As of today, RadeonPro has reached 1 million downloads through its official website, something I didn’t think of when I launched its first beta in early 2010… It might not sound as a big deal for most of you but, for me, it’s a huge deal and I have to say a big THANK YOU for all people involved directly or indirectly with RadeonPro while it was in development.

Raptr also powers AMD Gaming Evolved App and you all already know it, right?

That also means that I am freezing RadeonPro development for undetermined time, mostly due to time constraints. I really hope you understand it.

Even though that might sounds like bad news for all you who are waiting patiently for RadeonPro infinity release, I hope to further enhance Raptr client apps – even more than they already are – by working together with all brilliant minds at Raptr development team, alongside with new cool and improved features to bring you guys the best gaming experience ever!

What Mantle does

Mantle is the harmony of three essential ingredients:

1. A driver within the AMD Catalyst™ software suite that lets applications speak directly to the Graphics Core Next architecture;
2. A GPU or APU enabled with the Graphics Core Next architecture;
3. An application or game written to take advantage of Mantle.

Mantle reduces the CPU’s workload by giving developers a way to talk to the GPU directly with much less translation. With less work for the CPU to do, programmers can squeeze much more performance from a system, delivering the greatest benefits in gaming systems where the CPU can be the bottleneck. Learn more about Mantle.

Radeon HD 7000 series, R9 270X and R9 280X users will see limited performance gains in this first release of Battlefield 4 patch for Mantle, AMD says performance is still being tuned for all GCN cards and future releases will bring additional free performance to the table.

Important: Current driver MUST be uninstalled before updating to AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta driver. For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst Software Suite, please refer to the following support resources:

• How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers From A Windows® Based System
• How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers For A Windows® Based System

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows

Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:

• AMD A10-7850K
• AMD A10-7700K

Mantle Beta driver

• AMD’s Mantle is a groundbreaking graphics API that promises to transform the world of game development to help bring better, faster games to the PC
• Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
• Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
  • AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
  • It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
• AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ R7 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPUs
  • AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series GPUs
  • AMD A10-7000 Series and AMD A8-7000 Series APUs
• ​​​​​For additional details please see the AMD Mantle Technology FAQ on amd.com​
• Enhanced AMD CrossFire frame pacing – Support for 4K panel and Eyefinity non-XDMA CrossFire solutions (including the AMD Radeon R9 280, 270 Series, 7900 Series, 7800 Series) and Dual Graphics configurations​
  • ​​​Frame pacing ensures that frames rendered across multiple GPUs in an AMD CrossFire configuration will be displayed at an even and regular pace
  • Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
  • Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
  • Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​

Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​

• Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
• Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
• Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
• Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
• Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
• Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
• Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
• Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
• Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
• Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
• Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
• Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
• Resident Evil5 ‘s performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
• Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
• Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
• Negative Crossfire scaling with game “The Secret World” in DX11 mode
• F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
• Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
• Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
• Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
• Choppy video playback on 4k Video
• VSync ON Tearing with 2×1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
• Far Cry 3 – Game flickering while changing resolutions
• Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
• Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
• No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in “High Performance” when playing certain video clips
• Image crashed on Starcraft game

Known Issues

• Mantle performance for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeon™ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4™ in future AMD Catalyst™ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4™ and AMD is currently investigating optimizations for them.
• Multi-GPU support under DirectX® and Mantle will be added to StarSwarm in a future application patch
• Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFire™ technology in BattleField 4™ – AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
• Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpress™ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4™
• AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm​ application
• AMD testing for the AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeon™ R9 290X, R9 290, R9 280, R9 270, R7 260X, R7 260, HD 7000 Series, HD 8000 Series, A10-7850K and A10-7700K. Future AMD Catalyst™ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
• Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4™
• Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560×1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming release will enable support
• DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming release will enable support

To download or see the supported video card list, visit AMD web site.

AMD Issue Reporting Form

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, use the appropriate form.

• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Beta Drivers on Desktop Products
• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Mobility Products

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.2 Driver for Windows

• ​​Call of Duty®: Ghost – Improves anti-aliasing performance, and updates the AMD CrossFire™ profile
• AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series – PowerTune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
• Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®​ 9 applications

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta8 Driver for Windows

• ​​Includes all Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta7
• Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta7 Driver for Windows

• ​Includes all Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6
• Increases AMD CrossFire​™​ scaling up to an additional 20% for Battlefield 4

