[GUIDE] Enable unofficial overclocking after Catalyst 12.2

[lmimmfn]

was wondering what was up with AB, the link doesnt work, any chance of Hilbert hosting those .dll's?

[Splendid_John]

Found a solution:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1196856/o...rs-thread/7110

[Fire$torm]

Originally Posted by Unwinder

According to my unofficial info AMD indeed removed this library from drivers on purpose. So if it is confirmed, say bye to unofficial overclocking mode. It will be removed from Afterburner as well.

This is sad news for Radeon users.

Originally Posted by heroxoot

Putting these dll in the MSI Afterburner folder works too. Maybe it should just come with it now.

How about no and say He didn't. Dude. you are forgetting that AMD OWNS the rights to those DLLs. AMD removed them for a reason so you cannot believe AMD is going to grant Unwinder permission to include them in Afterburner?

@Everyone: The link is probably down because dissemination (sharing) of copyrighted software is illegal without the express consent of the copyright holder. If you need those DLLs the only legal way to get them is to install Catalyst 12.1 or earlier. But keep in mind using them outside of the installation in which they came is also illegal. Sorry ppl, not my law. Will I use the above suggestion? Your darn toot'n I am.....

Anyhoot, Thank you Unwinder for a great piece of software. I only wish the Corp. big wigs would stop f'n with the OC community.

Peace.

[shALKE]

The link is broken.

[Blitz6804]

This should be a working link.

[Jarhead]

Originally Posted by jiia

Hey! Yesterday I stumbled upon the problem of not being able to enable unofficial OC in MSI Afterburner. This happened after reinstalling Windows.

Thanks to Unwinder for giving us an explanation for the problem!

AMD has removed two dll files in Catalyst 12.2 that still existed in version 12.1. Therefore if 12.2 happens to be the first driver you install on your new system you won't have those two dll files on your computer. This causes MSI Afterburner to fail to set the unofficial overclocking values.

To fix the problem you need to download the two dll files and place them in your MSI afterburner folder. You may need to REBOOT afterwards.

The files can be downloaded here:

http://andora.tk/ATIDrivers.zip
If you can't see a picture below the server is offline

What are the names of the two dll files needed?

[Pill Monster]

Originally Posted by Jarhead

What are the names of the two dll files needed?

atipdlxx.dll

Paste into the AB folder then add -xcl to the shortcut as below, then exit and reopen AB. It should ask for a reboot.

[king-dubs]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/un5iyx

[darthreaper4]

UPDATE
This worked with Catalyst 12.6, but voltage controls for my card are still locked

[3ncode]

Just to note that since doing a fresh install I've had no luck with 12.6 or 12.7 on 2.2.0/2.2.1/2.2.2.

[tw33k]

Originally Posted by darthreaper4

UPDATE
This worked with Catalyst 12.6, but voltage controls for my card are still locked

Same here. I've tried different versions of AB, edited the cfg files etc etc. Nothing works

[Ilya]

This is what I did:
1. Installed 12.6 whql
2. Installed latest version of AB
3. downloaded the 2 missing files and copied them into AB folder
4. edited the CFG file
5. added -xcl to the shortcut and opened AB
6. restarted comp


still cant go over 1135 with using 7850...
and cant control the voltage

[Pill Monster]

Hi, you guys who don't have voltage control might want to look at this post - I think it will help.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=101

[johndead]

After ****ing around with this for the past 3 hours, I've gotten it to work on 12.8 with AB 2.2.0

1. Install AB
2. Copy DLL's to folder
3. Do the ****ing cfg ritual
4. Install 12.8
5. OC the **** out of card

I seriously am very pissed at the general BS loops I had to jump through to get the OCing BACK BEFORE I HAD TO REINSTALL WIN 7.

**** MSI AND **** AMD

I hope this helps someone, somewhere, sometime so they don't blow a capillary

[Unwinder]

Originally Posted by johndead

After ****ing around with this for the past 3 hours, I've gotten it to work on 12.8 with AB 2.2.0

1. Install AB
2. Copy DLL's to folder
3. Do the ****ing cfg ritual
4. Install 12.8
5. OC the **** out of card

I seriously am very pissed at the general BS loops I had to jump through to get the OCing BACK BEFORE I HAD TO REINSTALL WIN 7.

**** MSI AND **** AMD

I hope this helps someone, somewhere, sometime so they don't blow a capillary

And **** all impolite newbies.

[self_slaughter]

Wouldn't work for me in afterburner 2.2.4 but works fine in 2.2.2
Just copied the dll files over, done the usual cfg edit and bam 1.3V on my 7970

Shame these things vdroop so hard though... runs like 1.27V when idle then droops right back down to 1.17V-1.2V under load.
Had it at 1350/1800Mhz for while. furmark run here
Unfortunately it wasn't fully stable still, furmark didn't crash and I done multiple runs and a few 15 minute burn in tests played a game for a couple of hours but then tried an older game and it froze up on me

Oh running catalyst 12.8 btw
But it does work!

Thanks mate! Appreciate your efforts... not everyone is a whinging b****

[jomama22]

Originally Posted by johndead

After ****ing around with this for the past 3 hours, I've gotten it to work on 12.8 with AB 2.2.0

1. Install AB
2. Copy DLL's to folder
3. Do the ****ing cfg ritual
4. Install 12.8
5. OC the **** out of card

I seriously am very pissed at the general BS loops I had to jump through to get the OCing BACK BEFORE I HAD TO REINSTALL WIN 7.

**** MSI AND **** AMD

I hope this helps someone, somewhere, sometime so they don't blow a capillary

yes because it is the end of the world to have to change a 0 to a 1 and copy two .dlls into a folder.

i have this working on 2.2.4 and 3 lightnings with cat 12.8. 12.9 bea does seem to have bugged ab thou as 2d clocks cause screen corruption at desktop. But honestly in no rush to upgrade to 12.9.

[jiia]

Sorry for the broken link. I replaced it with the one posted by king-dubs.

I haven't been using the unofficial OC method for a while but I just tested it and it still works. Running core 1200, mem 1600 and vcore 1.18V.

Catalyst 12.8 and Afterbuner 2.2.2

[genbrien]

thx, it worked for my laptop clocks, but voltage still locked.

[mitchdrum29]

Thanks so much! confirmed to work on 12.9 catalyst drivers with 2.2.4 version of AB. I just had to make sure to add UnofficialOverclockingMode=1 to the Profiles section config file.

[Espionage724]

Confirmed working with 12.11 on 7850 PE

[heroxoot]

On 12.11 doing this causes massive flickering and unstable graphics at any clocks. Its crazy. Anyone know if its working on 12.10 though? I been uninstalling drivers on and off all day to find where the problem lay with the idle buy on 12.10+ for amd gpu.

[irit93]

Originally Posted by heroxoot

On 12.11 doing this causes massive flickering and unstable graphics at any clocks. Its crazy. Anyone know if its working on 12.10 though? I been uninstalling drivers on and off all day to find where the problem lay with the idle buy on 12.10+ for amd gpu.

same F***** problem here and i'm raging hard.

[homefry]

Does this still allow the card to go into power savings 2d clocks?

[Pill Monster]

Yeah but it's easier to just add -xcl to the shortcut and reboot.....