***AMD Beta Driver Release***

yeah it looks like 11.10, But i could be wrong. I guess we will find out when we install it. CANT wait...

thanks Bill you Rock.

 

wow! you are the best of the best, bill thanks

 

No worries. I can't get the file out to Stevie from work. Long story, but I will get it to him late this evening. Family stuff to take care of first.

 

Cheers Bill. As soon as I get it , will make it available for others. Due to the time differences, this may be in the morning for me as its 10.20pm here in the UK right now.

Rest assured, its priority numero uno.....

Thanks Bud.

 

si señor bill es el numero uno= yes ser bill is the number one.

 

You're awesome, brother Bill. I'll also try this driver on the M17x R2 when I get home from my business trip this weekend.

I am also eager to see what is in the change log for the M18x A05 BIOS update, and whether it has anything to offer for the 580M. It will be totally awesome to find a fix for our brothers on the Red Team even if there is no benefit for the 580M systems.

 

FYI guys, AMD driver from Dell on its way.......

Im downloading the driver now.....its a biggie so im leaving it overnight and i will post it up in the morning!

 

Awesome thanks StevieJ!

U DA MAN! Rest up its testing tame in the morn!

Cheers.

 

How big is this driver?

 

Bill is most definitely awesome I can attest to that! That is 11.10 8.902.

 

Its 209mb

Thanks Chief! - gentlemen, start your engines......

I am uploading it now but its gonna take maybe a few hours due to my crappy speed. Once its up, I will update the first post with the link for you guys.

 

Hows the Driver Stevie?

Have you installed and tested it yet?
Any initial impressions?

Cheers.

 

I havent tried it yet, I wanted to get it up first so we can all have a play! - hopefully, I will get some time later today to install it and blast a few bad guys & run a few benches!

(44% uploaded at the moment.........)

 

Hurry up, st, hurry.hehehe. hurry up, we're dreaming. Lol

 

Hehe....85% uploaded now......wont be long!

 

***********************************ITS UP****************************

I have updated the first post with the file link for you all to download and test out.....

ENJOY!!!

 

Should I uninstall first my currents drivers?

 

I personally ALWAYS do uninstall. Control panel > programs & features > double click "AMD Catalyst Install Manager" > click "next" > select "express uninstall" and follw on screen prompts.

I then reboot into safe mode and run driver sweeper for ati display only. Reboot and run the new driver .exe

I also unistall any catalyst application profiles too and reinstall them after the main driver install.

You could also manually create a restore point BEFORE changing anything - if the worst happens, just roll back.

 

I have followed the m18x forums for some time now. I have had my unit for about 4 months with the xfire 6990 configuration. Although I do not have to much trouble I have noticed some issues with the drivers. I have found many solutions here but have never registered. I just wanted t osay thanks for all the great information and the driver which was just uploaded. I will be testing it and giving feedback as well. Thanks a million guys!

 

Thanks and welcome to the forums, look forward to seeing how you find the new driver's performance!

 

Brightness controls don't seem to work... did an uninstall and installed the new drivers.

Edit: Performance in Skyrim seems to be the same.

 

Yup same here. I just uninstalled and driver sweeped in safe mode.
Installed the new Dell driver Thanks StevieJ!

Brightness controls aren't working for me either.

I just ran a quick 3d mark 11. AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P6445 3DMarks
Performance seems on par as previous drivers. Will do more testing soon.

Cheers.

 

no brightness control
so installed Catalyst 12.1 preview driver over this one and brightness now ok and all seem fine

 

Yup I had 12.1 preview driver installed before this one and brightness controls were working as well. I'm going to give this new Dell driver more testing 1st though before installing any other drivers over the top.

Cheers.

 

As you guys have found, no brightness control for me too. (Fn & F4/5).

I have done some synthetic benches and found performance has gone up a small amount on each of the tests I did before....mark11 up by about 60pts, vantage and 06 up by aboput 200pts each. Heaven went up to 59.5, so a couple of points there.....all in all, pretty good!

This was done after a uninstall/sweep of 11.10 AMD and CAP's....installed driver and did tests. Will now install 11.11cap2

I will now do a bit of game benching and some normal gaming and report back!

