AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Pre-Certified Driver 7xxx + CAP 3

[Final8y]

Windows 7 and Windows® Vista® support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit
Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing is now available for DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications

Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and 7700 Series
Users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications
Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements

Custom resolutions – users can now choose from a much larger set of display resolutions for their AMD Eyefinity configurations
Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations (when physically plugging/un-plugging displays) will occur automatically by loading the appropriate profile
HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
Profile Manager improvements: Users can now create multiple Display profiles, enabling users to seamlessly switch between various AMD Eyefinity and Display Configurations

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst122precertifieddriver.aspx

This CAT is missing the SDK, this causes all kinds of weird behavior if you try to cleansweep/atiman to remove prior CATs.

The simplest solution is to install 12.1 for none 7xxx users or before, then install this RC right over the top allowing CAT Manager to handle uninstalling necessarily components.

This will fix the AB OC issues, as well as the GPU-Z cat reporting issue...

The only thing ive found wrong with this release is after a length of time, powerplay ignores any unlocked vcore increases, and reverts to the bios default causing GPU resets if youve upped vcore and not flashed it to the bios.

AMD Catalyst™ Application Profiles 12.1 CAP 3

New profiles added to this release:
- Alan Wake - Improves CrossFire performance
- Syndicate – Improves both single GPU and CrossFire performance
- Darkness 2 – Improves CrossFire performance
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning – Improves CrossFire performance for the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series to avoid negative scaling at low resolutions
- Natural Selection 2 – Fixes shadow map flickering issue seen with CrossFire enabled

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

 

[dave_beast]

Nice one, check the AMD RSS feed every couple of hours, but gave up for today!

 

[Sobtanian]

Damn it I have an issue with these drivers, and actually every other one EXCEPT the original 11.12 RC (ie the first 7970 driver).

After installing and rebooting, the PC will BSOD about 30 seconds after the desktop loads, OR if I try to access the control centre before that. No matter what I do, this happens.

I've tried the usual uninstall-sweep-install, and installing over the older drivers and it's always the same

Worth noting is that I disable D3DOverrider and MSI afterburner from autostarting before installing new drivers, just in case they're causing grief.

Would be interested if anyone else has issues!

Win 7 x64 SP1; 7970x2 (Powercolor).

 

[Final8y]

Damn it I have an issue with these drivers, and actually every other one EXCEPT the original 11.12 RC (ie the first 7970 driver).

After installing and rebooting, the PC will BSOD about 30 seconds after the desktop loads, OR if I try to access the control centre before that. No matter what I do, this happens.

I've tried the usual uninstall-sweep-install, and installing over the older drivers and it's always the same

Worth noting is that I disable D3DOverrider and MSI afterburner from autostarting before installing new drivers, just in case they're causing grief.

Would be interested if anyone else has issues!

Win 7 x64 SP1; 7970x2 (Powercolor).

The Sweep part maybe your problem.

 

[dave_beast]

Working fine for me, however what's this installing in command line when first booting after install?

 

[Final8y]

Working fine for me, however what's this installing in command line when first booting after install?

Its beta so still has some debug and developer functions active i guess.

 

[Boomstick777]

Thanks, will try these out

 

[zuludawn]

Win 7 x64 SP1; 7970x2 XFX Black 1125 -1575

No problems here and a whole 1 fps extra in unigine 3711 - 147fps

 

[zuludawn]

Damn it I have an issue with these drivers, and actually every other one EXCEPT the original 11.12 RC (ie the first 7970 driver).

After installing and rebooting, the PC will BSOD about 30 seconds after the desktop loads, OR if I try to access the control centre before that. No matter what I do, this happens.

I've tried the usual uninstall-sweep-install, and installing over the older drivers and it's always the same

Worth noting is that I disable D3DOverrider and MSI afterburner from autostarting before installing new drivers, just in case they're causing grief.

Would be interested if anyone else has issues!

Win 7 x64 SP1; 7970x2 (Powercolor).

Have you overclocked and what are youre temps my GPU 1 gets up to 90 degree under load

Idle Gpu 1 49-50
Idle Gpu 2 41-42

 

[dave_beast]

Volts are less, temps are lower, better memory management in BF3

 

[Boomstick777]

9145 in 3D mark 11 with these @ 1075/1475, not bad...

 

[Sobtanian]

Have you overclocked and what are youre temps my GPU 1 gets up to 90 degree under load

Idle Gpu 1 49-50
Idle Gpu 2 41-42

Yes I have overclocked but as I mentioned, I disable afterburner before any driver updates.

I did a fresh install yesterday and low and behold it works now the only issue is that neither TRIXX nor AB can overclock. The former moans about ULPS being on (it's off) and the latter just keeps resetting to default clocks. I've read similar reports on guru3d so will investigate further.

As for my OC, it was 1150/1625 at 1.2v. My cards are water-cooled (reserator xt that only cools them) so idle temps low 30s and full Furmark load of around 59 after an hour.

 

[Ashfield]

hmm, will this break skyrim? every driver after 11.10 for me makes it go mental

 

[kitch9]

Damn it I have an issue with these drivers, and actually every other one EXCEPT the original 11.12 RC (ie the first 7970 driver).

After installing and rebooting, the PC will BSOD about 30 seconds after the desktop loads, OR if I try to access the control centre before that. No matter what I do, this happens.

I've tried the usual uninstall-sweep-install, and installing over the older drivers and it's always the same

Worth noting is that I disable D3DOverrider and MSI afterburner from autostarting before installing new drivers, just in case they're causing grief.

Would be interested if anyone else has issues!

Win 7 x64 SP1; 7970x2 (Powercolor).

Stop sweeping.... Its not needed and I doubt AMD will refer to the Driversweeper authors when they make changes.

It boggles my mind how people will trust a bedroom programmer to hose their system files over the guys who wrote the thing in the first place.

 

[Mr Krugga]

12.3 RC is out already.

What is this driver dated at?

 

[Ur round next]

If anyone plays ARMA 2 in here and has this new driver for the 7 series please can you tell me if this driver fixes the snow colour shrubs in the game

Thanks

 

[Sobtanian]

Stop sweeping.... Its not needed and I doubt AMD will refer to the Driversweeper authors when they make changes.

It boggles my mind how people will trust a bedroom programmer to hose their system files over the guys who wrote the thing in the first place.

Erm, I don't think you've read my post properly. I said I tried a sweep, as well as just installing without a sweep.

I've had many an issue solved because of lingering crap that sweeper has sorted out, but as a rule I just use a normal uninstall/install without driver sweeping. I only sweep when an install BSODs continuously for example, like the problems I was having.

Perhaps now you're mind is a little less boggled.

 

[Final8y]

Erm, I don't think you've read my post properly. I said I tried a sweep, as well as just installing without a sweep.

I've had many an issue solved because of lingering crap that sweeper has sorted out, but as a rule I just use a normal uninstall/install without driver sweeping. I only sweep when an install BSODs continuously for example, like the problems I was having.

Perhaps now you're mind is a little less boggled.

The point is you sweep once and then the damage can be permanent, some drivers will install and some wont.

I tested by installing about 6 sets of drivers, then i sweep then only 2 sets would install and the only way to fix that was system restore.
Then i did a fresh OS install and did it all again to make sure the first test was not a fluke and the same results happened.

 

[Ashfield]

the folder that the driver unpacks to - C:/AMD

is it ok to delete these? its currently 2gb in size. I assume the driver installs elsewhere?

 

[Final8y]

the folder that the driver unpacks to - C:/AMD

is it ok to delete these? its currently 2gb in size. I assume the driver installs elsewhere?

They are only the unpacks so yes you can delete.