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AMD Catalyst™ Driver 14.9 Windows® Driver Info! (Click to show)
Highlights of AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.9 Windows Driver
â—¾ Support for the AMD Radeon R9 28
â—¾ Performance improvements (comparing AMD Catalyst 14.9 vs. AMD Catalyst 14.4)
â—¾3DMark Sky Diver improvements
◾AMD A4 6300 – improves up to 4%
â—¾Enables AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire support
â—¾3DMark Fire Strike
â—¾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 5% in Performance Preset
â—¾3DMark11
â—¾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series - improves up to 4% in Entry and Performance Preset
â—¾BioShock Infinite
◾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – 1920x1080 - improves up to 5%
â—¾Company of Heroes 2
â—¾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series - improves up to 8%
â—¾Crysis 3
◾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 10%
â—¾Grid Auto Sport
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
â—¾Murdered Soul Suspect
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, 4x MSAA, 16x AF) – improves up to 50%
◾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 6%
â—¾CrossFire configurations improve scaling up to 75%
â—¾Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements)
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
◾AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
â—¾Batman Arkham Origins:
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X (4x MSAA) – improves up to 20%
â—¾CrossFire configurations see up to a 70% gain in scaling
â—¾Wildstar
â—¾Power Xpress profile
â—¾Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
â—¾Performance improves up to 30% on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations
â—¾Tomb Raider
◾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series – improves up to 5%
â—¾Watch Dogs
◾AMD Radeon R9 290 Series / R9 270 Series – improves up to 9%
◾AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvement
◾Improved CrossFire performance – up to 20%
â—¾Assassin's Creed IV
â—¾Improves CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93% (CrossFire scaling improvement of 25% compared to AMD Catalyst 14.4)
â—¾Lichdom
â—¾Improves performance for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations
â—¾Star Craft II
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X (2560x1440, AA, 16x AF) – improves up to 20%
â—¾ AMD Eyefinity enhancements
â—¾Mixed Resolution Support
â—¾A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
â—¾Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
â—¾Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
◾Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
◾Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays
◾Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface
â—¾Eyefinity Display Alignment
â—¾Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
â—¾One-Click Setup
â—¾Driver detects layout of extended desktop
â—¾Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!
â—¾ New user controls for video color and display settings
â—¾Greater control over Video Color Management:
â—¾Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
â—¾Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
â—¾Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display
â—¾ AMD Mantle enhancements
â—¾Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology
◾Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
◾Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
◾Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
â—¾Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
â—¾ AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration
â—¾JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
â—¾Provides fast JPEG decompression
â—¾Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression
Resolved Issues
â—¾60Hz SST flickering has been identified as an issue with non-standard display timings exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeonâ„¢ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in the AMD Catalyst 14.9 driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display
â—¾Users seeing flickering issues in 60Hz SST mode are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from their monitor vendor that will resolve flickering at its origin.
â—¾Users are additionally advised to utilize DisplayPort-certified cables to ensure the integrity of the DisplayPort data connection.
â—¾4K panel flickering issues found on the AMD Radeon R9 290 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
â—¾Screen tearing observed on AMD CrossFire systems with Eyefinity portrait display configurations
â—¾Instability issues for Grid Autosport when running in 2x1 or 1x2 Eyefinity configurations
â—¾Geometry corruption in State of Decay
Known Issues
â—¾[404829]: Horizontal flashing lines on second screen in a clone mode with V-Sync on using AMD Mobility Graphics with Switchable Intel Graphics
â—¾[404508]: Display takes a long time to redraw the screen after an S4 cycle
â—¾[405432]: Mantle driver will TDR when running Star Swarm on the loading screen
â—¾[404660]: GPU gets stuck in a low power state after it was previously stressed to max power
â—¾[403032]: Severe flickering observed on default launch of SimCity 4
â—¾[403449]: Playing any media sample in full screen in the 2x1/1x2 Fill SLS configuration leads to TDR
â—¾[400573]: Intermittent application hang observed while launching Aliens vs. Predator
â—¾[400693]: While running performance test, crash is observed with fault module atidxx32.dll
â—¾[401386]: Severe corruption and flashing light observed with specific game settings in Grid 2
â—¾[401289]: Flashing lights in Batman Arkham Origins game main menu
AMD Catalyst™ 14.7 RC Driver for Windows® Operating System Driver Info! (Click to show)
Last Updates: 7/10/2014
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 14.7​ RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Includes all improvements found in the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC driver
◾AMD ​CrossFire™ and AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics profile update for Plants vs. Zombies​​​
â—¾Assassin's Creed IV - improved CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93%
â—¾Collaboration with AOC has identified non-standard display timings as the root cause of 60Hz SST flickering exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeonâ„¢ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display.
