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AMD has released new AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta drivers for Linux



Highlights of the AMD Catalyst:tm: 13.8 Beta Driver for Linux:
This release of AMD Catalyst:tm: Linux introduces support for the following new features:

OpenGL 4.3 support
Dynamic primary surface resizing
Kernel 3.10 support
SLED 11 SP3 support

Resolved Issues:

[380355] Source Engine games hang when running on the High Performance ASIC
[330287] Maya 2012 Paint brush fails to leave trails in real time while painting at some areas when desktop effects enabled
[345211] Incorrect object picking in Autodesk Maya using UAV selection solver
[376838] Autodesk Maya fluids display visually very pixelated even at higher resolutions of the fluid voxels
[376823] Mesh/polygons selection take too long to select and deselect compared to Nvidia in Maya 2011-2013
[372767] Unigine Heaven 4.0 crash in high performance GPU
[376891] Enable Optimization on SGPU for 11% Performance gain (unigine heaven)
[377640] Unigine Heaven OGL stops responding at high resolutions with VSync enabled
[376842] Left4Dead2 Corruption is observed
[378135] Left4Dead2 Yellow Screen Bug
[379940] Left4Dead2 Gamma Correction Corruption
[381765] Visual artifacts for XvBA playback with CABAC=No
[380590] The menus are unbelievably slow with vsync disabled for XBMC
[381120] Kernel 3.10 support
[379176] “Testing use only” watermark removed
[356014] AA does not function with desktop effects enabled

Open Issues:

[370421] Quake4 fails to render in game sky properly at certain points with High Performance GPU
[377432] Unigine Heaven at high resolution and settings will show intermittent corruptions in crossfire
[380998] System hang when running Counter Strike: Source at low settings on Linux
[382494] C4Engine show corruptions with GL_ARB_texture_array enabled
  AMD Catalyst 13.8 LINUX Beta Driver