AMD Catalyst 12.x (8.97 April 18) Unofficial BETA - Page 12

Yoshpop · 05-02-2012, 17:00 | posts: 99 | Location: Northern VA

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Originally Posted by BenchAndGames

You do not need 12.3 CAP1 Profile, having these drivers ? " 12.x (8.97 April 18) "
I've done tests with the CAP Profile, and is the same performance and FPS's, that without these CAP installed. Only drivers 8.97

And a very curious thing is that the CAP installed, Battlefield 3 has much stuttering, but if I uninstall the CAP, it seems that the stuttering disappears.

Thanks for taking the time to do the comparison. I've noticed a little stuttering as well lately and will uninstall the CAPs to see if it changes anything since we have similar systems.

n3v3rm1nd · 05-02-2012, 18:58 | posts: 2

with these perfomance is really stable .. but my idle clocks are broken .. running @ full

ATI 6770m

bokloz · 05-02-2012, 22:39 | posts: 577 | Location: Egypt

what about crysis 2 ??

The Mac · 05-03-2012, 15:09 | posts: 1,415 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by n3v3rm1nd

with these perfomance is really stable .. but my idle clocks are broken .. running @ full

ATI 6770m

you using afterburner or trrixx?

n3v3rm1nd · 05-03-2012, 18:23 | posts: 2

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Originally Posted by The Mac

you using afterburner or trrixx?

afterburner .. with 12.4 everything is fine

pokerapar88 · 05-03-2012, 18:28 | posts: 1,529 | Location: Argentina // Buenos Aires

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Originally Posted by n3v3rm1nd

afterburner .. with 12.4 everything is fine

Have found that with 12.4 kingdoms of amalur is not performing as good as with feb 24th drivers. very laggy in comparison.

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

stuttering from CAP? but the .blb XML in 12.3cap1 is identical to the beta

EDIT: i was doing something horribly wrong with the blb->xml, nevermind... now i'm trying to get the syntax right to make an XML out of any CAP without it installed

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-05-2012, 01:08 | posts: 129 | Location: Boston, MA

Just installed them after doing a thorough uninstall. I did all of the folder and registry cleaning myself (like always since driver sweeper deleted several files preventing Windows 7 from updating to SP1, oh well got that fixed haha)

anyways back on subject

My driver shows that the catalyst version is 11.12 and yet it says the driver package is 8.97-120418a-137336E-ATI. Does everybody elses CCC say 11.12??

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

catalyst version is completely irrelevant, it will load some old version, or not have one at all (betas/hotfixes do not contain the number)

it's plain text in the registry, you can change it if you want

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-05-2012, 01:22 | posts: 129 | Location: Boston, MA

thanks for clarifying

I'm gonna change it to 13.10 to make me feel awesome

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

13.37

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-05-2012, 02:07 | posts: 129 | Location: Boston, MA

Well, 3DMark11 is up to 9079 with these drivers from 8924 with the 11.12 drivers. Pretty nice jump for drivers being the only change.
I bet I could get it to 9100 with very little tweaking.

Seren · 05-05-2012, 02:15 | posts: 44 | Location: Perth, Western Australia

Hmm... getting horrible image quality in all my games... Mainly to do with shadows and lighting...
In Dead Island (even with highest quality shadows and shadow res) the best I could make it look was this: http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/123277912-4.jpg
That's with almost maxed out graphics too...
In Torchlight: http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/123278403-4.jpg

I must admit, the last time I swept drivers was months ago and I've just been installing over each new version (without going back). Do you guys think this is what's causing it or is it something more?
Btw, I installed every add-on from the CCC set-up if that makes a diff.

GSB · 05-05-2012, 02:31 | posts: 1,164 | Location: Offline

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Originally Posted by Seren

I must admit, the last time I swept drivers was months ago and I've just been installing over each new version (without going back). Do you guys think this is what's causing it or is it something more?
Btw, I installed every add-on from the CCC set-up if that makes a diff.

Imho, the driver sweeper is not nearly as important as it used to be. I usually just uninstall the old before installing the new. Your mileage may vary though.
How old is your Windows install? Maybe time for a reload? Image quality didn't look that bad.

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

look here, C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository, if you keep installing overtop, you lose 100mb with every driver you install, but no i dont think that would cause the corruption (unless a leftover CCC value creeped in)

but in your pics, i'm not sure if i'm looking at the right spots, for torchlight it's entirely possible that's what the dev intended, unless you can confirm a previous driver had completely different shadows?