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta​​6 Driver for Windows

• ​Includes all Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta
• Includes support for the new prod​ucts:
  • AMD Radeon​™ R9 290X
  • AMD Radeon R9 290
• ​Performance improvements
  • ​Batman: Arkham Origins – improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
  • Total War™: Rome 2 – improves performance up to 10%
  • Battlefield 3 – improves performance up to 10%
  • GRID 2 – improves performance up to 8.5%
  • DiRT Showdown – improves performance up to 10%
  • Formula 1™ 2013 – improves performance up to 8%
  • DiRT 3 – improves performance up to 7%
  • Sleeping Dogs – improves performance up to 5%​
  • ​Performance improvements for the AMD APU Series (comparing AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta6 to AMD Catalyst 13.9)
  • Luxmark (openCL) – improves performance up to 10%
  • Winzip 17.5 (openCL) – improves performance up to 20%
  • GRID 2 – improves performance up to 4%
  • Battlefield 4 – improves performance up to 5%
  • Lef4Dead – improves performance up to 10%
• ​​​​Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration​
• Automatic “plug and play” configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta Driver for Windows

• ​Includes support for the new products:
  • AMD Radeon™ R9 280X
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X
  • AMD Radeon R7 260X
  • AMD Radeon R7 250
  • AMD Radeon R7 240

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• Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series in the following games:
  • ​Total War™: Rome 2 – improves performance up to 10%
  • Splinter Cell® Blacklist™ – improves performance up to 7% on single GPU and AMD CrossFire™ configurations
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim® – improves performance up to 9%

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

Download it at AMD web site.

AMD Issue Reporting Form

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, use the appropriate form.

• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Beta Drivers on Desktop Products
• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Mobility Products

This build adds support for AMD Radeon R Series. Besides the support for R Series, it’s still based on RadeonPro 1.x so there’s no improvements compared to 13/Mar build.

Download it from here: http://downloads.radeonpro.info/RadeonPro_Preview_R.exe

Please leave feedback in comments. This build will replace the standard download file when I get enough feedback from users.

Updated 11/4: the previous build carried a small cosmetic bug, showing “Post-processing is not available” when the SweetFX key is pressed but despite that message, SweetFx effects were being applied. Download the installer again from the link above and the message will vanish.

In late August I’ve made an announcement about the upcoming new version of RadeonPro, infinity or RadeonPro 2.0. Sadly, my development rig’s motherboard died a week later, halting temporarily infinity’s development. The motherboard has been replaced a week after but guess what? The mobo arrived with a bad bios…

I’ve requested a new bios chip to EVGA and they kindly sent one for free at September 10th but it arrived just a few days ago, in October 29th. Yeah, it took over 50 days to arrive… but good news is I’ve already got everything up and running again so I’m ready to get back to infinity’s development!

I’m planning a quick fix with support for AMD R7 260 and R9 270/280/290 series video cards which current public build is lacking. If everything goes fine the fix will be available this weekend. After that I will resume infinity development and hope to have something ready for the closed beta until the end of November.

Updated 11/3: New build with support for AMD Radeon R Series

AMD announced the new R7 and R9 series last month, September 25th at GPU 14 event in Hawaii, but only today we’re given the pleasure to see their newer flagship video card in action: The AMD Radeon R9 290X. Under the hood Radeon R9 290X brings a new GPU dubbed Hawaii XT, a very powerful, tiny piece of silicon that sports a lot of power for both gaming and compute workloads. It’s also impressive to note that Hawaii is still using the same 28nm manufacturing process used by their previous flagship chip, Tahiti XT.

The Radeon R9 290X features 2816 GCN stream processors, 176 Texturing units, 64 render back-ends (ROPs) and 4 GB of memory on a 512-bit bus with a total memory bandwidth of over 300GB/sec, AMD vows for the best experience at Ultra HD gaming in 4K resolution with the new R9 290X.

It also features AMD’s new TrueAudio DSP technology and has support for the latest DirectX 11.2 and new Mantle, an API co-developed by AMD and Dice for fastest graphics and also meant to give access to GPU features not commonly accessible by APIs like Direct3D and OpenGL. Battlefield 4 will be the first title to use Mantle with a game patch coming in late December, and I’m looking forward to adapt RadeonPro in order to fully support Mantle!

Radeon R9 290X has a price tag of US$ 549, giving NVIDIA’s Titan and GTX 780 a run for the money by beating both competition video cards in several games while costing a lot less, almost half of Titan’s price which is sold for a thousand dollars.

The new R9 290X started selling today, October 24th – my birthday, with a suggested retail price of US$ 549 and there is a limited version bundled with Battlefield 4, which costs US$ 579. Pretty good value!

See below some links to reviews showcasing how good it performs. Good reading!

