Ati 11.1a Hotfix coming today

MichaelM · 18 Jan 2011 at 16:25

I'm really looking forward to this, even if the performance is exactly the same it will be nice to have both cards being shown correctly in the CCC, hopefully.

gareth170 · 18 Jan 2011 at 16:28

Final8y said:
The problem is that AMD call all of there unofficial drivers Hotfix & some cant get past the name prefix & use some logic & timing to work out what a driver release really is.

i was pointing out the 11.1a won't be out today

Final8y · 18 Jan 2011 at 16:29

gareth170 said:
i was pointing out the 11.1a won't be out today

I know.

elmuzzy66. · 18 Jan 2011 at 17:03

Never mind

Final8y · 18 Jan 2011 at 17:10

elmuzzy66. said:
The guy hasn't talked about NV drivers. So he can't have an opinion on when ati release drivers? Sometimes you get overly defensive when someone has a negative comment about amd.

I addressed his opinion of the drivers & his assumption that they are fixes for a released driver which they are not & the same would have went for an ATI user making that comment.

I also pointed out that because he is NV user he will not be up to speed in what is what with ATI drivers & is likely to be in error in understanding that Hot fix can mean many things when it comes to ATI drivers.

d_brennen · 18 Jan 2011 at 17:12

Sounds great for people who play benchmarks all day

interspaced · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:15

leaked http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.ph...doc_details/169-amd-catalyst-111a-hotfix.html

L0rdMike · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:22

Bsod

will try once more.

Boosted my 5870 Xfire from 58.3 to 60.4 in Heaven.

L0rdMike · 18 Jan 2011 at 22:55

OMG Drivers are awesome...

I feel this benchmark will lose all cred with these drivers.

I didnt edit this in any way it is the actual score Heaven gave me but it isnt real.

MichaelM · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:22

Might give the leaks a go tomorrow. CCC2 as standard I would assume.

ViRuS2k · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:35

New Tess settings + MLAA + CC2 as standard now on 5800 series cards and above

Steves1982 · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:42

My score in heaven dropped by about 30 and fps dropped about 2-3.

Not sure how this would translate into gaming but I might as well roll back and wait for the official ones.

Edit: Just noticed Afterburner didn't keep track of stats either on the graphs. Worked before but not now and also shows clocks at 0.

Steves1982 · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:48

ViRuS2k said:
New Tess settings + MLAA + CC2 as standard now on 5800 series cards and above

Just noticed that I don't have the same menu as you on my CCC. I don't have the Smoothvision wording or the Tesselation option at all.

kingy666 · 18 Jan 2011 at 23:51

I will install and see what these are like.

Edit:

heaven benchmark with 12.12a drivers

FPS: 46.3
Scores: 1167
Min FPS: 29.8
Max FPS: 109.2

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU flags: 3440MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 8.790.6.2000 2048Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1200 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

results with 11.1a drivers

FPS: 45.7
Scores: 1151
Min FPS: 29.3
Max FPS: 108.0

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU flags: 3440MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series 8.820.2.0 2048Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1200 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal

so my scores are down a little bit but i am not sure if any default settings have changed between the 2 driver sets so i will keep running the 11.1a's and see if any problems crop up.

Maximus you need to click on preferences and choose the advanced option even though i dont have the word 'smoothvision HD' i do have the same options.

L0rdMike · 19 Jan 2011 at 00:06

3DMark difference

Old drivers overclocked
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/319015
New drivers stock
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/455544
New drivers overclocked
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/455640

albert · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:18

Here's my Heaven benchmark comparing the 10.12 and the 11.1 Beta drivers. My system specs are in my sig.

10.12

11.1 Beta

I like the new interface of the 11.1 driver but at the end of the day it's FPS that count so it's back to 10.12 for now ...

tommybhoy · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:52

ViRuS2k said:
New Tess settings + MLAA + CC2 as standard now on 5800 series cards and above

On the Tessellation part where you have 'amd optimized' ticked, can you change the 'level' yet or is it disabled for this driver release?

Bashy123 · 19 Jan 2011 at 01:53

Before:
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/455984;jses...m11/455984?key=z6D7UVXfEtxpcjZPdWrqSkQavJBy8E

After:
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/456062;jses...m11/456062?key=XMN6uw2pnuuR8w0ZRsfJFbAVpk0am9

So, an increase of 221 in the graphics depot, but I am sceptical of this new "AMD Optimised" option, and the boost I got in test 2 and 3, which both use Tesselation.

I'm not 100%, but I do vaguely remember ATI did this before with a driver, where the default values were much lower than the previous drivers.

Either that or they genuinely have increased performance with the 69xx series with regards to tesselation, in that case, thank you

L0rdMike · 19 Jan 2011 at 02:01

tommybhoy said:
On the Tessellation part where you have 'amd optimized' ticked, can you change the 'level' yet or is it disabled for this driver release?

You can change it to zero and pwn any test that has it in.

Like my Heaven and 3D Mark higher up the page.

tommybhoy · 19 Jan 2011 at 03:12

L0rdMike said:
You can change it to zero and pwn any test that has it in.

That'l open a can of worms then..... Cheating AMD ########