Friday, June 29th 2012
AMD Releases Catalyst 12.6 WHQL and 12.7 Beta
Finally, AMD released a new WHQL-signed Catalyst driver. Catalyst 12.6 WHQL, along with Catalyst 12.7 beta, were released on Thursday. Catalyst 12.6 WHQL ships with a wide range of stability optimizations, while 12.7 beta ships with the same, plus performance optimizations for a wide range of games.
With Catalyst 12.6 WHQL, AMD fixed several outstanding bugs such as GPUs with ZeroCore hanging when the system goes to S2/S3 sleep, certain CrossFire setups hanging after cutscenes in Call of Duty: Black Ops, display corruption in Heroes and Generals in DirectX 11 mode, CrossFire + Eyefinity with Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs resulting in BSOD errors, etc. Catalyst 12.7 beta includes all these, plus performance improvements for games, except that it lacks WHQL certification. Optimizations include up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, 15% in Total War: Shogun, 10% in DiRT 3, 6% in Batman: Arkham City, and 3% in Battlefield 3.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 12.6 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
A list of changes follows:
Resolved Issues:
With Catalyst 12.6 WHQL, AMD fixed several outstanding bugs such as GPUs with ZeroCore hanging when the system goes to S2/S3 sleep, certain CrossFire setups hanging after cutscenes in Call of Duty: Black Ops, display corruption in Heroes and Generals in DirectX 11 mode, CrossFire + Eyefinity with Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs resulting in BSOD errors, etc. Catalyst 12.7 beta includes all these, plus performance improvements for games, except that it lacks WHQL certification. Optimizations include up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, 15% in Total War: Shogun, 10% in DiRT 3, 6% in Batman: Arkham City, and 3% in Battlefield 3.
DOWNLOAD: AMD Catalyst 12.6 WHQL for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit | Windows 7/Vista 32-bit | Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit
A list of changes follows:
Resolved Issues:
- AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire configurations + Eyefinity no longer results in a BSOD when launching a DirectX application
- AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations no longer results in a BSOD when using desktop applications
- AMD Catalyst 12.6 includes some additional fixes(not found in the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta) for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 graphics cards for issues related to the GPU hanging when the system goes to sleep. Please ensure that your System BIOS is up to date. Some occurrences of this issue may be related to outdated System BIOS.
- Resolves CrossFire scaling issues seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 with Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire
- AMD Catalyst Control Center - Overdrive page is no longer intermittently missing
- AMD Catalyst Control Center - GPU Activity gauge is no longer missing
- AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration - no longer results in system hang after cinematic in Call Of Duty: Black Ops
- Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode are no longer experienced.
- Dirt Showdown: Improves scaling for CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
- HDMI audio is no longer disabled if the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.
- Up to 25% in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
- Up to 3% in Battlefield 3
- Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City
- Up to 3% in Dues Ex: Human Revolution
- Up to 6% in Crysis 2
- Up to 15% in Total War: Shogun
- Up to 8% in Crysis Warhead
- Up to 5% in Just Cause 2
- Up to 10% in Dirt 3
44 Comments on AMD Releases Catalyst 12.6 WHQL and 12.7 Beta
Just went back to 12.6 and game starts working... odd.
Should I do a clean install or just install the latest driver over the existing one?
Apparently AMD is on it (I won't get my hopes up though).
I set it to 0 and its all fine till the next reboot... The scaling is still showing 0 but the screen isn't filled like it's suppose to. Back to the 12.4's :shadedshu
Just now I downloaded and installed the new 12.7 beta from AMD and now see it as 12.4 as shown below?!?!
EDIT: Remembered that this is just informational. It appears I have all the correct version numbers. Just removed all 12.4 references with regedit. :D
Just don't know why it would become 12.4 when it was just a 12.7. I've updated a few times since 12.4.
this of course, is causing me problems (black screen most of the time. would suggest NOT using these on dual graphics laptops)
after updating to beta 12.7 in my info its still showing 12.6 can any one help me with this thank im running ati HD6950 thanks
Almost, like it is on delayed start, but it is not set to that in services or start-up command line.
thanks for your reply
I need to know am I alone having problems with crossfire x after 12.4 WHQL drivers or not?
Dirt 3 -Only one card is active - the same for battlefield -2 and 3.
I have 3 6950 cards and 2 displays.
thanks
:confused:
Going Back to 12.4 drivers.....
Amd is working on getting there drivers optimized for the 7 Series drivers... Its a yearly thing for these homo's...
Welcome to the 6 series and no support!
Thats why I'm Green team now!
11.9 or 12.4 is about the best bet for 6 series card holders
Note: reported this to AMD Driver Team for the fifth consecutive month
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