AMD Catalyst 11.7 WHQL

[Broken Hope]

Unistalled it after a little look.

Offers nothing beneficial over just the display drivers, except introduces the possiblity to negatively impact performance through missettings.

The last time I tried the auto tune feature on my 3870x2 back in 2009, it screwed it up to the point that I lost my 60hz refresh rate. The max the card would go too even after a restore to default, was 59hz.....

Would rather not screw with my 5870.

So don't overclock via the CCC? Seriously why wouldn't you want access to forced AA/AF, video settings etc etc?

 

[Jack Bauer]

HD play back using VLC in winXP doesnt seem any different. Im still getting the odd jerk now and then and the cpu usage doesnt change if video accelaration is on or off.


EDIT: nm, it seems its VLC that does not support windows XP

"VLC 1.1.0 - released yesterday, according to CrunchGear- now features hardware decoding of H.264 video under Windows Vista and Windows 7 on Nvidia hardware and under Linux on ATI or Nvidia hardware. Sadly, users of Windows versions prior to Vista - such as the still-popular Windows XP - are left out in the cold on this one, as are those using Apple systems."

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/06/23/vlc-1-1-0-adds-gpu-acceleration/1

 

[ThundyCat]

I don't get it, Catalyst maker said 11.7 was going to get Crysis 2 DX11 performance improvements, lots of hype creating for it.

It would seem that the Crysis 2 performance will come with 11.8.

Up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of product.

 

[Steves1982]

Is that only in crossfire?

TBH I'm not really sure, not tried it for any length of time on a single card.

It doesn't seem to happen at any particular area or level, just randomly about 3-4 times over a couple of hour period.

 

[ThundyCat]

TBH I'm not really sure, not tried it for any length of time on a single card.

It doesn't seem to happen at any particular area or level, just randomly about 3-4 times over a couple of hour period.

Have you tried 'chief barker' fix and disabled "bloom"

 

[Steves1982]

On these 11.7 drivers?



For me it does, I just disable bloom.

I've had it on all the drivers since I got the game.

I will try disabling bloom when I next play. Is that likely to be the cause of the problem?

 

[ThundyCat]

I've had it on all the drivers since I got the game.

I will try disabling bloom when I next play. Is that likely to be the cause of the problem?

No idea I only have the one card.

Worth a shot though.

 

[chief barker]

I've had it on all the drivers since I got the game.

I will try disabling bloom when I next play. Is that likely to be the cause of the problem?

Trust me, it is the cause.

 

[Purgatory]

Blaa 11.7 is no better or worse then 11.6... So install them and maybe will stop some silly bugs you may have with 11.6. 11.6 were fine for me didn't really have any problems with them. Framerates are a little better for some games and little worse for others and I really mean a tiny change, could be 1-2 frames change +/-.

 

[Steves1982]

Trust me, it is the cause.

Cheers, much appreciated.

 

[dante6491]

This driver is causing me to have crashes with flash player in firefox left right and centre. Going back to 11.6 methinks.

 

[Nuwidol]

Brink performance has dropped even more. 2 x 6970 = 100fps in 11.5 to 50fps in 11.6 & now 35fps in 11.7. Way to go AMD!

 

[V F]

Odd... I'm on 11.6 with 11.6 CAP2 and is just as good as 11.5b. Think I'll stick with 11.6 if 11.7 is like that. I'm not faffing about anymore considering I've got Brink performance back.

 

[Squark]

These drivers seem to have messed with my text/font in firefox.
Any idea how to correct this?