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• When installing the AMD Catalyst Driver for Windows® operating system, the user must be logged on as Administrator, or have Administrator rights to complete the installation of the AMD Catalyst Driver.
• The AMD Catalyst 13.12 Software Suite requires Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to be installed.
• These release notes provide information on the AMD Catalyst Display Driver only. For information on the AMD Multimedia Center™, HydraVision, HydraVision Basic Edition, Remote Wonder™, or the Southbridge/IXP driver, please refer to their respective release notes found at: http://support.amd.com/.
• The AMD Catalyst 13.12 Software Suite requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 to be installed. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is included in all Catalyst packages.
• AMD Eyefinity technology is designed to give gamers access to high display resolutions. As pixel count grows, the graphics “horsepower” required to drive the displays at a reasonable frame rate can increase dramatically. Depending on the game and system configuration, users may notice texture corruption and reduced frame rates when running games in multi-monitor Eyefinity modes.
• Windows Driver Model (WDM) drivers are no longer bundled in the AMD Catalyst software suite. The WDM drivers install bundle can be downloaded independently through the AMD website.

Resolved Issues:

• May resolve intermittent black screens or display loss observed on some AMD Radeon™ R9 290X and AMD Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
• Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX® 9 applications
• AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series - Power Tune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
• PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in an AMD CrossFire configuration
• Resolves incorrect HDMI Audio Driver information being listed in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Resolves AMD Steady Video option being grayed out in the AMD Catalyst Control Center
• Resolves intermittent flickering seen on some AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics cards
• Resolves graphics corruption issues found in Starcraft®
• Resolves image corruption seen in Autodesk Investor 2014
• Resolves flickering water corruption found in World of Warcraft®
• Resolves flickering water corruption found in World of Warcraft®
• Resolves intermittent crashes experienced with Battlefield 4 on Windows 8 based systems
• Resolves the display turning green when using Windows Media Player to view HD .avi format video in an extended desktop configuration
• Resolves Metro applications experiencing frame drops during playback of interlaced video content
• Resolves video playback corruption of .wmv format files in Windows Media Player

Known Issues:​

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced with the AMD Catalyst Software Suite.

• [378812]: Windows 8 Metro Applications do not run when Morphological AA is enabled in the Catalyst Control Center
• ​​[379732]: Choppy Blu-ray Playback on four DisplayPort out using Eyefinity 4x1 configuration
• [388366]: System hang when going to S4 mode
• [390674]: Hitman Absolution and Total War Rome2 DX11 show no improvement in in frame time with frame pacing and Quad CrossFire enabled

Installing the AMD Catalyst™ Software Driver

For detailed instructions on how to correctly uninstall or install the AMD Catalyst™ Software Suite, please refer to the following instructional​ resources:

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  How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers from a Windows® Based System
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  How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers for a Windows® Based System

AMD Issue Reporting Form​​​

• This d​river release incorporates suggestions received through the AMD Issue Reporting Form. To provide us with your feedback, visit the
  AMD Issue Reporting Form. ​​