Seren · *Last edited by Seren; 05-05-2012 at 05:03.*

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Originally Posted by GSB

Imho, the driver sweeper is not nearly as important as it used to be. I usually just uninstall the old before installing the new. Your mileage may vary though.
How old is your Windows install? Maybe time for a reload? Image quality didn't look that bad.

Windows install is just about ancient (since early 2010), though I doubt that'd effect anything that effects IQ after an update of drivers.
As I said, those are the max settings (not just from the in-game but from the video.scr config) and lagg me a little while playing. I normally play it on medium but the IQ hurts my eyes too much on medium since the update.
I got my bro to take a screen in kinda the same place and you can see so much difference especially in the shadows.
Bro (Medium settings with 11.4 Beta): http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55...43988F823AE5D/
Me (almost max settings with 11.5 Alpha): http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/59...F7FB350CF0C8B/

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Originally Posted by kn00tcn

look here, C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository, if you keep installing overtop, you lose 100mb with every driver you install, but no i dont think that would cause the corruption (unless a leftover CCC value creeped in)

but in your pics, i'm not sure if i'm looking at the right spots, for torchlight it's entirely possible that's what the dev intended, unless you can confirm a previous driver had completely different shadows?

Okay I agree the first pic it's not easy to spot it, but the Torchlight one, the shadows used to be a whole lot clearer and that was on high. The SS I showed you was on the highest shadow setting (the shadows pretty much looks the same blur on all settings now...).

Anyways, DW, I'll sweep and DL the WHQ drivers tomorrow. Not gonna waste too much time on leaked drivers...

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

ok ya, something must have gone horribly wrong, or a CCC setting is interfering with the games

erocker · 05-05-2012, 21:35 | posts: 198

Uninstall CCC isn't in my control panel for some reason. Where can I uninstall these?

Rich_Guy · 05-05-2012, 22:17 | posts: 6,742 | Location: UK

Run the set-up.exe again, and select uninstall

erocker · 05-05-2012, 22:42 | posts: 198

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Originally Posted by Rich_Guy

Run the set-up.exe again, and select uninstall

Lol, that would of been the easy way. I'm dumb for not thinking of it. Thanks much though. I wound up manually getting rid of everything then ran Driver Sweeper. Got new drivers installed and all is well. Heh, need more coffee.

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-06-2012, 00:58 | posts: 129 | Location: Boston, MA

BF3 ran great with these but kept CTD on me. I ended up giving the 12.4's another try and found that they bench the same as the 8.97's and the flickering that bothered me with the 12.4's in BF3 the first go around is now gone for whatever reason.

somemadcaaant · 05-06-2012, 02:42 | posts: 115 | Location: Australia

BC2 is borked with these for me, halved both gpu performance to about 50%, tried with older caps no difference, went back to feb 14th and back to 95% gpu usage again.

Battlefield 3 performance seemed down abit also, getting less then 60fps sometimes on metro, smallest map and saw some texture corruption as well, feb 14th back up past 80-90fps avg max settings, 1920x1200 and no corruption.

These drivers fixed 2nd gpu constantly at max.

-smc

|ALE| · 05-06-2012, 19:00 | posts: 197

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Originally Posted by n3v3rm1nd

afterburner .. with 12.4 everything is fine

uninstall afterburner, it gives me many problems with frequencies goes up and down random.

Rolly · 05-07-2012, 20:11 | posts: 8

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Originally Posted by |ALE|

uninstall afterburner, it gives me many problems with frequencies goes up and down random.

ALE, I've got exactly the same problem and I was wondering if there is some kind of fix as I really like Afterburner. Does it work properly with an older driver version for example?
I tried using one profile with stock settings for 2D and another one with moderate overclock for 3D but still having those constant frequency jumps up (to clocked setting 1100 MHz) and down (to idle setting 300 MHz) every several seconds when under load.
I think it could be the PowerPlay function of the card, I wonder if disabling it will stop the frequency jumps...

far-cough · *Last edited by far-cough; 05-08-2012 at 08:52.*

Re-include atipdlxx.dll and atipdl64.dll into the package (better support with 3rd party tools)

done it to mine and all is good now these new drivers of late give me big headaches with this clock speeds so i use the modded drivers from a nother site which has the files in it

works a treat no problems at all now...
i just dont use the extra crap they put in it make my other programs play up...

these
Added HydraVision 4.2.232.0
Added AMD Video Convertor 12.4.100.20315
Added AMD Avivo Codec
Added Catalyst Application Profiles 12.3 CAP 1
with out them all is great iq and fps in games in xfire 6970's oc