AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta Driver – Grand Theft Auto V Optimized

By Nathan Kirsch

AMD has released Catalyst 15.4 Beta for Windows that are Grand Theft Auto V Optimized! You can download the right drivers for your system here. We have been told that these drivers (display driver version 14.502.1014) have all the optimizations and profiles needed for Grand Theft Auto V and that they do have CrossFire support for Grand Theft Auto V to boot. This means that these are the drivers you’ll want to run to enable AMD Contact Hardening Shadows or AMD CHS as it will likely be known as. AMD CHS is making it’s debut in Grand Theft Auto V and AMD has been strangely quiet on the new ‘soft shadows’ technology by not saying anything to Legit Reviews about it even when we asked them about it earlier today. From what we can gather from industry insiders it similar to NVIDIA’s Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows (PCSS) technology that was used in Ubisoft games like Far Cry 4/AC4/Unity, but not nearly as refined. We’ll have to see what it looks like tonight when Grand Theft Auto V is playable!

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AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta drivers also includes new Crossfire profile for a number of game titles as well as a handful of bug fixes. See the AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta driver highlights below.

Highlights of AMD Catalyst 15.4 Beta Windows Driver

This release enables peak driver performance optimization for AMD Radeon graphics users in Grand Theft Auto V.

New Crossfire Profiles for:

  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Dying Light*
  • Galactic Civilizations III
  • Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
  • Mortal Combat X**
  • Sleeping Dogs : Definitive Edition

Crossfire Profiles updates for:

  • Battlefield Hardline
  • Far Cry 4
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
  • Sniper Elite 3

Fixed Issues:

  • [416712] Battlefield 4: A memory leak may be experienced on certain AMD Radeon GPU’s
  • [416302] Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash on first launch when in High Performance Mode
  • [416363] Battlefield Hardline: The game may crash on launch on certain AMD graphics products
  • [416667] Far Cry 4: Stuttering may be experienced with custom settings when run in AMD Crossfire mode
  • [416320] Far Cry 4: Screen tearing may be experienced even after enabling vsync

Known Issues:

  • [417392] Far Cry 4 : A game crash may be experienced when switching between windowed and full screen mode
  • [417237] Far Cry 4 : Flickering may be experienced in the in-game cinematics when launched in landscape SLS mode
  • [417374] Youtube : Random block corruption may be experience with simultaneous 1080p video streams
  • [417386] Youtube : Microsoft Internet Explorer may crash if exited while Youtube sessions are ongoing
  • [416109] Battlefield Hardline: Corruption / stutter may be experienced while changing resolution with vsync enabled
  • [417312] Battlefield Hardline: Broken glass may flicker during gameplay
  • [417247] Monitors may switch off when changing orientation from portrait SLS to landscape SLS
  • [417239] Metal Gear Solid V – Ground Zeroes : The game may crash when run at lower resolutions in windowed mode
  • [417242] Sleeping Dogs – Definitive Edition : The game may not run on certain Kaveri platforms when High Performance mode is enabled
  • [414152] A manual installation (via inf) may fail on certain R9 295X2 configurations

*AMD is currently working with Techland to resolve the following issue:

  • [417173] Distant objects may flicker in Dying Light when AA is enabled in AMD Crossfire mode. As a workaround, users may disable AMD Crossfire mode if this issue is impacting their game experience.

** AMD is currently working with NetherRealm Studios to resolve the following issue:

  • [417323] Flickering is sometimes observed on a small number of surfaces in Mortal Combat X when using AMD Crossfire. As a work around, users may disable AMD Crossfire mode if this issue is impacting their game experience.

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