Bit-Tech
Computerbase
Hexus
LegitReviews
Overclockers.com
PcGamesHardware
SemiAccurate
TechPowerUp
TechSpot
TomsHardware

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.10 Beta 2 for Windows®:

• Includes 32-bit single GPU and CrossFire game profile for Battlefield 4

Bug fixes

• CrossFire frame pacing improvements for CPU-bound applications
• Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014
• Resolves intermittent black screen when resuming from a S3/S4 sleep state if the display is unplugged during the sleep state on systems supporting AMD Enduro Technology

• Updated AMD Enduro Technology application profiles
• Profile highlights:
  • Total War: Rome 2
  • Battlefield 4
  • Saints Row 4
  • Splinter Cell Blacklist
  • FIFA 14

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.10 for Windows®:

• PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
• Rome Total War 2: Updated AMD CrossFire™ profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with extreme settings)
  • resolves corruption issues seen while playing the game
• Saints Row 4: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings)
• Metro Last Light: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 10% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings)
• Includes a number of frame pacing improvements for the following titles:
  • Tomb Raider
  • Metro Last Light
  • Sniper Elite
  • World of Warcraft
  • Max Payne 3
  • Hitman Absolution

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

It’s worth mentioning that AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta also includes all of the features/fixes found in previous AMD Catalyst 13.10.

Download it at AMD web site.

AMD Issue Reporting Form

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, use the appropriate form.

• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Beta Drivers on Desktop Products
• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Mobility Products

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.10 for Windows®:

• PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations
• Rome Total War 2: Updated AMD CrossFire™ profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with extreme settings)
  • resolves corruption issues seen while playing the game
• Saints Row 4: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 20% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings)
• Metro Last Light: Updated AMD CrossFire profile
  • improves CrossFire scaling up to 10% (at 2560×1600 with ultra settings)
• Includes a number of frame pacing improvements for the following titles:
  • Tomb Raider
  • Metro Last Light
  • Sniper Elite
  • World of Warcraft
  • Max Payne 3
  • Hitman Absolution

System Requirements:

• Windows® 8.1 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit versions)
• Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit versions with SP1 or higher)

AMD Product Compatibility:

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 8000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 7000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6000M Series
• AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000M Series

It’s worth mentioning that AMD Catalyst 13.10 Beta also includes all of the features/fixes found in AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta 2.

Download it at AMD web site.

AMD Issue Reporting Form

This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, use the appropriate form.

• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Beta Drivers on Desktop Products
• AMD Issue Reporting Form for Mobility Products

Curious about what to expect from infinity?  Read on!

New and improved features

1. Completely redesigned UI.
2. New profile management with master (template) profiles, meaning you can create a template profile (let’s say SMAA Ultra and DVC is active) and name it like SMAA+DVC, after that it’s possible to assign those template profiles for any game profile that will inherit all settings from the master profile along with own game profile’s settings.
3. New profile assignments: a profile is no longer linked to an executable like in RP 1.xx making possible to share a single profile among several games.
4. Improved monitoring now catches games executed as admin so games started by launchers with elevated privileges will also be detected.
5. Movie recording function does not lock the framerate automatically so it’s possible to record at 30 FPS and still play at 60 FPS.
6. CPU clock/temperatures/load(%) and RAM usage can be displayed in OSD.
7. Improved media organization: movies, screenshots and benchmarks are now categorized and grouped by game and can be browsed and viewed right from infinity’s UI.
8. Cloud storage functions allow easy sharing of screenshots. Also, all games profiles can be uploaded to the cloud and can be synchronized with other computers owned by you.
9. The RadeonPro Support Service is no longer used.

Stuff going to be added soon

• Mobile app with complete monitoring: FPS and GPU/CPU monitoring + graphical charts of current running game.
• Live adjustments of post-processing effects including SweetFX settings using the app. Users will also be able to download profiles made available from other RadeonPro Community users and apply those profiles from the app without leaving the game. Of course not all settings can be applied without a game restart, but most post-processing effects will be in effect right after the profile is loaded up from the app.
• Movie recording with real time AVC/H.264 encoding by GPU using AMD’s VCE (up to 1080p) – I already got the encoding working on GPU and it’s fast, but need to change the container format to MKV as AVI doesn’t play well with AVC/H.264 and that should take some extra time. About VCE, the only downside is the encoding size which will be limited to 1920×1080 and that’s a bit sad…
• Live adjustments of post-processing effects via infinity’s in-game overlay.

Please bear in mind that all this must be considered work in progress and probably will change a bit before public release (and there’s no ETA for it at the moment)

Want to know when infinity gets ready? Follow RadeonPro on Twitter, Facebook or RSS

Updated 10/31: What happened to RadeonPro?