AMD Catalyst™ Application Profiles 12.4 CAP1

[ipredator]

In your mom's basement? App profiles may have started out of multi-GPU, but not anymore. AMD's drivers have improved recently, it's probably best you don't write anything anymore.

Guys if you want to bash eachother go send yourself PM's.

[bboy-mass]

Originally Posted by erocker

In your mom's basement? App profiles may have started out of multi-GPU, but not anymore. AMD's drivers have improved recently, it's probably best you don't write anything anymore.





I would think someone of your stature would know better?

I was being sarcastic.

In fact, I used to write drivers for hardware but not GPU's.

But you are right. Someone of my stature should know better.

relax.

[rflair]

I deleted a ton of useless thread crapping posts, stay on topic.

[sykozis]

Is it really so hard to keep things civilized?????

rflair, thanks for the cleanup job.

Guys, instead of whining and complaining with every driver release.....wouldn't it be more productive to try and actually help each other?

[bboy-mass]

Originally Posted by sykozis

Is it really so hard to keep things civilized?????

rflair, thanks for the cleanup job.

Guys, instead of whining and complaining with every driver release.....wouldn't it be more productive to try and actually help each other?

Hello,

I beleive my original post was to help people avoid 12.4 whql becuase crossfire was broken, even with 12.4 cap 1.

R.

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by bboy-mass

Hello,

I beleive my original post was to help people avoid 12.4 whql becuase crossfire was broken, even with 12.4 cap 1.

R.

You're the first I've seen claim crossfire was broken with 12.4.... As someone else said..."If you can't enable CFX there is something else wrong somewhere"

[Neo Cyrus]

It's not just those two games which corrupt when forcing AA... every single game released either doesn't work with the driver AA or becomes corrupted.

Any nVidia users reading this, have you guys been facing the same problem?

[kn00tcn]

is it me or is FF3.6 completely dying whenever flash content attempts to be loaded?

[sykozis]

Originally Posted by Neo Cyrus

It's not just those two games which corrupt when forcing AA... every single game released either doesn't work with the driver AA or becomes corrupted.

Any nVidia users reading this, have you guys been facing the same problem?

Most of us just use the in-game settings...

[JonasBeckman]

I didn't notice much of a difference in Sniper Elite V2 though performance was great even so (Though the game isn't really that demanding.) but it's usually a good idea to keep these up to date, there's probably some unlisted changes too although as above the main advantage is usually early Crossfire support.
(Version number was also newer than those in the 12.5 leaked drivers.)

[Maximus7724]

So two pages in and about two posts actually of any use...

Before i get flamed with "OMG TEST THEM URSLEF NUBB", please bear in mind i am offshore at the moment.

Can anyone confirm that battlefield 3 is smoother as per the release note?

Thanks

Max

[kn00tcn]

bf3 is not in the notes, but apparently a few people say it's smoother

version number of caps seems to be +2 or +3 from current driver (or at least ~2week leak), but i'm not sure how useful that info is relative to 'adding things to the main driver' (some cap profiles have never gone into the driver dlls even if they're 2yrs old)

[Neo Cyrus]

Originally Posted by sykozis

Most of us just use the in-game settings...

Which are often not even an option as far as I'm concerned. When was the last time you saw in-game super sampling?

[kn00tcn]

witcher2, arma2

but anyway, i think they were talking about forcing all kinds of MSAA/edge/AAA, not just SSAA (quite a performance hit...)

[Neo Cyrus]

Heh, I didn't play Arma 2 or The Witcher 2 (yet) though I don't know exactly what their "Ubersampling" is, I just assumed it includes super sampling.

Uh yeah, not sure what you're getting at with that... but yes selecting any type of AA caused corruption in Blades of Time and after installing the CAP and rebooting it works fine now. My OC is high enough that can usually get away with using SSAA.

[Simkin84]

Originally Posted by kn00tcn

bf3 is not in the notes, but apparently a few people say it's smoother

version number of caps seems to be +2 or +3 from current driver (or at least ~2week leak), but i'm not sure how useful that info is relative to 'adding things to the main driver' (some cap profiles have never gone into the driver dlls even if they're 2yrs old)

Yes, they are.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2909

- Modified Battlefield3 Profile
- Battlefield 3: Provides great CrossFire scaling and reduces flickering / corruption issues when running in CrossFire mode

[smoney]

No tribes ascend?

