AMD Catalyst 12.x (8.950.5 February 24) AMD Official BETA - Page 4

Del_Boy · 03-21-2012, 07:02 | posts: 445 | Location: UK

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Originally Posted by ipredator

@Del_Boy
Astounding news
I messed around with CCC settings and found out that if you force AA 16x!!! the flickering disappears. But with that setting, the FPS drop to ~45 which I get with 1 card and standard AA. Not a permanent fix, but something to work on. Maybe you can help me mess around, since I have to sleep a bit

x16 AA is not there for me in ccc, only goes up to x8, maybe its a 68xx to a 69xx ccc thing. eg, I noticed my 4890 only had mutisample and adaptive but when i got my 5870 superslample was also there.

All in all i'm pretty p1ssed at AMD because ive had my 6870x2 since September and its spent most of the time with crossfire disabled due to frequent crossfire problems, so ive essentially spent £313 for a single 6870

suffice to say this will be my first and last crossfire set up.

man i feel sorry for the first crossfire users back in the day of the x850 and x1900 those drivers must have been utter sh1t, he he.

Mikedogg · *Last edited by Mikedogg; 03-21-2012 at 15:06.*

I don't really know how to rate this driver release, so I'll sum up what has changed for me.

-For the first time in many releases "V-Sync" seems to be working.
-Reduced stuttering in a few games but has caused mouse lag (due to V-Sync) and slightly lower fps, around -2 -3.
-Still have very stock standard options in "CCC" for 4xxx cards.

Overall, a very good driver. But I am still getting that (Can not initialize ATIPDLXX library) with "Ati Tray Tools."

Thought I better be a good **** and put up some benchmarks.

http://benchmark3d. com/amd-catalyst...-feb-benchmark

Bhudda · 03-21-2012, 12:57 | posts: 51 | Location: UK

What is the best CAP with this?

DarthElvis · 03-21-2012, 13:33 | posts: 171

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Originally Posted by The Mac

hardly irrelevant, xfire is niche...

mainstream, and most of their profit, is mid boards...

if it cant perform, there is no advantage to enabling it and having them perform poorly...

Let me choose whether to use it myself. My setup can handle it. I'll choose whether to use it, not some suit in a boardroom. BTW, most of their profit is from their customers. Period. Niche or not. So yeah, irrelevant.

The Goose · 03-21-2012, 14:17 | posts: 1,274 | Location: shropshire,UK

tried these on my ati 4890 cf and cf works but gpu load peaked once at 60% then stayed around 35% in arma2 which is no good....when is the Nvidia 680 out!!!

The Mac · *Last edited by The Mac; 03-21-2012 at 14:22.*

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The Mac · 03-21-2012, 14:22 | posts: 1,388 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by DarthElvis

Let me choose whether to use it myself. My setup can handle it. I'll choose whether to use it, not some suit in a boardroom. BTW, most of their profit is from their customers. Period. Niche or not. So yeah, irrelevant.

Clearly you dont understand market segmentation and profitability if you continue to say its irrelvent.

If 95% if their customers cant use the service with any decent performance, they arent going to enable it. period.

They arent going to piss of the 95% just so YOU (5%) can use it...

slickric21 · 03-21-2012, 14:45 | posts: 1,679 | Location: U.K

Nice driver set this.

MLAA 2.0 working quite well, as well as the Adaptive AA setting for dx10/11 apps (7xxx cards)
Done a little comparison here in BF3 for MLAA 2.0 vs SMAA , and MSAA vs Adpative MSAA

Osedax · 03-21-2012, 15:28 | posts: 1

Thanks for these.
They work great.

Shayne · 03-21-2012, 16:43 | posts: 124 | Location: Northern Canada

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Originally Posted by MadelineX

Strange about skyrim flicker. I don't have it whatsoever. No menu issues, or anything apparent.

I run everything on ultra that can be set that way. I have .ini tweaks in effect and ENB series. That's all I can think of that may be different. But none of those things should improve flickering or texture absences.

I do though, have almost all custom textures and use radeon pro as a launcher with forced Triple buffer. But again, I can't imagine why those things would make a difference.

Hi

Can I ask how you solved this http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/vi...php?f=21&t=477 runing crossfire and the ENB mod.

Regards

ipredator · 03-21-2012, 17:52 | posts: 494

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Originally Posted by Shayne

Hi

Can I ask how you solved this http://enbseries.enbdev.com/forum/vi...php?f=21&t=477 runing crossfire and the ENB mod.

Regards

Just go to your enbseries.ini in your Skyrim directory and change EnableDepthOfField=true to EnableDepthOfField=false
Sad story to disable DoF but I see no other fix

Bhudda · 03-21-2012, 19:20 | posts: 51 | Location: UK

To answer my question 12.1 cap 3 works great with this driver. Nice one OP, I can finally play BF3 online and have both of my gpus running. Wohooo!!!

Miroglu · 03-21-2012, 20:54 | posts: 51 | Location: TURKEY

Thanks

Olvik · 03-22-2012, 02:50 | posts: 138 | Location: Spain

Thanks

Nwanko · 03-28-2012, 10:09 | posts: 15 | Location: Maribor

Here's my thing. Tried to find the best drivers for Battlefield 3. I almost gave up. Installed the latest 12.2 from ati site,12.2 cap1. Then i saw this driver and extracted the content,manually updated the display drivers one by by(5850cf) and voulla.

Battlefield 3 MP and SP running flawlessly ultra-high setting 2xMSAA 16xAA 1920x1080 v-sync on or off,working like a charm.

No gliching,no shuttering,nothing.

Finally i can play normal.

Comrade_Jerkov · 04-01-2012, 19:52 | posts: 126 | Location: Boston, MA

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Originally Posted by Nwanko

Here's my thing. Tried to find the best drivers for Battlefield 3. I almost gave up. Installed the latest 12.2 from ati site,12.2 cap1. Then i saw this driver and extracted the content,manually updated the display drivers one by by(5850cf) and voulla.

Battlefield 3 MP and SP running flawlessly ultra-high setting 2xMSAA 16xAA 1920x1080 v-sync on or off,working like a charm.

No gliching,no shuttering,nothing.

Finally i can play normal.

That's good to hear. I'm looking forward to the official 12.4 release.

DarthElvis · 04-01-2012, 20:23 | posts: 171

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Originally Posted by The Mac

Clearly you dont understand market segmentation and profitability if you continue to say its irrelvent.

If 95% if their customers cant use the service with any decent performance, they arent going to enable it. period.

They arent going to piss of the 95% just so YOU (5%) can use it...

Clearly you don't understand choice and end user responsibility. Have an advanced options box or whatever, but give the choice. 6970 xfire would have no problem running ssaa/adaptive in dx11. The only reason AMD will not enable it is to force an upgrade. It's a slap in the face to people like me who spent up to $700.00 for our setups and now get dumped to the curb.

I've stuck with ATI/AMD since the R200 days, but Nvidia underatands choice and enables options whether the performance is poor or not. They allow their end user the choice in what they can or cannot enable. And after the Bulldozer debacle and being dumped at the side of the road with my 6970's, I'm done with AMD. **** them.