AMD Catalyst™ 11.5b hotfix

tommybhoy · 25 May 2011 at 23:38

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst115ahotfix.aspx

11.5 Cap 3 will be out on Friday.

AMD Catalyst™ Driver 11.5b Hotfix Features:

Includes performance optimizations and resolves various quality issues for the upcoming release of Brink™
Resolves transcoding video lagging issues seen when converting multiple H.264 clips to MPEG2 Blu-ray video
Resolves the intermittent mouse cursor lag issue seen by some users
Resolves intermittent flickering issues seen in the following applications in a system using an AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 series graphics card with DDR3 memory and running in DirectX® 9 mode:
Civilization 5
Dead Rising 2
Fallout 3
Mafia 2
NBA 2010
ShenGuiChuanQi
Starcraft 2
Warcraft III
World of Warcraft
Support for additional Stereo 3D-capable displays:
Viewsonic V3D241wm-LED
3D Projectors
Enables AMD CrossFire™ scaling for Brink
Enables AMD CrossFire scaling for The Witcher 2
Improves performance for Dirt 3

Mr Krugga · 25 May 2011 at 23:58

Thanks for the heads up.

800kB/s on a mobile connection. Can't complain really

tommybhoy · 26 May 2011 at 00:41

^ No problem Krugga, enjoying the new toy?

6950>70 Xfire:

Dirt 3 11.5's Cap 1:
average fps="51.723465" min_fps="30.748877"

Dirt 3 11.5b:
average fps="50.239655" min_fps="34.657738"

Next up Witcher 2, let's see if xfire has been fixed...

V F · 26 May 2011 at 00:50

Do you uninstall CAP's when changing drivers or what? I've had 11.3 in for so long now I've mainly just been uninstalling/reinstalling CAPS.

Also does anyone know if changing drivers triggers activations for Crysis 2?

tommybhoy · 26 May 2011 at 01:24

Witcher 2 xfire now working!

I imagine there must be better performance in single gpu as well because at these settings I was getting about 24 fps in xfire, now I'm getting 58!

I'm going to have a look and see if ubersampling kills my fps.

(Ubersampling disabled, I have larger text enabled in case you wonder why my Config tool looks like that)

V F said:
Do you uninstall CAP's when changing drivers or what? I've had 11.3 in for so long now I've mainly just been uninstalling/reinstalling CAPS.

I never uninstall anything, not even the caps, I always install straight over the top.

V F said:
Also does anyone know if changing drivers triggers activations for Crysis 2?

Don't have a clue, Crysis Warhead did trigger the activations for me and took 7 emails to EA and 13 days later I got an activation back. I was not a happy chap with EA at the time.

Mr Krugga · 26 May 2011 at 01:45

tommybhoy said:
^ No problem Krugga, enjoying the new toy?

6950>70 Xfire:

Dirt 3 11.5's Cap 1:
average fps="51.723465" min_fps="30.748877"

Dirt 3 11.5b:
average fps="50.239655" min_fps="34.657738"

Next up Witcher 2, let's see if xfire has been fixed...

I don't have time until the end of this week to play with it really

Mean Mr Mustard · 26 May 2011 at 09:19

tommybhoy said:
I'm going to have a look and see if ubersampling kills my fps.

You'll probably find that's a resounding 'yes'. I've had a look myself with everything maxed and ubersampling on and off.

I'll just post links to the screens as I don't really want to stick 2 x 3Mb screenshots in here.

Ubersampling On

Ubersampling Off

Edit: 6950 xfire

Duke · 26 May 2011 at 09:48

Thanks for heads up. D3 ran quick already but there is always room for more

HEADRAT · 26 May 2011 at 09:59

Nothing for Shift 2 ?

tommybhoy · 26 May 2011 at 10:12

Mean Mr Mustard said:
You'll probably find that's a resounding 'yes'. I've had a look myself with everything maxed and ubersampling on and off.

What cpu are you using?

Tried it myself last night with everything maxed and ubersampling. Playable until I get into a fight then the fps plummets.

Time to upgrade my 3 yr old Q6600 @3.6 GHz I think(been holding off until I see what bulldozer brings to the table).

I'm going to put it back to 4 GHz and see if there is any difference.

Mean Mr Mustard · 26 May 2011 at 10:30

I have an i5 750 @ 4ghz. As much as I'd love to play it with ubersampling on, I can't be doing with the low framerates and mouse lag. I believe there's a patch due next week which will give performance boosts, so we'll see how that goes.

wolvers · 26 May 2011 at 14:45

This has appeared sooner than I thought it would.

Looking forward to getting proper use out of my 5850s in TW2 now.

Sh3rlock · 26 May 2011 at 16:39

Have avoided playing this game until this driver comes out.

Really looking forward to tomorrow now.

chaotic_uk · 26 May 2011 at 18:06

getting massive slowdowns in the xgames part of dirt3 with these (6970) , anybody else getting this ?

metalmackey · 26 May 2011 at 18:26

tommybhoy said:
^ No problem Krugga, enjoying the new toy?

6950>70 Xfire:

Dirt 3 11.5's Cap 1:
average fps="51.723465" min_fps="30.748877"

Dirt 3 11.5b:
average fps="50.239655" min_fps="34.657738"

Next up Witcher 2, let's see if xfire has been fixed...

What res and settings was Dirt 3 at?

tommybhoy · 26 May 2011 at 18:45

^ Everything maxed @ 1920x1080

metalmackey · 26 May 2011 at 18:54

tommybhoy said:
^ Everything maxed @ 1920x1080

With Xfire? I get over 100 average at max at that res with a 6990.

666_Pounder · 26 May 2011 at 19:02

metalmackey said:
With Xfire? I get over 100 average at max at that res with a 6990.

Indeed, 6590 vanilla CF here and about 110-120 average fps. Ultra w/8xAA, 1920x1080.

TNA · 26 May 2011 at 19:35

Nice one tommybhoy

Duke · 26 May 2011 at 19:44

Installing this has broken CCC. Tried repair install of it and full uninstall/re-install and just doesn't open anymore.