AMD releases WHQL-certified Catalyst 13.4 drivers

Coinciding with the launch of the Radeon HD 7990, AMD has released updated Catalyst drivers, bringing the count up to 13.4. These are the first WHQL-certified drivers released by the CPU and GPU manufacturer in three months. Our resident GPU Editor and author of the driver analyses pieces will hopefully have a piece up on them soon.

The drivers bring official support for the newly released HD 7790 and HD 7990. They fix or bring support for the following:

• Full stack of performance optimizations for Crysis 3, bringing the many enhancements we've developed for our beta drivers into the certified driver tree.
• Full stack of performance optimizations for BioShock Infinite, bringing the many enhancements we've developed for our beta drivers into the certified driver tree.
• Full stack of performance optimizations for Tomb Raiderâ„¢, bringing the many enhancements we've developed for our beta drivers into the certified driver tree.
• Windows Hardware Certification for AMD Radeonâ„¢ HD 7990 and HD 7790 GPUs
• Up to 5% improved performance in Batman: Arkham City
• Up to 10% improved performance in Borderlands 2
• Up to 14% improved performance in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars with MSAA
• Up to 11% improved performance for Hitman Absolutionâ„¢
• Up to 11% improved performance in Return to Castle Wolfenstein MP
• Up to 5% improved performance in Sid Meier's Civilization V
• Performance optimizations for the 2013 release of SimCity
• Resolves rare image corruption seen in Tomb Raiderâ„¢ with TressFX Hair enabled
• Implements the frame latency fixes for Tomb Raiderâ„¢ and Hitman Absolutionâ„¢ that were tested in our beta drivers
• Implements the DirectX 9.0c texture flickering fixes developed and tested in our beta drivers
• Adds support for the following OpenGL 4.3 extensions:
• GL_ARB_compute_shader
• GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
• GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
• GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
• GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
• GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
• GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
• GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
• GL_ARB_program_interface_query
• GL_ARB_shader_image_size
• GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
• GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
• GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

To download the newest drivers, you can head over to AMD's driver support site.