Catalyst 9.12 coming tomorrow Dec 16

Well I hope the Sapphire drivers that leaked aren't the official 9.12's as they do shit for my 5970.

Crysis still is shit with crossfire and eyefinity which now look like these disable crossfire when eyefinity is running (according to afterburner). Tearing on one of my monitors which I need to fix again thanks to these drivers. Dirt 2 still plays like shit for 2 gpu's.

I'm starting to get a little annoyed with AMD and drivers as of late. Even the 4870x2 had improvements over one driver cycle.

I should have just stuck with my 5870.

UPDATE:I just was playing with the drivers and noticed under desktop properties settings, I saw the options for changing out of the native resolution of my eyefinity from 5760*1200 to 3840*1024 or 2400*600. As a quick test I tried it in Crysis and it worked with 3840*1024. Am I having a brain fart moment, or is this new with this set of drivers? I don't remember this being available before.

I notice my settings being remembered from the last install, even after I cleaned out the drivers with sweeper. I'm starting to think that could be my problem with these drivers not performing properly. I'll try again and see if it helps.
 
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I can't even install the 9.12s :S Display driver installation fails. Tried uninstall previous set and even removing driver remnants through Driver Sweeper. They seem to be official.. don't think AMD would WHQL them otherwise.
 
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I dont get Catalyst drivers lately. I uninstall these 9.12's with the proper uninstall feature, reboot and 9.12 is still on with even the catalyst control center. My tearing is gone, and crysis can run in Eyefinity crossfire, but still with studder....so I'm still hoping that these aren't the released version from AMD.

At least Dirt 2 runs a little better, but still not up to par for what 2 gpus can do for eyefinity.:mad:
 
ontariotl said:
UPDATE:I just was playing with the drivers and noticed under desktop properties settings, I saw the options for changing out of the native resolution of my eyefinity from 5760*1200 to 3840*1024 or 2400*600. As a quick test I tried it in Crysis and it worked with 3840*1024. Am I having a brain fart moment, or is this new with this set of drivers? I don't remember this being available before.
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That is definately already in 9.11
 
I found the problem. There are two revisions of the 5970 according to the Beta 5 INF, one of which was missing in this 9.12 driver. So maybe it is not final after all.

I had to add this line in the display driver INFs

"ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series " = ati2mtag_Evergreen, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_689D

After that they installed fine. PRobably a waste of time considering the officials will be out tomorrow but eh.
 
It still could be released from ATI today. It is not uncommon for them to release drivers late in the day.
 
Borderlands missing textures bug is fixed in these with CAT AI enabled. Also it is running way smoother on my 5970.
 
Just tested out Shift. With 9.11 I'd get around 50 to 60 fps avg with dips to the 30's at 1920 res 8xAA 16xAF. With these unofficial 9.12's I'm getting 70 to 90 fps with dips to the 60's. This is with the game patched to 1.02 patch. All stuttering and slowdown is gone. THese drivers are badass. Makes the game actually fun now.
 
Hopefully this is the set to finally fix the Witcher issues.
They kept saying it was fixed, it was fixed...and it never was.

Hopefully this time IT IS.
 
Whats a good site to determine what major feature changes exist between driver versions?

I can run all CCC up to 9.10, but from 9.11 to 9.12beta crossfireX causes the screen to shake back and forth in any 3D application. I figure if we know whats changed, I could try disabling those one-by-one so I can still use the new drivers.

Otherwise, Dirt2 is basically unplayable on 9.10.
 
Tried these real quick in Crysis to see if the performance boost I've been hearing about for a while is there. Results of 2 quick runs on the level Recovery with old drivers:

2009-12-17 14:26:42 - Crysis
Frames: 735 - Time: 23413ms - Avg: 31.392 - Min: 27 - Max: 36
2009-12-17 14:27:10 - Crysis
Frames: 496 - Time: 14933ms - Avg: 33.215 - Min: 30 - Max: 37

And new drivers:

2009-12-17 14:35:08 - Crysis
Frames: 1620 - Time: 51927ms - Avg: 31.197 - Min: 20 - Max: 39
2009-12-17 14:36:08 - Crysis
Frames: 533 - Time: 16139ms - Avg: 33.025 - Min: 29 - Max: 36

System is an i7 920 @3.8ghz HT OFF 6gb DDR3 ASUS 5870 stock
 
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In my experience the release notes are generally pretty accurate. Some performance gains and bug fixes are undocumented, but I can understand why that happens.

