AMD ATI Mobility 11.8 driver WHQL

EDIT: AMD officially released 11.8 here: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx#1

Release notes:
Performance Highlights
•Improves performance up to 10% in Crysis 2 DirectX 11 version for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
•Improves performance up to 8% in Fear 3 DirectX 11 version with application enabled Anti-Aliasing on the
AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
•Improves performance up to 30% when AMD’s Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) is enabled through the
Catalyst™ Control Center on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
•Improves performance up to 20% in Call of Duty Black Operations for single GPU and Multi-GPU configurations on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series



Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
•The option to “Apply current video quality settings to internet video" is no longer randomly missing from the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center / AMD Vision™ Engine Control Center.
•3DMark 11 no longer intermittently generates a BSOD error when run using a standard user account.
•Playing HD video content overnight using Windows Media Center no longer causes the system to hang or generates a BSOD error.
•Random graphical corruption is no longer experienced when playing Crysis 2 in a Crossfire environment.
•Image stabilization is now correctly applied to DivX clips when using Windows Media Player.
•Enabling AntiAliasing when playing Starcraft 2 no longer causes random screen blackouts.
•Video corruption is no longer seen when scrolling through DivX 5 video files using Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.
•Menu corruption is no longer seen when running F.E.A.R 3 in DirectX 11 mode.
•Video playback now functions correctly after enabling hardware acceleration in VLC version 1.1.10.



Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:
•PowerDVD no longer randomly displays a blank screen when playing back BluRay content with Crossfire enabled.
•BSOD errors are no longer intermittently experienced after installing the driver with Crossfire enabled.



Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.8 software suite for Windows XP. These include:
•PowerDVD no longer randomly displays a blank screen during video playback when switching from extended display mode to cloned display mode.




Driver (WIN 7 and Vista):
64 bit: http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/mobile/11-8_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe
32 bit: http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/mobile/11-8_mobility_vista_win7_32_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

AVIVO and Media Codec:
Description:

Previously known as the Avivo(TM) Package

Package Includes:

AMD Video Converter*

Media codecs for transcoding applications

*AMD Video Converter will only work with ATI Radeon HD 2000 and above
http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/11-8_mobility_vista_win7_32-64_xcode.exe

Hydravision:
http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/mobile/11-8_mobility_vista_win7_32-64_hydravision.exe

As usual thanks to Asder from guru3d

 

Media Codec? Also, changelog?

And thank you.

 

AMD has released the driver officially here: ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

I am also checking the media codec thing and so far it seems to be AVIVO media converter. Both packages seem to contain the driver and CCC but the "Media Codec" thing has AVIVO but I cannot find it in CCC. I guess if you need Avivo you need to download xcode version and install it along with driver and CCC from that package. I installed 64 bit driver version first and then tried avivo from the other package and despite the successful installation - I can't find it in CCC or anywhere else.

Change log = release notes is here: AMD Catalyst? Control Center / AMD Vision? Engine Control Center 11.8 Release Notes. Provides a description of 11.8 download contents including product compatibility, new features and resolved issues


I tried the driver and it seems to be more "stable" or "immune" to overclocking memory. I can easily overclock my 5850 GDDR3 from the default 625/800 at 1.0V up to 900/1075 at 1.150 V. 3D Vantage score went up from 5858 up to 7805. I game at 800/1050.

With 11.6 max for memory was 1040 - giving me 7700 in 3dmark vantage. Someone in ACER forum suggested memory at 1100 - but it is too unstable in my case.

 

I saw NO overclocking improvements, I think maybe you never found the max with old drivers

 

If you have a tv-tuner based from amd media chipset then you need to install those codecs.

 

Wow, highlighted performance improvements for the 5000 series. That's nice to see.

 

I have a long experience in overclocking (since riva TNT ) and am sure I have found the max clocks with 11.6 (I tried at least 10 combinations that previously worked). Actually 11.6 surprised me too since I remember 11.4 and 11.5 were faster (around 7700 3dmarks vantage at 1080 MHz for memory). I skipped 11.7.

 

Nice info. Didn't know that.

 

any perf improvements? 3dmark vantage score comparisons?

 

Perhaps post #3 would help?

 

doublepost

 

Thanks, do you have comparisons to the same clocks with older driver though?

 

I can test stock clocks and compare to my old results online. I'll post the result.

EDIT: here are some comparisons:

11.6 625/800: 5838 - 5850
11.8 625/800: 5875 - 5881

11.6 900/1040: 7652 - 7700
11.8 900/1040: 7683 - 7703

But again - 11.6 for me wasn't stable over at 900/1040. I could test 800/1080 though. Now with 11.8 I can go to 900/1075 - no artifacts and score around 7800 (I did only one test though).

 

Try rising the memory to 1100 but drop down the core. I can game at 910/1070 in most games, but 870/1100 any game. Since I play at high res, the latter gives me a better performance boost.

 

Yeah I tried, but always get artifacts or graphic card stops responding at 1100. But yes if I lower core clock it is cooler, and mem can go higher which is better for 5850 GDDR3. It is always hungry for memory bandwidth. I'll do some more tests at 800/1100 or even lower core and see what happens.

 

I remember when I thought my max overclock was 600/900 =p

now I get 700/900

Haven't noticed any big changes that I can't attribute to placebo

 

I wish I could increase ram at all.

(stupid gimped envy 14 gpu)

 

I am seeing an Improvement in the MLAA tax. Where I was getting 45-47 fps, in Mass Effect 2, I now see 53-55 fps.

Nice improvement.

 

Placebo effect is always possible. And sometimes drivers give better scores in benches only. But I am quite satisfied with this one. My games work flawlessly (I have older games though).

 

Any ideas why I can't install it? I'm a noob when it comes to these new mobility drivers. I used to mod desktop drivers for my mobility hd 3650 on my previous computer.

It gives me the following message after I select the folder destination for extraction:

"AMD Catalyst Mobility cannot be downloaded due to incompatible hardware/software on your computer.

Your computer does not contain a proper graphics adapter"

I have recently purchased a P170HM with a 6990m and installed the vga driver from the driver cd that came with the rig. I have Windows Enterprise (Ultimate) 64bit on it. So I wanted to update, but I have this problem... .

Any ideas?

EDIT: I Went to the official website and made sure that I selected the correct driver for the card, but I have the same problem.

 

You may wanna try the link below from another thread....worked for me and my 6970's

 

Try installing from this link.

 

SNAP lol

 

Ok! Seems to work now!
It was strange, though. This was my face when I got the incompatibility message ---> especially when I read the log and everything. I thought I was playing noobish.

Things changed now, I see. It is much easier and the manufacturers seem to give more attention to the mobile graphic market. I remember when I got my first laptop. It had a mobility hd 3650 and I was really getting pissed with the crappy OEM... until I found the DH mobility modder and slapped on some desktop drivers. I felt pretty BOSS.

 

I still get black screen when alt tabbing out of Heroes of Newerth and sometimes cursor corruption on the same game. Back to 11.7. XD

 

Will these settings with 1.150V also work on my acer 8943G, I almost have same specs as yours.

 

This definitely works for my 2011 Macbook Pro 2.2Ghz running Bootcamp 4.0 and Windows 7 64 Professional.

But the question is why? I am curious because when another update comes down the pipe I want to avoid this issue.