Wednesday, March 28th 2012
AMD Rolls Out Catalyst 12.3 Driver
AMD has now made available this month's WHQL-certified set of Catalyst graphics drivers. The Catalyst 12.3 comes with support for the 28 nm-flavored Radeon HD 7900, HD 7800 and HD 7700 Series, as well as for the Radeon HD 6000, HD 5000, HD 4000, HD 3000 and HD 2000 models.
Download: Windows 7/Vista (32-bit) | Windows 7/Vista (64-bit) | Windows XP (32-bit) | Windows XP (64-bit)
The Catalyst 12.3 also brings the following fixes:
Windows 7
- AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/delays have been resolved
- Elder Scrolls: Skyrim : No longer displays flickering and texture corruption with Anti-Aliasing enabled
- Alan Wake : A system crash is no longer experienced when running the game in DirectX 9 mode with Crossfire enabled.
- Far Cry 2 : A random system hang is no longer experienced when running the game at high in game setting.
- Tom Clancy HAWX : No longer crashes after task switching with MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing) and Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Furmark Benchmark : No longer crashes when launched in High Performance mode.
- Quake 4 : No longer display corruption after task switching when run in High Performance mode
- XPlane : Textures no longer exhibit flicker and corruption.
Windows Vista
- AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/ delays have been resolved
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars : no longer exhibits random corruption
Download: Windows 7/Vista (32-bit) | Windows 7/Vista (64-bit) | Windows XP (32-bit) | Windows XP (64-bit)
The Catalyst 12.3 also brings the following fixes:
Windows 7
- AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/delays have been resolved
- Elder Scrolls: Skyrim : No longer displays flickering and texture corruption with Anti-Aliasing enabled
- Alan Wake : A system crash is no longer experienced when running the game in DirectX 9 mode with Crossfire enabled.
- Far Cry 2 : A random system hang is no longer experienced when running the game at high in game setting.
- Tom Clancy HAWX : No longer crashes after task switching with MLAA (Morphological Anti-Aliasing) and Anti-Aliasing enabled.
- Furmark Benchmark : No longer crashes when launched in High Performance mode.
- Quake 4 : No longer display corruption after task switching when run in High Performance mode
- XPlane : Textures no longer exhibit flicker and corruption.
Windows Vista
- AMD Catalyst Control Center startup issues/ delays have been resolved
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars : no longer exhibits random corruption
33 Comments on AMD Rolls Out Catalyst 12.3 Driver
FYI AMD Catalyst 12.3 CAP1 is now available http://bit.ly/9FDuCb
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Cat 12.3 does fix AA on 6900 for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic[/PHP]
So it sometimes goes though with the latest and greatest. Damn TSMC.
The next day, got a update message to download ver 11.2.202.228 and YouTube functionality went back but kinda different feeling.
Make sure Windows is up to date via Windows Update and make sure DirectX is up to date here: www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=35
You also may want to try doing a thorough reinstall of your drivers. I made a guide here you can check out: www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52502
Then, there's always the possibility that there's a hardware problem somewhere, though that is the least likely of issues.