AMD Catalyst 12.7 (8.981.2.1 June 25) AMD Official BETA

[Rich_Guy]

Originally Posted by INSTG8R

Shame you gave up but I get it. I have only had the odd idle lock up and the browser lock up which was easily fixed by disabling HW Accel. in FF.

Was getting them all the time on the 12.6 BETAs, even with HW Accel. disabled in FF, and that was just while browsing, or doing nothing at all.

Thought the 12.7 BETAs were fine, as i had no problems with those for days, ran through a few benchies after install, all fine, then started up Fear 2 one day, and bam, not long into it i got the good old black screen, then a second or 2 later the 100% fan, so had to hard restart, wen't back to the April 18th 12.5 BETAs, and back to 100% stable, no crashes, no 100% fans, absolutely nothing, games, everything running fine with no problems, so how AMD can say its your motherboard thats the problem, when its only their later drivers making it crash due to a change they have made in them, is beyond me, as if it was my board, then how come my card has been working fine on it for 6+ months, and is only crashing on their later drivers, that they've made a change to, as if it wasn't comaptible with this board, then it wouldn't have worked from day 1 of installing it.

[rogue221979]

I think I'm the only one in the world that never has as many issues as I see here downloading and installing a driver. You guys gotta stop buying ****ty games. JK!

These drivers work great for me so far, however my newest game are Max Payne 3, Skyrim, and BF3. All working great except for Skyrim's normal bugs.

[Erizo]

Any variation of the 12.7 I will randomly get a black screen, 100% fan and my motherboard will beep. 12.6 works fine and every driver before the 12.7 for me!

[Kaktus]

At the end of the day it still is only a Beta driver. So issues are bound to creep in.

[heroxoot]

Does anyone else have screen flickering sometimes when 2d gaming or using flash? Using 12.7 beta.

[Falkentyne]

Originally Posted by ClockClocker

Sorry to hear that. It still seems to be a fix for a lot of people though. Do you have anything enabled what makes the Card go into 3d Mode sometimes? I still think it could be related. You got the GSOD on Idle or in Games? If you get it in Games it could be the GPU-Ram.

When i overclock my GPU-Ram to far i get a GSOD or even a Blue Striped Screen.

Never seen it in games.
ONLY seen it in loading screens (when a game switches from 3D to 2D) or at the end of a game when it tries to switch back to the desktop, or while browsing/scrolling webpages on IE.

[TheReproducer]

I've tried using this beta driver in hope it would fix the 2d/3d clock stuck issue but no luck. It's very strange, I used to be able to overclock with MSI Afterburner without this problem (clock stuck on 400/1000Mhz) but the latest drivers have obviously broken something.

[sebhitman]

I have a acer laptop with a6-3420m , 6520g ,

is this driver better than the 12.4b hot fix mobility????

[The Mac]

Originally Posted by TheReproducer

I've tried using this beta driver in hope it would fix the 2d/3d clock stuck issue but no luck. It's very strange, I used to be able to overclock with MSI Afterburner without this problem (clock stuck on 400/1000Mhz) but the latest drivers have obviously broken something.

make sure your using the latest AB, unwinder had to fix something beause of the deprecated dlls AMD removed.

[moheban79]

Originally Posted by heroxoot

Does anyone else have screen flickering sometimes when 2d gaming or using flash? Using 12.7 beta.

I had flickers and found turning on vsync fixed it.

[FrizzleFry]

First I tried the 12.6 whql driver. The only noticeable problem I had with it was monitor scaling was off, had a black border around my screen and it would forget my adjustment everytime I booted up. I even tried adding a registry entry someone suggested, no effect.
Not a huge deal but I found it more annoying as time went on, so I decided to try this driver. I installed on top of the 12.6 at first, when I looked at the version number it was still 12.6. So then I tried uninstalling and driver sweeper and all that, and installed 12.7 again. Looked at the version number this time.... 11.5? Wtf?
So I'm done. 12.4 is working for me. When I see a bunch of people happy with a new version of the driver on these forums I will consider trying it.

[blandead]

Originally Posted by FrizzleFry

First I tried the 12.6 whql driver. The only noticeable problem I had with it was monitor scaling was off, had a black border around my screen and it would forget my adjustment everytime I booted up. I even tried adding a registry entry someone suggested, no effect.
Not a huge deal but I found it more annoying as time went on, so I decided to try this driver. I installed on top of the 12.6 at first, when I looked at the version number it was still 12.6. So then I tried uninstalling and driver sweeper and all that, and installed 12.7 again. Looked at the version number this time.... 11.5? Wtf?
So I'm done. 12.4 is working for me. When I see a bunch of people happy with a new version of the driver on these forums I will consider trying it.

If you did a driver sweeper then of course windows update will download and install latest WHQL driver OR ANY PREVIOUS WHQL driver installed before.

It would be better to check driver version of both display driver/CCC/etc... when using a BETA cause even when I upgraded to 12.7 BETA from 12.6 WHQL it also just displays 12.6, which isn't the case with 12.7 PREVIEW

As far as your 12.6 WHQL black bar issues... I had that happen to me, and found a workaround without having to fix after a reboot.

I found a few different ways to fix it until restart

Go to "My Digital Flat Panels>Scaling Options"

1. Move Under/Over scan anywhere from current position then apply, finally the scan move back to desired position and apply, black bars should be gone (My Overscan ends up maxed out)
   
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2. Check the box on the bottom that says "use the scaling values..., click apply, then uncheck, and finally click apply again

For the eventual permanent method Go to "My Digital Flat Panels>Pixel Format"

• Change to "RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard (Limited RGB)"

Not sure if "Full RGB" would make a difference from "Limited RGB" I just have a standard TN monitor so makes no difference to me

So for permanent solution I basically just did both the temporary steps, and finally the last one changing the Pixel Format. On restart black bars were gone and native resolution was normal

This only happened when I switched to the HDMI port of my vid card. When using a DVI-to-HDMI cable (HDMI from monitor-to DVI on Video Card) I never had this issue before, but a regular HDMI-to-HDMI caused this on 12.6 WHQL.

12.6 WHQL is seriously a pain in the butt

Oh, and ALL versions of AB work for me in unofficial overclocking mode, they say some "dll" is not included, but aside from 1 preview driver it's always there, you should probably install a WHQL version first then a BETA/PREVIEW