AMD Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver OpenGL 4.2 (8.88.8 August 8)

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  1. Rich_Guy

    Rich_Guy Ancient Guru

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    Its deffo an odd one, still, it doesn't really bother me, as i know the officials will be fine. :p
     
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  3. Elajitz

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    So is this driver better in game performance then earlier AMD Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver (8.88.3 July 11) ?
     
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    BEST DRIVER EVER meanwhile!
    I can confirm the OpenGL is working correctly.
    Finally, I can have my Autodesk Maya works better.
     

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    So will the 11.8 official driver next week be older or newer than this one?

    I guess the officials will be older like last time or even a different development branch maybe.
     
  6. k1net1cs

    k1net1cs Ancient Guru

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    Wasn't 11.7 WHQL practically a rebadged 11.7 Preview?
    And also the case with 11.6 WHQL before it?
     
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    all good here well done amd .............:)
     
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    working decent here, using with 11.7 cap2s

    6870 card1 300/300 idle temps 45c
    6870 card2 300/300 idle temps 42c
     
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    Not much of an issue but OpenGL version is still reported as 4.1 in various tools. I suppose they support 4.2 but isn't actually certified as 4.2 (or something like that).

    EDIT: Ah, they're not really telling the truth according to OpenGL Extension Viewer:

    [​IMG]

    Full Support isn't the same as 50% support. :/

    Or the install of the 11.8p2 wasn't complete. I'll uninstall, Sweep and reinstall.

    EDIT 2: Nope, still same thing, 4.2 is only 50% implemented.
     
    Last edited: Aug 12, 2011

  11. xtremegamer

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    good drivers, Finally Fixed Kmplayer green Line problems when changed to EVR/CA Mode....
     
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    Does the new CCC still cause crashes/BSOD?
     
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    Not to me, I had atikmpag.sys BSOD's (Were caused randomly, maybe because of CCC, maybe not) from 11.5 to 11.7 (It ended with 11.7).

    No problems right now with these.
     
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    has this driver fixed the slow map load times in BC2 ??? anyone
     
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    I aint tried this one in BFBC2 yet but the previous 11.8 preview driver ran great for me in BFBC2 without a problem.. maxed out of course :)
     

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    no problems here with this driver , same as all the other ones , it just works and with no uninstall or anything , just slapped them on top of the 11.8 preview that were already slapped on top of the 11.7 that were slapped on top of 11.6... and so on.

    i dont know how so many people have so many problems changing drivers , the installer works wonderfuly with no rebbots or uninstalls.
     
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    Heh, they don't even properly support ARB_shader_atomic_counters they claimed they do.
    AMD is getting to be more like spin doctors rather than innovators these days.
     
  18. Valagard

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    Or OpenGL viewer could be out of date, not the first time a program has mis-reported something
     
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    Something is wrong, at least one of the mentioned extension wasn't detected. 2 others are slightly different named.
     
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    k1net1cs Ancient Guru

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    I want to correct my own statements regarding 4.2 compliance.

    Here's what I got from my system.

    [​IMG]

    The reason why Scyphe's screenshot has only 50% 4.2 compliance was probably because he used the 4.1 context; see the difference on the top bar to the right of the 'Home' icon.
    Only the shader version that isn't reported as 4.2, but 4.1.
     

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