Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver

Broken Hope · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:27

AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center 11.8 Driver Preview Features:
The following download provides the following features in addition to the AMD Catalyst Control Center / AMD Vision Engine Control Center 11.7 driver release

Enables AMD HD3D technology support on DisplayPort panels, such as Samsung 750 and 950 series 3D displays
Improves performance:
Up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products
Up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products
Up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the Catalyst Control Center on AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products

Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver Windows 7 x64

simbady · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:34

Does this contain the updates in todays 11.7 drivers?

Also link doesnt work

V F · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:36

Hmm, so it's this version that gets the Crysis 2 DX11 performance. Performance improvements for Shift 2... last entry? for 5xxx series. \o/

Broken Hope · 27 Jul 2011 at 18:39

simbady said:
Does this contain the updates in todays 11.7 drivers?

Also link doesnt work

It will include everything in the 11.7s plus the new stuff. I fixed the link, sorry about that.

Ste · 27 Jul 2011 at 20:53

Hmmm... minimal gains in 5870 x-fire DX11 0x AA crossfire benches here:

Times Sq: 71.1 --> 73.2
Downtown 53.7 --> 55.2
Central Park 47.5 --> 48.8

They really need to sort the MSAA x-fire scaling bug out, not that I've tried it out on these new drivers...

iviv · 28 Jul 2011 at 10:56

I'm currently running the 11.4 drivers, since I never got around to updating to anything newer. Should I get these or the 11.7s? Or is there no real difference?

MichaelM · 28 Jul 2011 at 12:51

iviv said:
I'm currently running the 11.4 drivers, since I never got around to updating to anything newer. Should I get these or the 11.7s? Or is there no real difference?

If you are happy with the performance and don't suffer any bugs then the general rule is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

iviv · 28 Jul 2011 at 16:42

MichaelM said:
If you are happy with the performance and don't suffer any bugs then the general rule is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

True, but when drivers are offering 10% performance increases, it means that sticking with what works means you're not getting the most out of the hardware.

Firegod · 28 Jul 2011 at 19:15

Thanks. Installed and had a problem with one failure during the install for MS Visual C++ 2010. But apart from that, it seems OK. Can access CCC fine, and all works correctly.

blackninja · 28 Jul 2011 at 22:40

Just played Crysis 2 well overclocked for an hour or so on these and a stint on BC2 .... no new issues to report. But for Crysis, DX11 is still around 66% per GPU core whereas DX9 is in the 90s ..

Ovr · 29 Jul 2011 at 09:28

Seem good but DiRT3 now causes the display driver to reset every 5 minutes :/

Mr Paul · 29 Jul 2011 at 10:51

Crysis 2 seems smoother.....

wentalong · 29 Jul 2011 at 11:11

ahh its times like this i wished i had a 64bit os... ive been forced to stick to 32bit since windows 7 came out as my win7 disc never works when i try to install the 64bit OS :'(

trisp · 29 Jul 2011 at 14:05

wentalong said:
ahh its times like this i wished i had a 64bit os... ive been forced to stick to 32bit since windows 7 came out as my win7 disc never works when i try to install the 64bit OS :'(

Why dont u just download it? legit and of course use your legit cd key.

CSA · 29 Jul 2011 at 22:06

Dunno if it was a bad install or what but there drivers where very poor for me , caused bad lag on BC2 so ran heaven 2.1 and noticed id lost 500 points , rolled back my driver and ran heaven again , points back up so far so good , gunna try bc2 again now

-Aura- · 29 Jul 2011 at 22:37

Tip-top with DX9/10/11. Gave me an extra 2% on a certain spot of a map on CoDWaW with lots going on I like to use a benchmark. Black Ops seemed smoother ... but that depends on how GameServers decide to provide our servers to us today (those in the know know).

evilmatt · 1 Aug 2011 at 13:43

The BSOD problem when using Catalyst AI with a 6970 card on Dungeon Siege III seems to be fixed, for those 2 other people in the world that it was affecting

braveheart · 1 Aug 2011 at 18:40

the next driver wont be release until next month as it usual each monthly... as the 11.7 just be release already so the 11.8 may come out in Sept.

buchtis · 1 Aug 2011 at 18:44

Wait the 11.7 was released a week or so ago yet this thread is from 27th Jul 2011, 18:27.

Wtf.

Broken Hope · 1 Aug 2011 at 19:30

buchtis said:
Wait the 11.7 was released a week or so ago yet this thread is from 27th Jul 2011, 18:27.

Wtf.

Official 11.7 came out last Wednesday which was the 27th of July. Preview 11.8 came out the same day.