â—¾Users are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from AOC that will resolve flickering at its origin.
◾Users are additionally advised to utilize DisplayPort-certified cables to ensure the integrity of the DisplayPort data connection.​​​
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements):
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
â—¾3DMark Sky Diver improvements:
◾AMD A4-6300 – improves up to 4%
â—¾Enables AMD Dual Graphics/AMD CrossFire support
â—¾Grid Auto Sport:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
â—¾Wildstar:
â—¾Power Xpress profile
â—¾Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
â—¾Performance improves up to 24% at 2560x1600 on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and multi-GPU configurations.
â—¾Watch Dogs:
◾AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvements
â—¾Battlefield Hardline Beta:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
Known Issues
â—¾Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFireâ„¢ configurations with AMD Eyefinity enabled will see instability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalystâ„¢ Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 14.7​ RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Includes all improvements found in the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC driver
◾AMD ​CrossFire™ and AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics profile update for Plants vs. Zombies​​​
â—¾Assassin's Creed IV - improved CrossFire scaling (3840x2160 High Settings) up to 93%
â—¾Collaboration with AOC has identified non-standard display timings as the root cause of 60Hz SST flickering exhibited by the AOC U2868PQU panel on certain AMD Radeonâ„¢ graphics cards. A software workaround has been implemented in AMD Catalyst 14.7 RC driver to resolve the display timing issues with this display.
â—¾Users are further encouraged to obtain newer display firmware from AOC that will resolve flickering at its origin.
◾Users are additionally advised to utilize DisplayPort-certified cables to ensure the integrity of the DisplayPort data connection.​​​
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements):
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
â—¾3DMark Sky Diver improvements:
◾AMD A4-6300 – improves up to 4%
â—¾Enables AMD Dual Graphics/AMD CrossFire support
â—¾Grid Auto Sport:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
â—¾Wildstar:
â—¾Power Xpress profile
â—¾Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
â—¾Performance improves up to 24% at 2560x1600 on the AMD Radeon R9 and R7 Series of products for both single GPU and multi-GPU configurations.
â—¾Watch Dogs:
◾AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvements
â—¾Battlefield Hardline Beta:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
Known Issues
â—¾Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFireâ„¢ configurations with AMD Eyefinity enabled will see instability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalystâ„¢ Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
AMD Catalyst™ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows® Operating System Driver Info! (Click to show)
Last Updates: 6/23/2014
​ ◾Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver)
â—¾Windows 8.0 users should upgrade (for Free) to Windows 8.1 to take advantage of the new features found in the AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta
â—¾AMD Catalyst 14.4 will remain available for users who wish to remain on Windows 8
â—¾A future AMD Catalyst release will allow for the WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7 driver) to be installed under Windows 8.0 for those users unable to upgrade to Windows 8.1
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements):
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
◾AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
â—¾3DMark Sky Diver improvements:
◾AMD A4 6300 – improves up to 4%
â—¾Enables AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire support
â—¾Grid Auto Sport:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
â—¾Wildstar:
â—¾Power Xpress profile
â—¾Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
â—¾Watch Dogs:
◾AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvements
â—¾Battlefield Hardline Beta:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
Known Issues
â—¾Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
​ ◾Starting with AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta, AMD will no longer support Windows 8.0 (and the WDDM 1.2 driver)
â—¾Windows 8.0 users should upgrade (for Free) to Windows 8.1 to take advantage of the new features found in the AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta
â—¾AMD Catalyst 14.4 will remain available for users who wish to remain on Windows 8
â—¾A future AMD Catalyst release will allow for the WDDM 1.1 (Windows 7 driver) to be installed under Windows 8.0 for those users unable to upgrade to Windows 8.1
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.6 RC Driver for Windows
â—¾Plants vs. Zombies (Direct3D performance improvements):
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 Ultra – improves up to 11%
◾AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 Ultra – improves up to 15%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra) - 92% scaling
â—¾3DMark Sky Diver improvements:
◾AMD A4 6300 – improves up to 4%
â—¾Enables AMD Dual Graphics / AMD CrossFire support
â—¾Grid Auto Sport:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
â—¾Wildstar:
â—¾Power Xpress profile
â—¾Performance improvements to improve smoothness of application
â—¾Watch Dogs:
◾AMD CrossFire – Frame pacing improvements
â—¾Battlefield Hardline Beta:
â—¾AMD CrossFire profile
Known Issues
â—¾Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
AMD Catalyst™ 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows® Driver Info! (Click to show)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 14.6 Beta Driver for Windows
â—¾Performance improvements
â—¾Watch Dogs performance improvements
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4x MSAA – improves up to 25%
◾AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 28%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 92% scaling
â—¾Murdered Soul Suspect performance improvements
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 16%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 93% scaling
â—¾AMD Eyefinity enhancements
â—¾Mixed Resolution Support
â—¾A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
â—¾Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
â—¾Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
◾Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
◾Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays.
