New AMD Catalyst 11.2 drivers available

[ViviTheMage]

did the proper uninstall, and installed these new drivers ... I want to say I am seeing a bit better fps in BC2 (maybe 5-15).

my xfire 6950's seem to flicker still.

 

[Jacky60]

either this is good weed or the IQ is much better !!

Lol-maybe both!

 

[busydude]

Did any one have to reboot after installing these drivers? I installed it on top of 10.10e and it did not prompt me to restart.. and CCC shows updated driver number.. and all the new features work fine. Its really weird.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I uninstalled everything as AMD/ATI told me to, blew everything away, rebooted, and installed 'fresh'.

 

[MrK6]

Did any one have to reboot after installing these drivers? I installed it on top of 10.10e and it did not prompt me to restart.. and CCC shows updated driver number.. and all the new features work fine. Its really weird.

That's generally how it works.

11.2's here, no problems at all after testing over many games .

 

[Barfo]

You could try using RadeonPro to set individual profiles. I've not had a chance to test with the new drivers (last I installed was 10.4 ) but I don't imagine there will be issues.

Works for me.

 

[QuantumPion]

I'm getting the phantom mouse cursor/lag bug here with my 5870. Dammit I hate ATI. Seriously, only ATI could come up with such inventive and horrible ways to fuck up their drivers /trolling rant.

 

[-Slacker-]

^Is this cursor bug a confirmed ati issue? (honest question, not trying to start a geekatron war or anything)

 

[nOOky]

Installed the new drivers yesterday, finally did some gaming tonight. CoD-BO MP seems noticeably better now, haven't noticed anything special in some of my other games, but I haven't played them all.

 

[QuantumPion]

^Is this cursor bug a confirmed ati issue? (honest question, not trying to start a geekatron war or anything)

Yes, thread is here:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=146878&enterthread=y

Also I am now getting 3-5 hard lockups per day on the desktop. Whole screen just goes solid color and I have to hard reboot. This is a new type of crash that I wasn't getting before in 10.7's.

 

[MrK6]

Yes, thread is here:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=146878&enterthread=y

Also I am now getting 3-5 hard lockups per day on the desktop. Whole screen just goes solid color and I have to hard reboot. This is a new type of crash that I wasn't getting before in 10.7's.

Did you install all AMD software via the uninstall manager, reboot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, reboot into normal windows, and install the 11.2's again?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Did you install all AMD software via the uninstall manager, reboot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, reboot into normal windows, and install the 11.2's again?

This is what I had to do! I botched it by not using driver sweeper and safe mode and benched all of my benches first with a 10.10 driver, rather than 11.2.

I re-benched everything. That took so much more time than it should have. Do the above steps exactly how they are listed.

 

[Mistwalker]

Running fine here, first time I've taken a good look through the new CCC which is nice.

Performance-wise only played a little Dead Space and Just Cause 2, running just fine. I do wish the CCC allowed for higher overclock speeds on the 6950s, but there are plenty of 3rd party apps for that.

Overall, no problems.

 

[MrK6]

This is what I had to do! I botched it by not using driver sweeper and safe mode and benched all of my benches first with a 10.10 driver, rather than 11.2.

I re-benched everything. That took so much more time than it should have. Do the above steps exactly how they are listed.

"Back in the day," that is how it was done every time. While I appreciate the convenience we have now of being able to install without even a reboot (thanks to the hard work of AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, MS, and others), I think sometimes people have become jaded: instead of going back to the basics with some troubleshooting, they start blaming the companies. Call me cynical, but then again I've built over 20 comps in the last three years, and worked on twice that, and not one has had a single driver issue. :thumbsup:

 

[QuantumPion]

Did you install all AMD software via the uninstall manager, reboot into safe mode, run Driver Sweeper, reboot into normal windows, and install the 11.2's again?

I did not run driver sweeper, nor boot in safe mode. If doing so was so necessary to not have your system repeatedly hard lock and have other odd bugs, why wouldn't AMD include this in their driver install instructions? I guess I can try it out tonight but I am highly skeptical. There are thousands of posts on various AMD forums complaining about how bad the drivers are with constant crashes and weird bugs, I'm sure if simply using driver sweeper fixed the problems this would have been reported. Who knows with AMD though. :\

 

[Bearach]

Put me on the list of people whom are having trouble with 11.2. Mine I would say are more serious, as soon as I installed I had troubles with data corruption.

First bluescreen was ntkernel and after that Windows wouldn't boot, then when I reinstalled Windows 7, I did a *clean* install of the 11.2 and that's when data corruption and bluescreens (in ntfs.sys) happened again and I lost all my data on my backup drive (Lucky I keep multiple backups).

Multiple reinstalls of OS's later and checking hardware, memory and replacing SATA cables and even testing hard drives I tried to go back to 11.1a from 11.2, but it seemed that didn't work and I started getting bluescreens of a different nature, in dxmmg1.sys or something to that effect.

Now I've just finished running memtest for 16 hours straight, all modules in, timing all at the timings I normally use and it passed about 15 times with zero errors. I rebuilt the computer (loved it, got all the cables well managed now from the new PSU) and now installing Windows 7 again, but going to just stay with 11.1a.

