AMD's New Catalyst Linux Driver Isn't Too Good

Published on November 22, 2012
Written by Michael Larabel
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There weren’t any performance changes out of the very basic World of Padman game.

The Prey game had broken with the new AMD Catalyst Linux driver.

Reaction was presented by some small dips in the frame-rate with the new Catalyst Linux driver beta.

The Unigine Heaven benchmarks failed with the new AMD Catalyst Linux driver. On the tested hardware there were now invalid memory reference errors on the tested hardware with the new binary driver release.

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