AMD Catalyst 12.7 (8.981.2.0 June 26) AMD Official BETA - Page 11

Falkentyne · 07-21-2012, 02:39 | posts: 367

I haven't seen it work yet. The real question to ask is if anyone with an original ghz card has voltage control working? (just to be sure). I do remember in the hardOCP review, they were not able to get 1 more mhz on the card even with 1.3 voltage, which seems to imply that the tools need to be updated.

Martin.v.r · 07-21-2012, 10:08 | posts: 11 | Location: Denmark

nice driver
run super whit 7970 sapphire org bios an MSI onlock bios/msiafterburner 2.2.1

Rich_Guy · 07-21-2012, 13:15 | posts: 6,657 | Location: UK

Might just flog mine on tbh, as im happy with me 670, can't really see a difference in performance, seems the same to me, probably only tell if i run fraps to see the actual frames, plus its got a better cooler on it as well, and im only at 1080p, so 2gbs enough v-ram really, plus it saves me from taking the 670 out and popping the 7970 back, as its a right faff on, tight fit

CoMa666 · 07-21-2012, 13:54 | posts: 189 | Location: Italy-Bari

In battlefield multyplayer it's better gtx 670 or hd 7970?

I want to take 60 costant, and 2 msaa, not all ultra

I have hard problems with hd 7970 and drivers 12.7 black screen and 100% fan...

Rich_Guy · 07-21-2012, 16:44 | posts: 6,657 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by CoMa666

In battlefield multyplayer it's better gtx 670 or hd 7970?

I want to take 60 costant, and 2 msaa, not all ultra

I have hard problems with hd 7970 and drivers 12.7 black screen and 100% fan...

Nvidias better in BF3 as far as i know, so 670.

INSTG8R · 07-21-2012, 17:22 | posts: 1,188 | Location: Lost in Norway

Yeah AMD definitely concedes to Nvidia in BF3. Not really sure why tho. AMD's extra VRAM should make Ultra easy, but even heavily overclocked it still lags behind NV.

GhostXL · 07-21-2012, 17:26 | posts: 4,906 | Location: PA, USA

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Originally Posted by INSTG8R

Yeah AMD definitely concedes to Nvidia in BF3. Not really sure why tho. AMD's extra VRAM should make Ultra easy, but even heavily overclocked it still lags behind NV.

Maybe in FPS, but not IQ. If you enable Supersampling in CCC, you get a HUGE IQ jump, that really outshines Nvidia.

heroxoot · 07-21-2012, 20:11 | posts: 203 | Location: TN

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I get constant 60fps and my 7970 only ever has 80% load max with BF3.

INSTG8R · 07-21-2012, 23:09 | posts: 1,188 | Location: Lost in Norway

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Originally Posted by GhostXL

Maybe in FPS, but not IQ. If you enable Supersampling in CCC, you get a HUGE IQ jump, that really outshines Nvidia.

Touche!

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Originally Posted by heroxoot

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I get constant 60fps and my 7970 only ever has 80% load max with BF3.

Yes no one is denying it can't maintain 60FPS but if you bench the 2 without v-synch the 680 is clearly ahead.

defcoms · 07-21-2012, 23:33 | posts: 94 | Location: Florida

I am getting a constant 60+ fps ultra settig no MSAA, using FXAA in BF3 @ 5970x1080 eyefinity. Caspian Border and Operation Firestorm I get some dips into the 50's. The new drivers and ghz edtion vBios working awesome. No more black screen and 100% fan Woohoo....!

psyside · 07-21-2012, 23:47 | posts: 324 | Location: Macedonia

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Originally Posted by GhostXL

Maybe in FPS, but not IQ. If you enable Supersampling in CCC, you get a HUGE IQ jump, that really outshines Nvidia.

SSAA aint work in BF3/DX11.

Cave Waverider · 07-22-2012, 00:30 | posts: 205 | Location: Deep in the Caribbean...™

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Originally Posted by psyside

SSAA aint work in BF3/DX11.