◾Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface.
â—¾Eyefinity Display Alignment
â—¾Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
â—¾One-Click Setup
â—¾Driver detects layout of extended desktops
â—¾Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!
â—¾New user controls for video color and display settings
â—¾Greater control over Video Color Management:
â—¾Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
â—¾Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
â—¾Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display
â—¾AMD Mantle enhancements
â—¾Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology
◾Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
◾Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
◾Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
â—¾Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
â—¾AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration
â—¾JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
â—¾Provides fast JPEG decompression
â—¾Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression
Known Issues
Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
â—¾Performance improvements
â—¾Watch Dogs performance improvements
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X - 1920x1080 4x MSAA – improves up to 25%
◾AMD Radeon R9290X - 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 28%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 92% scaling
â—¾Murdered Soul Suspect performance improvements
◾AMD Radeon R9 290X – 2560x1600 4x MSAA – improves up to 16%
â—¾AMD Radeon R9290X CrossFire configuration (3840x2160 Ultra settings, MSAA = 4X) - 93% scaling
â—¾AMD Eyefinity enhancements
â—¾Mixed Resolution Support
â—¾A new architecture providing brand new capabilities
â—¾Display groups can be created with monitors of different resolution (including difference sizes and shapes)
â—¾Users have a choice of how surface is created over the display group
◾Fill – legacy mode, best for identical monitors
◾Fit – create the Eyefinity surface using best available rectangular area with attached displays.
◾Expand – create a virtual Eyefinity surface using desktops as viewports onto the surface.
â—¾Eyefinity Display Alignment
â—¾Enables control over alignment between adjacent monitors
â—¾One-Click Setup
â—¾Driver detects layout of extended desktops
â—¾Can create Eyefinity display group using this layout in one click!
â—¾New user controls for video color and display settings
â—¾Greater control over Video Color Management:
â—¾Controls have been expanded from a single slider for controlling Boost and Hue to per color axis
â—¾Color depth control for Digital Flat Panels (available on supported HDMI and DP displays)
â—¾Allows users to select different color depths per resolution and display
â—¾AMD Mantle enhancements
â—¾Mantle now supports AMD Mobile products with Enduro technology
◾Battlefield 4: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1366x768; high settings) – 21% gain
◾Thief: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; high settings) – 14% gain
◾Star Swarm: AMD Radeon HD 8970M (1920x1080; medium settings) – 274% gain
â—¾Enables support for Multi-GPU configurations with Thief (requires the latest Thief update)
â—¾AMD AM1 JPEG decoding acceleration
â—¾JPEG decoding acceleration was first enabled on the A10 APU Series in AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta, and has now been extended to the AMD AM1 Platform
â—¾Provides fast JPEG decompression
â—¾Provides Power Efficiency for JPEG decompression
Known Issues
Running Watch Dogs with a R9 280X CrossFire configuration may result in the application running in CrossFire software compositing mode
â—¾Enabling Temporal SMAA in a CrossFire configuration when playing Watch Dogs will result in Flickering
â—¾AMD CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity enabled will see application stability with BattleField 4 or Thief when running Mantle
â—¾Catalyst Install Manager text is covered by Express/Custom radio button text
â—¾Express Uninstall does not remove C:\Program Files\(AMD or ATI) folder
AMD Catalyst™ 14.4 Beta V1.0 Driver for Windows® Operating System Driver Info! (Click to show)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.4 Release Candidate Driver for Windows
â—¾Support for the AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 295X
â—¾CrossFireâ„¢ fixes enhancements:
◾Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
