Cat 11.11

RoEy · 16 Nov 2011 at 19:29

Ste said:
Performance increases in L4D2, superb, was really struggling with 300 fps

Lmao!

Hope it sorts my crossfire issue as in I can no longer game in crossfire mode but that sounds more like the card and not the drivers, but here goes.....

RoEy

vanp · 16 Nov 2011 at 19:30

I 'upgraded' (I use that term loosely) to the 11.11 drivers last night and have had no end of problems with BF3.

I bought an HIS IceQ Turbo HD 6870 a month ago and have been enjoying eyefinity in all it's glory. I've overclocked the card to 1000mhz gpu and 1250mhz mem, all running stable and never gets above 70degrees.

Was running 11.10 preview 2 in a stable fashion, thought I'd try the official 11.11 and now within 10 mins of gameplay I start to get what look like scan lines horizontally across the 3 screens. It starts with only a few, getting progressively worse until the display starts to break up into boxes and it shifts the images around like a jigsaw puzzle, it then becomes unplayable and I have to reboot my PC. Just exiting BF3, doesnt stop it. Never had this problem until I upgraded.

It's so frustrating. I had an HIS IceQ HD4670 before this, lovely little card, overclocked extremely well, but also had no end of driver problems. I think I gave up trying to upgrade the drivers after either 11.3 or 11.4, because everyone was broken and caused crashing.

So now I'm going to try the 11.10 preview 3 someone posted a link to. If that fails, it will be back to preview 2 I already have downloaded.

Oh, and I also use the uninstall, boot into safe mode, run driver cleaner, then ccleaner method (including registry clean as it always leaves crap behind) then reboot and install new drivers.

RoEy · 16 Nov 2011 at 20:03

RoEy said:
Lmao!

Hope it sorts my crossfire issue as in I can no longer game in crossfire mode but that sounds more like the card and not the drivers, but here goes.....

RoEy

Nope didn't work. Ahhhh well.........

coupe69 · 16 Nov 2011 at 20:37

Damien. said:
At this rate, I am tempted to sell my 6970's and get a pair of 560Ti's.

AMD are completely unprofessional with these current driver releases.

What a difference a year makes

The quote below was posted 11th September last year.

Damien. said:
As you probably knew, because I remember you posting in my thread, I very nearly made the jump to Nvidia.

All I can say is thank God I didn't, I love my crossfire setup and haven't had any issues with the 10.8 drivers. Really happy I decided to keep my 5870's and will probably stick with ATI for the next few years.

From the thread entitled "Put off by ATi?"

This sort of thread along with the moaning certainly seems to be a common occurence, you know what they say "theres no smoke without fire"

I'll get my coat

Final8y · 16 Nov 2011 at 20:45

HEADRAT said:
To have a later revision of a driver "break" something that was "fixed" in an earlier revision is unacceptable.

HEADRAT

Which NV also suffer from, with users also saying later drivers broke something for them.

wolvers · 16 Nov 2011 at 20:48

These are the shizz in BF3 with xfire. Was ~85/85 usage, now ~99/99.

Final8y · 16 Nov 2011 at 20:50

coupe69 said:
What a difference a year makes The quote below was posted 11th September last year.

From the thread entitled "Put off by ATi?"

This sort of thread along with the moaning certainly seems to be a common occurence, you know what they say "theres no smoke without fire"

I'll get my coat

Your are right! that door swings both ways, its all about the timing of what some users are using at any given time to not be effected when each side has their bad spells and then they kidd themselves that the other side never has any issues for users.

chief barker · 16 Nov 2011 at 21:01

wolvers said:
These are the shizz in BF3 with xfire. Was ~85/85 usage, now ~99/99.

diverse180 · 16 Nov 2011 at 21:03

Back to 11.10 for me.

BF3 running like crap with xfire 5850's on 11.11 (with and without caps).

Final8y · 16 Nov 2011 at 21:11

Everyone should be checking the temps of the cards because when the throttling kicks in its stutter time.

