Last night AMD released a new Catalyst driver, 15.5 Beta, that targets performance improvements in both Project Cars and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. You can pick up the new driver for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 right here. The full display driver version is 14.502.1014.1001.

The specific changes?

Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 15.5 Beta Windows Driver

Crossfire Profile Update for:

  • The Witcher 3 – Wild Hunt

Performance Improvements for the following :

  • The Witcher 3 – Wild Hunt :  Up to 10% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9  and R7 Series graphics products
     
  • Project Cars – Up to 17% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products

Users of the Radeon R9 295X2 will be glad to see support for their hardware added for The Witcher 3 and just about everyone will be glad to see some dramatic performance improvements in Project Cars and Witcher 3. We know from testing internally as well as widely reported issues that AMD Radeon graphics cards had issues with Project Cars, resulting in performance well behind comparable NVIDIA GeForce hardware. With as much as 17% improvement for Radeon R9 and R7 hardware though, hopefully that frame rate increases quite a bit.

We'll be doing some testing with this new driver here today, and if anything jumps out at us, we'll be sure to let you know!