◾Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
◾Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
◾Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
◾Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
â—¾Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
â—¾Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
â—¾Full support for OpenGL 4.4
â—¾OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
â—¾ARB_buffer_storage
â—¾ARB_enhanced_layouts
â—¾ARB_query_buffer_object
â—¾ARB_clear_texture
â—¾ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
â—¾ARB_texture_stencil8
â—¾ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
â—¾ARB_multi_bind
â—¾ARB_bindless_texture
â—¾ARB_spare_texture
â—¾ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
â—¾ARB_indirect_parameters
â—¾ARB_compute_variable_group_size
â—¾ARB_shader_draw_parameters
â—¾ARB_shader_group_vote
â—¾Mantle beta driver improvements:
â—¾BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
â—¾BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system
â—¾Support for the AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 295X
â—¾CrossFireâ„¢ fixes enhancements:
◾Crysis 3 – frame pacing improvements
◾Far Cry 3 – 3 and 4 GPU performance improvements at high quality settings, high resolution settings
◾Anno 2070 – Improved CrossFire scaling up to 34%
◾Titanfall – Resolved in game flickering with CrossFire enabled
◾Metro Last Light – Improved Crossfire scaling up to 10%
â—¾Eyefinity 3x1 (with three 4K panels) no longer cuts off portions of the application
â—¾Stuttering has been improved in certain applications when selecting mid-Eyefinity resolutions with V-sync Enabled
â—¾Full support for OpenGL 4.4
â—¾OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
â—¾ARB_buffer_storage
â—¾ARB_enhanced_layouts
â—¾ARB_query_buffer_object
â—¾ARB_clear_texture
â—¾ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
â—¾ARB_texture_stencil8
â—¾ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
â—¾ARB_multi_bind
â—¾ARB_bindless_texture
â—¾ARB_spare_texture
â—¾ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
â—¾ARB_indirect_parameters
â—¾ARB_compute_variable_group_size
â—¾ARB_shader_draw_parameters
â—¾ARB_shader_group_vote
â—¾Mantle beta driver improvements:
â—¾BattleField 4: Performance slowdown is no longer seen when performing a task switch/Alt-tab
â—¾BattleField 4: Fuzzy images when playing in rotated SLS resolution with an A10 Kaveri system
AMD Catalyst™ 14.3 Beta V1.0 Driver for Windows® Operating System
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.3 Beta V1.0 Driver for Windows®
â—¾Thief:
â—¾AMD Mantle and AMD True Audio support
â—¾Improves stuttering observed in CrossFire mode
◾Call of Duty: Ghosts: QUAD CrossFire profile update – improves level load times
â—¾Audio issues observed when using CrossFire configurations (and V-sync enabled) have been resolved
â—¾BattleField 4: V-sync issues observed on CrossFire configurations (with Mantle enabled) have been resolved
Known Issues
â—¾Intermittent driver stability issues when installing/un-installing on Desktop Kaveri platforms that support AMD Enduro technology under Windows 8.1. Please disable Enduro support to resolve the issue
â—¾Secondary GPUs do not enter low power state on CrossFire configurations; this issue will be addressed in the next AMD Catalyst beta release
â—¾Thief (DirectX): Lighting flickers on CrossFire configurations only after CrossFire has been enabled then disabled; this issue will be addressed in the next AMD Catalyst beta release
â—¾Battlefield 4 (DirectX): Quad CrossFire configurations with Eyefinity Display configurations suffer slowdowns and stability issues
â—¾Titanfall: Flickering occurs under AMD CrossFire configurations
AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows®
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst™ 14.2 Beta V1.3 Driver for Windows®
â—¾Thief: Crossfire Profile update and performance improvements for single GPU configurations
â—¾Mantle: Multi-GPU configurations (up to 4 GPUs) running Battlefield 4 are now supported
â—¾Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 are now supported with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4
â—¾Dual graphics DirectX 9 application issues have been resolved
â—¾Minecraft: Missing textures have been resolved
â—¾3D applications no longer see intermittent hangs or application crashes
â—¾Resolves corruption issues seen in X-plane.
