11.11c Catalyst performance drivers for AMD/ATI graphics cards.

[tweakboy]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst1111cperformance.aspx

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Yay. Maybe I'll finally get off 11.9

 

[brandonb]

AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance driver features

· Elder Scrolls Skyrim

•New in Catalyst 11.11c: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for the AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series

•Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series

•Improves performance 2-7% on single GPU configurations

•Resolve corruption seen when enabling Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 Series


· Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
• New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling


· Batman Arkham City
• Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations


· Rage
• Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling

• Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:

• Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance

• Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.

• Fix issue with extreme corruption with missing textures on 32bit systems.

• Fix memory leaks when deleting/reusing sync objects.

• Fix hitching and pausing, especially noticeable on some Quad Core systems when doing races and Stanley Express runs.

• Fix some missing shadows


· Battlefield 3
•
Resolves intermittent corruption seen when playing the game at specific camera angles

 

[Termie]

Just to be clear, the only thing 11.11c adds is Skyrim crossfire support for the 5000 series.

Here are the release notes from 11.11b:

AMD Catalyst 11.11b performance driver features:


New in Catalyst 11.11b:

Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling for (Elder Scrolls Skyrim and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations)

•Elder Scrolls Skyrim
◦New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossFire performance scaling for AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
■AMD Radeon HD 5000 CrossFire support will be supported soon in an updated driver
◦Improves performance 2-7% on single GPU configurations
◦Resolve corruption seen when enabling Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 Series
•Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
◦New in Catalyst 11.11b: Delivers AMD CrossFire performance scaling
•Batman Arkham City
◦Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations
•Rage
◦Delivers AMD CrossfireX performance scaling
◦Resolves a number of image / stability issues seen with the title:
■Fix geometry corruption, sometimes seen in Bash TV entrance
■Fix issues with Low-memory conditions on 32bit systems.
■Fix issue with extreme corruption with missing textures on 32bit systems.
■Fix memory leaks when deleting/reusing sync objects.
■Fix hitching and pausing, especially noticeable on some Quad Core systems when doing races and Stanley Express runs.
■Fix some missing shadows
•Battlefield 3
◦Resolves intermittent corruption seen when playing the game at specific camera angles

Source: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst-1111b-performance.aspx

 

[RavenSEAL]

LOL, AMD needs to stop releasing drivers every other 4 days.

When are driver developers going to setup a patching system?

 

[Spjut]

So, after all those days, we finally have crossfire for the HD5000 series and not just for the HD6000...Will users with dual HD4000 cards be doomed to live without crossfire in Skyrim tho?

 

[Stuka87]

LOL, AMD needs to stop releasing drivers every other 4 days.

When are driver developers going to setup a patching system?

They have a patching system that releases a new patch on a monthly iteration.

However, when games are released mid patch, or right before a patch is released, there is no time to get final changes made. So they do these mid patch releases. Which personally, I am happy about. As it means I don't have to wait as long to get fixes/optimizations for a given game.

 

[nurturedhate]

with 11.11b drivers my 4870 crossfire setup works fine in skyrim, 1680/1050 on ultra, stays at the 60fps cap usually with random dips into the mid 40s

 

[BrightCandle]

Rage runs worse on 11.11b than it did on 11.10 despite the so called crossfire tweak. AMD needs to get their act together with drivers and crossfire. They managed to sell the approach to a lot of customers and this autumn its not been uncommon for the games to not have a working driver for at least 4 weeks after the games release. Having so many negative scaling games really doesn't help matters.

 

[RavenSEAL]

They have a patching system that releases a new patch on a monthly iteration.

However, when games are released mid patch, or right before a patch is released, there is no time to get final changes made. So they do these mid patch releases. Which personally, I am happy about. As it means I don't have to wait as long to get fixes/optimizations for a given game.

That's one big 147mb patch...

 

[Wag]

And let me tell you, I have Tri-Crossfire unlocked 6950s and on none of the current driver sets does Skyrim run properly, it only uses 2 of 3 GPUs and even then at times it scales negatively (and yes I clean out my system every time before I install a new driver).

ATI's Crossfire support is a mess and I'll never go with them again.

 

[tweakboy]

So, after all those days, we finally have crossfire for the HD5000 series and not just for the HD6000...Will users with dual HD4000 cards be doomed to live without crossfire in Skyrim tho?

Yikes, that is not good video card driver encoding

 

[cmdrdredd]

And let me tell you, I have Tri-Crossfire unlocked 6950s and on none of the current driver sets does Skyrim run properly, it only uses 2 of 3 GPUs and even then at times it scales negatively (and yes I clean out my system every time before I install a new driver).

ATI's Crossfire support is a mess and I'll never go with them again.

Just don't use dual card setups and go with the fastest single GPU available. That's the real issue here. SLI isn't a bed of roses by any means.