AMD Catalyst 12.11 Driver Problems

[GamingRealist]

I have a sapphire 7870 oc'd to 1170/1380MHz.
Yesterday i cam across the 12.11 beta drivers which claim to give a boost of around 20% in BF3 and in other games. That is pretty darn amazing
So i installed the driver and played battlefield 3 on ultra. Usually i get 55-65 fps on average, and the driver increased it to 70+!!!
Everything went well, until the game crashed and gave me a blue screen and restarted my pc. So i decided to downgrade back to the 12.10 drivers, and everything was fine.


Could someone please help me as the new driver is really good and i don't wanna miss out on the action.

TY.

 

[GamingRealist]

This. The stable overclock you found was for the 12.10, not the 12.11 beta.

So i have to lessen the oc in order to play 12.11? But if i do, what is the point as lessening it will just make it the same performance even if i upgrade?

 

[GamingRealist]

The 12.11 is stated for improvements in BF3 however that is only a generalisation for the cards running there factory clocks. Not an increase on an already clocked card.

With respect, how can you be ignorant to that?

Hmm, now that i look back, i was being pretty ignorant. Guess ill just stay w/ 12.10

 

[GamingRealist]

Well... my clocks are back to stock and 12.11 drivers running and there it is a higher performance than OC on 12.10 drivers.