Known Issues
â—¾Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpressâ„¢ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath
â—¾Thief does not render the right eye when CrossFire and Stereo 3D is enabled
â—¾Thief: Crossfire Profile update and performance improvements for single GPU configurations
â—¾Mantle: Multi-GPU configurations (up to 4 GPUs) running Battlefield 4 are now supported
â—¾Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 are now supported with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4
â—¾Dual graphics DirectX 9 application issues have been resolved
â—¾Minecraft: Missing textures have been resolved
â—¾3D applications no longer see intermittent hangs or application crashes
â—¾Resolves corruption issues seen in X-plane.
Known Issues
â—¾Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpressâ„¢ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath
â—¾Thief does not render the right eye when CrossFire and Stereo 3D is enabled
AMD Catalyst™ Display Driver 14.1 beta for Windows®
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.1 Beta Driver for Windows
Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:
â—¾AMD A10-7850K
â—¾AMD A10-7700K
Mantle Beta driver
â—¾AMD'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
â—¾Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
â—¾Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
â—¾AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
â—¾It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
â—¾AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ R7 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 7000 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 8000 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD 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
â—¾Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
â—¾Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
◾Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​
â—¾Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
â—¾Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
Resolved Issues
â—¾Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
â—¾Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
â—¾Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
â—¾Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
â—¾Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
â—¾Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
â—¾Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
â—¾Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
â—¾Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
â—¾Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
â—¾Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
â—¾Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
â—¾Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
â—¾Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
â—¾Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
â—¾Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
â—¾F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
â—¾Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
â—¾Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
â—¾Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
â—¾Choppy video playback on 4k Video
â—¾VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
â—¾Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
â—¾Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
â—¾Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
â—¾No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
â—¾Image crashed on Starcraft game
Known Issues
â—¾Mantle performance for the AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4â„¢ in future AMD Catalystâ„¢ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4â„¢ 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
â—¾Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFireâ„¢ technology in BattleField 4â„¢ - AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
â—¾Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpressâ„¢ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4â„¢
â—¾AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4â„¢
◾AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm​ application
â—¾AMD testing for the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeonâ„¢ 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 Catalystâ„¢ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
â—¾Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4â„¢
â—¾Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming release will enable support
â—¾DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming release will enable support
Support for the following new AMD Desktop APU (Accelerated Processors) products:
â—¾AMD A10-7850K
â—¾AMD A10-7700K
Mantle Beta driver
â—¾AMD'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
â—¾Performance gain of up to 45%(versus the DirectX version) for Battlefield 4 on the R9 290 Series
â—¾Performance gain of up to 200% (versus the DirectX version) for Star Swarm on the R9 290 Series
â—¾AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta must be used in conjunction with versions of these applications that support Mantle
â—¾It is expected that these applications will have future updates to support additional AMD Mantle features
â—¾AMD Mantle Beta driver is currently supported on:
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ R7 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 7000 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 8000 Series GPUs
â—¾AMD 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
â—¾Supported on 4K panels and Eyefinity configurations
â—¾Supported on AMD Dual Graphics configurations
◾Supported on DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications​​​
Resolved issue highlights of AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta​​
â—¾Resolves ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
â—¾Resolves flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
Resolved Issues
â—¾Ground texture flickering seen in Total War: Rome 2 with high settings (and below) set in game
â—¾Flickering texture corruption when playing Call of Duty: Ghosts (multi-player) in the space station level
â—¾Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD black screen on extended mode
â—¾Streaming VUDU HD/HDX content on Sharp PN-K321 (DP) causes the right-side half to flicker in and out
â—¾Black screen happened after wake up the monitor
â—¾Full screen issue at rotation in DX9 mode
â—¾Video window black screen when using Samsung Kies to play video
â—¾Crysis2 negative scaling in outdoor scene
