Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ Omega Windows Driver
Introducing the AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver for Windows, a "Special Edition" driver delivered to enhance the AMD GPU and APU experience. The AMD Catalyst™ Omega driver contains over 20 new features, performance improvements, and significant number of bug fixes and improvements. All improvements will be carried forward in subsequent driver releases.

Virtual Super Resolution (VSR):
Render games at higher resolution and display them at lower resolution. Up to 4k quality gaming on 1080p HD displays
Smoother textures and edges
Game and Engine agnostic solution
Simulates Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) for games that don't support it
Enabled through AMD Catalyst™ Control Center
Select higher resolution in-game settings
Available on AMD Radeon™ R9 290 series, and AMD Radeon R9 285 GPUs
5K Monitor Support:
Unparalleled display performance for professionals and gamers who require the highest resolution available and silky-smooth, fatigue-free graphics
5120x2880 at 60Hz
14.7 million pixels, 218 pixels-per-inch
Dual DisplayPort 1.2 input
Available on AMD FirePro™ and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
Alienware Graphics Amplifier:
Support for AMD Radeon™ Graphics in Alienware Graphics Amplifier
Expand the capability of the Alienware 13 notebook with a high-performance AMD Radeon graphics card
Drive resolutions up to 4K
Performance that far exceeds the built-in graphics.
Supported on select AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 series GPUs and newer
Perfect Picture Enhancements:
AMD Fluid Motion Video – Smooth Blu-ray playback with lower power APUs
High quality frame rate conversion
Interpolates frames using GPU compute
Removes video judder
Available on AMD 7000 Series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R7 & R9 series GPUs
Contour Removal – Improved algorithm for compressed videos
Removes compression artifacts without disturbing video details
Available on AMD Athlon™ APUs, AMD 7000 series APUs, and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
Perfect Picture Additions:
1080p Detail Enhancement now for APUs
Provides look-and-feel of 1080p video to lower-resolution content
Improves frequency response and controllability of overshoot and noise immunity
Available on AMD 7000 series APUs and AMD Radeon™ R series GPUs
Ultra HD-Like Experience - Makes 1080P videos 4K-like
Combination of:
Fluid Motion Video
Detail Enhancement
Adaptive upscaling
Available on AMD Radeon™ R7 260 and higher
Frame Pacing Enhancements for AMD Dual Graphics:
Includes enhancements for
Metro 2033
World of Warcraft
3DMark 11
Sniper Elite V2
Tomb Raider
Hitman: Absolution
GRID 2
Alien: Isolation
Batman: Arkham Origins
BioShock: Infinite
Unigine Valley Benchmark
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Metro 2033 Redux
Sniper Elite 3
Assassin's Creed Unity
Metro: Last Light
AMD CrossFire™ Frame Pacing improvements:
Designed to reduce stuttering from graphics memory intensive applications: Tomb Raider, Hitman Absolution, Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3
OpenCL™ 2.0 Support:
New features give GPUs more freedom to do the work they are designed to do
Shared virtual memory
Enables host and device kernels to directly share complex pointer based data structures, eliminating explicit transfers between the host and devices while increasing programming flexibility.
Device-side Enqueue
Updated for improved programmability and increased application efficiency
Generic address space
Enables functions to be written without named address spaces which increases flexibility and saves time by eliminating the need for multiple functions to be written.
Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 WHQL
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ performance optimizations
Mantle API activated for ultimate performance in Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare performance optimizations
Up to 30% performance increases with FXAA and lower game resolutions
Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
Assassin's Creed® Unity performance optimizations
Single GPU performance improvements
Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
Dragon Age: Inquisition performance optimizations
Up to 15% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Optimized AMD CrossFire™ Profile update for improved performance
Far Cry 4 performance optimizations
Up to 50% performance increase in single GPU scenarios with Anti-Aliasing enabled.
Year over Year Performance Optimizations versus AMD Catalyst™ 13.12 WHQL*
Up to 19% more performance since launch in some games on AMD Radeon R Series GPUs
Up to 29% more performance since launch in some games on various AMD APUs
*Measured across various AMD Radeon R Series GPU and AMD APU configurations in over 30 game titles
Driver Efficiency Improvement:
Driver optimization for multi core CPUs allows up to 15% more performance for some AMD platforms
Resolved Issues:
14.9 Install issues for intermittent crash or black screen after install
14.9 Catalyst™ Control Center issues have occasional AMDMantle64.dll error popups during install
[406244] Online video can sometimes crash when watching YouTube videos with hardware acceleration enabled
[406590] Watching online flash videos in Google Chrome sometimes causes the browser to hang when hardware acceleration is enabled
[406493] Displays that go in to sleep mode intermittently causes the display to not wake up
[404081] AHCI Chipset Drivers can sometimes cause the system to crash on boot-up
[405807] 144Hz displays in AMD CrossFire™ configurations can cause intermittent crashing when launching D3D Applications
[403996] Game stuttering or screen tearing in Quad CrossFire™
[402133] State of Decay textures can intermittently extrude beyond their boundaries or be corrupted
[405738] HDMI audio stays disabled when a connected TV is disabled and then re-enabled
Known Issues:
[410367] System black hangs/BSOD upon resuming from S3/S4 sleep on AMD Radeon™ R9 285 configured in AMD CrossFire™ mode
[410293] With AMD CrossFire™ enabled, Timeout Detection Recovery (TDR) occurs during actual gameplay when YouTube Mix moves to the next song in Firefox®
[408368] Some artifacting will be seen in certain scenarios with AMD Fluid Motion Enabled
[407622] Screen tearing on enabling VSync with Alien: Isolation game
[407934] Frame drops may occasionally be observed playing back progressive Blu Ray content on some AMD Kaveri APU configurations
[407095] 3D movies cannot be viewed using Power DVD on some AMD Kaveri APU configurations with only 2GB of single channel memory
[407175] Catalyst Control Center Video Quality settings may not be available or retained if the "Enforce Smooth Video Playback" option is not selected on some AMD HD series GPU's.
[406495] Pull down detection fails to lock in Metro Video playback applications
[410255] A system restart or hang may be observed on sleep/resume while transcoding video with Media Espresso
[410398] A black screen may be experienced when attempting to enable Eyefinity after changing the display mode (Portrait, Landscape)
[410391] Primary display may not be retained after disabling Crossfire while in Eyefinity mode
[409705] Enabling or disabling Crossfire may lead to one side of the 4K MST display being shown as black
[410393] Minor stuttering may be seen in Dragon Age Inquisition on Single and Multi GPU configurations​