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    Catalyst 12.11 Beta Drivers

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SVOShark, Oct 22, 2012.

  1. SVOShark

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    SVOShark, Oct 22, 2012
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    i'll wait for newer release this afternoon, the current beta that was released this morning was pulled by ati for bugs.
     
    Xenn0X, Oct 22, 2012
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  3. Prasad

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    Amazing frame rate gains in BF3 so far! It feels almost like a mild hardware upgrade. With that said, I noticed my 3DMark 11 score drop by ~200 points as opposed to others who tested it and got ~1000 points more, for whatever that's worth. Maybe I just need to do a clean install and run it again..
     
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    Edited first post for the new version of the drivers.

    AMD Catalyst
     
    SVOShark, Oct 22, 2012
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    I tested Skyrim, Crysis 1 and Battlefield 3 with these drivers. Performance went up on Crysis considerably. I'm running it maxed out now with 4x AA and 1080p and graphics overhauls at around a constant 45fps. On Skyrim though I am getting TONs of artifacts all over the screen.

    On a 7970m
     
    NickTheMajin, Oct 22, 2012
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  12. CptXabaras

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    running on them right now, i've planned an evening of Borderlands 2 co-op with a friend, i'll see how they work ;)

    EDIT:
    Looks like they work good, they also cured my explorer crashing every time I closed borderlands 2. I'm gonna try them with MoH Warfigters in a couple of hours. If the perform well, I'll keep them.
     
    CptXabaras, Oct 22, 2012
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    is this still beta?
     
    airacutie, Oct 23, 2012
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    Until next month yes.
     
    ratchetnclank, Oct 23, 2012
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    Wow I just installed these drivers and am noticing a huge increase in fps in Wow I gained about 15+ fps from stock 6990m drivers. I have always been scared about installing new drivers because of issues I have read on these forums. I did however get a BSOD on install most likely because I just installed these drivers right over top of the stock ones and did not uninstall or anything. Upon reboot from the BSOD they installed perfectly. Deffinately get these if you have a 6990. The other good thing is my switchable graphics seem to be working still.
     
    Xanius, Oct 23, 2012
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    How do you install these drivers? My R3 6990m has 12.1 installed and the AMD installer says its up to date.
     
    WarChild, Oct 23, 2012
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    Are you downloading the beta file at the bottom of the page? The first file isn't beta.
     
    SVOShark, Oct 23, 2012
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    Go to Device manager and uninstall your 6990M. Remember to tick on the Delete drivers. Restart and install the beta :D.

    @everyone: has anyone noticed a slight increase in 7970M temp? My temp went up like 2 C under normal load.

    P/s: this is more detailed, errors proof way to install 12.11. In case you have Enduro on.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/693275-so-7970m-driver-update-9.html#post8903985
     
    leeshjnn, Oct 23, 2012
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    I tried removing the old and installing the beta, but I got BSODs. So I tried the 12.10 and that's the one that wouldn't even install. I'll try errors proof method.

    thanks!!
     
    WarChild, Oct 23, 2012
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    Running fine over top of 12.9 drivers which I had installed over the dell stock drivers. :D
     
    bigtonyman, Oct 24, 2012
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    So the other threads are reporting that this fixes Enduro...!
    So how long does AMD keep drivers in Beta and after they are released, how long does Alienware make us wait? This is one they will have to release if not simply for the performance boosts.
     
    CheezWiz, Oct 24, 2012
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    I'm getting them too on my Clevo's 7970M. Didn't have this problem before, but it's good to know I'm not alone.
     
    Wonka_Vision, Oct 24, 2012
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    AMD will most likely 'officially' release this next month. As for Alienware, it's anyone's guess. Usually OEMs are really slow on stuff like that.

    Why don't you just install it now?
     
    SVOShark, Oct 25, 2012
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    There isn't any reason to wait on Alienware for this. It will detect the card as supported now since AMD has taken to task to work on Enduro and support it in their drivers now.
     
    shinji257, Oct 25, 2012
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    I am not much of a beta junkie on my primary gaming machine.
    Everything I play already is more than fast.
    My other gaming machine is an nVidia based setup.

    I will likely wait for Alienware to release these oficially, but I am excited about enduro being fixed.

    How about somebody bencmarking in dedicated and enduro and posting the comparisons.. If it is fixed, there should'nt be any?
     
    CheezWiz, Oct 25, 2012
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    These drivers crash alot with Serious Sam 3 for me.
     
    refusedchaos, Oct 26, 2012
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