â—¾Crysis2 has insufficient CrossFire scaling in some scene
â—¾Red Faction: The game has no or negative crossfire scaling with DX9 and DX11
â—¾Age of Conan has corruption and performance issues with crossfire enabled
â—¾Company of Heroes shadows are corrupted when using crossfire
â—¾Resident Evil5 's performance is unstable when display mode set to Window mode
â—¾Total War: Shogun 2 flickering menu/text
â—¾Frame rate drop when disabling post-processing in 3DMark06
â—¾Negative Crossfire scaling with game "The Secret World" in DX11 mode
â—¾F1 2012 Crashes to desktop
â—¾Tomb Raider Hair Simulation Stutters on CFX
â—¾Negative CrossFire scaling experienced in Call of Duty
â—¾Battlefield 3 performance drop on Haswell systems
â—¾Choppy video playback on 4k Video
â—¾VSync ON Tearing with 2x1 Eyefinity SLS CrossFire
â—¾Far Cry 3 - Game flickering while changing resolutions
â—¾Display corruption and BSOD occurs when extending a display after disabling Multiple GPU SLS array
â—¾Flickering seen when enable three 4kx2k panels at the same time
â—¾No Video, just a black screen when setting Chrome to run in "High Performance" when playing certain video clips
â—¾Image crashed on Starcraft game
Known Issues
â—¾Mantle performance for the AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 7000/HD 8000 Series GPUs and AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 280X and R9 270X GPUs will be optimized for BattleField 4â„¢ in future AMD Catalystâ„¢ releases. These products will see limited gains in BattleField 4â„¢ 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
â—¾Intermittent stuttering or stability issues may occur when utilizing Mantle with AMD CrossFireâ„¢ technology in BattleField 4â„¢ - AMD recommends using the DirectX code path when playing Battlefield 4 with multiple GPUs. A future AMD Catalyst release will resolve these issues
â—¾Notebooks based on AMD Enduro or PowerXpressâ„¢ technologies are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4â„¢
â—¾AMD Eyefinity configurations utilizing portrait display orientations are currently not supported by the Mantle codepath in Battlefield 4â„¢
◾AMD Eyefinity technology is not currently supported in the Star Swarm​ application
â—¾AMD testing for the AMD Catalystâ„¢ 14.1 Beta Mantle driver has been concentrated on the following products: AMD Radeonâ„¢ 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 Catalystâ„¢ releases will include full test coverage for all AMD products supported by Mantle.
â—¾Graphics hardware in the AMD A10-7850K and A10-7700K may override the presence of a discrete GPU under the Mantle code path in Battlefield 4â„¢
â—¾Frame Pacing for Dual Graphics and non-XDMA configurations above 2560x1600 do not currently work with Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4. An upcoming release will enable support
â—¾DX9 Dual graphics is not supported in AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta. An upcoming release will enable support
AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta9.5 for Windows®​​
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Resolves the issue of AMD Overdrive missing in the AMD Catalyst Control Center for the AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 290 Series graphics cards
Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270x graphics cards
Resolves graphics corruption seen in Starcraft®
Improves frame pacing r​esults in AMD Quad CrossFire™ configurations for the following: Hitman: Absolution, and Total War™​: Rome 2
Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270x graphics cards
Resolves graphics corruption seen in Starcraft®
Improves frame pacing r​esults in AMD Quad CrossFire™ configurations for the following: Hitman: Absolution, and Total War™​: Rome 2
AM​​D Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 9.4 Driver for Windows®
Driver Info! (Click to show)
May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
Improves AMD CrossFire™ scaling in the multi-player portion of Call of Duty®: Ghosts
AMD Enduro Technology Profile updates:
​XCOM:​ Enemy Unknown
Need for Speed Rivals
Improves AMD CrossFire™ scaling in the multi-player portion of Call of Duty®: Ghosts
AMD Enduro Technology Profile updates:
​XCOM:​ Enemy Unknown
Need for Speed Rivals
AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 9.2 for Windows®
Driver Info! (Click to show)
​​Call of Duty®: Ghost - Improves anti-aliasing performance, and updates the AMD CrossFire™ profile
AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 290 Series - PowerTune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®​ 9 applications ​​
AMD Radeonâ„¢ R9 290 Series - PowerTune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®​ 9 applications ​​
AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 8 for Windows®​​
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems
AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 7 Driver for Windows®
Driver Info! (Click to show)
Increases AMD CrossFire​™​ scaling up to an additional 20% for Battlefield 4
AMD Catalyst™ 13.11 Beta 6 Driver for Windows ® Driver Info! (Click to show)
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 Warâ„¢: 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 1â„¢ 2013 - improves performance up to 8%
DiRT 3 - improves performance up to 7%
Sleeping Dogs - improves performance up to 5%
​Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration​
Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays
[AMD Radeon​™ R9 290X
AMD Radeon R9 290
​Performance improvements
​Batman: Arkham Origins - improves performance up to 35% with MSAA 8x enabled
Total Warâ„¢: 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 1â„¢ 2013 - improves performance up to 8%
DiRT 3 - improves performance up to 7%
Sleeping Dogs - improves performance up to 5%
​Automatic AMD Eyefinity Configuration​
Automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported Ultra HD/4K tiled displays
USEFUL SOFTWARE & INFO SECTION 
Nvidia & AMD Drivers Un-install Utility
RadeonPro
Atiman Uninstaller v.7.0.2.msi
TechPowerUp GPU-Z
MSI Afterburner
Sapphire TriXX
ASUS GPU Tweak
OCCT
Fraps
Unigine Valley Benchmark
Futuremark 3DMark Benchmark
Memory Info Test
TechPowerUP Video BIOS Collection 290X
TechPowerUP Video BIOS Collection 290
TechPower UP - BIOS Flahsing - ATI Winflash 2.6.7
Stop Down Clocking by OCN member Sgt. Bilko 

Stop Down Clocking Instructions Using AB Beta 17 (Click to show)
Using AB 3.0.0 Beta 17, once you have applied your overclock you must go back into CCC and reset the Power Limit back to 50% again. Even though it says it's 50% in AB it's NOT 50% in CCC.
