Official Catalyst 8.12 available

[LordJuanlo]

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

XP 32-Bit:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp

XP 64-Bit:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp64/radeonx-xp64


Vista 32-bit:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista32/common-vista32

Vista 64-Bit:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista64/common-vista64


• ATI Stream Computing Support
• ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter
• ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content
• Performance Improvements

Performance Improvements-

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™

• 3DMark Vantage DX10 – performance gains of up to 5% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and HD4350.

• Call of Duty: World at War DX9 – performance gains of up to 21% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.

• Crysis DX10 – performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

• Crysis Warhead DX10 – performance gains of up to 13% for Single card mode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

• Devil May Cry 4 DX10– performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

• Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.

• Far Cry 2 DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

• FEAR DX9 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870X2 and HD4870.

• Hellgate: London DX10 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single card mode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

• Left 4 Dead DX9– performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4870 series.

• Lost Planet Colonies DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

• Prey OGL – performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx, HD45xx.

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

• Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 – performance gains of up to 18% for Single card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and
HD38xx.

[methimpikehoses]

Downloading client... :bleh:

[HYBRID]

I will give these a shot when I get home tonight.
Thx for the headsup.

[Tr1cK]

Any difference between these and the betas? I don't feel like reinstalling.

[methimpikehoses]

My system device manager is only reading one gpu now. :|

[Tr1cK]

My system device manager is only reading one gpu now. :|

Buy another one.

[methimpikehoses]

hurr

[LordJuanlo]

Working great here, both GPUs actives

[Siskods9]

My system device manager is only reading one gpu now. :|

+1

Same for me :thumbdwn:

[Siskods9]

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=104552

Seems like others are seeing this too...

Where is the ATi / AMD Quality control???? :o

[methimpikehoses]

Just did a fresh install and still fail. Deleted all the ATI folders, ran ccleaner, ran the ATI uninstaller.

The install goes fine, then when vista boots for the last time, the screen flashes and goes to 1024x768, and disables one of the GPU's. The other one shows up fine in the device list, with the 8.12's listed as the driver. The other GPU is disabled for error 43, driver error.

This problem is not happening with everyone... but I have seen it on many a p35 board around the interweb.

C'mon ATI, don't fail us now.

[methimpikehoses]

Went back to the 8.11's, no problems.

Here is the catalyst feedback link:
http://support.ati.com/ics/survey/survey.asp?deptID=894&surveyID=486&type=web

[nekrosoft13]

Just did a fresh install and still fail. Deleted all the ATI folders, ran ccleaner, ran the ATI uninstaller.

The install goes fine, then when vista boots for the last time, the screen flashes and goes to 1024x768, and disables one of the GPU's. The other one shows up fine in the device list, with the 8.12's listed as the driver. The other GPU is disabled for error 43, driver error.

This problem is not happening with everyone... but I have seen it on many a p35 board around the interweb.

C'mon ATI, don't fail us now.

that sounds familiar, something very close to that was happening on my 780G board. When I first got it set up, took me over hour to install the driver for ATI GPU correctly.

I have 8.10 running on it right, unless i'm forced to i'm not touching those drivers don't want anything to get f-ed up again.

[methimpikehoses]

that sounds familiar, something very close to that was happening on my 780G board. When I first got it set up, took me over hour to install the driver for ATI GPU correctly.

I have 8.10 running on it right, unless i'm forced to i'm not touching those drivers don't want anything to get f-ed up again.

I had no problem re-installing the 8.11's. Took a minute.

[LordJuanlo]

I have had that kind of problems when trying to roll back ATI drivers, for example after installing official 8.11 I had tons of problems trying to go back to 8.10 hotfix. Finally I managed to do it by manually deleting ATI folders (at program files and user data, including roaming folder) and deleting every 'ATI Technologies' entry that I found in the registry.

ATI drivers can be a real pain to upgrade or downgrade

[Skinner]

Just did a fresh install and still fail. Deleted all the ATI folders, ran ccleaner, ran the ATI uninstaller.

The install goes fine, then when vista boots for the last time, the screen flashes and goes to 1024x768, and disables one of the GPU's. The other one shows up fine in the device list, with the 8.12's listed as the driver. The other GPU is disabled for error 43, driver error.

This problem is not happening with everyone... but I have seen it on many a p35 board around the interweb.

C'mon ATI, don't fail us now.


The install proceed without problems. After the first reboot the CF-X tab is missing and things are ok in 2 D. Up to cat. 8.11 the CF-X tab came right up after the first reboot.

Now I have to reboot again and then CF-X tries to activate but it fails and cause an infinite loop of switching signals (monitor resets) indicating CF-X tries to activate, but won't succeed. (I succeeded to look into the devive manger and it say's the first GPU has stopped working?)

I have had these (beta) drivers running before on an X38 mobo without problems.
Now with the X58/i7 I cann't run them

[HYBRID]

Installed these last night on my system in sig below.
the install seemed a little different this time in that the screen went totally dark while seating properly didnt ask to reboot which seemed a little out of the ordinary.

I did restart the computer after the driver installed however it seem to need an additional restart for all to seat well.

I gain about 40 3d Vantage points compared to the last drivers and crysis, and ET Quakewars played fine.

So for me other than the unsual process with regards to the way the drivers installed all is good for me and the drivers seem to work well.

I will post back if anything seems unusual moving foward.

[grey_1]

I had no trouble installing these. All I played with these is Fallout 3, Dead Space and Left 4 dead so far. Not seeing much difference from the 8.11s really...but I've been pretty fortunate with the HD4870 and drivers so far also, so I wasn't really looking for any specific bug fixes.

No reasson to not keep these atm.

[Tr1cK]

In summary, single cards are fine and crossfire will most likely be problematic.

[Madpistol]

installed these drivers last night. No problem.

As most have stated, no problems for those with single cards. Hope ATI gets the bugs worked out for crossfire though. :(

[ASUSEN7900GTX]

tell me does SLI work properly vs crossfire.
Looking over the time how long SLI has been around.

and maybe crossfire maybe needs time too

[ASUSEN7900GTX]

here is a benchmark of GTA IV


Average FPS: 46.39
Duration: 37.18 sec
CPU Usage: 61%
System memory usage: 54%
Video memory usage: 66%

GRAPHICS
Video Mode: 1360 x 768 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Render Quality: High
View Distance: 34
Detail Distance: 59

1360x768 it´s my TV´s native resolution

can´t get it to high on texture annoying

[DRen72]

I had no trouble installing these. All I played with these is Fallout 3, Dead Space and Left 4 dead so far. Not seeing much difference from the 8.11s really...but I've been pretty fortunate with the HD4870 and drivers so far also, so I wasn't really looking for any specific bug fixes.

No reasson to not keep these atm.Tried Fallout 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Quantum of Solace and Dead Space so far with these. No problems with the 4870X2. Both GPU's show up in Device Manager and in CCC. Again, no problems noted.

[grey_1]

Tried Fallout 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Quantum of Solace and Dead Space so far with these. No problems with the 4870X2. Both GPU's show up in Device Manager and in CCC. Again, no problems noted.

Glad it's working on your x2.

Are you guys who are having trouble using a driver cleaner? I've read it's a no no with ATI drivers, so have never used one. So far, *knocks on wood* I haven't had a single serious issue since I've had this card.

[ASUSEN7900GTX]

yeah i tried it earlier in the beggining with me HD4870 and it went bananas and since then i just use the Ati unionstaller and CCLEANER and it is working wonders i hope :)