AMD has released a new beta driver which offers performance improvements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Project CARS. According to the changelog the driver adds a Crossfire profile for The Witcher 3 while offering up to 10% performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 series,as well as up to 17% performance increase on multi-GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series setups.

The new Beta driver can be downloaded here.

AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta driver Release Notes can be viewed below.

Highlights:

Crossfire Profiles updates 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 productsProject Cars – Up to 17% performance increase on Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products

Known Issues:

The Witcher 3 – Wild Hunt: Crossfire users may experience poor performance or random flickering. As a workaround we suggest disabling Anti-Aliasing from the game’s video – post processing settings. If the issues persist further, we suggest disabling Crossfire while we continue to work with CD Projekt Red to resolve this issue.Project CARS: Corruption may be observed if Anti-Aliasing is set to DS2M. As a workaround we suggest using a different Anti-Aliasing setting.

Optimizing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Performance on AMD Radeon Graphics

Further to installing Catalyst 15.5 Beta, there are additional manual steps AMD Radeon customers can take to improve the performance of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Please refer to the following KB support page in order to ensure you get the best possible experience in The Witcher 3.

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The Witcher 3 is available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. We will bring you any new information on The Witcher 3 as soon as it becomes available.

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