AMD Catalyst Driver Update Thread [ 12.8 ]

rchi84

rchi84

In the zone
On my 6950 (unlocked), my 3D Mark 11 scores have shot up in the last six months. I used to score around 51xx in Performance preset last year, but now, I am getting scores in 55xx, so it's a decent bump in scores.

Gamewise, not much has changed though. Still can't enable AA in BF3, without dropping FPS..
 
Monk

Monk

Journeyman
Downloading now, will surely update the performance. :)

Edit: Downloaded and installed, to my surprise the screen turned completely white, with horizontal black lines. It scared the living .... out of me!!
Perhaps some downloading error? Did a system restore, uninstalled the ATi display drivers and downloaded the 12.7 beta from the website, installed and *boom*, every game runs sweeter now, specially skyrim! It runs really smooth, much better than before. Will check more games!
 
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krishnandu.sarkar

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
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I have installed 12.6 and I'm facing a problem. My screen is not fitted into monitor bezel.

So I set Overscan under Scaling Options. (I have also used this setting previously)

So the problem is, whenever I reboot my PC, it goes to same old state. When I open Catalyst Control Center, it shows Overscan settings perfectly fine, still it's not fitted till screen bezel.

I have to manually Detect Display everytime I start my PC, this is really frustrating.

Any idea what's wrong..??

(Sorry for my bad english, if I'm not able to explain the problem perfectly)
 
ico

ico

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krishnandu.sarkar said:
I have installed 12.6 and I'm facing a problem. My screen is not fitted into monitor bezel.

So I set Overscan under Scaling Options. (I have also used this setting previously)

So the problem is, whenever I reboot my PC, it goes to same old state. When I open Catalyst Control Center, it shows Overscan settings perfectly fine, still it's not fitted till screen bezel.

I have to manually Detect Display everytime I start my PC, this is really frustrating.

Any idea what's wrong..??

(Sorry for my bad english, if I'm not able to explain the problem perfectly)
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AMD Catalyst 12.6 Released (+ 12.7 Beta) - Beyond3D Forum

Example of where to create:
*i.imgur.com/w3HlR.png

PS: I haven't faced this problem.
 
krishnandu.sarkar

krishnandu.sarkar

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^^Thanks I created the dword value as it's stated. Let's reboot and check :)

Yeah I got that. I created under ###/0000 with most values / settings.

UPDATE : Not working :(

[Solved] Catalyst 12.6 Overscan setting restart issue. - ATI - Graphic-Displays

They say the problem is fixed. But not for me. :(

Well, the problem is not fixed, instead the font got hazy...

*i.imgur.com/pnF2w.jpg

Will be trying 12.7 Beta and if it doesn't works revert back to 12.4
 
Y

yabbadaaba

Broken In
i am not even able to download from amd site..their download link is dead i think..
tried from their US site also but to no avail..
 
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topgear

topgear

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there's not much performance improvement I can see compared to 11.12 - actually the performance has degraded so far in most of the benchmarks - will complete other benchmark tests today and post the complete result tomorrow.
 
kapilove77

kapilove77

Padawan
krishnandu.sarkar said:
I have installed 12.6 and I'm facing a problem. My screen is not fitted into monitor bezel.

So I set Overscan under Scaling Options. (I have also used this setting previously)

So the problem is, whenever I reboot my PC, it goes to same old state. When I open Catalyst Control Center, it shows Overscan settings perfectly fine, still it's not fitted till screen bezel.

I have to manually Detect Display everytime I start my PC, this is really frustrating.

Any idea what's wrong..??

(Sorry for my bad english, if I'm not able to explain the problem perfectly)
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Same problem with me Exactly same. :(

Update: It really works I just created without changing any values in it and Restarted my pc n voila it worked!
 
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the_conqueror

Ambassador of Buzz
krishnandu.sarkar said:
I have installed 12.6 and I'm facing a problem. My screen is not fitted into monitor bezel.

