AMD Catalyst 11.11c.

[Damien.]

Link here;

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/catalyst_11.11_hotfixes/amd_catalyst_11.11c_windows_vista_7.exe

Release notes to be posted shortly.

AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver features

Elder Scrolls Skyrim

New in Catalyst 11.11c: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for the AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
Improves performance 2-7% on single GPU configurations
Resolve corruption seen when enabling Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 Series

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling

Batman Arkham City

Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations

Rage

Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:
Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance
Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.
Fix issue with extreme corruption with missing textures on 32bit systems.
Fix memory leaks when deleting/reusing sync objects.
Fix hitching and pausing, especially noticeable on some Quad Core systems when doing races and Stanley Express runs.
Fix some missing shadows

Battlefield 3

Resolves intermittent corruption seen when playing the game at specific camera angles

 

[KNiVES]

This better sort out the abysmal performance of 11.11b. That was by far the worst driver in months.

Seems AMD are just churning these out wholesale instead of taking their time and doing a proper job.

 

[Firegod]

I'll wait for the release notes too. 11.11a are working fine for me at the moment.

 

[JeffyB]

This better sort out the abysmal performance of 11.11b. That was by far the worst driver in months.

Seems AMD are just churning these out wholesale instead of taking their time and doing a proper job.

These are beta drivers and come as is, you don't have to use them. Stick to the whql drivers if you don't want to try a beta driver.

 

[TAC4U]

Any chance these are the drivers that support Crossfire for 5xxx series cards in Skyrim?

 

[LtMatt]

I'll pass on these for now as 11.11b wasnt as good for me as 11.11a.

 

[Goates]

Any chance these are the drivers that support Crossfire for 5xxx series cards in Skyrim?

Just tried still bad so still no skyrim for me.

 

[stulid]

How many tries are ATI going to have?

 

[arc@css]

I never had any major troubles with their drivers, though I do think it might be worth them releasing them less frequently. In fact that's where I think half of the 'problem' lies, if they put out drivers less often then in theory they could only develop 'issues' as often as Nvidia do. It would be more of a one to one scale that way.

 

[TAC4U]

Just tried still bad so still no skyrim for me.

Given the Crossfire/driver issues with so many big games - like RAGE, BF3, Skyrim, etc - I'm strongly considering going with nVidia next generation. I know they've had their issues as well but nothing like AMD recently.

The problem I've got is that my card - HD5970 - requires Crossfire to perform well and both RAGE and Skyrim took weeks to see that support added, which is often after I've completed the games. I need good performance on day one. I also had serious graphical issues with both games, which undermines the experience considerably.

 

[Ezyryder]

Given the Crossfire/driver issues with so many big games - like RAGE, BF3, Skyrim, etc - I'm strongly considering going with nVidia next generation. I know they've had their issues as well but nothing like AMD recently.

The problem I've got is that my card - HD5970 - requires Crossfire to perform well and both RAGE and Skyrim took weeks to see that support added, which is often after I've completed the games. I need good performance on day one. I also had serious graphical issues with both games, which undermines the experience considerably.

Rage doesn't support SLI at all and probably never will FYI.