AMD Catalyst 12.6 (8.980.0 June 11) AMD Official WHQL

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AMD Catalyst 12.6 Release Notes

AMD Catalyst 12.6 Win 7 | Vista (64-bit)

AMD Catalyst 12.6 Win 7 | Vista (32-bit)

AMD Catalyst 12.6 Win XP (64-bit)

AMD Catalyst 12.6 Win XP (32-bit)

AMD Media Codec 12.6 Win 7 | Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)

AMD HydraVision 12.6 Win 7 | Vista (32-bit & 64-bit)

AMD HydraVision 12.6 Win XP (32-bit & 64-bit)

Build info:
DriverVer=06/11/2012, 8.980.0.0000
8.98-120611a-141402C-ATI
Sign date: June 26 (Microsoft WHQL)

Supported Cards:

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Colt M4 · 06-29-2012, 01:00 | posts: 815 | Location: Eden, NY

Didn't see it in the release notes but know they fixed it in the 12.6 beta. In this driver is the HDMI tv fix included?

EAK · 06-29-2012, 15:54 | posts: 463 | Location: Omaha, NE

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Originally Posted by Colt M4

Didn't see it in the release notes but know they fixed it in the 12.6 beta. In this driver is the HDMI tv fix included?

I know..the hdmi thing has been messing with me since 12.3 I hate it. I am not loading the whqls until i get confirmation that it is fixed. Its fixed in the 12.6 beta. I may just stay with that.

jbrunette · 06-29-2012, 01:52 | posts: 1

So does this signify the end of support for Radeon HDs 4800 and lower? The release notes say they're supported, but the installer and the .infs say otherwise.

The Mac · 06-29-2012, 01:59 | posts: 1,391 | Location: USA

V4800, thats fire pro not a desktop board

4000 series dropped with 12.5 and onward.

Yxskaft · 06-29-2012, 02:03 | posts: 482

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Originally Posted by The Mac

4000 series dropped with 12.5 and onward.

Yeah, but the release notes for 12.6 do actually say that the DX10/10.1 cards are still supported.

Seeing that we never got an official 12.5(which was supposed to be the last non-legacy driver, AMD's own statement) it likely is the 12.6 driver instead

Kaktus · 06-29-2012, 08:55 | posts: 303 | Location: South Africa

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Originally Posted by Yxskaft

Yeah, but the release notes for 12.6 do actually say that the DX10/10.1 cards are still supported.

Seeing that we never got an official 12.5(which was supposed to be the last non-legacy driver, AMD's own statement) it likely is the 12.6 driver instead

umm no, the last supported drivers for your card is 12.4 and older..

k1net1cs · 06-29-2012, 09:07 | posts: 3,328

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Originally Posted by Kaktus

umm no, the last supported drivers for your card is 12.4 and older..

That's not quite right either.

12.4 is the last monthly driver set that includes support HD 4xxx and older, but not the last one.
A new Catalyst version with support for those 'old' cards would be around 4~6 months apart, thus the next version with HD 4xxx (and older) support would be 12.8 at the earliest.

Kaktus · 06-29-2012, 09:25 | posts: 303 | Location: South Africa

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Originally Posted by k1net1cs

That's not quite right either.

12.4 is the last monthly driver set that includes support HD 4xxx and older, but not the last one.
A new Catalyst version with support for those 'old' cards would be around 4~6 months apart, thus the next version with HD 4xxx (and older) support would be 12.8 at the earliest.

Exactly, so there are nothing newer then 12.4 that supports the 4xxx cards and older at the moment.

vejn · 07-03-2012, 10:10 | posts: 524

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Originally Posted by The Mac

V4800, thats fire pro not a desktop board

4000 series dropped with 12.5 and onward.

HD 3000 series also.
Still can't play Witcher EE and Hitman Blood Money.
Possible shader and opengl bugs.

DavidGX · 07-03-2012, 11:57 | posts: 41 | Location: USA

Both the 12.6 and 12.7 Beta drivers give me the same issue. After playing a game for a few minutes, the drivers crash, screen blanks out, one (or both? hard to tell) of the cards fans max out and I have to power my system off and back on. No such issue with 12.4. Bull****.

