AMD updates its Catalyst driver, waiting to make available the new software suite Radeon Crimson over the next few weeks; specific optimizations and bug fixes for Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
Waiting for the transition to the new approach to distribution of driver updates, which will be called Radeon Software, AMD has released a new version of its drivers for video cards of family Radeon. We speak of the Catalyst 11.15 beta release, with which many bugs have been fixed and especially implemented specific quality and performance optimizations for the game Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
The driver download 32bit and 64bit is available at this address; They are compatible with operating systems Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. Below are listed the main notes.
Compatible Operating Systems
AMD Catalyst ™ 11.15 Beta is designed to support the Following Microsoft Windows platforms:
- Windows 10 (32 & 64-bit).
- Windows 8.1 (32 & 64-bit).
- Windows 7 SP1 or higher (32 & 64-bit).
Highlights of the AMD Catalyst ™ 15.11 Beta Windows Driver.
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 were in the Device Manager on 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 or Hitman Pro 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 locations game.
- [78912] A black screen may be experienced on booting Windows 10 on some systems with switchable graphics – with AMD Radeon ™ HD 5000 series graphics cards, when connected to an HDMI monitor.
- [59475] Elite: Dangerous – poor performance may be experienced in Supercruise mode.