AMD Catalyst 12.6 BETA (8.980.0 May 22) / 12.6 CAP 1

asder00 · May 31, 2012

Enjoy

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With the release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta driver (“Catalyst”), AMD would also like to announce that we are moving away from our Monthly Catalyst release plan. Our goal is to ensure that every Catalyst release delivers a substantial benefit to our end users; as we have today with the release of the Catalyst 12.6a Beta. We will still continue with the Catalyst naming convention; Catalyst: Year.Month. You just won’t see a new driver every single month. We are confident that this will only benefit the end user; you’ll only need to upgrade to a new Catalyst driver, when it makes sense.

We would also like to announce the introduction of our new AMD Issue Reporting Form. We made a number of improvements to the older Catalyst Crew Feedback form, making it more comprehensive, ensuring high quality feedback. Feedback is very important in every product company’s life, especially in our fast paced environment. This is not just a check-box for us – we take these reports very seriously. We will review every report posted here and investigate every issue encountered. Please use this form whenever you encounter something worth mentioning.

Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta:

AMD Radeon™ HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Tri-CrossFire™ configurations + Eyefinity BSOD when launching a DirectX application.
AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 Eyefinity/Multiple Display configurations BSOD when using desktop applications.
AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 cards hang when system goes to sleep.
Tearing on Eyefinity configurations when different display connector types are used.
Poor Elder Scrolls: Skyrim CrossFire scaling seen in AMD Catalyst 12.4 (back to CrossFire scaling found in AMD Catalyst 12.3).
AMD Catalyst Control Center – intermittently missing Overdrive page.
AMD Catalyst Control Center – missing GPU Activity gauge.
AMD Radeon HD 7900 CrossFire Configuration – system hang after cinematic in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Crysis 2 -random system hangs when run in DirectX 9 mode.
Heroes and Generals: Blocky corruption in scenes with smoke effects when run in DirectX 11 mode.
Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.6 Beta:
Dual Graphics enhancements – new application profiles
Supported Dual Graphics configurations:
AMD Accelerated Processors for Desktop PCs

AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-5700)
AMD Radeon HD 7560D (A8-5500
Notebooks with AMD Accelerated Processors
AMD Radeon HD 7660D (A10-4600)
AMD Radeon HD 7640G (A8-4500M)
AMD Radeon HD 7520G (A6-4400M)
New profiles have been added for the following game titles:
Diablo 3
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
StarCraft 2
Portal 2
Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Call of Duty Black Ops
Future Catalyst releases will continue to add Dual Graphics support for additional titles

Build Info:
DriverVer=05/22/2012, 8.980.0.0000
8.98-120522a-139735E-ATI

Supported Cards:

12.6 Beta Cap 1

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

New profiles added to this release:
- Max Payne 3 (DirectX11 version): Improves CrossFire scaling performance
- Krater: Resolves full screen flickering issue

joe3000 · May 31, 2012

How the support for Dx10/10.1 cards will work?

caveman-jim · May 31, 2012

joe3000 said:
How the support for Dx10/10.1 cards will work?

same as previously published.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33989241

Treeckcold57 · May 31, 2012

joe3000 said:
How the support for Dx10/10.1 cards will work?

ATI DX10/10.1 cards will be move to quarterly update driver.

LordJuanlo · May 31, 2012

Great, the new driver is already public, I hope Eyefinity tearing is fixed in all cards, keep reporting guys.

Roadhog · May 31, 2012

sounds like some nice fixes.

spyre · May 31, 2012

If you try the Skyrim beta with these when using Crossfire you may encounter some strange issues (like a yellow screen when pressing escape for example)

The none beta version of Skyrim works OK though.

If you have stuttering with Vsync enabled and Diablo 3 you should use the dirt3*.exe profile via the CCC Crossfire profiles.

void4ever · May 31, 2012

So are WHQL drivers still only going to show using AMD's front page drop downs, and we'll have to dig into the bowels of there site to get betas (not counting rage3d's coverage)?

When i use that method i get 12.4's, but interestingly enough below those are the 12.6beta cap1's

Void4ever

Ristogod · May 31, 2012

When's the non beta coming out? Next month?

caveman-jim · May 31, 2012

Ristogod said:
When's the non beta coming out? Next month?

Seems like it:

we will still continue with the Catalyst naming convention; Catalyst: Year.Month.

joe3000 · May 31, 2012

Thanks caveman-jim & Treeckcold57, looks like it's time to upgrade, but to what?!

I mean it has been good 10 years ride with Ati/Amd, but this, I don't like. And God knows what nVidia preparing with their already bad drivers...

Qamly · May 31, 2012

Roadhog_ said:
sounds like some nice fixes.

Seems this is mainly for 7X00 and eyefinity /cross-fire stuff.
Not so much for anything else though.

bill dennison · May 31, 2012

is the cap in these or use what cap

and i had to reboot to get cfx back after the install finished

oh well i found 12.6 Beta CAP1

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Diablo 3 works ok for me about the same as the 12.4's no stuttering with Vsync enabled

i can't try skyrim right now steam is still reloading on my new second pc

Dyre Straits · May 31, 2012

Qamly said:
Seems this is mainly for 7X00 and eyefinity /cross-fire stuff.
Not so much for anything else though.

Exactly what I was thinking. Not much incentive to update my 12.4s -- which I FINALLY got working properly -- on my HD 6950.

Lurk · May 31, 2012

spyre said:
If you try the Skyrim beta with these when using Crossfire you may encounter some strange issues (like a yellow screen when pressing escape for example)

The none beta version of Skyrim works OK though.

I'd like to point out that I'm having this issue using the OpenCL 1.2 preview drivers as well, so I guess it is a problem with the Skyrim beta after all.

Dave · May 31, 2012

Thread stickied.

And definitely raising an eyebrow on not having monthly releases....

Lurk · May 31, 2012

This might not be the change I was waiting/hoping for, although I partially agree - and have said so before - with the "less frequent - more efficient" strategy nonetheless.

The point is, will it really happen?

I'll definitely wait and see, but if AMD doesn't get any better at getting things straightened out with their software I might seriously consider Nvidia, if nothing at least because they seem to be delivering substantial improvements in the form of performance increases and driver features aimed at a better gaming experience, along with seemingly faster support for new titles.

I'm discouraged by personal experience and have seen a lot of complaining lately, much more than I can remember.

I sincerely hope for AMD to show they can still kick ass in the software department, but I'm not willing to blindly follow them if I feel they are failing my expectations.

karma77police · May 31, 2012

Interesting news. Looks like Windows 7 + Nvidia is going to be a choice for the next at least 2-3 years until Microsoft releases Windows 9 and hopefully they come to senses otherwise will go into Linux + Nvidia. Who would guess that after so many years of computing i would ditch Microsoft, AMD, and ATI.

lemonhead · May 31, 2012

> Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.

I was running into this issue lately on my 4850 equipped HTPC. Glad to see that there's a fix. Not so glad to find out that the driver set doesn't support 4850.

Treeckcold57 · May 31, 2012

lemonhead said:
> Disabled HDMI audio when the connected HDTV is powered Off/On.

I was running into this issue lately on my 4850 equipped HTPC. Glad to see that there's a fix. Not so glad to find out that the driver set doesn't support 4850.

4850 is already on the legacy hardware and they will be only quarterly update. This one is for 5x00 series to up.

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33989241

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