AMD releases Catalyst 15.9 Beta for Fable Legends and Star Wars: Battlefront

It has been an eventful game year, both in terms of actual game releases but also in terms of the news of what is to come. In addition to virtual reality, one of the big snacks of the year has undoubtedly been the upcoming interfaces DirectX 12 and Vulkan, which give developers closer access to the hardware – close to metal Which in any case in theory should lead to more efficient use and higher performance.

First out of the duo is DirectX 12 and among the first games is Fable Legends, which has already appeared in performance tests and will be released sharply later this year. Therefore, AMD is taking the opportunity to release the driver Catalyst 15.9 Beta, where one of the big news is just optimizations for the game.

In addition to DirectX 12 optimizations, the driver includes performance optimizations for the upcoming major title Star Wars: Battlefront from Swedish DICE, which launches an open beta test in early October and follows up with a launch in November.

AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta can be downloaded from the company’s official website, where there is also a list of a number of bug fixes as well as known problems.