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Frant
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PostPosted: Sat, 13th Nov 2010 00:14    Post subject: 10.10e hotfix drivers
AMD Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix Features:

* The AMD Catalyst Control Center now features the new AMD Catalyst AI user interface options on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series (the new AMD Catalyst AI options were previously only available for the AMD Radeon 6800 Series)”
* Fixed cases where Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) was not being correctly applied to games (very intermittently)
* OpenGL 4.1 beta support
* Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
* Dead Rising 2 – Crossfire profile (Resolves negative scaling)
* Crossfire Performance Improvement for:
o Metro 2033
o F1 2011 - (Direct X9 version)
o Fallout New Vegas
* Performance optimizations for systems with an AMD Radeon HD 6870 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 series of graphics products installed
o Aliens versus Predator performance enhancements
o Star Craft 2 performance enhancements
o OpenGL performance enhancements – gains can be seen in Prey, Quake Wars: Enemy Territories, and Heaven v2
* Support for additional Stereo 3D-capable displays:
o Viewsonic V3D241wm-LED
o 3D Projectors

info: http://support.amd.com/la/kbarticles/Pages/GPU87AMDCat1010eHotfix.aspx

DOWNLOAD: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/20307/1m/www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/hotfix/catalyst_10.10_hotfixes/catalyst_10.10e_hotfix_win7_nov9.exe

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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Nov 2010 08:03    Post subject:
http://www.rage3d.com/cap/

Further updated application profiles.
(10.11, 10.11 CAP1 and now 10.11 CAP2)
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PostPosted: Mon, 29th Nov 2010 23:56    Post subject:
Anyone know why my overdrive tab is missing from the control panel?
Im using 10.10e On windows 7, Its still there in XP.

Cant remember if I had overdrive before on Seven, but why is it missing?
Not using any 3'rd.P apps like rivatuner etc.

Q6600/Club3D 4890/2GB DDR2/WiN7\XP/1.5 TB/23 Inch LCD
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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Dec 2010 04:44    Post subject:
I've just tried the Catalyst 10.12, am I the only one who thinks that the new control panel is if possible even worse than the old one? Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Wed, 15th Dec 2010 05:01    Post subject:
I like it, far quicker and more optimized but still the same options unfortunately, also no MLAA support or such for ATI 5000 series again so if that was enabled before it'll be on permanently aside from using registry hacks to re-enable these option again and then adjusting it or using a utility like RadeonPro.
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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Dec 2010 23:02    Post subject:
Catalyst 10.12a Hotfix

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst1012ahotfix.aspx

And I like the new Control Panel (in Advanced mode obviously).

Quote:
AMD Catalyst driver 10.12a Hotfix Feature:

* AMD Catalyst driver support for systems running Windows® 7 with an AMD Radeon™ HD 69xx series graphics card installed
* Includes support for 5x1 AMD Eyefinity display configurations

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PostPosted: Fri, 17th Dec 2010 23:09    Post subject:
JBeckman wrote:
I like it, far quicker and more optimized but still the same options unfortunately, also no MLAA support or such for ATI 5000 series again so if that was enabled before it'll be on permanently aside from using registry hacks to re-enable these option again and then adjusting it or using a utility like RadeonPro.


just install von modded versions of the latest stuff thats out and he gives all those choices and more in them, hang on though you prob already know this eh Razz
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 04:49    Post subject:
I've seen them, they're apparently quite good but seem very "hacked" for performance benefits though that's just a guess as I see it from how he posted and apparently he also managed to improve the application profile packages which is a nice improvement, also very up to date and well maintained so it's not bad or anything like that. Smile

There's a newer 10.12a driver available, still at 8.80 instead of 8.801 but 10.12 based now instead of the previous 8.79 driver path that likely was 10.11 based, only real fix is that it now allows Eyefinity in a 5x1 configuration and from the previous hotfix driver this extends to ATI 5000 series as well.

So while it's newer (December 15th) there's probably not much in terms of advantages over WHQL 10.12 Smile

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst1012ahotfix.aspx
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 10:48    Post subject:
Ive gone back to 10.5a hotfix drivers.. And funny enough everything runs 10 times better so far again over all the new releases of late.. But I cant be overly sure on this as I had some corrupt driver and dx files while i was changing o/c around when testing out the latest types of drivers..

I thought it was the drivers at first but then noticed how scan of drive found various corruptions, prob due to too many restarts and blue screens.. Reinstall fixed it all up, tried the 10.5a again for black ops before patch which fixed that game up, patch came out no difference still working well so left them installed..

Get fed up testing all these ones so shall leave it as it is for now and not touch till I need to, BFBC2 runs very well on dx10 with AA as well. And wow alot better with the kinks in the update/expansion of late.
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 13:53    Post subject:
moosenoodles wrote:
Ive gone back to 10.5a hotfix drivers.. And funny enough everything runs 10 times better so far again over all the new releases of late..


