[CarstenS]

Well, since no one seems to want to start it: Here it is, the

Catalyst 12.11 Beta-glory-thread.

For starters:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Ra...eld-3-1031558/

+~33ish % in BF3
+ a few percent in Dirt Showdown

and the driver finally supports Supersample-AA in OpenGL, which basically takes away one of the last things to chose a Geforce over a Radeon for some people. Unfortunately, the LoD does not get automatically adjusted, so the resulting image is not as crisp as it could be, but we'd need something for X-Mas, don't we?

Oh, and the shadow-issue that crept up in Skyrim in 12.9 Beta has not been fixed. Fortunately, this only affects Tahiti-ASICs and can be circumvented for the time being by switching shadows to "high" (coming from "very high" where the bug occurs).

The driver has not yet been made publicly available, the newest version I've seen is "beta3" - the links floating around are for beta1, which has a rather nasty bug, that sometimes creeps up in BF3. The official site should be this one once it's up:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx


More views on the driver:
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2012/never_s...n_und_treiber/
http://pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Ca...rmance-Testing
http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/g...st-12.11-beta/

Originally Posted by Dave Baumann

The driver download link has been updated with a newer release that fixes an issue for those wanting to play MoH:Warfighter under Crossfire.

^^ most recent is called "...beta4..."

A couple of days later: Beta8 is out
http://techreport.com/news/23918/lat...-3-linux#metal
DL and release notes can be found as usual:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx

Originally Posted by Dave Baumann

Latest version of Cat 12.11 Beta is live, brings performance improvements to Far Cry 3 (in conjunction with 12.11b CAP 2) and bug fixes:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx

• Improves performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
• Resolves a sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
• Resolves an intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in a CrossFire Eyefinity setup.
• Resolves image corruption found in certain DirectX 9.0c titles
• Resolve missing fonts issue in XBMC
• Resolves no video issue found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing

[I.S.T.]

AMD claimed on tech report at least that the big speedup on BF3 is limited to certain maps. In general it's closer to a 15% speedup or so.

[CarstenS]

Download is ready - same link as above:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Ra...eld-3-1031558/

[Lightman]

Originally Posted by CarstenS

Download is ready - same link as above:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/AMD-Ra...eld-3-1031558/

Works great in BF3 MP!
Just had a play on few maps and all of them locked to 60FPS @1920x1200 Very nice!
(7970 1050MHz/1425MHz)

[Davros]

Well done Amd, with the SS in ogl, wonder why its taken so long though if nv have had it for ages?

[Malo]

12.11 fixed my GPU utilization issue I had with 12.8/12.9 on my 7870, definitely noticing some performance improvements with a few titles as well.

[Dave Baumann]

The driver download link has been updated with a newer release that fixes an issue for those wanting to play MoH:Warfighter under Crossfire.

[lanek]

Originally Posted by Dave Baumann

The driver download link has been updated with a newer release that fixes an issue for those wanting to play MoH:Warfighter under Crossfire.

Is it called differently or both are the beta3 ? ( just for know if i need to redownload it )

[karlotta]

12.11b4, and it is a lighter package.

[lanek]

Originally Posted by karlotta

12.11b4, and it is a lighter package.

Ok thanks, i have miss it in the release note .

Anyway, a little bug i have just notice:

Video setting > quality panel > 1st time after the install, when you use the cursor for go down to the lower part of the page, the higher part of the Catalyst control panel ( with Radeon logo ) is turning black, just change to another panel and go back, solve it ( and i have not get it then )

[gongo]

I feel lucky...no idle clock bug...no jumping vddc when using PT...overclock stays the same...3DM11 scores additional 1000 pts...BF3 mp runs >60fps at ultra settings minus the MSAA....what more can i ask?.. yeah...game begging for sleeping dogs...can you help Dave?

ps. i came onboard the Tahiti quite late, when from Cat12.4 to 12.8 to 12.11b...could that helped me to avoid all those bugs i saw?

[Davros]

Looks like all may not be rosy back in amd driver land
http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/mo...l_lang=english

[lanek]

I dont know all i see is the result with 12.10 WHQL, cause 12.11 dont have this issue
2x 7970 flashed to GHZ bios

[Malo]

Yeah it seems to be tied to reference cards instead of custom solutions. Not sure why it required an article for a bug in a beta that they're aware of.

[Davros]

back to the title SSAA available in opengl games,
Heres a list :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs

[Otto Dafe]

Anyone with Tahiti seeing funky looking shadows in BF3 with this driver? I only saw them from the air on Bandar Desert, they look quite similar to the buggy Skyrim shadows.

[gongo]

No idle clocks problem....HOWEVER..i got an unreported no-idle fan problem....i set custom fan profile with Trixx and it doesn't always apply....im getting either stuck high fan speed after i exited BF3 or my fan do not ramp up under load...please Dave help!

[Lightman]

@gongo
It works just fine for me with Afterburner in Win7 x64.
No idle clock issue either.

[gongo]

How is Afterburner...? It looks so much more bloated than Trixx...hence i chose to avoid it.

So it seems the idle bug is from connecting via the DVI port of the GPU...probably some timing issue....no solution for the fan profile bug still.

Playing around with Tahiti...this chip loves memory bandwidth....every increase in memclk will increase my scores, not with Cayman which is very gpuclk dependent when people were saying AMD GPU had more memory bandwidth than necessary back then ...interesting as both ran my games at the same res 1920x1200p...same MSAA levels.

[lanek]

Originally Posted by Otto Dafe

Anyone with Tahiti seeing funky looking shadows in BF3 with this driver? I only saw them from the air on Bandar Desert, they look quite similar to the buggy Skyrim shadows.

Could be strange when we are speaking about this driver who particulary boost BF3, but in reality i have not reinstall BF3 yet. i have do some clean of games i was less playing some weeks ago..

[Lightman]

Originally Posted by gongo

How is Afterburner...? It looks so much more bloated than Trixx...hence i chose to avoid it.

So it seems the idle bug is from connecting via the DVI port of the GPU...probably some timing issue....no solution for the fan profile bug still.

Playing around with Tahiti...this chip loves memory bandwidth....every increase in memclk will increase my scores, not with Cayman which is very gpuclk dependent when people were saying AMD GPU had more memory bandwidth than necessary back then ...interesting as both ran my games at the same res 1920x1200p...same MSAA levels.

Afterburner works just fine for my needs. Quick presets, nice on screen GPU status, very good monitoring. I'm on SSD for my OS so I don't feel it being loaded in the background.
AB had it's issues on few occasions connected to on screen monitoring and BF3 for instance where it caused crashes, but that's thing of the past.

[lanek]

Yes, i have not real preferences ..

MSI AB:
- Graphics report ( allways usefull if you dont want check real time )
- OC features work right ( if not a specific problem happend )
- With the graphics report, you know immediately what happend when you apply a setting. or can check easely if the voltage and clock really ramp without having the need to get a monitoring open.

- No ULPS disable automatic

Trixx is simpler but just do the thing you ask it. But you get less real time infos.

[Dave Baumann]

The Cat 12.11b driver has been refreshed again to resolve the low clock bug that some were seeing.

[Squilliam]

Are there any signs they'll solve the problem whereby when you change input to the TV and then back to the PC the sound sometimes cuts out on HDMI?

[gl33k]

and the driver finally supports Supersample-AA in OpenGL, which basically takes away one of the last things to chose a Geforce over a Radeon for some people.

i laughed