AMD Radeon 12.2 Video Card Drivers Now Available

[opethdisciple]

Don't think I'll bother with these. Quite a few bad reports from you guys.

I'm getting 70fps on BF3 on Ultra without MSAA so I'm happy enough with that.

I would whole heartedly recommend skipping these!

 

[kmax86]

any point upgrading to this while on an old 4870 or this update is mmostly for 6k / 7k series?

 

[opethdisciple]

Try them. If you get issues, uninstall and go back.

 

[kmax86]

Hope there are some improvements cos i think im still on 11. something

 

[opethdisciple]

Just seen this on catalyst creators twitter:

"FYI - Skyrim image corruption (only seen with Anti-Aliasing) found on certain AMD products will be fixed in Catalyst 12.3"

 

[Mr Krugga]

Am lost lol I download from amd site shouldn't that be official. Sorry if this dumb question am new to pc gaming and understand drivers.

Part of my post got cut off for some reason.

It meant to say: "The 8.96s drivers have been out for a good few weeks now, available only through unofficial channels though.".

 

[Mangochutney]

Just seen this on catalyst creators twitter:

"FYI - Skyrim image corruption (only seen with Anti-Aliasing) found on certain AMD products will be fixed in Catalyst 12.3"

This is true, just tried Skyrim without AA and the problems have gone for me.

 

[machinebummer]

Whats the best drivers for a 7950 and BF3 and where can I find them?

I think I've lost about 10-15 fps in BF3 with these.

Cheers.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Whats the best drivers for a 7950 and BF3 and where can I find them?

I think I've lost about 10-15 fps in BF3 with these.

Cheers.

Read through the thread, I can't be bothered reposting.

 

[machinebummer]

Read through the thread, I can't be bothered reposting.

Thanks but I had and saw 2 different answers. The 8.95 & 8.96 I think

I was hopefully after a few more opinions and possible link too them but found them and may try them.

Cheers anyway.

 

[Nightglow]

Not AMD's best effort, definitely avoiding the 12.2.
Gone back to 12.1.

 

[rob77]

Is anyone using these with afterburner and if so any problems? I tried the 12.2 previews but for some reason every time I loaded up CCC it reset my fan profiles. I'm guessing these will be the same but just wondering

 

[Nutella33]

seems like 12.3 will be the ones to go for. im still on 11 series, anything on the 12's give me major problems in skyrim.

 

[SamG]

I'm getting the square pixel problem in WoW. Was fine last night but showed up after the driver crashed.

 

[PiKe]

These drivers are a load of balls, I just did a clean install and thought there was something wrong with my system, 3dmark gets stuck at please wait and hangs the entire system and the overdrive tab vanishes when enabling it.

Nice to see nothing has changed since the days of the 9800 series... My first ATI card in about a decade.

 

[msaunders]

Just trying now.....

Edit - No joy still the same. Looks like I'm going to have to go for a re-install. Nice one AMD...

Cheers

Did you try booting to safe mode , go to device manager and remove the card , let windows detect it again (scan for hardware) and let it dload the default windows ati driver , then boot to normal windows and try installing cats you want .......

BTW doing clean sweap on ALL ATI drivers and software is a bad idea IMO - caused me lots of probs with installing service packs etc for Windoze.

 

[Dicehunter]

Thankfully ive never had any problems with ATI drivers, going back to the 1900XT all the way to my current setup, would love to know what causes these issues ?

 

[LtMatt]

Nope, 8.96 drivers are better in BF3.

http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-8-96-28-february-benchmark/3

Nope, they have lower minimums and are not WHQL drivers.

 

[Mr Krugga]

Nope, they have lower minimums and are not WHQL drivers.

WHQL means nothing as preview drivers are often more stable than WHQL ones.

I don't see where you pulled the minimum figures from, source?

 

[LtMatt]

My mistake, still the fastest WHQL drivers though.