AMD Catalyst Preview 8.95.5 update for 7700/7800/7900

[hclarkjr]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/HD78007Support.aspx

AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5

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Last Updated

3/19/2012
Article Number

157
This AMD Catalyst™ driver version 8.95.5 features support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series. Windows 7 support for the AMD Radeon™ HD 7800 Series

• Enables support for Windows 7 64-bit

Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements

• Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• LOD Image quality enhancements have been improved when enabling Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive
• Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
• Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the
• Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
• To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements

• Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• MLAA now operates up 80% faster than previous versions of MLAA
• To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

Instructions:

Download and install the Driver from the following location:

• AMD Catalyst™ Driver Version 8.95.5

Note! This Driver is provided “AS IS” and under the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement provided therewith.
Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):
Hardware

• AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 4000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 3000 Series
• AMD Radeon HD 2000 Series

Operating Systems

• Windows® 7 64-bit Edition

 

[blackened23]

Don't do it.

 

[chimaxi83]

I'm using this driver, and have no issues with it other than having to do a workaround and replace two files to re-enable proper overclocking.

 

[caboob]

So far has worked great on my tri-fire setup. Have yet to test eyefinity.

 

[blackened23]

So far has worked great on my tri-fire setup. Have yet to test eyefinity.

Did you do a clean install or on top of an old install?

 

[chimaxi83]

It was a clean install. I followed some instructions on Guru3D to fix overclocking.

The first set of instructions were to do an install of these new drivers on top of older drivers. That was a definite no go.

The other set of instructions just showed which files from RC11 needed to go into this new driver package. 2 copy and pastes and an edit of an .ini file and everything was good to go on a clean install. I used CCleaner, Driver Sweeper, and ATIman Uninstaller in between, along with deleting the few leftover registry entries for Afterburner.

Also, Afterburner Beta 15 is out, for those interested. I'm using it and it's fine.


Edit: Here are those instructions, in case anyone else is interested in trying these and have issues.

 

[Despoiler]

Don't do it.

Don't listen to him. He hasn't even tested them.

I posted these drivers yesterday. They work better than the 12.2 WHQLs on my machine. They fix a lot of the issues people had reported with other drivers. Namely with BF3 and Skyrim.

 

[railven]

Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements

• Supported on the AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
• MLAA now operates up 80% faster than previous versions of MLAA
• To be supported in AMD Catalyst 12.4

I realized I've yet to try out the new MLAA 2.0 feature, and this is enough of a reason to give it a whirl.

I wonder if this perfromance boost is a response to - TXAA or whatever new AA is in the GTX 6-series.

Eitherway, if I'm going to use vasoline-AA, I want it to be FREE!

 

[Chiropteran]

Maybe these are the drivers that will give a free "magical" 20% boost to 7 series cards, putting 7970 safely above the leaked 680 scores

 

[Rvenger]

Im sure there is power that is still untapped in these cards. Specs on paper are above and beyond the GTX 680