Odd, RGSS seems to be working for me when I select MSAA in game and force Super Sampling via CCC. It looks a lot better than on my Nvidia rig that way.

psyside · 07-22-2012, 01:18 | posts: 324 | Location: Macedonia

Woot? can you please explain me how do you do that? i tried but nothing helps! even i already have BF3 looking amazing, in using SMAA injector (ultra settings) + high quality filtering in drivers and 4XMSAA, still would be great to see how does RGSS? looks i dont even know what that means, that is some kind of SSAA, right?

GhostXL · 07-22-2012, 06:53 | posts: 4,906 | Location: PA, USA

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Originally Posted by psyside

SSAA aint work in BF3/DX11.

It does on AMD drivers....I can't say for Nvidia..

All I have to do is enable supersampling from CCC...that simple.

IQ goes through the roof adds negative LOD quality also. It's part of the drivers now.

CoMa666 · 07-22-2012, 13:34 | posts: 189 | Location: Italy-Bari

When i flash with hd 7970 bios ghz edition than i install drivers and then tell me no drivers are in the pc for the card....

can someone post the right hd 7970 ghz bios ?

I have hd 7970 shapphire oc dual-x

Rich_Guy · 07-22-2012, 15:32 | posts: 6,657 | Location: UK

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=365632

LiquidFrost · 07-23-2012, 00:03 | posts: 53 | Location: Norway

Getting the old corrupted mouse pointer issue with these.

Falkentyne · 07-23-2012, 00:31 | posts: 367

Don't use atiflash/atiwinflash to flash the ghz bios on the card. You have to use the AMD unofficial crossflasher. Most likely, there is a CRC/hardware check, similar to when you tried using radeon Bios editor to change the CCC limits on the 6900 cards, then the drivers couldn't detect the card anymore. It's probably the EXACT Same thing going on, which is why you can't use atiflash to do this.

Reflash the backed up Bios (if you didn't back it up, switch to Bios #2, dump it with gpu-z 0.6.3, then with the power on, switch to Bios #1 then run the command line (or atiwinflash) flasher (it's best to boot to MSDOS/boot disk and flash with atiflash) to restore the original Bios. Then run the crossflasher that Rich Guy linked above for you.

GhostXL · 07-23-2012, 07:22 | posts: 4,906 | Location: PA, USA

Yep I used the official flasher, took 10 seconds. It flashed both my cards at the same time right in windows. No need for safemode and the like. It just worked, and great.

12.7 beta's came to life afterwards.

CoMa666 · 07-23-2012, 07:25 | posts: 189 | Location: Italy-Bari

rich_guy you think i can take 60 min fps with a gtx 670 with this setting on bf3?

ultra
high
high
medium
ultra
ultra

2x msaa

HBAO

1920x1080

ipredator · 07-23-2012, 11:12 | posts: 494

Ghost are you watercooling your 3770k for 4,6 Ghz?

Seth-01 · 07-23-2012, 14:44 | posts: 26

Little feedback : these drivers crash Kane's Wrath (old game) with a big freeze. Must reboot by hand windows. Rollback to 12.6 and seems to work good :/

Rich_Guy · 07-23-2012, 15:19 | posts: 6,657 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by CoMa666

rich_guy you think i can take 60 min fps with a gtx 670 with this setting on bf3?

ultra
high
high
medium
ultra
ultra

2x msaa

HBAO

1920x1080

I don't play it, but i can't see why not, if the 7970 can handle it fine as said above

GhostXL · *Last edited by GhostXL; 07-23-2012 at 15:55.*

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Originally Posted by ipredator

Ghost are you watercooling your 3770k for 4,6 Ghz?

No, running a CoolerMaster V6 GT air cooler. I go back and forth between 4.6 to bench and 4.4 for gaming.

I don't bench too often though.

msuguy71 · *Last edited by msuguy71; 07-23-2012 at 15:59.*

So I have a problem with the new model of CCC greater than 12.4. I am running a 6870 and an integrated 3300 (on a 790GX board, using it to drive my second monitor) and when I upgraded from 12.4 to this driver (and I tried 12.6) it could not find a driver for the 3300. I see that they switched to a legacy driver model for anything lower than the HD 5XXX. When I tried to load the driver from 12.4 for the 3300 it switched both cards to the 12.4 driver. I can't use different drivers for some reason. Am I able to run both cards (well one is an integrated motherboard chip) or am I stuck to using 12.4?