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AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hot-Fix Driver 1-26-11

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evolucion8 said:
Tessmark performance increase was mindblowing, scored over 2,236 at the Insane preset and never dipped below 37fps, but Unigine didn't improve that much, now I will test 3DMark11.

Update: 3DMark11 Physics increased by over 30 points, nothing else.
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What score did you get before for tessmark?

Also, could you test the games that were listed as getting performance increases. If you have them.
 
Installing the linked drivers over 10.12 resulted in BSOD, IRQ_LESS_EQUAL.

Uninstalling, then sweeping in safe mode, and then installing worked.

Seem stable enough. Will try out some WOW / Civ 5 later.

2x5770.
 
In Tessmark, I scored a little over 2236 approx on Insane Tessellation and before, it was around 1,121 or lower, (Don't remember exactly). But in Unigine and 3DMark11 didn't made a difference. Unless if the WHQL drivers are different from the hotfix posted here.
 
Odd...after installing the official 11.1 driver it still registers as 10.12 though it's still driver 8.812 (11.1) and not 8.801 (10.12) and even Catalyst says it's 2011...methinks someone forgot to update the version numbers.
 
Well, it certainly doesn't look like these drivers were a 'magic bullet' of performance for the 69xx series.

Logically it seems like there should be some 'bigger' performance gains to be had in the driver, as compared to the gains they got with the 58xx series drivers. 58xx was basically just double the 48xx series in SP's, yet over time they improved performance in the driver by a reasonable amount.

This first 11.1 driver definitely doesn't seem to have brought any performance improvements. Perhaps they are still just focusing on stability and comparability with the new VLIW4 SP's and future releases will see improvements for the 69xx series.

OT: If yields on Cayman are as good as they seem [almost all 6950's able to unlock the extra SP's], then it really makes me wish that AMD had gone for a larger chip, ala 1920 SP's as rumored. Then there would be binning that actually makes sense, and they could have the XT, Pro, LE versions of the same die.
 
IGemini said:
Odd...after installing the official 11.1 driver it still registers as 10.12 though it's still driver 8.812 (11.1) and not 8.801 (10.12) and even Catalyst says it's 2011...methinks someone forgot to update the version numbers.
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Mine still says 10.10 lol even after I uninstalled them via CP and did a manual reboot,just a bug I think.

So far no issues gaming wise.
 
Ok, I've been out of the AMD loop for a while since i was using Nvidia cards in my last build.
I downloaded and installed the 11.1 drivers.
Then i installed the app profiles listed here.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

I have 6950 xfire on my main rig and mobility hd5870 on my laptop, i installed the app profiles on both, but wasnt 100% sure they weren't just for xfire.

So i'm curious...
If the profiles(game optimizations) are separate from the drivers now, shouldn't those be just as important as the driver releases?

Keeping track of latest drivers is easy since someone always posts about those.
Yet i never see anyone post about new app profiles, why?
 
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MTDEW said:
Ok, I've been out of the AMD loop for a while since i was using Nvidia cards in my last build.
I downloaded and installed the 11.1 drivers.
Then i installed the app profiles listed here.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

I have 6950 xfire on my main rig and mobility hd5870 on my laptop, i installed the app profiles on both, but wasnt 100% sure they weren't just for xfire.

So i'm curious...
If the profiles(game optimizations) are separate from the drivers, shouldn't those be just as important as the driver releases?

Keeping track of latest drivers is easy since someone always posts about those.
Yet i never see anyone post about new app profiles, why?
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xfire profiles are kept separate from the drivers so they can be updated more frequently. The driver does have crossfire profiles, but the ones on the site are the newest ones. They did that so that you don't have to wait a month for crossfire profiles or have to download 100mb driver just for the profiles.
 
Skurge said:
xfire profiles are kept separate from the drivers so they can be updated more frequently. The driver does have crossfire profiles, but the ones on the site are the newest ones. They did that so that you don't have to wait a month for crossfire profiles or have to download 100mb driver just for the profiles.
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Ok, so you're saying as long as i have the latest drivers they include the profiles up to the release date of that driver.

So the drivers do include profiles they are not completely separate.

So i only need to download the app profiles between official driver releases if i want the latest profiles available between driver releases.

I don't need the Ati Stream SDK V2 Developer installed, correct?

I apologize for my ignorance, as i said i've been on the green team for a while and missed all these changes. :biggrin:
 
Just going to try these drivers out, 10.12 didn't have any but one problem for me, randomly when entering power management for the monitor Windows would crash. I hope it's been fixed and will be testing that, and will check the stability and speed of these drivers in a host of games.

This little Asus 6850 has me quite impressed, regardless I'm not sorry I bought, and wow! Loving the new PSU from Corsair. I have one annoyance with AMD's drivers thus far though.

When playing back video, such as MP4, DVD or anything really I have noticed it overly cleaning the image so some of the detail (if not most of it on some things) is gone.

Never had this with my nVIDIA cards, I have found an option that helps... Either don't install the Control Center (doesn't filter at all then), or turn off all the Advanced Quality settings under Video settings (but it still looks a little filtered).

Why do the drivers do that? It can be good if watching a animated cartoon, but not for live action films. There anymore I can disable that will help to unfilter the videos more?
 
Changing from 10.12 to 11.1a hotfix has increased my idle clockspeed from 100Mhz to 300Mhz on the core, with the memory still at 300Mhz like previous driver. Anyone else notice this?
 
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