AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hot-Fix Drivers Coming Today!

[Over50]

Well this sucks I have 2 5770's so this is not going to give me any improvement at all ? WTH ?? I will just have to stick with my 10.10e drivers then !
It sure would be nice for them to make a driver that has improvements for all there cards not just a chosen few ! This is what I find messed up about AMD/ATI drivers ! Not only do they put out HOT fix after HOT fix and driver after driver but most of them are designed for just 2 or 3 cards and that is messed up !

Looks like my next build is going to be based on nVidia SLI and NOT crossfire !

Sure enough ... only reason I have ATI cards is because I bought a Gigabyte X48T mobo which unfortunatley supports Only CrossFire and not SLI.
I didn't have many problems with the HD 3870 in CF, but One card overheated so I decided to upgrade and bought a MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5.

I haven't yet got the performance it should deliver and have consistant issues. Been waiting for a Driver that will work ... practically 3 months of Down Time. Maybe would of been better off looking for an available used HD 3870 on eBay. But I am stuck with a HD 6870 that operates funky ( nearly call it JUNK ) cause of Driver issues.

I have indicated my next PC build will be for nVidia video cards only.

Have owned nVidia cards for 12 years ..went ATI .. good for 30 months.. bought another ATI card and Placed on Hold due to driver for last 3 months.

nVidia has never failed me or Placed Me On Hold ! Bye-Bye AMD/ATI ..... Welcome Back nVidia!

 

[marcosimoes]

It is released. Download: http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php...1a-hotfix.html

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

^ Um...?

 

[InnocentCriminal]

It's not on AMD's site yet.



Has anyone tried the set in marcosimoes' link?

 

[scooper22]

Here's the corrected link: http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.ph...doc_details/169-amd-catalyst-111a-hotfix.html

Seems to be for Win7 only, tho.

Deep link: http://download.hardwareluxx.de/treiber/grafik/ati/AMD_Catalyst_Win7_8.82.2Beta1_Jan13.exe

 

[DigitalUK]

downloading now, will test these puppys out. thanks for the link

 

[Mydog]

Testing now, looks promising so far

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

^ Promising in that you still have a bootable C: drive after installing that mystery file?

 

[Mydog]

no problems with that here
Tried Hwbot Heaven but got almost the same result as with the 10.12a.

Testing just Heaven now with tesselation at normal 1920x1080.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Got any version number diffs from information center or any other info?

 

[sliderider]

I still see 10.12 on AMD's driver download page.

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33972936

 

[DigitalUK]

Working fine here. some interesting results.

GPU-Z

the most interesting feature seems to be the ability to control the level of tesselation.

afew benchmark tests.

3DMark11 with 10.12a P4798

3DMark11 with 11.1a (AMD Optimized Tesselation) P4803
3DMark11 with 11.1a (6x) P4879
3DMark11 with 11.1a (2x) P5082


Heaven Benchmark 2.1
Stock Settings @ 1920x1080 4xAF (High Texture/Shader)

with 10.12a
FPS = 52.9
Scores = 1332
Min FPS = 3.6
Max FPS = 132.7


with 11.1a (AMD Optimized Tesselation)
FPS = 62.6
Scores = 1577
Min FPS = 22.1
Max FPS = 134.6

with 11.1a (6x)
FPS = 55.8
Scores = 1406
Min FPS = 20.0
Max FPS = 131.8

with 11.1a (2x)
FPS = 62.1
Scores = 1565
Min FPS = 22.2
Max FPS = 132.9


im wondering if CCC is monitoring which exe is running for optimized.

 

[Mydog]

This is what CCC says

Not impressed
No visible effekt on Heaven bench and I got 40pts increase in 3d11.

I'm running one Sapphire 6970 with ASUS bios, stock 890/1375.

 

[runnin17]

Sure enough ... only reason I have ATI cards is because I bought a Gigabyte X48T mobo which unfortunatley supports Only CrossFire and not SLI.
I didn't have many problems with the HD 3870 in CF, but One card overheated so I decided to upgrade and bought a MSI R6870 Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 6870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5.

I haven't yet got the performance it should deliver and have consistant issues. Been waiting for a Driver that will work ... practically 3 months of Down Time. Maybe would of been better off looking for an available used HD 3870 on eBay. But I am stuck with a HD 6870 that operates funky ( nearly call it JUNK ) cause of Driver issues.

I have indicated my next PC build will be for nVidia video cards only.

Have owned nVidia cards for 12 years ..went ATI .. good for 30 months.. bought another ATI card and Placed on Hold due to driver for last 3 months.

nVidia has never failed me or Placed Me On Hold ! Bye-Bye AMD/ATI ..... Welcome Back nVidia!

Nice to know you got butt-hurt and now will only be throwing money away on overpriced video cards. Cheers!

 

[exodusprime1337]

anybody try these on 5 series.. or do they not even work?

 

[DanishDevil]

OP states that these are not for the 5000 series... If they do work, they probably don't have any improvements.

 

[DigitalUK]

Not impressed
No visible effekt on Heaven bench and I got 40pts increase in 3d11.

theres definetly an improvement from 10.11a to 11.1a

just set a personal best with this card, beat the highest 580gtx with the exact same spec system as mine. P5331 vs P5155

 

[Zen_]

I'm a little confused here...the 11.1's haven't been released yet and there's already a hotfix?

 

[DigitalUK]

there beta's WHQL should be along 26th jan (probably no difference except signed)

im abit confused as to why they are still marked 10.11 tho???

 

[Kaali]

All my graphic bug remain , and some new bug too thanks AMD !

 

[Steevo]

All my graphic bug remain , and some new bug too thanks AMD !

And you have tried to post about them, ask for help, different drivers...no
But you did try beta software that is NOT guaranteed to work and still complain.


Good job.

 

[Kaali]

And you have tried to post about them, ask for help, different drivers...no
But you did try beta software that is NOT guaranteed to work and still complain.


Good job.

Yes i post about them ( BFBC2:Vietnam - 6900 series cards and artifacts -...)

so...

All the bug we found still there, yes i know it's a hot fix (beta) but i think it'sn't gonna change to many from the WHQL !

 

[Murjuk]

It is not an hotfix, it is just a beta, good one. BTW, I can't see tesselation settings.

 

[the_420]

I can never install these hotfixes. If I install it with the 10.12's installed it says drivers allready up to date. If I unistall 10.12 then try these it cant find a supported card. Is there some trick? I have a Gigabyte 6850 and Vista Ultimate x64. It would be nice if someone can help.