AMD Catalyst 8.93 (Nov. 18)

Performance loss in Skyrim and two crashes so far. I knew I shouldn't have changed my drivers. At least there haven't been any BSoDs because of this... yet.

 

Does the game lock up and then CTD? That's what I'm getting...

 

CTD?

It just randomly crashed when I was in Whiterun so I restarted it and it crashed again. Whiterun's entrance where the fire pots (whatever they're called) are is the only place (that I remember) which I don't get 60fps (because of the smoke? I have no idea why). It was 50-55fps with 11.10 and with this driver it's 38-40. Other places so far I don't notice since I had plenty of GPU resources left to go over 60fps previously so even with performance loss it's still 60fps.

Edit: Crash to desktop? No, mine just screws up and locks up, I have to end task to close it.

 

Curious, would Atiman Uninstaller work as well? Just wondering since I use it and am familiar with it.

 

i am so lucky that see the post introducing the right method to unintall the 8.93 before i am considering swithcing to 11.11a

 

Thanks Great Drivers

Thanks Marthand these are the best yet on my Alienware M17x Laptop, I am very happy with them. It is a shame so many don't want to share in these. Marthand both you and Asder00 keep up the good work.

For those of you with Skyrim on a 64bit system do yourselves a favor and Google 4gb Skyrim fix and you will stop crashing to the desktop. this Issue was fixed on all of my win7 64bit systems. Take some time and research so you understand 32/64bit memory issues.

 

Same here,these are the best on my laptop.

 

Can we enable the MultiThreadedRendering for BF3 over the blb file? When we convert the blb to a XML File, to edit these.

XML File

Code:

<area Name="UDX" Privacy="Defined">
			<property Type="String">NumQuerySlots</property>
			<property Type="String">DeferFreeMaxSz</property>
			<property Type="String">DeferFreeMaxNum</property>
			<property Type="String">DeferFreeEnable</property>
			<property Type="String">MLFEnable</property>
			<property Type="String">OccluQueryValue</property>
			<property Type="String">VamEnable</property>
			<property Type="String">HwDynVbMinSize</property>
			<property Type="String">BltSrcFlipOpt</property>
			<property Type="String">NonLocalStatVB</property>
			<property Type="String">ForceATMOff</property>
			<property Type="String">P2PBaseSurfOnly</property>
			<property Type="String">RotationMgpu</property>
			<property Type="String">SurfProfile</property>
			[B]<property Type="String">MTOff</property>[/B]
			<property Type="String">MaxGPUs</property>
			<property Type="String">DRMDMABlt</property>
			<property Type="String">SuperAA</property>
			<property Type="String">ForcedAA</property>
			<property Type="String">CFAACaps</property>
			<property Type="String">CFAA</property>
			<property Type="String">SlsMgpu</property>
			<property Type="String">CompatAFRFlags</property>
			<property Type="String">MgpuEnable</property>
			<property Type="String">Alias</property>
			<property Type="String">Version</property>
		</area>

and

Code:

<profile Area="UDX" Usage="MTOff" Notes="MultiThread Off">
			<value Property="Version">1</value>
			<value Property="MTOff">True</value>

 

I see what you did there, maybe something like this could make it work?
Too bad there is no MTOn :/
Maybe its not even what we think it is :/

Code:

<application Title="Battlefield 3" File="BF3.exe">
<use Area="CFX">Battlefield 3Profile</use>
<use Area="PXDynamic">HighPerfGPUAffinity</use>
add this line:  <use Area="UDX">MTOff</use>

<profile Area="UDX" Usage="MTOff" Notes="MultiThread Off">
<value Property="Version">1</value>
change true to false <value Property="MTOff">False</value>

Anyways there are so many nice things we can do now.

 

Yes i will try it tomorrow.. because i am not at home :/
But I have found this here, in a old Catalyst driver C6.4..

Code:

"MTEnable"=dword:00000001
"MTMaxWorkerThreads"=dword:00000002
"MTMinWorkerThreads"=dword:00000004

Therefore, I believe we must use MTEnable instead of MTOn, and add this in the registry.

But i have compiled both, for testing.

 

As far as I know it's just a dword for:
MTEnable
MTMaxWorkerThreads
MTMinWorkerThreads

MTEnabled would be set to 1 to enable. The other 2 would be based on your CPU. You place it in the /0000/ subkey where your Cat features are found. But it's not clear if it works with BF3 though.

 

This is very old stuff not even used anymore, don't remember where i read about that, but you can skip this.

 

Am on Cat 8.93 and i have in my registry.

"MTEnable"=dword:00000001
"MTMaxWorkerThreads"=dword:00000008
"MTMinWorkerThreads"=dword:00000002

Edit: I've tested with MSI konbustor(DX11) AVG Fps= 79 (On/Off)
with Stone Giant With MT gives me 29-30Fps while without MT gives me 30-31Fps.

 

Those were for forcing multithreading which is supported by default in the drivers and has been for some time. Has dick all to do with threaded command lists.

 

is this active CFX in Skyrim ?

 

You were losting the monitor signal with a message saying something about the refresh rate?

 

Hi all I need your help!

After I uninstalled these drivers (not happy with them after some benchies), my screen colors got corrupted and nothing was legible.

Running safe mode made it work. So I cleaned my drivers using Driver Cleaner Pro and got everything back to life.

The issue occurs when installing 11.11 official drivers, I get 'The INF file was not found'. And I am not able to install anything

I'll try disabling my av program and with older driver packages

PS. Ok, seems that 11.6 Work fine. I will install 11.11 over these then.

PS2. Seems that even after 11.6 I can't install 11.11s. Same error message.
Going to try "Correctly" uninstalling AMD package.

PS3. Guess I'm stuck with 11.6 package


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Well.. can't say I complain, 11.6s work awesome with skyrim. No choppiness.

 

I got about 4fps loss in Saints Row 3 with these versus 11.11b. Though it's not surprising, I thought I'd throw it in anyways.

I never got around to seeing what my fps were in Skyrim with the performance drivers so I can't say if anything has improved or not there.

 

Apparently not since it's not performing as it should in Civ 5 or BF3 without the command lists. AMD muli-threading support as is, is broken. No matter what you say. Firaxis Games saying AMD does not support muli-threading is enough, has more weight than the word of some AMD beta tester for me at least.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall