AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Video Card Drivers Released

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD has released Catalyst 15.10 Beta video card drivers! This driver improves the DX12 quality and performance on Ashes of the Singularity and resolved issues on the aforementioned game title as well as Star Wars: Battlefront Beta. The driver also fixes a TDR error that some were experiencing while watching 4K YouTube video clips, playback issues on Cyberlink PowerDVD playback and more. You can see the full list of resolved issues below. You can download the Windows 64-bit driver here and the Windows 32-bit driver here.

Ashes of the Singularity

Performance Optimizations

  • Ashes of the Singularity – DirectX 12 Quality and Performance optimizations

Resolved Issues:

  • [77786] Video playback of MPEG2 video fails with a playback error/error code message
  • [77754] A TDR error or crash is experienced when running the Unreal Engine 4 DirectX benchmark
  • [77073] Star Wars: Battlefront is able to use high performance graphics when launched on mobile devices with switchable graphics
  • [76930] Intermittent playback issues with Cyberlink PowerDVD when connecting to a 3D display with an HDMI cable
  • [59403] Ashes of the Singularity – A ‘Driver has stopped responding’ error may be experienced in DirectX 12 mode
  • [58435] Driver installation may halt on some configurations
  • [76924] A TDR error may be experienced while toggling between minimized and maximized mode while viewing 4K YouTube

Known Issues:

  • [77970] Ashes of the Singularity may crash on some AMD 300 series GPUs
  • [59528] Core clock fluctuations may be experienced when FreeSync and FRTC are both enabled on some AMD CrossFire systems
  • [58233] Ashes of the Singularity may fail to launch on some GPUs with 2GB Video Memory. AMD continues to work with Stardock to resolve the issue. In the meantime, deleting the game config file helps resolve the issue
  • [77255] The secondary display adapter is missing in the Device Manager and the AMD Catalyst Control Center after installing the driver on a Microsoft Windows 8.1 system
  • [59475] Elite: Dangerous – poor performance may be experienced in SuperCruise mode
  • [59792] A black screen may be encountered on bootup on Windows 10 systems. The system will ultimately continue to the Windows login screen