AMD Catalyst 12.3 PRE-WHQL (8.950.0 February 14)

asder00 · *Last edited by asder00; 02-16-2012 at 23:07.*

Enjoy

Downloads:
Win 7/Vista x64
Win 7/Vista x86
Win XP x64/x86

Release Notes

The AMD Catalyst™ 12.2 Certified driver (It is the same driver as the Catalyst 12.2 Pre-Certified, but will be officially Microsoft® certified) will be posted in late February or very early March 2012.
Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.2 pre-certified driver:

Windows 7 and Windows® Vista® support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series

Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit and Windows Vista 64-bit/32-bit
Windows XP support will be made available in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing is now available for DirectX® 10 and DirectX 11 applications

Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900 and 7700 Series
Users can now enable Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst Control Center for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications
Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)

AMD Eyefinity 2.1 technology enhancements

Custom resolutions – users can now choose from a much larger set of display resolutions for their AMD Eyefinity configurations
Dynamic Configuration Changes: Switching between different display configurations (when physically plugging/un-plugging displays) will occur automatically by loading the appropriate profile
HydraVision enhancements: The Windows Task bar can now be moved and resized based on users preference
Profile Manager improvements: Users can now create multiple Display profiles, enabling users to seamlessly switch between various AMD Eyefinity and Display Configurations

Build Info:
DriverVer=02/14/2012, 8.950.0.0000
8.95-120214a-133662E-ATI
Catalyst: 12.3
D3D: 7.14.10.0894
OGL: 6.14.10.11554
CCC: 2012.0214.2218.39913

Win 7/Vista Supported Cards:

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victoryo · 02-16-2012, 21:19 | posts: 29

Is this different from:

AMD Catalyst 12.3 RC (8.950.0 February 14) AMD Official BETA
Just installed this one -_-

asder00 · 02-16-2012, 21:20 | posts: 874 | Location: twitter.com/asder00

Quote:

Originally Posted by victoryo

Is this different from:

AMD Catalyst 12.3 RC (8.950.0 February 14) AMD Official BETA
Just installed this one -_-

Same driver.

victoryo · 02-16-2012, 21:24 | posts: 29

Quote:

Originally Posted by asder00

Same driver.

Seems different. This is the beta: 8.95-120214a-133575E-ATI

asder00 · 02-16-2012, 21:28 | posts: 874 | Location: twitter.com/asder00

Quote:

Originally Posted by victoryo

Seems different. This is the beta: 8.95-120214a-133575E-ATI

133575E-ATI This is just the packaging version, is different because the package is different, the driver vesion (8.95-120214a) and files are the same, you can even compare them via crc 100% identical.

slizersam · 02-16-2012, 21:32 | posts: 12 | Location: Norway

i can confirm that this driver gives the superior performance in battlefield 3 for me with hd5850 in crossfire.

i have the driverpack from the sticky released on this forum a few days ago, but i had corrupted "artifact" looking in Tesv skyrim so i vent back to
12.2, 7.14.10.0890, 8.94-120120a-132259E-ATI.

its strange that they are considering this for release with the current screen corruption noticed in skyrim.

Matthew Simis · 02-16-2012, 23:20 | posts: 72 | Location: Ireland

Quote:

Originally Posted by slizersam

i can confirm that this driver gives the superior performance in battlefield 3 for me with hd5850 in crossfire.

Superior to what exactly?

Anyone know if todays CAP (12.1 CAP3) should be used/needed with these drivers?

Ziver · 02-16-2012, 21:34 | posts: 8 | Location: Turkey

İs it 12.2 or 12.3pre ?

asder00 · 02-16-2012, 21:40 | posts: 874 | Location: twitter.com/asder00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ziver

İs it 12.2 or 12.3pre ?

8.95 is 12.3, also versioning in the inf is 12.3

psy_parasite · 02-16-2012, 22:02 | posts: 168 | Location: Vancouver B.C.

catalyst control center version is not exact, im using rc, and its 2012.0131.2220.39925

zer0_c0ol · 02-16-2012, 21:37 | posts: 1,843 | Location: mostar(BIH)

omfg my crossfire is UPPPP babyyyy

))

popeye · 02-16-2012, 22:19 | posts: 446 | Location: USA

Support for Mobility HD 6550M on Win7 64 bit please.

Forceflow · 02-16-2012, 22:27 | posts: 29

Is it normal that I still cannot control or configure any CAPS from the CCC?

I only have 3D application settings, which are just configurable profiles to switch between ...

Falkentyne · 02-16-2012, 22:35 | posts: 367

W7 driver is working, but had to do an upgrade install over the supersampling driver in order to get 3D clocks not showing up as 300/150 in gpu-z (and thus breaking afterburner and Trixx and preventing non CCC overclocking)

Hope someone mods the XP driver for 7970, as the last XP leak had the same problem as the second to last W7 leak (the PCIE X1 bug), along with tons of BSOD's if you enable EDAA in certain games (along with CS:Source and Aika Online).

Leon_Bassel · 02-16-2012, 22:35 | posts: 40 | Location: SYRIA

thx 4 driver ^^

any Mobility. ver ?

Earmack · 02-16-2012, 22:50 | posts: 6 | Location: Moscow, Russia

Tested little bit, I like it, skyrim work fine=)

play2lose · 02-16-2012, 22:54 | posts: 1,708 | Location: Las Vegas USA

To the guys that say crossfire is up, is that with any CAPS installed? or just plain 12.2? I have 6870x2 and would love some crossfire lovin!

asder00 · *Last edited by asder00; 02-16-2012 at 23:09.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon_Bassel

thx 4 driver ^^

any Mobility. ver ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by popeye

Support for Mobility HD 6550M on Win7 64 bit please.

Some cards are supported, yours are not?

Actually i don't need to re-mod this driver, is the same as this one already mobility modded

k1net1cs · 02-17-2012, 06:30 | posts: 3,327

Quote:

Originally Posted by asder00

Actually i don't need to re-mod this driver, is the same as this one already mobility modded

QFT.
Couldn't install 12.3 RC Feb 14 (since 5650m's h/w ID isn't listed in its .inf), but this one installs just fine.

Seems this driver fixes the green Flash videos issue I'm having with previous post-11.12 drivers; tested with latest 11.1 and 11.2 Beta of the Flash plug-in.
Still a blank video on MPC-HC with its default renderer (in which can be 'fixed' by using renderless VMR-9 or VMR-7; the default EVR renderer still won't show anything), but an improvement on the video support side (for 5650m) otherwise.

Sobtanian · 02-16-2012, 23:05 | posts: 53

7970 crossfire here (win 7 x64 SP1) and I have a very annoying issue: after installing these drivers and rebooting, the PC will BSOD after reaching the desktop by 30 seconds or so, OR if I try to get in to the control centre.

This has happened to me with each an every driver I've tried, except for the 11.12 RC (ie the very first driver for the 7970 family).

The cards are working fine in games etc, so I'm fairly certain it's not a hardware issue.

Anyone else?