AMD Catalyst Windows 8 Preview Driver (8.972.4 May 30) AMD Official BETA

so anybody did any benchmarks ? how does it compare W7 ?

 

Yes, I get the same thing, I am unable to install these drivers. Mobility 4200/ 6300M switchable graphics. However, it still works with the older CP drivers so I am using them for the time being.

 

guys and for someone who have older graphics what driver can install?

 

you want to do win8 on older cards? i would wait until the first legacy releases, & also for win8 to come out

 

I have your same problem, it appears that 7970 will not work and windows8 never, fortunately they were born to windows8.


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Same with me but I ignore it .

 

I upgraded from Windows 8 Consumer Preview to Windows 8 Release Preview without problems, installed vc++ redist from 2005 to 2010 x64/x86, .net framework 3.5 & dxwebsetup.
Downloaded and installed this video driver then I tried to play some Max Payne 3... the game will launch but after the Rockstar logo it crashes. In Event Viewer I get some strange messages with "ATI EEU Client event error", the source is "ATIeRecord" and event ID "16388". I have a dual boot win7/win8. In Windows 7 everything works fine.

Video card: "MSI Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition OC Twin Frozr III 2GB DDR5 256-bit"
PSU - Corsair VX550

-edit-

I don't think this error is crashing Max Payne 3, I tried to play Call of Duty 5 and it works. Event Viewer is still filled with errors about "ATIeRecord", what is this?

 

I get 8.1 on both with a single 7950. So, obviously something is terribly wrong on you.

Meanwhile, the blurry fonts are extremely bad on IE 10. Disabling HWA or running a specific website in combatibility mode doesn't help like on IE 9/Win7.

Yesterday, I installed Origin/BF3 and when I tried to update the game, I got 2 times hard-freeze and the OS forced check-disk on boot. I couldn't even reboot normally at the beginning. I think I'll delete Win 8 'cause seemingly at least, both have serious problems ( Win 8 & Drivers ). I run too dual-boot 7/8.

 

I had to stop the AMD External Reporting service from services.msc in order to stop that error. Not sure what it's all about though...

 

If people are unable to get the drivers installed with the setup, try the following.

- Install using the setup (even though the drivers are not there)
- Install drivers using the device manager
- Reboot
- Install using the setup again

This gave a fail for me on the drivers, but those are already installed manually. This way it at least gives you all the other required software like the CCC.

 

These installed perfectly fine first time on my setup. Nice image quality and I'm getting better performance in some games, notably Company Of Heroes DX10 maxed AA and Source Games. My CPU seems to be liking this OS very much

 

AMD External Events Utility?

Max Payne 3 not working with this OS/ATI drivers , going back to Win7

Code:

- <System>
  <Provider Name="Application Error" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID> 
  <Level>2</Level> 
  <Task>100</Task> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-03T00:36:32.000000000Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>1994</EventRecordID> 
  <Channel>Application</Channel> 
  <Computer>George-PC</Computer> 
  <Security /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>MaxPayne3.exe</Data> 
  <Data>1.0.0.17</Data> 
  <Data>4fc81bbe</Data> 
  <Data>KERNEL32.DLL</Data> 
  <Data>6.2.8400.0</Data> 
  <Data>4fb7156b</Data> 
  <Data>c000041d</Data> 
  <Data>00001000</Data> 
  <Data>d18</Data> 
  <Data>01cd4120e0d99a4b</Data> 
  <Data>G:\Games\Rockstar Games\Max Payne 3\MaxPayne3.exe</Data> 
  <Data>C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL</Data> 
  <Data>29ed6b66-ad14-11e1-9b66-0040f4cb2427</Data> 
  <Data /> 
  <Data /> 
  </EventData> 

 

This driver sucks.
Use 12.4b for Windows 7.

 

Yup that

Driver works fine for my 5570, on W8RP.

 

Hi,

Anyone know how to mod the .inf file to install this drive ?
I have a HP notebook with 4250m / 5650m.
4250 – PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9712&SUBSYS_1440103C&REV_00
5650 – PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68C1&SUBSYS_1440103C&REV_00
Tried several drivers and nothing worked.
Tried SaiBork method and nothing
Anyone can help me ?

 

Work fine, only bugs are Medieval 2 Total War turn times are insanely high. OpenGL games Triple Buffering doesnt work (Minecraft) and java games (Minecraft) stutter alot (no vsync).

Need to test more.

 

Same thing here... 4200 integrated works with the pre-installed drivers, but I cannot switch to the main gpu 5650m... Tried installing the windows 7 drivers, install manger cannot install them and when I install them through the device manager, I get weird issue, where windows thinks I have two monitors (it uses the default vga driver for the real monitor and lists the 5650m under the fake one...)

Windows 8 drivers do not even list my card in it... so I will need mobility mod, weird since everything was fine in CP...

 

Same here

 

Have a little bug wit this driver. In games (particularly Dirt 3 & Showdown, Max Payne 3) there is no 1920x1080@60 Hz resolution. Only 50 and 59 is present. Maybe tomorrow will try 12.6 beta, to see if it works normally in Win8 and if 60 hz mode is present.

 

Still has the issues with Crysis 2 in High Res/DX11 mode just says resolution is undefined same thing happens on my mates PC with Nvidia so might be a Windows 8 issue.

Anyone know a fix yet?