Thursday, October 20th 2011

AMD Catalyst 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver

The driver updates for Rage and the upcoming Battlefield 3 are coming thick and fast now, with every full and preview releases - great news for fans of these games. Note that the BF3 improvements are specified for the beta release, but should also apply to the release version and more will of course follow. Other improvements include Eyefinity 5x1 display implementation on Radeon 6000 & 5000 cards, along with CrossfireX interface enhancements. See the full rundown after the jump!
- Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows 7 32-bit edition
- Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage
- Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems
- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
- Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
- Reduces flickering of NPCs in Rage
- Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
- Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX , GPU AMD Overdrive and Information Center pages.

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30 Comments on AMD Catalyst 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver

#26
CDdude55
Crazy 4 TPU!!!
TheGuruStudOdd. Although, I didn't try it with 11.9, but 11.10 preview 1 and 2 it runs great, but still suffers from the textures not always being full resolution when looking at a new area (texture pop in I guess).

Video card is at about 50% usage and it's a solid 60 fps. Only dips below that on big explosions directly in my face. Obviously, a very poorly optimized game. I don't think it should take but about 25% of the gpu to display those low res textures.

But what else is new. :(
Ya ive heard that RAGE pretty much needs the 11.10 drivers and above to run optimally, sadly the texture pop in problem even existed when i was running RAGE on my GTX 470, so im not sure how they'll get that fixed (probably some sort of patch at some point).

I definitely think they could of refined the PC version a lot more.:shadedshu
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#27
AlienIsGOD
Vanguard Beta Tester
TheLaughingManThey do. Win8 itself is not exactly the most optimal place to be playing your games though. Some of the features get in the way of gameplay by preventing fullscreen mode in some titles.
Thnx LaughingMan :D I have not come across any issues yet on 8 with games, but I am only playing WoW and EA NHL 2009 on it. WoW in particular runs great and alt + Tabs very quick to desktop. NHL i did have screen issues but I used the Auto button on my monitor to correct the display to full screen.
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#28
bower509
Installed these drivers, OpenGL games don't work.

I installed these drivers cuz the old ones ran RAGE like shit (I have a 6850). Well it runs fine now (besides freezing at loading screens every once in awhile), but game play is smooth. Only one problem... Games that utilize OpenGL don't work... Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Minecraft. Hell, even Doom 3... every time I try to boot them, my pc will lock up, screen will go black, and come back because my drivers stopped working and then recovered (which yes is the error message I get). All better though once I go back to the 11.9 drivers! What a pain in the ass... I hope new drivers come out soon lol. Anyone else run into this problem?
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#30
cadaveca
My name is Dave
InnocentCriminalOdd. Rage is an OpenGL game.
Not odd. Carmack said in an interview that there was a great driver for Rage, but it broke many other apps.
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