AMD Catalyst 15.11 Beta Drivers Released For Black Ops III

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD has released Catalyst 15.11 Beta drivers that contain performance optimizations for Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The beta drivers can be downloaded here and contain eight other bug fixes. For example Ashes of the Singularity shouldn’t crash on some AMD Radeon 300-series cards now or fail to launch on video cards that have just 2GB of video memory. AMD Also fixed a timeout error that was discovered on Star Wars: Battlefront and Hitman Pro. These are all pretty big bug fixes, so it looks like this driver is a must. This driver still has a number of known issues though. The largest issue is going to impact those playing Black Ops III today with an AMD Radeon CrossFire multi-GPU setup. Those folks playing in DirectX11 mode with AMD Crossfire enabled might see a flickering issue.

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition drivers are still said to be coming later this month after AMD completes the brand new driver package. Could this be the last Catalyst driver launch?

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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 state in the Device Manager in 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 DirectX11 mode and with AMD Crossfire enabled
  • [79484] Batman: Arkham Knight – An application crash may be experienced at some game locations
  • [78912] A black screen may be experienced on booting Windows 10 on some systems with switchable graphics – with AMD Radeon HD5000 series graphics cards, when connected to an HDMI monitor
  • [59475] Elite: Dangerous – poor performance may be experienced in SuperCruise mode