AMD Catalyst 15.11 beta driver has arrived for Black Ops III

Posted on Monday, November 09 2015 @ 11:43 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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Sometime later this month you can expect AMD's new "Crimson Edition" driver but in the meantime the company offers Catalyst 15.11 beta, which you can download over here. This new release has optimizations for the new Call of Duty game as well as a bunch of bug fixes.
Performance Optimizations
  • Call of Duty : Black Ops III - includes quality and performance optimizations

    Resolved Issues:
  • [79796] The Oculus runtime may crash on launch
  • [79577] The Intel graphics is flagged in an error state in the Device Manager in systems with switchable graphics
  • [78654] An error may be experienced when installing the latest graphics driver package on some AMD Radeon™ R9 380 series products
  • [77255] The secondary graphics adapter is missing in the Device Manager and the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center after installation of the driver
  • [77176] A TDR error is experienced when launching Star Wars™: Battlefront while a You Tube video plays in the background
  • [59792] An extended black screen may be experienced during bootup under Windows® 10 between the Windows® Logo and the Windows® login prompt
  • [77970] Ashes of the Singularity™ may crash on some AMD 300 series GPUs
  • [58233] Ashes of the Singularity™ may fail to launch on some GPUs with 2GB Video Memory.

    Known Issues:
  • [79824] Call of Duty : Black Ops III - Flickering may be observed when running the game in DirectX® 11 mode and with AMD Crossfire™ enabled
  • [79484] Batman™: Arkham Knight - An application crash may be experienced at some game locations
  • [78912] A black screen may be experienced on booting Windows® 10 on some systems with switchable graphics - with AMD Radeon™ HD5000 series graphics cards, when connected to an HDMI monitor
  • [59475] Elite: Dangerous - poor performance may be experienced in SuperCruise mode


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    Thomas De Maesschalck

    Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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