AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview Drivers Released, Support HD 7900 Series

[pantherx12]

I can't seem to save profiles, tried creating one for the skyrim 4gb file, will I need to use the regular exe?

 

[Delta6326]

[*]Performance highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver (in addition to the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver)
o Improves performance (10%) in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series for single GPU and AMD CrossFireX configurations [/LIST]

WTF are you talking about? That it says on the driver page that these "apply to" 5000 and 6000 series?

In your rush to come onto the forums and complain about nothing, did you even try the drivers first?

I am using these now on both my main rig with 2x 4870x2 Quad-CF and my secondary rig with 2x 4850 and it works perfect on both computers, including the new app profile feature.

Here let me be more specific they have not showed any Positive support for the 4000 Series for Skyrim. I have download the latest drivers and every time they come out with new ones I loose around 1-2 FPS I'm down to around AVG 46FPS It's not bad I just wish they would stop making them go away.

Now for the rest of drivers and stuff they do help just not for me in Skyrim.

 

[temp02]

Just posting the official source (mainly because the XP drivers weren't available anywhere else on the net ).

Also, as you can see on the link above, it's recommended to use the "Restore Factory Defaults" button before trying to create profiles.

 

[jonathan1107]

Can someone clarify some things about the new drivers for me pls?

- What does it mean when they say the drivers support AMD HD3D in CF? does it mean it wasn't supported before?

- How much of a perf increase are you 69xx owners seeing up to now? (in skyrim)

- What's this new "stereo 3D mode"

- What's new with the App. profiles?

 

[Per Hansson]

Wow, finally application profiles, well done ATI!
I'm looking forward to buying a ATI 79xx card, my nVidia 8800GTS 512MB sure have played out it's useful life now!

 

[AsRock]

Subbed to see if anyone likes these with 6970's

Sadly i cannot tell you about 2 6970's but a single one for me improved around 3fps.

 

[Fragman]

Ons more i feel left out i have 2x 5870s in crossfire and skyrim runst like poop

and then i read this

Improves performance (10-15%) in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series for single GPU and AMD CrossfireX configurations

fuck AMD only thing i can say

 

[SK-1]

Ons more i feel left out i have 2x 5870s in crossfire and skyrim runst like poop

and then i read this

Improves performance (10-15%) in Elder Scrolls: Skyrim when Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing is enabled on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6900 Series for single GPU and AMD CrossfireX configurations

fuck AMD only thing i can say

Hmmm. I have no problem. Smooth as butter for me. What are you're specs?

 

[Fragman]

Hmmm. I have no problem. Smooth as butter for me. What are you're specs?

windows 7 enterprice x64
I7 950 3.2@3.6
Gigabyte G1.Guerrilla rev1.0
2x xfx 5870 1gb models
2x ocz vertex 3 raid 0
12gb ddr3
catalyst 12.1

Can you uploade your settings files for me to try

 

[trickson]

I wonder what is going on ever since cat 10.10 I have been unable to install any of the CAT profiles ! All I get are errors ! This sucks !

 

[Mussels]

I wonder what is going on ever since cat 10.10 I have been unable to install any of the CAT profiles ! All I get are errors ! This sucks !

uninstall them from windows control panel? i've had no trouble.


these drivers are working well for me with 58x0 crossfire, less artifacting in skyrim with the same performance as 11.11c

 

[trickson]

uninstall them from windows control panel? i've had no trouble.


these drivers are working well for me with 58x0 crossfire, less artifacting in skyrim with the same performance as 11.11c

Yes I have done that and still all they do is error out . I mean I guess it is ok because the drivers work flawlessly ! But it would be nice to have them .

 

[RejZoR]

I miss general performance improvements. All they do these days is focus on stupid Battlefield and Skyrim. Who f cares. I want performance enhancements for Killing Floor and NFS The Run.

 

[Frizz]

I miss general performance improvements. All they do these days is focus on stupid Battlefield and Skyrim. Who f cares. I want performance enhancements for Killing Floor and NFS The Run.

Because that's what the majority of PC gamers are playing and have issues with... Why would you need performance improvements for killing floor and NFS anyway ~.~ Those game should run fine on a 6950.

 

[Mussels]

Because that's what the majority of PC gamers are playing and have issues with... Why would you need performance improvements for killing floor and NFS anyway ~.~ Those game should run fine on a 6950.

i find it suspicious how all these single threaded game engines have performance issues on high end hardware. must be a conspiracy.