This! You have a 4870 too right?
For me all the drivers released after the 10.5a worsen alot the performance in many recent games (BC2 as you said is probably the one that suffers more). Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 15:56    Post subject:
ixigia wrote:
moosenoodles wrote:
Ive gone back to 10.5a hotfix drivers.. And funny enough everything runs 10 times better so far again over all the new releases of late..


This! You have a 4870 too right?
For me all the drivers released after the 10.5a worsen alot the performance in many recent games (BC2 as you said is probably the one that suffers more). Crying or Very sad


yes xfx 1gb 4870..

Well other drivers do work its just again with selection of gaming I do I can only rate the 10.5a drivers better overall.. But if there is a game I play that warrants changing due to say a profile needed or some other bullcrap then I might have to think more about it..

card itself is flawless really, its not the new msaa or whatever but my eyes dont need that it seems anyhow :O, and ive yet to still play a game that drops below 60frames locked at 1920*1080P res
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 16:13    Post subject:
Metro? Razz
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PostPosted: Sat, 18th Dec 2010 18:38    Post subject:
pwerelds wrote:
Metro? Razz


didnt like metro.. was overly linear i thought.
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PostPosted: Tue, 18th Jan 2011 22:12    Post subject:
AMD_Catalyst_Win7_8.82.2Beta1_Jan13

http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/downloads/treiber/grafikkarten/doc_details/169-amd-catalyst-111a-hotfix.html

Performance improvements for the AMD Radeon HD 6800 & HD 6900 series include but not limited to:



AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
3DMark06 improves ~3%
Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels



AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%
Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA



AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series:

Battleforge DirectX 11 performance improves as much as 6%



New Tessellation Controls:

The Catalyst Control Center includes an early prototype of some new tessellation controls. Our goal is to give users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications. The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting allows AMD, on a per application basis, to set the best level of tessellation. The intention is to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the impact on performance. Currently no applications have been profiled, so the “AMD Optimized” setting will be non-operational until further notice.
The “Use Application Settings” option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level. Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control
The long term goal for the “AMD Optimized” setting is to use the Catalyst Application Profile mechanism to control the AMD recommended level of tessellation on a per application basis. AMD’s intention is to set the tessellation level such that we will not be reducing image quality in any way that would negatively impact the gaming experience.



* Includes CCC2, but no Tessellation settings. Guess that will come with the final driver that is waiting for WHQL. Anyway, I'm content with these until next week Smile

** After a reboot the tessellation option showed up in CCC2. Smile

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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Jan 2011 10:48    Post subject:
Installed them, I'll run some benches on them later.

I'm sure there's gonna be whining that the tessellation slider can be used to manipulate benchmark results or something, but that goes for *any* setting in *any* control panel. What's great about this though is that this allows one to prevent using 64 samples for tessellation for example. That completely rapes performance and adds absolutely nothing; anyone who knows how tessellation works and has read some articles on it will know that generally you'll want between 8 and 16 samples, antyhing above that is only visible when you're extremely close to the subject.

I honestly don't know if any of the DX11 titles out there right now do it wrong by always applying a high amount rather than adjusting to the situation at hand, but this will fix that :>

CCC2 also is much better than before; still .NET based, but much more comfortable to use!
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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 05:03    Post subject:
http://www.rage3d.com/cap/

New profiles added with this release:

* Tron: Evolution – Improves CrossFire performance

January 21 2011 – Catalyst 10.12 CAP2

* Dva Mira 2 (Two Worlds 2) DX10 version: Improves CrossFire performance
* Global Agenda: Improves CrossFire performance
* RIFT: Improve CrossFire performance
* Fable III – resolves negative CrossFire scaling

EDIT: Dva Mira 2 being the Russian title for TW2.
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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 15:41    Post subject:
Fable III huh? A game that's TBA. Guess it's not too far off into the future if AMD has a copy of it. Smile

I read another post in some forum where someone had gone through the blb-file and found tons of games that hasn't been released yet (and some that weren't even supposed to be released on PC).

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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 16:10    Post subject:
How come there's a 11.1a hotfix whereas the WHQLed 11.1 isn't out yet? Scratch Head
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PostPosted: Thu, 20th Jan 2011 16:36    Post subject:
11.1 has been finalized and given to MS for testing and AMD continued to work on further improvements. It turns out that they were almost ready to release 11.1a before MS finished testing the 11.1.
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PostPosted: Fri, 28th Jan 2011 10:52    Post subject:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost.php?p=1336485205&postcount=158

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33961798&page=6

Catalyst Application Profiles 11.1 CAP1

* Need for Speed: Shift 2: Improves CrossFire performance
* F1 2010: Fixes flickering seen on some tracks when running in CrossFire mode

Unfortunately it seems they might cause crashes under Crossfire mode for ATI/AMD 6900 series card owners in certain games.
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