AMD Catalyst 11.4c Hotfix (8.84.9 RC2 - April 27) Win7/Vista/XP x86/x64

I'm sure they will now with the new patch going live. Now hopefully with Crysis 2 patch coming out sometime soon to support DX11 and hopefully a lot more, we should see a CAP fix for that too.

 

Infos:

http://support.amd.com/de/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst114cHotfix.aspx

 

Can anyone upload the "atig6pxx.dll" from the Catalyst 11.4 WHQL Win7 x64, you find the ddl, in the "C:\Windows\System32" folder.

 

mobility mod please!

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?fyikskm6safo5g6

 

99% GPU Usage bug, is here!

 

Don't use these then & go back to the official 11.4

 

They were compiled later, but from an older branch to fix a specific issue with the HD6600's. People should stare themselves blind at the date & time when it comes to drivers since in this case it may be the newest compile, but it's actually an older branch that they worked on to fix the bugs, making it obsolete for anyone except 6600-owners.

 

Catalyst 11,5 non-WHQL should be available real soon The optimisations in the 11.4 RC's from March that didn't make it in 11.4 will probably be in there (just an assumption).

If one were to suggest the promised optimisations were to occur evenly, you'd expect April, August, and December releases would have the cumulative stages of optimisation. I think ATI would want to push the last ones a couple of months before Christmas, so say the final stage 1 is in 11.5, I would suggest the final stage 3 will be fully implemented in November. Using this as an assumption:
11.4 / 11.5 (Completed stage 1)
11.7 / 11.8 (Completed stage 2)
11.10 / 11.11 (completed stage 3)

So, assuming stage 2 will be mostly implemented (if not completely for bug ironing reasons) in 11.7, and the preview drivers are released like with 11.4, we should see stage 2 preview drivers sometime earlyish next month (June).

11.5 would therefore suggestively be a bugfix release + minor optimisations + any left over stage 1 tweaks. So, there would be performance increases but not substantial.

The July release makes sense for stage 2, as people who just start getting the AMD Bulldozer CPU's can make use optimisations for that processor (which will be quite complete one would think) utilising any of the following which would be useful: AVX (Intel SB and AMD BD), FMA4, XOP, CVT16.

That fits in with a stage 2 release being 11.7.

 

is the mouse lag fixed in these?

 

No, mouse lag fix is coming in a couple of weeks.

 

Lovely, guys when you find a bug in any catalyst ( e.g. 2D/3D clock , mouse bug , 99% usage to name a few ) I wouldn't expect it to be fixed at all, those catalyst clowns might skip an annoying bug in one release, but it will definitely come back in later ones, they have been doing this for years now so don't expect that bad habit to change any time soon..

I only hope that those idiots don't introduce a new bug with every new release ...

I -by the way- still have an AMD GPU in my laptop, and I still wish I could replace it with one from the green team, without replacing the whole laptop of course...

 

Of course Nvidia has never had a driver issue, right?!

This is generally what happens:
AMD = Minor bugs that affect some people
Nvidia = Major bugs such as BSODS and burning cards out, but fewer instances of them

AMD = Frequent driver releases across all 'supported' GPU's
Nvidia = Reasonably frequent WHQL drivers for flagship GPU's, the other supported GPU's may a couple of times a year. The rest of the driver releases have no guarantees on them that they'll work correctly.

A 'Nvidia Fan' is akin to an 'Apple Fan', the products are perfect no matter what crap they put out. Bugs are 'design features', its the users fault if the product or in Nvidia's case, the product and driver don't work properly.

In the case of ATI drivers and laptops, all the Nvidia's fan arguments are false. Basically manufacturers tipped ATI's hand and insisted they provide their own drivers, which of course meant they were never updated. Its a good think AMD told them to go stuff themselves recently and now have a mobility driver each month

 

Yeah, what comes to gpu's i like to keep both vendors.. had to sell my nvidia gpu to get my intel system up and running. Going to buy nvidia again when i get some money, gtx 570 mayb.

 

Ive had more issues with amd's crossfire drivers then i have ever had in my entire life

 

And I never had issues with their crossfire drivers, and lets face it most people who buy ATI and are here, have issues, or else they wouldn't need to post, most people don't read both nvidia and ati forums, and I've always had stuttering issues with nvidia, so if I just went by forums, it would appear that the majority experience the exact opposite of my experience, when the number of cards sold, to those who have issues is quite small.

 

a couple of weeks? its been months and we stilll need to wait a couple of weeks for the fix!

bravo AMD

 

Are any of you getting a dcom error(s) in the event viewer's administrative events with cat 11.4 or this hotfix driver? There is a discussion about it over here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=343572

 

Yes, if i remember right, i did get it with my nvidia gpu too.

 

haha yeah.
good old times with my geforce 6800...
back then i had to use three drivers just to get all my games running(game A not running with driver B and C, game B not running with driver A and C, and game C not running with driver A and B...) :nerd: