AMD 12.1 Preview drivers and Skyrim flickering.

After installing the 12.1 drivers on my 17x R2, and having then finally install without BSOD I was ecstatic, however I just tried playing Skyrim on the 12.1 preview and wow was there a lot of screen-flickering and whatnot. I've tried using application settings, not using application settings and turning off the games AA and AF, turning off cross-fire, none of that really helped. I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

I'd post this on the AMD forums as well, but I'm sure the long-time d-bag of the forums Gr33nGecko would just rip me a new one for having a Dell product and not understanding the complex ways of AMD because I'm nothing more than a simpleton who should bow down to his condescending AMD knowledge. Yes that last part is just ranting but I'm hoping you can set that aside and see me as a human being just looking for advice.

 

Just for your knowledge; i installed this 12.1 drivers on my single card 5870 system (just installed it 'express mode' over the 11.11 drivers), all went well and Skyrim's performance has improved, the game now just feels right. sorry for the highjack of this post although i think it might add something to the discussion, so 12.1 drivers on single card 5870 systems is a go!

 

As long as somebody's not having problems it's fine, no worries. I was excited when I didn't BSOD the 12.1 Preview drivers.

 

Same here using the express installation method.Skyrim is working fine.The recent AMD updates really messed dual card systems,although i do heard M18X owners have more success with 12.1 drivers.Perhaps you like to have a look over there for clues? (I know its a different system,but no harm looking around huh?)

 

I would uninstall run driver sweeper and like everyone else use the express install. It has worked perfect on my m18x, m17x R2 and Area 51. Some times it takes more that one try, for some reason.

 

Armageddon, you have xfire 5870s ?

I've read about others that have had some flickering with the 12.1s with xfire setups. If its bothering you that much, you may have to go back to 11.10 and use the DLL trick for xfire

 

cfx is still not good in skyrim. disable cfx, skyrim plays alot better on one card - no flickering.

 

AMD needs to hire some programmers from India!!

 

Hi, I'm also experiencing skyrim flickering with the 12.1 drivers and crossfire. I did clean uninstall and theninstall. I used manual setup with everything ticked on. Will express install make any difference?

 

Hi All

I've tried all catalyst versions and what works best for me is the original catalyst drivers from dell with the TESV.exe renamed to fallout3.exe....

No need to atl tab!

Ps. M17X R2 with 5870 cross fire cards.

 

All you have to do is diable CFX in the new application profiles in 12.1 CCC. At this point in time CrossfireX is still not working for Skyrim, so there's no performance benefit to having it on anyways. It'll just cause flickering and artifacts.

 

Catalyst 11.10+atiumdag.dll =crossfire enabled , good performance and no issue.
Still don't understand why people keep try to use preview driver or driver that give bsod when ther's that easy solution for having a great experience without issue....

 

It's really really really weird and I can't even really begin to explain why or what is going on. But basically I installed a fresh version of windows on my SSD drive and installed 12.1 drivers BF3 played with no problems I was happy, COH started flickering, so I put back in my Hybrid SSD drive. That drive has 11.10 installed with 12.1 installed on top of it not exactly proper. It ran ok for about 2 weeks but then I got sick of the idea of not being able to access my CCC and was unaware if CrossFire was on or not. So I did driversweeper and installed 12.1 (THinking that my results on my SSD would occur again) To my astonishment they have not and my games are running ok now. Long live my R2 system, just love this system and couldn't be any happier with it even if it is a year old.

 

Some good tips here. I was also having the same problems with flickering. The way I solved it was to overwrite my Skyrim profile with "AFR Friendly" setting for the crossfire mode. Didn't get flickering any more but still crossfire performance. Give that a try.

 

If you use afr(alternate frame rendering) , it's mean that your cards work in tandem and not toghether so you got not flickering because you not using cfx....

 

wrong,

AFR is just another CF technique. The cards are in charge to render alternate frames. Let say card1 will render frame 1,3,5,7 etc, while card2 will render frame 2,4,6,8 etc...

 

i just installed the 6990m in R3 and used the dell driver for it and CCC 12.1 and it gave me lower FPS than my 6970m did playing skyrim. I uninstalled the 12.1 and went back to 11.10. Downloading the 11.12 now, hoping that makes alot better difference. the 11.10 made the FPS alittle better than my 6970m during skyrim. the 12.1 are not good for skyrim and 6990m combined.

any input?

 

AMD Catalyst 11.10 WHQL is the best for Skyrim

 

I reinstalled the 12.1 ccc drivers and I get really goof fps on skyrim but I do get artifacting when walking around some of the towns. The grass/moss will appear and then disappear. Any ideas on how to fix? I have modded skyrim using some of the skyrim nexus mods. Not sure if that might be causing it.

 

Heard that Skyrim runs with xfire issues on all systems if that helps

 

Yea I read that but I only have the single GPU.

 

12.1 are working great for me with Skyrim. The only downside I've found is a crazy green flicker in the menus