So I set Overscan under Scaling Options. (I have also used this setting previously)

So the problem is, whenever I reboot my PC, it goes to same old state. When I open Catalyst Control Center, it shows Overscan settings perfectly fine, still it's not fitted till screen bezel.

I have to manually Detect Display everytime I start my PC, this is really frustrating.

Any idea what's wrong..??

(Sorry for my bad english, if I'm not able to explain the problem perfectly)
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Same happening with me. But 5 minutes after rebooting, the screen automatically fits upto the bezel.
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
yesterday i updated drivers to 12.6 from 12.4 and while checking some videos, the screen kind of changed colour (32 to 16bit i guess) and after a few minutes back to normal. and also whole system kind of locked up for 10-12sec. This happened for the first time in a long time. Though it is fine after that. no affect on any game i played today.

Looks like with the removed support for legacy GPU some important codes got erased too.
 
krishnandu.sarkar

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
@kapilove77 Ok trying without changing the value.

@the_conqueror Well, the situation is same for me. So I'm assuming it's not working. It doesn't mean anything if it gets fixed after five mins. So I end up opening Catalyst Control Center everytime.
 
topgear

topgear

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CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H x.x
Installed RAM: 4.00 GB
Installed Memory Type and Speed : DDR2 800 Mhz
Operating System: Windows 7 x64 SP1
Video adapter: AMD Radeon HD 6850 ( 800/1100 )
Video driver: Catalyst 11.12 and 12.6
Resolution : 1080P - maximum settings used in every benchmark with all the advanced option like Tessellation, DoF, Physx etc. turned on*

Test Result : ( left is 11.12 and right is 12.6 )
Green = Performance Increase
Blue = Performance decrease

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AvP 2010 :
Average FPS: 29.9 - 33.4
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Sniper Elite v2 :
Average FPS: 10.2 - 9.9
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PLA Game BenchMark : ( Unreal Engine 3.0 )
Average FPS: 37 - 37
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3DMark 11 BenchMark ( Xtreme Preset ) :
Graphics Score: 1037 - 1052
Physyx Score : 3773 - 3815
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Street Fighter IV BenchMark :
Graphics Score: 10380 - 8896
Average FPS: 130.04 - 115
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Lost Planet 2 BenchMark :
Average FPS: B - 33.4 ( Test A ) - 31.0
Average FPS: C - 25.0 ( Test B ) - 25.6
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METRO 2033 BENCHMARK:
Average Framerate: 16.00 - 15.67
Max. Framerate: 33.95 - 30.68
Min. Framerate: 6.58 - 6.37
============================================
3DMark Vantage BenchMark : ( 1080P )
Graphics Score: X7190 - X7141
============================================
Crysis 2 BenchMark :
Average FPS: 23 ( Central Park - Edge Blur - High Res Tex - Ultra ) - 23
Average FPS: 31 ( Times Square - Edge Blur - High Res Tex - Ultra ) - 31
============================================
Unigine Heaven 3.0 :
FPS: 18.7 - 18.8
Scores: 470 - 474
Min FPS: 5.7 - 8.2
============================================
RE5 DX10 :
AVG FPS :76.2 ( Fixed ) - 76.1
AVG FPS :87.9 ( Variable ) - 88
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DiRT ShowDown :
Min FPS :28 - 25.26
AVG FPS :38 - 33.21

So guys post your feedback ;-)
 
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SunE

Professional Newbie
topgear how can the average fps for Sniper Elite V2 be so low? My PC does over 120 fps maxed out and AFAIK the difference between a HD 6850 and a HD 7850 can't be 110 fps??!!
 
topgear

topgear

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Staff member
^^ yep, that's odd - I can run the game at Ultra settings ( with every other settings maxed out too ) smoothly - must be ~30+fps but the benchmark tool of this game is really acting weird - will update to 12.7 beta and test again with only with the benchmark software ( large one ) - this time I won't use the adrenaline bench tool for the benchmark app.
 
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