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AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Preview – Custom Application Profiles, HD3D CrossFire, & More
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Soldato
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Havent really seen an improvment anywhere yet TBH, tried, Skyrim, BF3, Crysis 2 and a few others, not noticed any difference over 11.11 
Soldato
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Wheres the release notes?
Yeah of course. I did mention that it was fine with every single AMD driver preceding 12.1. This isn't a TV/hardware issue.
I rolled back to 11.10 and all is well again.
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Would explain why we haven't had good driver releases recently. Good to see.
Certainly a step in the right direction, the lack of options (especially for Crossfire) really frustrated me when I had my 5850s. It would be great if they integrated something along the lines of the Visual Indicator Bar in SLI, which I've found useful for testing.
So what's new in these new drivers? You can make app profiles for games like you could with RadeonPro?
Read the link.. meh. Can't see how being able to adjust parameters for individual games will help performance. Has AMD got heir own optimised version of things like AA and AF? If so then yeah these drivers will be good.
So in other words there's no point bothering with 11.12? Explains why Saints Row 3 and Skyrim got worse with then. I'm sure it's no easy task keeping their drivers performing well and more often than not they do seem to be playing catchup, but some of their decisions are just baffling.
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For the umpteenth time, a WHQL driver goes to MS ages before release for testing, it doesn't have potential unstable tweaks included. Hotfix drivers do and they aren't WHQL tested, nor have any guarantee's made with them.
WHQL drivers have been and will ALWAYS be OLDER than hotfix drivers, its been that way for donkey's years, for older beta's, for Nvidia beta's in general this is the standard way drivers have been done forever.
Yet people still can't work this out, still install every new driver without knowing what they are improving or making worse.
The last game I had "problems" with, was Rage, and these were entirely down to the engine not detecting high end settings for AMD OR Nvidia cards, and config tweaking the game fixed it all, before that, I can't remember.
I also don't jump to every new driver every 4 seconds for no reason just because it's new.
The whole point of hotfix drivers is not widely tested tweaks for usually one game, that could cause problems in other games. If a game has a specific problem then I install the hotfix driver for that game, if I don't play that game, or I don't have the problem, I don't install the hotfix and I don't generate new problems for myself in other games.
No problems with Skyrim, Batman, rage, Star wars beta, Ass Creed, nor anything else I've played lately.
AMD drivers have never been as bad as they are right now? I don't have any problems right now, and I have had problems before, they've never been BETTER than they are right now, there have never been more AMD users on here, and there hasn't been as close a group of top end games released in a long time as the past couple months, which means there hasn't been as many hotfixes in such a short space of time to help those users with problems, and there has never been as many people normally creating their own problems installing every last driver possible.