Card Drivers Released

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta video card drivers have been released and has performance optimizations for Star Wars: Battlefront Beta and Fable Legends. The driver also fixes almost 20 driver related issues that were reported to AMD, so it certainly sounds like this Beta driver is certainly worth trying out! You can download and install them from the AMD Driver and Download center today!

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AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta Driver Performance Optimizations:

  • Star Wars: Battlefront Beta – Performance and quality optimizations
  • Fable Legends: Includes the latest DirectX 12 optimizations for the Fable Legends: Benchmark

AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta Driver Resolved Issues:

  • [423635] A Blue Screen error may be observed with some Intel+AMD configurations on driver installation. As a workaround, please update your drivers using Windows update.
  • [421165] Battlefield Hardline becomes unresponsive after toggling the in-game Vsync option.
  • [422261] Mantle-based application may crash when system is woken from sleep mode
  • [422291] Battlefield 4 may crash if run in Mantle mode with AMD Crossfire enabled
  • [422273] A crash may be experienced on some AMD Radeon R9 300 series products while running the Unigene benchmark
  • [422249] A missing Dll error message may be experienced while doing an express uninstall of the current driver
  • [421444] Transcoded clips may fail to play on some Drag and Drop devices
  • [422853] Some systems experience a minor performance drop from 15.15 to 15.20 in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with HairWorks enabled
  • [422800] Some Kaveri APU-based systems may experience minor performance drop on PCMark8 Video Group Chat & Casual Gaming tests
  • [422797] Display profiles are not retained after driver upgrade from 14.502 to 15.20
  • [422249] DLL missing popup message may be encountered when performing an express uninstall of the display driver. This will not impact the uninstall process
  • [422342] Cyberlink PowerDVD plays 3D content in 2D mode
  • [421570] Audio driver is banged out for non-primary ASIC after enabling CF and rebooting system
  • [422675] Intermittent BSOD occurs when launching a race in Dirt Rally
  • [422621] With quad AMD CrossFire mode enabled, TDR or blank display occurs when launching DirectX 9 application in full screen
  • [419871] BSOD observed when performing an express uninstall of the display driver in 4K resolution
  • [422671] Flickering corruption may occur in Dirt Rally with Advanced Blending enabled
  • [422672] Flickering corruption may occur in Dirt Rally when changing settings during gameplay
  • [422056] 3DMark Farandole may crash when AMD Mantle is selected from the test suite