 

[MrK6]

I did not run driver sweeper, nor boot in safe mode. If doing so was so necessary to not have your system repeatedly hard lock and have other odd bugs, why wouldn't AMD include this in their driver install instructions? I guess I can try it out tonight but I am highly skeptical. There are thousands of posts on various AMD forums complaining about how bad the drivers are with constant crashes and weird bugs, I'm sure if simply using driver sweeper fixed the problems this would have been reported. Who knows with AMD though. :\

There are thousands of people out there who build computers that probably should have just bought a Dell. I know, because I end up fixing them all the time. People should learn to do something the right way and learn why it's done that way or they shouldn't do it at all. I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate driver issues out there, but I bet the majority are user error. That's my experience and that's what I largely see on the forums.

Put me on the list of people whom are having trouble with 11.2. Mine I would say are more serious, as soon as I installed I had troubles with data corruption.

First bluescreen was ntkernel and after that Windows wouldn't boot, then when I reinstalled Windows 7, I did a *clean* install of the 11.2 and that's when data corruption and bluescreens (in ntfs.sys) happened again and I lost all my data on my backup drive (Lucky I keep multiple backups).

Multiple reinstalls of OS's later and checking hardware, memory and replacing SATA cables and even testing hard drives I tried to go back to 11.1a from 11.2, but it seemed that didn't work and I started getting bluescreens of a different nature, in dxmmg1.sys or something to that effect.

Now I've just finished running memtest for 16 hours straight, all modules in, timing all at the timings I normally use and it passed about 15 times with zero errors. I rebuilt the computer (loved it, got all the cables well managed now from the new PSU) and now installing Windows 7 again, but going to just stay with 11.1a.

If new graphics drivers are corrupting your entire computer you have bigger issues going on there than a botched graphics driver. Make sure you aren't overclocked in the least and run a stability test like OCCT over night. Also use a multimeter to check the lines on your PSU. Do you know the quality of the power in your house?

 

[Bearach]

If new graphics drivers are corrupting your entire computer you have bigger issues going on there than a botched graphics driver. Make sure you aren't overclocked in the least and run a stability test like OCCT over night. Also use a multimeter to check the lines on your PSU. Do you know the quality of the power in your house?

Computer has been tested with OCCT (Also used IntelBurnTest too), and hard drives have been (chkdsk *full* and Western Digitals error checking application), memory too with memtest... this is a fully stock computer, and it was perfect till the drivers went in. As I type the computer is PERFECT with 11.1a drivers. So yes, it was the 11.2 drivers, I spent since they were released trying to find a reason other than the catalyst driver.

The house has just been rewired totally with new wiring, cause by coincidence there was a short and that was about 3 months ago... Also brand new PSU Corsair TX650W.

NOTE: It is a AMD chipset board, so would install other drivers like Northbridge drivers, so could be possible reason...

 

[apoppin]

i ran my usual 32 benchmarks with HD 6970/6870/5870 and got overall decent performance increases over 11.1a which in turn got even better increases over 10-12.

Best of all, the IQ is back to normal. i am also finishing up writing Part 1 of CF vs. SLI and got some excellent scaling from both camps.

 

[hans007]

my monitor will randomly flash to black and back to desktop in 2d mode on it.

its a display port monitor, and it only does this after the computer has been rebooted from suspend. if i power cycle the monitor after that it doesnt have the problem again. didnt happen before 11.2

 

[MustangSVT]

moved from 8800gs to 6850 with this driver and no problems at all.
it was smooth and painless.

i wish o/c limits can be higher. but 850 / 1200 is ok i guess.

 

[QuantumPion]

There are thousands of people out there who build computers that probably should have just bought a Dell. I know, because I end up fixing them all the time. People should learn to do something the right way and learn why it's done that way or they shouldn't do it at all. I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate driver issues out there, but I bet the majority are user error. That's my experience and that's what I largely see on the forums.

Apparently there are some people that have no issues with their ATI cards but the undeniable fact is that their drivers are garbage. No amount of fanboy ranting will make the obviousness of ATI's inexplicable problems go away.

Maybe the root of the problem is defective hardware - although this would mean >20% of their cards are faulty, which is hard to believe. But no, go ahead and blame everyone here looking for help with non-functional drivers causing BSOD's on them just being noobs, it really makes you look like you know what you are talking about.

 

[apoppin]

Apparently there are some people that have no issues with their ATI cards but the undeniable fact is that their drivers are garbage. . . .

This is a dirty lie.
:thumbsdown:

 

[QuantumPion]

This is a dirty lie.
:thumbsdown:

Yeah yeah, I know. There actually aren't any people that have no problems with ATI drivers. :|

 

[apoppin]

Yeah yeah, I know. There actually aren't any people that have no problems with ATI drivers. :|

Who is making a strawman argument now?

People DO have issues with AMD Catalyst Radeon drivers for a number of reasons. Just as people have issues with Nvidia GeForce drivers.

i have tested every single set of Catalyst and Geforce WHQL drivers for two and one-half years. Some have more issues that others (recently IQ was compromised in Cat drivers from 10-11 until they were fixed in 11-1 and 11-2). GeForce drivers caused some fans to stop responding and the cards burned up.

Generally, the quality of drivers from AMD and Nvidia is outstanding. Some people do have issues. There are a plethora or minor bug fixes going on continually. The *majority* of people people use these drivers without issue or complaint.