AMD Catalyst 11.11 Out Now (wait...soonish?)

My brightness controls worked fine before when I was running 11.10. Didn't even know there was an issue!

As for my current problems, I have tried everything suggested and more. Still getting BSOD when launching any game.

It is format time me thinks. Damn you AMD!

 

I don't see any reason to even try the 11.11 at this point. Just wait for Skyrim CAP/patches. I'm still on the 11.9 and not gonna bother...

 

aki, can you give me a link to 11.9? thank bro.

 

11.9

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/11-9_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

 

No they did not work but like I mentioned before I don't really care about them. My brightness is always on full.

 

I feel DD 11.10 with CAP 1 for 11.11 improved BF3 stuttering. Even at FPS of 50+ frame I get stuttering at random times. but now its much better.

And no its not lag, that is completely different. You can easily tell the difference between the too. A lag pause is more pronounced and longer.

 

Have an M18x with BSOD when 11.11 installed, but I did a frankendriver install. I basically installed 11.11 fresh. When it rebooted I went to safe mode. Expanded the 11.10 package with 7-Zip (the greatest of all freeware compression utils). Grabbed the 11.10 atikmdag.sy_ file out of it and used the expand command on it. Inserted it to the system32/drivers folder and overwrote the 11.11 version of the file. Works great. I basically have 11.11 everything installed with a 11.10 atikmdag.sys file. When you guys say does brightness work are you talking about in the ccc desktop color section? Thanks.

 

UPDATE: Well, unfortunately all my testing was in vain today. After a second reboot the 11.11 driver with the 11.10 atikmdag.sys file overlayed on top theory failed miserably. It worked for a short while, but now the driver is broken again. So back to 11.10 for me on my M18x.

 

That file is the main file to drive the whole driver environment for AMD's cards, so this method will not yield the driver improvements 11.11 is supposed to offer. CAPs on the hand can be mixed and matched.

 

I see, thanks for the info. I have been getting help from LQDForce over in hardwareheaven.com as well. They have been a great help in troubleshooting.

ATi Catalyst Mobility 11.11 display drivers for notebook computers (15/11/2011) - Page 6

 

Reading around there are people using these drivers and working on them without problems, although they have other issues with other specific games. But no BSODs getting into windows.

This is getting interesting. And no word from AMD about crashing 11.11 as if its not a real problem at all but just for us folks.

M17x R3 users seem to be using these or am I wrong on that?

 

Another one to add to the bsod list. This is truly pathetic, the last two months of drivers have been unusable. On the nvidia side, everything is going swimmingly with both beta and whql.

At this point I'd rather 560m's in my amd machine, at least they get driver updates and support the latest games. I really hope they step up their game next year or these are the last amd gpu's I ever own.
The 6990's and 6970's are epic gpu's but without fast and solid driver updates, they are as good as an uncooked egg.

Every damn time I switch to ati I got burned by great hardware and bloody awful drivers combo they love to deliver. I should really learn my lesson but I keep trying to not have a tech bias.

 

I think it is mainly us mobility users that are getting shafted.

 

It’s definitely NVidia for me from now on be it desktop or laptop, even if it's not good value for money I know I'll be getting quality.

First time I've gone AMD with cfx 6990m's and so far I've been far from impressed.
Sticking with 11.10 till AMD sort themselves out.

 

Actually the price gap is narrowing quite a bit. I am very happy with the 6990M CFX performance, but too bad the driver support doesn't match.

 

AMD should do the same as NVidia does: they infiltrated a guy to work on drivers on AMD... hahahhahaha

 

Sorry for intruding Add me to the list of BSOD.... I'm pretty sure it's CFX related with CCC.

 

But I have tried just installing the drivers alone, so independent of the new CCC the *.sys file still crashes.

 

totally agree! the performance of the 6990M is great but the drivers support from AMD sock, i still in love with my M18X haha.

 

Now I can't roll back to 11.10 for some reason.... or 11.9. I'm running 11.8 right now and when I try to reinstall 11.10 I get this:

I've tried every 11.10 download I could find and no change..... 11.11 broke my PC!!!!!

 

Will 11.11 work well with non-dual 6990m? Have anyone tried yet?

 

Look here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/624987-fyi-cat-11-11-wsql-available.html

From what I can gather all mobility crossfire configurations are affected, single cards are good (some dude benched with a single 6990m on 11.11 so I guess its working).

The latest driver issue and the absence of a cap file for Skyrim is pathetic to say the least for AMD.

 

Use drive sweeper, that's what I had to do to get rid of the failed 11.11.

 

Tried that and still no dice.... Same thing still happens.....

 

Did you try running driver sweeper from safemode?

