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January 18th, 2013, 09:59 GMT · By

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AMD Catalyst 13.1 WHQL Driver: A Major Improvement for Radeon HD 7000

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AMD Catalyst 13.1 driver has just been released, with the changelog promising performance enhancements for the entire Radeon HD 7000 series display adapters.

To begin with, Control Center's 3D application settings page is redesigned for ease of access and better control of the 3D settings. These can be adjusted to perfectly fit the requirements of each application.

The highlights of this update are improvements of up to 25% in Far Cry 3, 10%-15% in Battlefield 3 and 12% in Civilization V. All the game tests are performed at maximum detail levels at 1600p resolution.

Mobility 7970M performance is improved for DirectX 9, 10, 11 applications by up to a whopping 90% in Just Cause 2, 62% in DiRT Showdown and 60% in Sniper Elite V2.

If you encountered system hangs, texture flickering, display corruption, lighting issues, you should install this update.

Numerous issues concerning game graphics, design applications runtime errors and GPU activity have also been fixed with this driver.

Should you decide to update, we recommend looking into the AMD Catalyst Un-install Utility. This will help you clean your system of existing Catalyst drivers, making it ready for this fresh release.

As usual, we leave you with the download links, so you can stay “updated one minute ago.”

AMD Catalyst 13.1 Drivers

AMD Catalyst Un-install Utility 1.2.1.0


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Comment #1 by: Steven on 18 Jan 2013, 20:19 UTC reply to this comment

Driver is crap i had major flickering with BF3 and my 7950
Went back to 12.11 and all is better now


Comment #2 by: Mirceac on 19 Jan 2013, 02:02 UTC reply to this comment

After one month delay this new and "improved" driver f**** my pc.. I have an HD7770 after driver instal and after first reboot keep getting display driver stooped working..and so on after 5 restarts finally got in the system now I will uninstall it and install a preview beta.. big bravo to amd for the stupid driver

Comment #2.1 by: George Grigore on 21 Jan 2013, 15:24 GMT

Dear mirceac,
The problem you are experiencing might be caused by a previous version of the AMD Catalyst. As I said in the article, the Uninstall utility will help you get rid of any previous version that might cause you trouble. Try again and if this fails, I recommend complaining directly to AMD.

Comment #2.2 by: OKWTF on 23 Jan 2013, 04:22 GMT

So i installed last night and caused serious system instabilities. It caused my computer to black screen during install and then Windows would froze on boot after. Yes, I used the uninstall utility and I also ran driversweeper to remove it completely before install.
It tried to run System Repair afterwards and froze in the middle of repair!
after 2 failed attempts I rolled-back the driver to 12.10 and all is well again.
Also worth noting, I installed Framenet 4.5 prior to driver update.

Comment #2.3 by: George Grigore on 23 Jan 2013, 14:29 GMT

In this case you should report the problem to AMD.

http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D20B2F3ECF


Comment #3 by: anazhd on 19 Jan 2013, 10:08 UTC reply to this comment

awesome \m/


Comment #4 by: Andrei on 20 Jan 2013, 10:12 UTC reply to this comment

Very useful information. Thank you George Grigore.

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