I also found that i need to set the fans too 100% manually to just keep it under the limit.

This game is the first of its kind to hammer my Hex CPU upto 90% usage and upto Quad GPU 90% usage, I'm impressed.

Evilpaul · 16 Nov 2011 at 21:43

I'm getting regular BSODs when playing WoW with the 11.11 drivers, so I'm not impressed with this latest release either.

elrasho · 16 Nov 2011 at 22:08

d_brennen said:
Sometimes I get 99% usage on my 5850s, most of the time it hovers over 70-90. Not too fussed as its 80-150fps and smooth as

Is that with 11.11?

wolvers · 16 Nov 2011 at 22:14

diverse180 said:
Back to 11.10 for me.

BF3 running like crap with xfire 5850's on 11.11 (with and without caps).

Try disabling windows aero. Seems to cause issues with BF3 on every driver I've tried.

twist3d0n3 · 16 Nov 2011 at 22:20

mine, on previous drivers were stuttering in bf3 like a whore; it didn't seem to do it for the first hour or so of play, but after that would encounter frequent frame drops, and looking at usage would show the 2nd and 3rd gpu dropping to as low as 25ish% usage... this driver hasn't done that yet at all...

d_brennen · 16 Nov 2011 at 22:35

elrasho said:
Is that with 11.11?

11.10 with cap4. I'm a firm believer of not trying to.fix something which isn't broke. I've downloaded the 11.11 and the cap but in no rush to install.

elrasho · 16 Nov 2011 at 23:12

d_brennen said:
11.10 with cap4. I'm a firm believer of not trying to.fix something which isn't broke. I've downloaded the 11.11 and the cap but in no rush to install.

Me too

I'm not trying these 11.11 drivers. Getting 100fps with my CF 5850s, don't want to mess that up

diverse180 · 16 Nov 2011 at 23:15

wolvers said:
Try disabling windows aero. Seems to cause issues with BF3 on every driver I've tried.

Makes no difference I'm afraid, wolvers.

Have gone back to 11.10 / CAP4 and BF3 is now running fine again...well, better than 11.11 at least.

H@mmer · 17 Nov 2011 at 05:23

Having no issues so far with the new 11.11 and CAP1 release on BF3. Running 6870 crossfire on Win 7 x64 Pro.

vanp · 17 Nov 2011 at 09:37

Further to my previous comments, it appears that the scan line/graphical corruption was not due to the 11.11 drivers, but rather, I had somehow managed to switch off my custom fan profile in Afterburner. So the card was getting a little bit too hot, what with the overclock!

I turned it back on, saved the profile, and after hours of play, I've not had it since!

I did still roll back to 11.10 drivers though as they worked fine, and I did notice some fps drops withn the new one, where there werent any before.

As an aside, is anybody running a single 6870 in eyefinity on BF3, if so, what sort of framerate are you seeing? I'm running mostly high settings, 16x AF, no AA and 3840x1024 resolution - seeing late 40s to mid 50s fps, which I think is pretty respectable. Got a score of 699 on unigine with this setup!

elrasho · 17 Nov 2011 at 09:47

vanp said:
Further to my previous comments, it appears that the scan line/graphical corruption was not due to the 11.11 drivers, but rather, I had somehow managed to switch off my custom fan profile in Afterburner. So the card was getting a little bit too hot, what with the overclock!

I turned it back on, saved the profile, and after hours of play, I've not had it since!

I did still roll back to 11.10 drivers though as they worked fine, and I did notice some fps drops withn the new one, where there werent any before.

As an aside, is anybody running a single 6870 in eyefinity on BF3, if so, what sort of framerate are you seeing? I'm running mostly high settings, 16x AF, no AA and 3840x1024 resolution - seeing late 40s to mid 50s fps, which I think is pretty respectable. Got a score of 699 on unigine with this setup!

I get the green graphical glitches and my cards run at just 60C under load with no overclock..???