New Beta out [14.9.1]

DarkFoss said:
Beta 14.9.1 posted today.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows 7 - 64
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Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Windows Beta Driver

Resolved Issues

Driver installation randomly crashes or hangs
Intermittent black screen or BSOD on reboot after driver installation
[406933]: CCC intermittently crashes with error popup message
[406904]: Random hang or BSOD when launching Battlefield 4 in quad Crossfire™
[406906]: Random hang or BSOD when enabling or disabling quad Crossfire™
[406905]: Intermittent hang when launching Sniper Elite 3 with quad Crossfire™

Known Issues

[406977]: Dual AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 intermittent BSOD when upgrading from previous AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 driver – see "Important Notes" section below on how to resolve this issue
[406953]: Battlefield 4 intermittent crash or hang when changing game resolution in Mantle – If you experience this issue go to the games video options menu and select DirectX mode then change resolutions. Once that is done go back to Mantle mode to play the game at the new resolution you chose.
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and there you go...
 
Omg they release new beta driver without crossfire profile for Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor.
What were they thinking this is like showing me a chocolate when i look closely i see only cover without the chocolate inside. I am so mad right now.
 
The Mac said:
Its only purpose was to fix installation black screens.

nothing else.
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A competent driver team would have fixed that, you know, before releasing a WHQL driver. It seems like they got crap from management for not putting out an official driver in a long, long time and rushed it.

14.9 works OK for me though.
 
Only certain combinations of hardware/software exhibited the behavior, they didnt see it in house till they got feedback from the community.

from AMDMatt:

Hello everyone,

Thanks to your feedback, we've successfully resolved random crashes or hangs, or the intermittent black screen (BSOD) on reboot after installing Catalyst 14.9 Driver. These issues were thankfully not encountered by everyone, but certain combinations of hardware/software made some people unlucky victims. Thanks to our cooperation, though, we were able to resolve the problems in just seven days. We truly appreciate your detailed feedback, your patience, and your willingness to help.

Please click here to download Catalyst 14.9.1 Beta Driver for Windows and use Issue Reporting Form to report any bugs or issues. In addition, read the Feature Highlights and Known Issues sections to learn more about this version of the driver. As an aside, if you’re not affected by any of the issues resolved in this driver, you can stay with 14.9 WHQL.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 14.9.1 Windows Driver

Resolved Issues
Driver installation randomly crashes or hangs
Intermittent black screen or BSOD on reboot after driver installation
CCC intermittently crashes with error popup message
Random hang or BSOD when launching Battlefield 4 in quad Crossfire
Random hang or BSOD when enabling or disabling quad Crossfire
Intermittent hang when launching Sniper Elite 3 with quad Crossfire
 
This is great news. Since 14.2beta, I'd say I had an 80-90% chance of hitting a BSOD during driver install on 7950 crossfire, and the only way out of that was to run DDU and wipe out the previous driver before installation. For that matter, I'd hit BSOD on just enabling and disabling crossfire about 10-20% of the time. It looks like both issues were fixed (although the release notes mention quad crossfire, hopefully the same fix helps regular crossfire) I sent couple of memory-dumps and mini-trace-dumps to AMD during this round of feedback for both these issues.

My crossfire setup is since dismantled (no pun). One 7950 went into an HTPC, and the other I am trying to sell. It'd have been good to test this driver otherwise with crossfire.
 
When they says it fixes balck screens, is that the monitor drop out?
I don't normally try beta but if this is suppoesd to fix it I might give it a try.

My monitors randomly lose video signal, but changing monitor input source or power cycling the monitor gets them working again.
 
So I installed the beta, didn't want to bother trying WHQL, and I'm getting the blank screen (monitor's in power save). My computer actually locks up during install, at the point when the drivers recognize your monitor and change to its native resolution.

Anybody think I should bother trying WHQL, or just wait for the next beta?
 
It wuld be nice from amd ati to make some crossfire profiles for games like
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition Ryse
Son of Rome
Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor
 
sygnus21 said:
Unfortunately these still break NEC's SpectraView software as posted here: FYI - Issue with 14.9 drivers and NEC monitors, guess I'm stuck with the 14.7 RC3 drivers until the issue can be resolved :(
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Well I can definitely confirm these drivers break NEC's SpectraView software. Just did a clean install of Windows 8.1, installed the 14.9.1 drivers, installed SpectraView, start SpectraView... nag... "SpectraView II has stopped working".

This may be a minor issue to some, and an even smaller one to AMD, but when you buy a $1000 monitor, and add the software to boot for critical color calibration, it becomes a huge issue when video card drivers breaks the software.

And for the record, most people who do use NEC's high end monitors do use the SpectraView software

Once again I'm forced back to the 14.7RC 3 drivers. And yes, a bug report was filed. And yes, I'm using the latest version of SVII.
 
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