 

Yeah I did. First I uninstalled the CAP then rebooted. Then uninstalled the drivers. Booted into safe mode and ran driver sweeper, rebooted and tried to install 11.10 but keep getting the same screen where it won't even show the driver. It just shows all the software like CCC. Anyone have a different link I can download the drivers from? I keep getting the ones from guru3d apparently.

 

Does your drive package have the letters "DD" in the filename?

Usually its like this

11-11_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

You might have gotten something that only has

11-11_mobility_vista_win7_64_ccc_ocl.exe

This means DD which is Display Driver is not in the package. AMD has these custom packages in their direct links, so have to be careful while using the direct link from the forums.

Here's a proper link for the ones with everything in it for the 11.10 drivers

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/11-10_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

 

Thanks for the help. Those are the same ones I downloaded. I reset my CMOS as a last ditch effort and that seemed to do the trick. Not sure why. Back to 11.10 finally.

 

Jeez I'm not going to even bother. Can't wait until my 580Ms arrive so I can be done with this AMD fiasco.

 

Same BSOD problem on my M17x R2 with dual 6970m's. Was a ***** to get 11.10 reinstalled. Driver sweeper in safe mode didn't do the whole trick. Had to **** with the registry. Been doing this for the last 3 hours. Got it working now but, this was awful.

 

how did u get 2 x GTX580?
I want to get rid of my 6990m they are garbage!

 

Chalk up another one to the 11.11 BSOD Club.

Everything I tried failed. I uninstalled the CAP, rebooted, uninstalled all AMD software, rebooted, uninstalled the drivers and deleted the files, rebooted, installed 11.11 and it still crashed. Unbelievable.

Oddly enough, 11.10 + 11.11 Cap1 works just fine.

 

11.11 s.u.c.k... BSOD..trid 2 times, I am glad I did not try to reinstall OS for 11.11, roll back to 11.10 + 11.11 cap1. So far so good, AMD ... I am really looking forward to install Nvidia card on my R2.

 

Most people with CFX 6970 or 6990's are having issues. Very odd... Missing file related to CFX configuration?

 

which config of drivers it's besto for Battlefield 3?

I'm playing with 11.10 and no CAPs profile.

Which version are you running?

Thank you!

 

curious to know how come that 6990's now are "garbage"....

 

Driver support.

 

Let's not get emotional here. The 6990Ms are very powerful GPUs and with the 11.10 driver and just one GPU being supported in Skyrim I still get an average of 55 FPS in high settings @ 1920x1080. AMD may have hosed up their CPU line with the Garbagetruck... I mean the Bulldozer line, but lets hope they straighten out the drivers on the Radeon series. It's worth saving IMHO.

 

Disclaimer: Read drivers as drivers and or CAP/SLI profile.

When the drivers work they work bloody well. I just hope AMD gets better at producing drivers within say the first week or so of a launch title.

Although I am tempted to build another desktop with GTX 460 SLI (Since I already have one on my desk). Then I will have a system that "should" work if anything goes horribly sideways where I can't play my game.

I like NVidia because drivers are easy and hardware works. I like AMD because hardware works and it's a good price in comparison. That's pretty much my take in a nutshell.

 

I'm still running 11.8

 

Geeee I'm not going to even bother with 11.11 for now. I guess I will just need to wait for Dells new AMD driver update.

11.2 CAP is out as well.

Cheers.

 

i guess we will have to wait for 11.12

 

Do you have tried 11.2's cap in battlefield3?

 

HELP! I tried the 11.11 (stupidly), and like everyone else BSOD. Except I cannot roll back!

I am currently in Safe Mode, and I cannot uninstall or install anything because I get a message "Failed to load detection Drivers".

Then Closes the install.

I am at a loss... does anyone know how to get around this so I can roll back to 11.10??

 

Change to the intel gpu then remove the ati driver.

 

Switching to Intel graphics won't work while you're in safe boot, but what you can do is:

Go to device manager (start, right click computer > properties > device manager)

Show your display adapters, right click on each and uninstall.

Then reboot and uninstall your ATI graphics drivers.

 

I BSOD'ed but I didn't even have to uninstall

The AMD driver wasn't even showing up on add/remove programs when I went into safemode, so I just ran driver cleaner, got rid of all AMD displays, rebooted, and reinstall prior driver.

 

in safe mode, go to device manager, and disable both gpu's, then restart like normal and uninstall..... thats what i had to do...

 

TBH people get rage when paying machine $3k~$4k that doesn't work well or expected.

Which driver is best for bf3? My bf3 keep crushing , idk what's going on , anyone have this happen?

 

im still using the 11.10 preview 3 (i never DL'd 11.10 WHQL) with 11.11 cap 2 now.

11.10 pre 3 11.9 cap 4 worked perfectly in bf3