[g00f]

Originally Posted by sykozis

You're the first I've seen claim crossfire was broken with 12.4.... As someone else said..."If you can't enable CFX there is something else wrong somewhere"

This is sadly something true... I have confirmed its a CFX issue ONLY when Eyefinity is enabled and running...but totally fine when its single monitor.

I re-installed my OS twice and spent over a week installing/removing/cleaning/system restoring back to 12.3 because 12.4 and on (betas) would not allow the 2nd GPU to do anything as it was stuck at the 500/150MHz default speeds. Called my ATI contact, and it was the first he heard of it also. I wish it wasn't true, cause I did see some great increases in BF3, but I couldnt get to to run consistently in CFX.

Sometimes I could trick it by disabling CFX then enabling it...but then it would slowly revert back to one cards GPUS while playing....my FRAPPS would just nose drive over 1 minute and be slower then 1 GPU on its own. I tried every conceivable combination but could not get CFX and Eyefinity running EXCEPT with 12.3's only.

I hope they can reproduce it to identify the issue.

[jrandym]

Originally Posted by g00f

This is sadly something true... I have confirmed its a CFX issue ONLY when Eyefinity is enabled and running...but totally fine when its single monitor.

I re-installed my OS twice and spent over a week installing/removing/cleaning/system restoring back to 12.3 because 12.4 and on (betas) would not allow the 2nd GPU to do anything as it was stuck at the 500/150MHz default speeds. Called my ATI contact, and it was the first he heard of it also. I wish it wasn't true, cause I did see some great increases in BF3, but I couldnt get to to run consistently in CFX.

Sometimes I could trick it by disabling CFX then enabling it...but then it would slowly revert back to one cards GPUS while playing....my FRAPPS would just nose drive over 1 minute and be slower then 1 GPU on its own. I tried every conceivable combination but could not get CFX and Eyefinity running EXCEPT with 12.3's only.

I hope they can reproduce it to identify the issue.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one having problems with crossfire and these drivers. I've also tried the 12.5 betas as well and with the 12.4 CAPS and still no crossfire with or without eyefinity. 12.3 catalysts work fine for me for now.

[BlueDream]

Originally Posted by Simkin84

Yes, they are.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2909

Aren't those just the old notes from the previous caps? The official download page only shows the notes from the top section of the guru3d page http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...-profiles.aspx

[Shaneus]

Originally Posted by snaipo

better fix drop fps in binary domain..

Yeah, this really, really sucks. Especially running at triple-GPU

Originally Posted by BlueDream

Aren't those just the old notes from the previous caps? The official download page only shows the notes from the top section of the guru3d page http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...-profiles.aspx

Yah, Guru3D (and I'm sure some other sites) tend to include *everything* that's in the driver (or at least, the last few revisions). They may also do it as given it's a CAP1, people might not realise all the prior CAP updates from 12.3 etc. are there. In any case, it's usually only the first section that is the most recent

[kn00tcn]

tribes - use afr-friendly or masseffect3 profile, if you also want vsync, use d3doverrider to force triple buffering otherwise the game stutters & fails

you will have minor shadow flickers rarely, use the hard reset profile to stop those but the fps will be a little lower

bf3 is not in the release notes for THIS cap, as in people say the cap improved bf3, the xml has not changed for bf3 nor is it in the notes for this cap

<profile Area="UDX" Usage="BladesofTime" Notes="Blades of Time">
<value Property="Version">1</value>
<value Property="CFAA">True</value>
<value Property="CFAACaps">0x8b</value>
</profile>

cfaa = Compatible Forced AA, caps require a reboot always

[blacblu]

Originally Posted by kn00tcn

tribes - use afr-friendly or masseffect3 profile, if you also want vsync, use d3doverrider to force triple buffering otherwise the game stutters & fails

you will have minor shadow flickers rarely, use the hard reset profile to stop those but the fps will be a little lower

bf3 is not in the release notes for THIS cap, as in people say the cap improved bf3, the xml has not changed for bf3 nor is it in the notes for this cap



cfaa = Compatible Forced AA, caps require a reboot always

Are you saying that this CAP should not improve performance in Battlefield 3?

[kn00tcn]

EDIT: keep making stupid mistakes, bf3 IS changed in this cap

the 'dxx' part has been altered, but the 'cfx' part is the same

so you should compare the 2 caps to see if bf3 is better or worse for you

[The Goose]

wtf they disabled cf in nfs world again... why...it was running fine for me