However IF CCC is disabled you DO NOT ENABLE OVERDRIVE in CCC and your AB settings will work.
NOTE: Whenever you set a new clock and your screen flashes you need to bump the power limit back up in CCC as well as it resets every time the driver does.
However IF CCC is disabled you DO NOT ENABLE OVERDRIVE in CCC and your AB settings will work.
NOTE: Whenever you set a new clock and your screen flashes you need to bump the power limit back up in CCC as well as it resets every time the driver does.
How to Uninstall GPU Drviers by OCN member BradleyW 

Unofficial OC Method by OCN member tsm106 

This is ONLY if you need to do this
Disabling ULPS! (Click to show)
Quote:
Source - The AMD How To Thread
Assumes you have no instance of AB, aka afterburner installed previously. If you do have AB installed previously, uninstall it or delete the folder. Also, it is generally a good idea to uninstall AB before any new driver install when you are crossfired. AB will automatically run, even when run at windows start is disabled, and when it does and it tries to fool with clocks you will BSOD with a 07E code.**
Run afterburner install. At this point, if you choose default install directory, there will incur security issues later on, just keep that in mind. I would recommend you install it in another folder/drive.
After install completes, do not check the option to start afterburner. If you are crossfired follow A- below to disable ULPS if you are using Unofficial Overclock Method (UOM) or , you can skip this portion if you are using Official Overclock Method (-xcl), however be warned that Afterburner will not be able to see your sleeping cards if you have ULPS enabled. Thus it's probably a good idea to disable ULPS anyways.
A- Disabling ULPS
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
This key 4D36E968, under CurrentControlSet is the only folder you need to access. You can ignore the others, so don't search for it just traverse directly to said folder. It's time to disable ULPS, or ultra low power savings. Inside the folder you will find more folders, 0000/0001/0002/etc so on and on.
Open each folder and double click on EnableULPS and change to 0. You do not need to change any other key, or any keys that look similar, just change EnableULPS. Close regedit. End of A-
At this point if you installed into default directory, you will have a security issue. Open file manager, go to where you installed afterburner and right click on MSIAfterburner.cfg and go to security, click edit, add yourself and give yourself full control, click ok.
Now go back and open MSIAfterburner.cfg in notepad.
Scroll to bottom and change this:
[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA =
UnofficialOverclockingMode= 0
to this:
[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it
UnofficialOverclockingMode= 1
**Note on the mode setting. Some new games are causing clock conflicts with Powerplay creating flickering on the desktop. You can avoid this by choosing 2, instead of 1. I am running with Powerplay off. Look Mom, no flickering. Refer to the bottom of Post 2 (in source 'The AMD How To Thread" ) for more info on this.**
Close and save MSIAfterburner.cfg. At this point download the file from the link above for AMD Clock Control files and run it. Do not reboot.
Now you can run afterburner for the first time. Afterburner will analyze the gpu asic and ask to reboot when ready. Choose yes to reboot. After reboot, you will have afterburner installed, you can then unlock voltage control and monitoring, etc. Happy overclocking.
Run afterburner install. At this point, if you choose default install directory, there will incur security issues later on, just keep that in mind. I would recommend you install it in another folder/drive.
After install completes, do not check the option to start afterburner. If you are crossfired follow A- below to disable ULPS if you are using Unofficial Overclock Method (UOM) or , you can skip this portion if you are using Official Overclock Method (-xcl), however be warned that Afterburner will not be able to see your sleeping cards if you have ULPS enabled. Thus it's probably a good idea to disable ULPS anyways.
