(19.02.) AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta 6

[DomeBo57]

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.2-beta6-linux-x86.x86_64.zip

No changelog yet

[pab.lo]

Yay! it fixed the segmentation fault with big picture in my case. Thanks for sharing, it's not even published in the site yet :)

[Evil Penguin]

I just tried it out with TF2 and performance is *still* ♥♥♥♥.
AMD had months to work on this and there's still pretty much the same performance issues.

[m00ny]

Just installed 13.2-beta6 (x86_6), fixed bigpicture for me, and my games are still running :-)

[Kano]

@SolidSteel

Do you have got Tearfree enabled? That's a real performance killer...

[m00ny]

@Kano, also disabled it. Why can't those drivers just buffer the output frame, and display it on vsync, while the actual application continues rendering the next frames already...

[Evil Penguin]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kano:

@SolidSteel

Do you have got Tearfree enabled? That's a real performance killer...

It's disabled.

[Kano]

What does fglrx show? Is it showing:

$ fglrxinfo 
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon HD 5670
OpenGL version string: 4.2.12172 Compatibility Profile Context 12.10.17

The number right of context is basically the number of the first installed driver if you did not reset the settings. For KDM i use:

sudo screen sh -c '/etc/init.d/kdm stop;sleep 5;rmmod fglrx;rm -f /etc/ati/amdpcsdb;/etc/init.d/kdm start'

Should work with lightdm as well, but did not try it:

sudo screen sh -c '/etc/init.d/lightdm stop;sleep 5;rmmod fglrx;rm -f /etc/ati/amdpcsdb;/etc/init.d/lightdm start'

[Sk1dmark]

use this to fix the problems. just insert the url from above with the one in the install guide. it worked for me



12.04
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation_Guide#Test_your_installation


12.10
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Quantal_Installation_Guide#Test_your_installation

[idkfa]

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver for Linux

    [370839]: Resolves a sporadic Steam Big Picture mode crashing issue encountered with AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, 6000 Series

Seriously AMD? There's only HD7000 and 6000 cards? Why even bother making drivers to older series?
That's just sad.

[arc| Gps]

I just tried opening big picture mode and steam tells me to install latest beta driver.
(hd570)
I will try this.

[anthro]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von thangar | MsD:

Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 13.2 Beta Driver for Linux

    [370839]: Resolves a sporadic Steam Big Picture mode crashing issue encountered with AMD Radeon™ HD 7000, 6000 Series

Seriously AMD? There's only HD7000 and 6000 cards? Why even bother making drivers to older series?
That's just sad.

I have hd5770. I thought it was strange too that 6000 and 7000 series were singled out but beta 13.2.6 has fixed big picture mode crash for me.

[Fazmaster]

Still experience the same performance issues in TF2 with my "Sapphire HD 7750 Ultimate" on Ubuntu 12.10.

Serious Sam even refuses to start with the beta driver.

[DomeBo57]

OpenGL performance overall (Team Fortress 2, Unigine Heaven, Steam BigPicture) is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ horrible with frame drops and input lag right now with my HD 6870.

[idkfa]

A noticed some pretty curious thing when I was changing the resolution at big picture.
I got a message saying I have only ~257MB VRAM (the value shown was in KB) and because of that, big picture's preformance may be low. (and it was)
Note: I have a HD5770 (1GB)

[Magbed@Linux! 🐧]

Do these drivers include the watermark beta thing?