 

[RejZoR]

And why not? Killing Floor might be "old" but the game is still quite demanding even for HD6950.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

And why not? Killing Floor might be "old" but the game is still quite demanding even for HD6950.

Lol, you cant be serious.

I can just barely/about play it on my E-350APU. I have played the game on a single 8800GTS 512, single & Crossfired 4870's, single & Crossfired 5850's.

My mate used to play it on an old 7800GT@full settings and neither of us have had any problems running the game at all.

If youre having performance issues then your something in your rig isnt right.

thanks man, you almost made me spit my afternoon tea over the keyboard

 

[jonathan1107]

Lol, you cant be serious.

I can just barely/about play it on my E-350APU. I have played the game on a single 8800GTS 512, single & Crossfired 4870's, single & Crossfired 5850's.

My mate used to play it on an old 7800GT@full settings and neither of us have had any problems running the game at all.

If youre having performance issues then your something in your rig isnt right.

thanks man, you almost made me spit my afternoon tea over the keyboard

Excuse us 6950 owners, but yes the game is "demanding" especially if you tweaked the .ini files to get maximum quality... for instance, go play with the "ugridstoload=" value, and come back... I think we'll get a good laugh too then...

The game is very CPU bound, and with everything maxed, I get around 40-50 FPS avg, but there are areas where everything will just drop to 30FPS no matter what I do... and there are even areas inside dungeons (especially when encountering lots of water) that it can drop all the way to 15 FPS!

So yeah, here you have it, the game is CPU bound (very much) and until that changes (Which could take forever from what I hear), almost No one is going to be able to claim a SOLID 60FPS in this game (with everything maxed)

 

[jonathan1107]

*** BUMP ***

Still need an answer to my older post on this thread:

Can someone clarify some things about the new drivers for me pls?

- What does it mean when they say the drivers support AMD HD3D in CF? does it mean it wasn't supported before?

- How much of a perf increase are you 69xx owners seeing up to now? (in skyrim)

- What's this new "stereo 3D mode" (didn't AMD have 3d already before ???)

- What's new with the App. profiles? (didn't with have profiles already? we could set the "gaming" settings and the "overdrive" settings... what's new here?)

 

[radrok]

- What does it mean when they say the drivers support AMD HD3D in CF? does it mean it wasn't supported before?

I couldn't have HD3D with a 6990, let alone a 6990 Crossfire it was just not working... you needed a single GPU solution for it to work. Until now

- How much of a perf increase are you 69xx owners seeing up to now? (in skyrim)

CFX with more than 2 GPUs is disabled, however they are maxed at 99% most of the time and I am getting 90+ fps at 1600p

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Excuse us 6950 owners, but yes the game is "demanding" especially if you tweaked the .ini files to get maximum quality... for instance, go play with the "ugridstoload=" value, and come back... I think we'll get a good laugh too then...

The game is very CPU bound, and with everything maxed, I get around 40-50 FPS avg, but there are areas where everything will just drop to 30FPS no matter what I do... and there are even areas inside dungeons (especially when encountering lots of water) that it can drop all the way to 15 FPS!

So yeah, here you have it, the game is CPU bound (very much) and until that changes (Which could take forever from what I hear), almost No one is going to be able to claim a SOLID 60FPS in this game (with everything maxed)

me playing KF - hosting my own game: (FRAPS in top right corner)

my settings:

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Also i am unable to find 'ugridstoload' in any of the ini files in the system folder

 

[AphexDreamer]

Is there anyway to enable 3D gaming on any ol 60Hz 1080p Monitor now?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Is there anyway to enable 3D gaming on any ol 60Hz 1080p Monitor now?

afaik you need at least 100Hz monitor or above to do 3D

 

[jonathan1107]

me playing KF - hosting my own game: (FRAPS in top right corner)

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n210/FinalFreedomEclipse/fraps1.jpg

my settings:

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n210/FinalFreedomEclipse/settings.jpg

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Also i am unable to find 'ugridstoload' in any of the ini files in the system folder

Misread your reply... thought you were talking about skyrim... you're talking about KF... my bad... (altho this is supposed to be a skyrim thread...)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

(altho this is supposed to be a skyrim thread...)

Nope. Its supposed to be a Cat 12.1 Preview thread