A- Disabling ULPS
Open regedit and go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
This key 4D36E968, under CurrentControlSet is the only folder you need to access. You can ignore the others, so don't search for it just traverse directly to said folder. It's time to disable ULPS, or ultra low power savings. Inside the folder you will find more folders, 0000/0001/0002/etc so on and on.
Open each folder and double click on EnableULPS and change to 0. You do not need to change any other key, or any keys that look similar, just change EnableULPS. Close regedit. End of A-
At this point if you installed into default directory, you will have a security issue. Open file manager, go to where you installed afterburner and right click on MSIAfterburner.cfg and go to security, click edit, add yourself and give yourself full control, click ok.
Now go back and open MSIAfterburner.cfg in notepad.
Scroll to bottom and change this:
[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA =
UnofficialOverclockingMode= 0
to this:
[ATIADLHAL]
UnofficialOverclockingEULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it
UnofficialOverclockingMode= 1
**Note on the mode setting. Some new games are causing clock conflicts with Powerplay creating flickering on the desktop. You can avoid this by choosing 2, instead of 1. I am running with Powerplay off. Look Mom, no flickering. Refer to the bottom of Post 2 (in source 'The AMD How To Thread" ) for more info on this.**
Close and save MSIAfterburner.cfg. At this point download the file from the link above for AMD Clock Control files and run it. Do not reboot.
Now you can run afterburner for the first time. Afterburner will analyze the gpu asic and ask to reboot when ready. Choose yes to reboot. After reboot, you will have afterburner installed, you can then unlock voltage control and monitoring, etc. Happy overclocking.
How much PSU is required to run a 290X by OCN member SonDa5 

How to give more volts on MSI Afterburner by OCN member sugarhell 

ADD more volts to MSI AB Guide (Click to show)
Source
Just use /wi4,30,8d,10 for 100mv. The offset is 6.25 mv in hexademical. So on decimal is :16*6.25=100 mv. For 50mv you need 8. For 200mv you need 20( 20=32 on dec. So 32 * 6.25=200mv)
The easy way to do changes:
Create a txt on desktop. Write
CD C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner
MSIAfterburner.exe /wi4,30,8d,10
and then save as .bat file. Eveyrtime you start this bat file msi will start with +100mv
For 50mv: 8
For 100mv:10
For 125mv:14
For 150mv:18
For 175mv:1C
For 200mv:20
I wouldn't go over this point because
1)You are close to leave the sweet spot of the ref pcb vrms efficiency
2)These commands add 200mv on top of the 100mv offset through AB gui.That means 300mv
By default /wi command apply to current gpu only. So if you have 2 or more gpus you must use /sg command. That means the command line is something like that
ex:MsiAfterburner.exe /sg0 /wi6,30,8d,10 /sg1 /wi6,30,8d,10
Just use /wi4,30,8d,10 for 100mv. The offset is 6.25 mv in hexademical. So on decimal is :16*6.25=100 mv. For 50mv you need 8. For 200mv you need 20( 20=32 on dec. So 32 * 6.25=200mv)
The easy way to do changes:
Create a txt on desktop. Write
CD C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner
MSIAfterburner.exe /wi4,30,8d,10
and then save as .bat file. Eveyrtime you start this bat file msi will start with +100mv
For 50mv: 8
For 100mv:10
For 125mv:14
For 150mv:18
For 175mv:1C
For 200mv:20
I wouldn't go over this point because
1)You are close to leave the sweet spot of the ref pcb vrms efficiency
2)These commands add 200mv on top of the 100mv offset through AB gui.That means 300mv
By default /wi command apply to current gpu only. So if you have 2 or more gpus you must use /sg command. That means the command line is something like that
ex:MsiAfterburner.exe /sg0 /wi6,30,8d,10 /sg1 /wi6,30,8d,10
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Water Blocks and Back Plates
R9 290X & 290 
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VID-AR290X Koolance Water Block (AMD Radeon R9 290, 290X) - LINK
XSPC - Razor R9 290X / 290 Water Block - LINK
XSPC - Razor R9 290X / 290 Backplate - LINK
Swiftech - KOMODO-R9-LE R9 290X / 290 Backplate - LINK
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