On the whole, right now, pretty good apart from brightness going up the wall - but thats just pretty much something I expect with AMD drivers nowadays!.....maybe Dell can fix it before its rolled out, who knows?

 

Yup I just played some BF3 and its running well. About the same as the drivers performance before. Perhaps a little better.
So far so good apart from the lack of brightness controls. More testing.

I have Dells new driver installed as well as 11.11 cap2

Cheers.

 

You experiencing any stuttering in BF3? I noticed a little bit. Just installed 11.11 cap 2 as well.

 

I can't say I noticed any stuttering. I was only playing campaign though.

Cheers.

 

Just re-done my in-game benches for metro 2033 and crysis 2 - slight increase in fps of about 2fps on each title from my previous testing - but somehow, to my eyes, gameplay seemed smoother.....maybe just me.....

Also, latency seems to be fine too with these babies....

Really good effor here from Dell, just needs tweaking with the brightness and they are very good IMHO.

(I will also do some sleep/resumes to see if there is any issues on that front....)

 

Does CF work with Skyrim? Would be nice to turn my other card back "on".

 

does this fix the overheating/shutdown problem with 6990s? I'm having shutdown problems with skyrim too (overheating gpu).

 

Probably not. There is a Bios update coming shortly for the overheating issue.

 

Hey zombini,

No this new Dell driver does not address the overheating or fans not spinning issue. The new system Bios version A05 which is going to be released soon is supposed to fix that issue.

Cheers.

 

72Kb a sec... any mirrors? lol

 

Can some one give me the link for the 12.1 preview drivers? If the brightness control is broken on this dell release I'd rather install 12.1.

 

http://www.multiupload.com/395HRW7P6S

 

Please add this as a mirror to the front page. It has much faster servers. It took me an hour to DL the Dell driver.


8.902-111012a-128052C-Dell.zip @ Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

 

O stop it! How you been? Long time no talk.

 

Thanks Zero, Have you tried the 12.1 preview drivers? If so, what driver would you prefer? the new dell or the preview drivers?

 

I haven't tried the Dell driver yet. I'm about to install it now. I'll be coming from the 12.1. I probably won't notice any difference just like every other driver.

 

whats ur feed back about the 12.1 drivers? I play crysis 2 BF3 MW3 and SC2

 

I never tried them in BF3. I only used the 11.10 in BF3 and haven't played it since. I got bored of the maps. MW3 is perfectly fine and I haven't tested them in SC2 because I haven't played that in a while.


I can say these Dell drivers are perfect for Dota 2 Beta : p.

 

Done, as per your request bud.

 

New Dell drive details:

Driver Packaging Version: 8.902-111012a-128052C-Dell
Catalyst Version: 11.11
2D Driver Verision: 8.01.01.1199
2D Driver File Path: /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version: 7.14.10.0867
OpenGL Version: 6.14.10.11161
Catalyst Control Center Version: 2011.1012.1625.27603
AMD Audio Driver Version: 7.12.0.7702

So Catalyst version 11.11? Wonder if it improves Skyrim gameplay...time to test

 

I believe it's 11.10

 

It's 11.10 and no it doesn't.

Apart from the driver packaging version, it seems like this is the same exact driver.

 

Yeah, I noticed that too. Why is it so much bigger then?

 

I've updated my drivers to the latest Dell release, posted here.. many thanks for posting them up.

Overall compared to the previous driver I was using, here's the variance's listed below:

3d Mark 2011 P6,420 (0.07%)
3d Mark Vantage P22,880 (0.14%)
3d Mark '06 22,808 (1.23%)
Heaven DX11 59.4 (0.17%)
Metro 2033 40.90fps +0.15%

Overall pretty much the same results, however this is going to sound a little strange, it does "Feel" smoother in game than my previous driver.

 

LOL I SWEAR TO GOD I FELT THE SAME THING IN DOTA 2!!!

There's less stuttering in it now . I just felt it would sound dumb hahahaha.

 

Thanks for the comparison - I had similar results too. Glad i am not the only one that thinks games appear to a bit "silkier" than before....