New AMD Catalyst video driver 13.4 - time to test it out.

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Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

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Apr 25, 2013 14:35

The next update to the AMD / ATI video graphics card driver is available from AMD:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Lets see what goodies / bugs we find . . . .

UPDATE: after doing 2 videos of 15 minute duration each and using different video sources, I have not found any issues using the current release 2812 of PD11 and AMD's 13.4. Nice for a change.

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Win 10, i7

PlaySound

Senior Contributor Joined: Dec 02, 2010 10:26 Messages: 2031 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 11:55

Installed here, works in PD10 and PD11 AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
SSD SUV400S37240G / 2-HD WD 1TB
AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
Windows 7-64 / PD16 Ultimate

Lostedge

Newbie Joined: Apr 27, 2013 14:19 Messages: 16 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 14:22

Quote: The next update to the AMD / ATI video graphics card driver is available from AMD:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Lets see what goodies / bugs we find . . . .

UPDATE: after doing 2 videos of 15 minute duration each and using different video sources, I have not found any issues using the current release 2812 of PD11 and AMD's 13.4. Nice for a change.

Installed AMD 13.5 Beta and PowerDirector 11 crashes always when producing a video. I am disappointed. Everything else works perfectly, but this software crashes ... Is it build on chewing gum?

Of course might be something else also that is causing the crash.

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All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 14:28

Beta is for folks who like to gamble and waste other folks time. When official releases can create problems it's not a good idea to add salt to the wound.

Beta = thread with caution. Win 10, i7

Lostedge

Newbie Joined: Apr 27, 2013 14:19 Messages: 16 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 14:58

Quote: Beta is for folks who like to waste other folks time.

That is little extreme way to put it. I would rather say that beta versions are those who want to be up-to-date instead of living in the past using Windows XP and floppy disks.

GGRussell

Senior Contributor Joined: Jan 08, 2012 11:38 Messages: 709 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 19:47

Beta is just that - software or drivers NOT READY for general release and most likely has issues. I wouldn't call that 'up-to-date'. More like 'bleeding edge'. Intel i7 4770k, 16GB, GTX1060 3GB, Two 240GB SSD, 4TB HD, Sony HDR-TD20V 3D camcorder, Sony SLT-A65VK for still images, Windows 10 Pro, 64bit
Gary Russell -- TN USA

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Apr 27, 2013 20:03

To add salt to the wound, Powerdirector has problems with many Beta versions of Graphics software.

Only use the Offical Release version. (WHQL)

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Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Yvotetac

Newbie Joined: May 06, 2013 07:04 Messages: 3 Offline

May 06, 2013 07:23

MP4 HD 1080/25p (13 Mbits/s) video with TrueVelocity3 :

Everything is good

WMV HD 1080/25p (10 Mbits/s) video with TrueVelocity3 :

The quality is not as good with the corruptions of images (small squares in purple or black areas in fast movements). The final file is heavier than 10% without hardware acceleration.

Powerdirector 11 build 2812 on Windows 7 x64.

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