These look like good drivers. Also I'm glad the HDMI TV issue is in the known issues. Perhaps I wont have to cycle through my HDMI inputs 90% of the time the resolution changes.
 
There is a 9.12 hotfix driver due out later today, supposed to include a bunch more fixes that didn't make it in the WHQL driver. Link isn't working yet.

ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix driver

We’ve also made the ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix driver available (a little later) today as well – there were some last minute fixes, plus a few more features we wanted to get out there as soon as we could!!

Grab it now at: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release include:

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o Support for the OpenCL™ GPU component of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0
+ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides full support for GPU acceleration of OpenCL when used in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0. This feature is supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series and the AMD FireStream™ 9200 Series of products. For more information about ATI Stream technology and OpenCL, please visit http://www.amd.com/stream.
o Support for ATI CrossFireX™ on Eyefinity configurations
+ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release provides ATI CrossFireX™ support on Eyefinity configurations, allowing users to take advantage of their additional GPUs for increased gaming performance when driving high resolution Eyefinity display groups
+ Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series
o Support for DisplayPort audio
+ The ATI Catalyst™ 9.12 hotfix release adds support for DisplayPort audio for DisplayPort panels
* Fixes for the following issues:
o Resident Evil 5 – Performance drop during the opening cinematic
o Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – Performance drop observed with a supported ATI CrossFireX™ configuration when using the thermal scope
o Wheelman – Game freezes while loading the game menu
o Flashing in various OpenGL titles – City of Heroes, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, Riddick
o Heaven benchmark (DirectX 9 mode) – Grass flickers and white boarders observed around the edges
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series – issue with HDMI: DTS-HD and Dolby True-HD not working properly with certain receivers
o The desktop mouse cursor becomes enlarged at random when using Windows 7
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AMD/ATI website now has the 9.12 drivers. But what is this about a 9.12 hotfix?
Which should you use? :confused:
 
x3sphere said:
There is a 9.12 hotfix driver due out later today, supposed to include a bunch more fixes that didn't make it in the WHQL driver. Link isn't working yet.
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I get a bad request error with your link.


Yay crossfire support in eyefinity! Now I may actually get another 5850. (doubtful, but whatever)

edit: Don't hurt me.
 
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Hmmm, I'm disappointed. My 3DMark06 remains in the high 27k range...didn't change from 9.11 to 9.12.
 
mrrogers747 said:
Tried these real quick in Crysis to see if the performance boost I've been hearing about for a while is there. Results of 2 quick runs on the level Recovery with old drivers:

2009-12-17 14:26:42 - Crysis
Frames: 735 - Time: 23413ms - Avg: 31.392 - Min: 27 - Max: 36
2009-12-17 14:27:10 - Crysis
Frames: 496 - Time: 14933ms - Avg: 33.215 - Min: 30 - Max: 37

And new drivers:

2009-12-17 14:35:08 - Crysis
Frames: 1620 - Time: 51927ms - Avg: 31.197 - Min: 20 - Max: 39
2009-12-17 14:36:08 - Crysis
Frames: 533 - Time: 16139ms - Avg: 33.025 - Min: 29 - Max: 36

System is an i7 920 @3.8ghz HT OFF 6gb DDR3 ASUS 5870 stock
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Hey, do you mind doing it with the same amount of frames within the same time period (at least make sure the runs are identical)?
 
avatardelta said:
I get a bad request error with your link.


Yay crossfire support in eyefinity! Now I may actually get another 5850. (doubtful, but whatever)

edit: Don't hurt me.
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I was hoping to finally be able to use my second 5870 in Eyefinity -- it's been sitting on my motherboard un-used for three weeks now. CCC is all screwy since I installed 9.12 then the hotfix. My second 5870 is showing 0C, 0 Fan Speed and 000Mhz on GPU and Mem clocks.

I knew it wouldn't be that easy :rolleyes: I'm sorry, but after 4 years experience with nV SLI and nearly 3 years experience with ATI Crossfire, ATI has garbage drivers. I've had 10 times more headaches with ATI.
 
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