ATI/AMD Official WHQL Drivers 11.5 and 11.5a Released

Hi everyone, just open this new thread as official for 11.5 WHQL driver.

Both links are now live for your pleasure and are the following:

11.5 WHQL for Windows 7 x64

11.5a Hotfix for Windows 7 (Not Mobility Mod, will install everything but the driver on Laptop, Link Corrected)

11.5a Mobility Mod by Asder00 from Guru3D Forums (download and install this version)

Changelog 11.5a:
(highlighted why is worth)

These last 11.5a it's not modded, so feel free to make them mobility compatible. I'll posted the Asder00 mobility mod soon.

 

so now...between the WHQL and the hotfix which one is better to use? should i install the WHQL and then the hotfix? or is it ok to install just the hotfix? any help will be appreciated!!

 

hey the hotfix are not mobility still .... watch out

 

Update: Mobility Mod Added

 

so which one is better to use?

 

Whats the 11.5a hot fix ? windows 7 ?

 

Ummmm could someone please stress with furmark 1.9.0 for 5 minutes and post their results. Im seeing an 6oC increase in temps overall after clean installing 11.5.

 

No temp increase here. In fact, I got a 2C drop. Gaming though, and not stress-testing.

 

Hey Dallers did you install 11.5 than install 11.5a hot fix ?

 

11.5a running smooth as normal, no increase of temp in SCII

 

Took the driver from the main site is the hotfix required?

P.s the hotfix link in this post is an unathorised link for me.

 

i just installed it heres the link

AMD Catalyst? 11.5a hotfix

 

Links updated.

 

Im seeing a increase in temp to going back to 11.3

 

not seeing any changes in temps here ...11.5a hotfix....also the lag box still exists!

 

815/1125 Catalyst 11.5a Hotfix Furmark, Extreme Burn + Post FX. 76C running this on my lap, no cooler. Room temp is 70F.

http://eypic.com/fu223e755.png

 

I stand corrected no change in temps i played bad company2 for one hour hiest temp was 80 c runs good

 

I hate you already

no kidding, just envy your OC capacity

 

guys you may want to follow this link
it is always up to date about catalyst ... you may find out what to expect more from the creators

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Must have just been a bad Furmark session or HWINFO was confused because I was seeing the 90's highest temp and that never happen. Restressed for 30 minutes and its back at a steady 81oC max temp with 825/1100.

Hmmmmmmmm!

 

well I am happy to report after a BLue screen crash, and a fail to find a bootable device.
I am back up and running. 11.5a

The Idle temps are the same...
Why is the important to me. Becuase I run at Idle most of the time.

On the defualt stock drivers, It runs at 60c and on 11.4 and 11.5a it runs idle ar 49c.
So I know it is good to go for now.

I hope to game test later this week...

 

stock clock, furmark 1.9.. max temp 78C - 1920x1080-post fx- xtreme burn-8x

no increase on temp here...

 

i've never noticed an increase in temps before with driver changes but now idle and gaming temps are fine and same as before but weirdly furmark temps are higher.. I would like to think its coz summer is here but its been cool here for the past 2 days so it isnt raised environmental temp..

anyway am happy, its fine as gaming temps are ok.. and thanks for linking these nekki..!


for anyone who's interested, temps are as follows (with ambient room temp of about 36-37C = ~99F)

idle @ 100/125 @.70V - 48-50
gaming @ 750/1000 @1.15V - 75-80
Furmark @ 750/1000 @1.15V - previously after about 3 mins it would hit 80 and then hover there as the fans hit max speed at 80 with new vbios, but now on 11.5a, it just kept rising slowly, hit 83-84 when i switched it off..

 

Dont worry chaps think I was having a mad one. My temps are fine..

I am bit nervy at the moment as I mounted my 40 inch 20kg tv straight onto a plaster wall without studs 4 days ago so im waiting for it to crash to the ground and have to tell my landlord im moving out.

 

They went back to 11.4 on the Ati website... probably fixing something else?

We will see... but for now I'm very happy on 11.4 RC2 xD~

Check this out:

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss298/cochis84/sampleATIvideo08.jpg

Thanks to the new CCC ATI video options n.n

じゃねー ^^

 

I really don't understand why people hesitate so much with temps? I mean, if the temps raise one or two degrees you going to stop gaming? In addition to that, why stress the GPU that much if this scenario is so uncommon for gaming. Just few games stress the GPU over 90% and those ones which use the 100% are unoptimized engines.

