Catalyst 10.11's released

They're out now

Direct link to get around Sony/Toshiba/etc blocks

 

hmm 10.10 has been perfect for me.

 

Hmm wonder whats in the change log.

 

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.11 Windows release include:

Performance Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 10.11 release include:

Battleforge™
· Performance increases up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations with anti-aliasing disabled.

STALKER – Call of Pripyat™ benchmark:
· Performance increases up to 5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series single and CrossFire configurations.

Resolved issue highlights:

· Enabling Overdrive through the Catalyst™ Control Center for single display systems no longer results in GPU clocks running at high levels in non- GPU intensive scenarios
· Mouse cursor no longer flickers and disappears in World of Warcraft when hardware cursor is enabled when playing in Stereo 3D mode
· Primary display no longer blanks out when playing World in Conflict Soviet Assault DX10 with Dual Monitor enabled in CrossFire mode
· CrossFire no longer becomes disabled in Battlefield Bad Company 2 after performing a task switch
· The "Contrast" value for the display is no longer set to zero after CrossFire is disabled for the first time
· Alien blood is now rendered properly in Aliens vs Predator with Anti-Aliasing enabled

 

Any mention of that MLAA everyone's talking about? I was looking at the MLAA thread and I'm thinking about trying out the patch.

 

10.10 broke my envy14's brightness buttons (they worked on the intel gpu still)


wonder how 10.11 will go

 

No MLAA for Mobility GPUs in this set.

 

awww crap.

10.11 breaks the fn+f2/fn+f3 brightness buttons also.

what the hell amd and/or hp

 

Go into CCC and reset to default settings in there, some people had to do that for 10.10 too.

@forge: no MLAA or 68xx support.

Be advised that the 10.10e hotfix pack is actually newer than 10.11, though the hotfix packs aren't really aimed at notebooks.

Skipping this again, 10.8 working just fine here.

 

Yeah definitely skipping... I'm on 10.10. Why bother? Don't play those games and the rest applies to other cards lol

 

I'm gonna stick with 10.10e for now. The only problem I have is the 2nd GPU utilization issue with BFBC2 that only a handful of other people are experiencing that has persisted since 10.6 was released. ATI just pretends it's not happening. Ive read about it on laptop and desktop systems with both 4xxx and 5xxx crossfire. If i post anything about it on teh ATI forum, most post gets deleted.

 

Gave me the same mouse lag/stuttering as 10.10 while playing Company of Heroes. Going back to 10.5.

 

What's the difference between 10.10 and 10.10e? And can 10.10e be used on laptops? (I think it's the desktop only version with the mlaa hotfix, yeah?)

 

not working.

gonna just drop back to 10.8 since it was working fine.

 

Excellent to see that they still haven't fixed the crash at startup issue for many OpenGL games.

 

OpenGL crash? Maybe it is related to Triple Buffering option in CCC 3D settings? I have read that particular setting causes some games to crash, like Amnesia.

 

You mean this issue (from the AMD changelog)?

CrossFire no longer becomes disabled in Battlefield Bad Company 2 after performing a task switch

 

Hmm 10.10e doing fine right now with MLAA option, will upgrade if 10.11 is hacked to have it also.

 

that's lousy....... i was expecting MLAA sooner or later.. well i'll wait for 11.0... it should own in DX11

 

I'm doing fine on 10.10 and the release notes don't seem that great... I think I'll skip this one also.

 

See here for a modded inf file that enables MLAA on Cats 10.11.

 

Thanks = D

 

Dude, nothing is wrong with your HP Envy after you did Ati/Amd drivers upgrade.. you are just presing wrong combination of keys! You need to press Windows logo and F2/F3 simultaneously to get your brightness up/down!
Or you could just press the Win logo button and X key simultaneously to bring up portable computer control panel.. then you can also change screen brightness there. bye

 

Are the 10.11 drivers out for the 6870 desktop cards? All I still see are the 10.10 drivers.

 

@Rodknee Nope. From AMD website:

 

Thanks downloads, any word on when they'll release them?

 

Believe they were released like 3 days ago.

 

Where? I went to their website today and they only had the 10.10 drivers.

 

On their website.

 

Not working on hp tm2 after updating from 10.7. Tried 10.10 versions and now 10.11 and brightness buttons not working with ati, but when switched to intel.

So imaged back to install with 10.7. So something is up with the drivers from 10.10.

 

no harm done updating lol.. it makes you feel better.. I'm happy with 10.11.. anyways anyone seen temp drop? Big one i mean.. someone on G73 had temps drop from 83C in 10.10 in NFS HP2 to 70C in 10.11

 

I'm still seeing 10.10 Previous ATI Catalyst? Display Drivers

 

ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

Not sure why you are looking at previous drivers.

 

Anybody report improvements over 10.10?

I find 10.10 the best I have ever tried far better than 10.6 or 10.8 that I had previously so am reluctant to upgrade just yet.

 

There's a changelog in the first page

 

Hmmmm, I cannot download the file and the direct link is "file not found" ?

 

I figured it out lol.

I should have read that there ARE NO 10.11 drivers available for the 6xxx series GPU's. I'll need to wait for 10.12 instead.

 

Ahh yes. The 10.11 were sent to MS for WHQL long time ago, before they knew when the HD6xxx would be officially released or something. Terry Makedon had some excuse. The 10.10e hotfixes are newer than the 10.11 and are recommended over the 10.11. Really only mobile users want to use 10.11 just because they are made for mobile, and the 10.10 hotfixes are mods.

Anyone with desktop should be using the 10.10 hotfixes.

 

Why aren't many of you guys downloading this? These drivers DROP temperatures.

 

O rly.

Hmm. I guess I'll give them a try and replace my 10.8. Hopefully the newer WHQL drivers will have built-in MLAA. Want to take that out for a test.

Unless, of course, I should try the hotfixed 10.10 instead.

 

So should I download 10.11 or 10.11e?

 

I, of course, can't update my driver to the generic one, but even when HP releases their version, I'm sticking with 10.8. I'm waiting for native MLAA.

 

I was skeptical at first, but Mew is right. Damn.

Sure, it might be a combination of my room being 66F, my mods, and my NC2000 cooler, but I just caught my 5870 idling in the 35C range. (It's been on doing light browsing for about two hours).

 

I missed the ability to increase/decrease brightness with the hotkeys.

so, yeah. went back to 10.8

 

How would you go about installing this? Would you uninstall 10.10 then install these?

 

You should download Driver Cleaner. Then uninstall your graphics driver regularly.

Then reboot into safe mode and run Driver Cleaner on your ATI folder.

Then reboot into windows and install the drivers.

 

I just installed 10.11 from 10.10 this is what I did:
control panel -> programs and features -> uninstall all ati software.
after that it told me to restart, once it restarted, I installed the new drivers then restarted again.
I've always done it that way, and have no issue's to report!
I installed the 10.11 drives with Catalyst APP Technology

 

Thats not true, at least not for ATI drivers. It is recommended you install new drivers right over the old ones as they have changed "fixed" the update process.

 

Is this a problem specific to the Envy? The Fn+ up and down arrow keys on my Dell still work fine for adjusting backlight brightness.

 

Could be an issue with that and having to switch between graphics chips. The brightness controls work fine for me, but my system only has one dedicated gpu.