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    AMD Catalyst 11.10 Version 2 Preview Driver For Rage

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Bodycount69, Oct 7, 2011.

  1. Bodycount69

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    AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Preview Driver Features:

    Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series for single GPU configurations.
    Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
    Improves performance in Rage on single GPU and AMD CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
    Resolves intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
    Resolves flickering of NPCs in Rage
    Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
    Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
    AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX™, GPU AMD Overdrive™ and Information Center pages.

    http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...eDriverV2.aspx
     
    Bodycount69, Oct 7, 2011
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    Sounds like the last 3 drivers rolled into one, the link is not working for me though.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 7, 2011
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    anyone tried it yet??
     
    johnnyman27, Oct 7, 2011
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    using it right now, brightness still broken
     
    Zero989, Oct 7, 2011
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    what do u mean broken?is this a desktop driver or a mobility one??
     
    johnnyman27, Oct 7, 2011
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    Brightness works fine for me. You're talking about screen brightness, right?
     
    R3d, Oct 7, 2011
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  8. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Lol i was just thinking on installing the RAGE only driver, but i got caught up with Minecraft Pocket Edition and some friends that came to visit.
    I guess im installing these instead. ;3

    (BTW Minecraft runs like a dream on my Galaxy S 2.)
     
    DEagleson, Oct 7, 2011
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    You got the Galaxy S2... Me wants!

    Probably a pain to play though on a phone.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 7, 2011
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    Thanks for the heads up on this new driver Bodycount69 . i had not made my way over to Guru3d today and this one looks pretty nice.
     
    Quadzilla, Oct 7, 2011
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    Actually its not that hard really.
    You got a big dpad in the lower corner, and sliding on the rest if the screen controls the view.
    Holding the finger removes a block and clicking places blocks.
    It will also automatically jump when needed.

    Video link here
    (Also lulz on them playing it while sitting on the toilet. xD )
     
    DEagleson, Oct 7, 2011
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    Waiting for T-Mobile to get Galaxy S II, can't wait!!!!
     
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    Are these 11.10 drivers made to work with mobile graphics cards? I've fixed a lot of problems with RAGE by changing CFG's and other things, but I'm still having a major problem with NPC artifacting and this update is supposed to fix that.
     
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    Yes it is mobile supported, have it installed and performance is a whole lot better on Rage
     
    nikolai090, Oct 8, 2011
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    anyone have crash when start photoshop cs5???
     
    johnnyman27, Oct 8, 2011
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    Nope, not crashing, just tried, and Advanced GPU utilization is still working.
     
    nikolai090, Oct 8, 2011
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    Dont notice the texture pop as much as some of the examples from YouTube with this preview driver, but sadly some of the NPCs are kinda glitchy.
    Taking a screenshot dont even show the glitchness. D;

    Other than that RAGE seems like a pretty good distraction, and hopefully we will get a patch for the game.

    Edit:

    AMD Catalyst 11.10 Prerelease 2 is horrible. D;
    RAGE still contains glitchy NPCs and the driver killed Minecraft.
    Back to 11.9 WHQL.
     
    DEagleson, Oct 8, 2011
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    CS5 still works for me. So does minecraft
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 8, 2011
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    when i enable opengl in photoshop cs5 64bit driver crashes and photoshop stop responding!!! :confused: :confused: :confused:
     
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    Might be because you use a desktop card?
    Seems both me and johnnyman27 have problems on the Clevo AMD card.
    But idk if its only limited to Clevo or the Dell flavour as well.
     
    DEagleson, Oct 8, 2011
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    Both CS5 OpenGL and Minecraft seems to work for me, no problems. On Rage, there are some instances where enemies have a ghosted image behind them but only seen it 3 or 4 times, everything else is ok.
     
    nikolai090, Oct 8, 2011
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    These drivers don't install properly on my M17x... Oh well. I'll just have to wait a while longer.
     
    PyroDonkey, Oct 8, 2011
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