 

so the 11.5a hotfix on the amd site will not work for our g73's? , just want to be sure.

 

My avatar is my face when nothing broke. HAHAHAHAHA, yay.

This seems fitting: YouTube - Händel Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus

 

@kokoro1280 there is a modded one...check out the first post!

 

The one from AMD website is the desktop version and won't install the drivers in laptop. Use the modded one that I posted on the first page.

BTW, 11.5a works like butter

 

hmm installed 11.5 then ran 11.5a hotfix , seemed to go ok but my catalyst still says 11.5?

how did you guys install?.

edit: uninstalled everything through catalyst installer and reinstalled 11.5a hotfix from first post, still showing 11.5 and my wireless light didnt come on for some reason.

edit2: completely uninstalled catalyst and ticked delete driver software in device manager, reinstalled and it still shows 11.5 =/

 

I'd like to thank Nekki for providing links to stuff already linked on my Driver Reference, and taking several revisions on getting the links right...

Why do I even bother?

 

I'd like an answer to that as well from you GPU driver junkies please

Thanks

 

Did the usual uninstall, driver sweeper and install routine with the 11.5a but Catalyst showed 11.5 instead of 11.5a. What happened?

 

Our Matriarch is displeased. There will be retribution.

I didn't install the hotfix, and am still on the WHQL 11.5, and I don't see any ill effects. Benching soon to get some synthetic numbers. Those on 11.5a should do a Vantage run for a point in comparison.

I get P8540 with 11.5. I got P8582 with the previews.

 

just wanted to add that with the hotfix 11.5a WEI gives me at Graphics and Gaming Graphics 7.3 but with the WHQL i get 7.2!

 

I tend to install Mobility Mods over official Mobility drivers for the sheer boost in performance.



Stock 700/1000, and maxed out at 78C.

 

WEI is gimmicky if you ask me so i wouldn't bother with the scores it gives me. If you want to compare performance, use 3Dmark vantage/11

 

For those with mouse lag box, the Hotfix contains the bugfix, the WHQL does not.

 

you do an awesome job for the community so not bashing on you but nekki had the 11.5a mobility mod up on his page sooner than you did...
I know coz when i saw it on his page, i checked yours too.. and moreover just to be sure i even checked the last edited times for both your posts before typing this . he posted em first so calm down...

 

No significant issues at all yet. Played some Crysis 2 and some other games, everything seems fine.

 

I installed the mobility modded 11.5a on the g73 with a clean install (driver sweeper and everything) and it shows 11.5 instead. I assume that 11.5a is in fact installed just showing as 11.5? Or am I wrong or I need to do something about it?

 

The "11.5" thing is just a human-readable string and means nothing. Often it's forgotten in the installer packages altogether. You should be looking at and comparing actual driver version numbers.

 

Time to throw up some benches on the new drivers folks. Both gaming and synthetic.

 

Ah alright, thanks for clearing that up.

 

11.5a do not help anyhow Brink...sadly.

The game has issues with 11.5 and 11.5a and in general with ati cards (mobile, desktop and even crossfire). It's clearly unoptimized since it running in IDTech 4 (Doom3, Quake4) and removing shadows completely seems to be the trick for playable gameplay so far.

 

I am running the modded version,
is it normal that I have a "screen tearing effect" when moving folder windos quickly on screen?

 

Revert back to the 11.4 WHQL drivers for Brink. It seems to work 'alot' better. Turn shadows off for best performance 'r_shadows 0'.

 

Same problem here with Brink.

Installed 11.5a and still abnormally the game is almost unplayable..
Performs poorly even with shadows to medium (that's the lowest settings for shadow)

Its not normal
The game doesn't look too demanding.. (Graphics etc.) even at 720p its poor.

It feels as if the game coding is suffering or unoptimized..

Unacceptable today to have games running so poorly on a laptop such as the G73

I dont know how it can possibly run normal, maybe patches from the dev

I am amazed at the bad work the devs have done with the PC version

 

The requirements are quite high mind check your laptop against the Yougamer requirements here and the GPU barely reaches recommended. Might need a few patches before it runs better could be a poor port.