[MediaFire] - ATI Catalyst 8.12 beta (8.561 RC3) XP/VISTA 32/64-bit

[tranngocminh]

ATI Catalyst 8.12 beta (8.561 RC3) XP 32/64-bit
ATI Catalyst 8.12 beta (8.561 RC3) VISTA 32/64-bit

ATI Stream support:

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide
ATI Stream harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
ATI Stream enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.
The CAL (Compute Abstraction Layer) is now include in the Catalyst driver package. CAL is the enabling component for ATI Stream


ATI Stream application: ATI Avivo Video Converter

Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in Catalyst Control Center Basic View) to achieve incredible performance levels in video transcoding.
ATI Catalyst Control Center – Noise reduction for progressive video content:



This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center.


Performance improvements:



Catalyst 8.12 Preliminary Performance Notes



Crysis + 2-7%



Crysis Warhead + 2-3%



Devil May Cry 4 + 1-6%



Far Cry 2

+ noAA scores are fixed for Crossfire configs; this is worth +20% on slower cards, and as much as 70% on faster ones

+ 5-10% gains when AA is enabled



FEAR + 2-6%



Left 4 Dead + 2-4%



Lost Planet Colonies + 3-10%, mostly in Area 2



Prey + 2-5%



STALKER Clear Sky + 5-10%, primarily on Crossfire configurations



NOTE – if you’re benchmarking Fallout 3, please be sure to disable VSYNC, as follows:



Edit the Fallout_default.ini file in the installation directory.

Change iPresentinterval=1 to iPresentinterval=0



For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 release notes.

[Pyr0]

awesome, thanks
i've installed the driver only
seems good so far, booting at correct speeds and gta iv seems a little better too

[MrMicrochip]

Installed driver only, tested crysis benchmarks and +0.1 fps

[ThaSchaap]

vsync problem with GTA IV is fixed, yay. Thanks, tranngocminh!

[HaZe303]

Thx OP for posting!! Will try em today, will post with results later on today.

[vurt]

Thanks, no FPS improvment in GTA IV, only game i've checked..

[masterchan777]

Nice drivers , CrossfireX logo is back for single 4870X2 and 2D/3D bug is fixed , lets hope this is still the case in the final 8.12 , cheers !!!

[Ekajaya"VaLvE"]

Crysis +~3 FPS, Farcry2 +~4 FPS with AI Cat set to advance.

[Bhairava]

I hope they have fixed the "scope bug" in Warhead Dx9 in Crossfire configuration. I'm pretty sure they did not.

[Plug2k]

Something weird going on with this drive

for a start rivatuners hardware monitoring is all screwed up with GPU1
and my temps on my card at idle have shot up 10c

apart from that great driver. but this 10c higher is an annoyance and im guessing rivatuner needs a update with these drivers.

4870x2

[Bhairava]

Originally Posted by Bhairava

I hope they have fixed the "scope bug" in Warhead Dx9 in Crossfire configuration. I'm pretty sure they did not.

In fact, they did not. Every people owning a CF system are experiencing this unspeakably annoying bug. When we are supposed to get a little attention from AMD?

[nafan08]

crossfire still dosnt work

[Bhairava]

Originally Posted by nafan08

crossfire still dosnt work

What do you mean? For me crossfire works.

[sutyi]

Originally Posted by Bhairava

In fact, they did not. Every people owning a CF system are experiencing this unspeakably annoying bug. When we are supposed to get a little attention from AMD?

I suppose you've reported it towards the support/driver team.

[Bhairava]

Originally Posted by sutyi

I suppose you've reported it towards the support/driver team.

Yes i did one month ago.

[HaZe303]

Crossfire works fine here.

[Labyrinth]

Says a unsupported vga (my second card) so no crossfire for me

[tommcd64]

No crossfire for me. I installed the driver and only 1 gpu would show up in the overdrive tab. I tried 3 installs of this driver and the same results with my 4870 X2 so I am back to 8.11 for now.

[Gurid]

I think I will pass and wait few days for the FINAL version to come

[dren72]

Originally Posted by tommcd64

No crossfire for me. I installed the driver and only 1 gpu would show up in the overdrive tab. I tried 3 installs of this driver and the same results with my 4870 X2 so I am back to 8.11 for now.

I tried these drivers just to get a heads up on what to expect with the final release. I'm not seeing the issue you describe here with my 4870X2. Both GPU's show up in the Overdrive tab here.

Not seeing much difference from 8.11 drivers.

[tommcd64]

That is very odd. Every install I tried I only got 1 gpu to show up.

[Zebatshu]

Seems like a 4870X2 related problem, my crossfire works better than ever .

8.11 gave me the odd wavy bar problem, but its gone with these drivers. Must say COD5 runs sweet now.

[!H'Guru]

AVivo Convertor works, but it uses the CPU, not the GPu. Gpu not yet enabled? Or is 0% Gpu load normal while converting with this piece of software?

[Deviad]

Originally Posted by Labyrinth

Says a unsupported vga (my second card) so no crossfire for me

The same here.

[tommcd64]

I may try it out again tomorrow. My stuff will be in tonight to replace the psu and put in the second X2.