Running two 7970s in Windows 7 64bit.

Colt M4 · 06-29-2012, 02:00 | posts: 815 | Location: Eden, NY

what was that clock bug that made the fans go to 100% was it in the 12.6 beta or a different one?

So far so good. Gained 4 points for max settings in Heaven gained 10 in 3dmark11 and bf3 seems smoother.

khanmein · 06-29-2012, 02:04 | posts: 80 | Location: Batu Pahat, Johor.

@asder where is the link for mobility? thanks for sharing~

k1net1cs · 06-29-2012, 03:46 | posts: 3,328

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Originally Posted by khanmein

@asder where is the link for mobility? thanks for sharing~

According to the Supported Cards list above, Mobility support is included; no need for a separate Mobility set.

MrBozack · **Great -** 06-29-2012, 04:07 | posts: 668 | Location: East Anglia

I can use VGA cable with this driver instead of that inferior HDMI thing!
It used to flicker when I scrolled, or watched video. Games worked fine. Perhaps 2D bug... but only on VGA cable???
Anyway, all is good now.

Thank you, this 12.6 WHQL seems very stable!

juneau78 · 06-29-2012, 08:17 | posts: 3 | Location: Jakarta

i got 40 average fps in Dirt3 with this driver, but with 12.7 official BETA gain me 58 fps!
anybody has the same problem?
btw im using 6950..

yoe · 06-29-2012, 10:04 | posts: 33 | Location: PL

Nice drivers so far, very stable. Thanks for the links!

V-FrIeNd · 06-29-2012, 10:46 | posts: 97 | Location: Bangkok, Thailand

not support HD 6520G 6620G...

Olvik · 06-29-2012, 11:18 | posts: 138 | Location: Spain

We are rolling version so not all bad, but who is not constantly looking at the differences, the newly initiated will be very difficult to know which version to install.

A greeting.

Mikedogg · 06-29-2012, 12:52 | posts: 2,872 | Location: The Freak Show - Earth.

Pre-5xxx supported. What a ****ing load AMD!!

Valken · 06-29-2012, 13:49 | posts: 612

OpenGL in this driver is newer than any of the 12.7 betas... Now to extract these and make a hybrid driver...

The Goose · 06-29-2012, 14:42 | posts: 1,274 | Location: shropshire,UK

ok so tdu2 working properly now,no glitchy graphics,smooth game play and i can max settings again but wait....oh a new problem now windows keeps freezing and only solution is to manually restart ,no new windows updates and its completely new issue since installing these drivers

ClockClocker · 06-29-2012, 15:01 | posts: 271

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Originally Posted by The Goose

ok so tdu2 working properly now,no glitchy graphics,smooth game play and i can max settings again but wait....oh a new problem now windows keeps freezing and only solution is to manually restart ,no new windows updates and its completely new issue since installing these drivers

I really think that has something to do with OC. I also didn't want to believe it because my 7850 ran at 1050mhz core. But with ANY Beta Driver after 12.4 and with this 12.6 it seems to cause issues on desktop when overclocking. I don't know if it is the card (since i can't overclock any 7850 anymore without crashing) or if the drivers are the issue. It's sad because games never caused Issues with my overclocking.

RodsterPS360 · 06-29-2012, 15:13 | posts: 227

OK i'm seriously confused.

I thought AMD/ATI switched to quarterly releases but these new drivers have the old numbering scheme. So did AMD reverse itself and are now doing monthly releases?

Yxskaft · 06-29-2012, 15:29 | posts: 482

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Originally Posted by RodsterPS360

OK i'm seriously confused.

I thought AMD/ATI switched to quarterly releases but these new drivers have the old numbering scheme. So did AMD reverse itself and are now doing monthly releases?

The legacy drivers for the HD2000-HD4000 were meant to have a quarterly release

The normal drivers have no set dates. They will still be numbered after the months they are released in, just like it was before.
It seems that the Beta drivers are monthly though