Catalyst 10.8

According to Terry Makedon Catalyst 10.8 will be out this afternoon and the following should be expected:

- Anti-Aliasing support for StarCraft II
- some performance gains in Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Stormrise
- fully supports the OpenGL ES 2.0

& hopefully more ....

 

10.8 is already available through akamai although not yet featured on AMD website. Win 7 32bit & Win 7 64bit

 

Y'all have trouble reading? http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...742-direct-download-links-catalyst-10-8s.html

 

Beta or full ?

 

Full version and they are working very nicely on my 5870m.

 

Yeah, sorry. I saw your post after I posted mine

 

@ downloads: you sir own!

.... I hope these babies have any gains

EDIT: They are out now at AMD Site & I absolutely recommend these drivers to any Mobility Radeon HD 4570 user out there

 

Hmmm nice. I will try them tomorrow.

 

Will this be useful to integrated graphic cards?

 

"ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4200 Series" according to the release notes supported products so I think they should apply to ur GPU dunno if it is useful or not though but it may be

 

Installed them on my system and fired up SC2. Pylon energy fields no longer severely hampers performance on my system!

edit: nevermind... Pylon issue still exists depending on the map I'm playing on

 

Awesome. I can't wait to get home.

 

hopefully this solves the GSOD issues with G73! I'm going over to asus forum and Hip Hip Horray!

 

I uninstalled the old drivers and all the ati folders, and installed 10.8 and now when I right click my desktop there's no Catalyst Control Center? I don't think its installed at all actually because I searched for it and nothing came up.
I went and downloaded the individual CCC installer and that didn't install it either...

 

whelp time to see how the envy 14 responds.


the usual response is a black screen and then after you wait it out and the drivers and stuff finish installing, you can turn the computer off blind and it'll have worked.

worst case scenario is either screen won't come back when it reboots or (and this was while being stupid and disabling one of the video cards in the device manager) the two video cards will fight (swap back and forth every 2 seconds) until windows gives up and shuts them both down.

 

Anyone have some reports for any gains or positive effects with a 5870?

 

Think I'll pass. I'm tired of updating drivers. 10.7 is good enough, lol.

 

Thanks I'm going to try it.

 

Did they solved the memory leak issue of 10.7 and borderlands yet?

"�� "Borderlands" no longer fails after a duration of gameplay"

ok I guess it's yes.

 

Just to report this new driver seems to fix a small glitch I have with SC2. I would like to try this new driver with borderland later if it fixed the glitch (floor sometimes is see through).

 

What glitch did you have with SCII? I noticed mine seems to play smoother, but I'm not sure.

 

would not recognize my 5730

 

I had to revert to 10.7. This new one causes screen flickering with King's Bounty. My other games are all right, though.

 

Anyone know if this works with Sony?

 

It doesn't officially work with Sony's. Sony opted out. But, I have heard of people downloading it direct and getting it to work. I can't take any responsibility for that though.

 

I'll stick to 10.3 - don't want any memory leaks in A DRIVER

 

Catalyst control center won't open and at the end of the install it was at 800x600.

 

from what driver you updated and what have you done to upgrade ? ccleaner and etc ?

 

They work fine. There's nothing on a Sony that makes them any different to any other laptop, the only difference is they're blocked in ATI's downloader

 

From whatever dell provided (v8.962, not sure what that translates, driver is from April 5th). I didn't run any cleaner since ATI by now should know how to upgrade drivers.

 

did u install it properly? did u use CC cleaner and all to get rid off old traces of drivers? this seems to cause some problems now... i really don't know.

 

I got bullet trail across whole screen sometimes when large army collides. It happens when bunch of marines or turrets attack.

 

but on the sticky says that if you upgrade from a 10.x version to a 10.x you don't need to uninstall previous driver, and do all the clean up thing, right?

 

Will I see any performance increases with my 4670 going from 10.6 to 10.8? Currently only have one game that glitches and that is C&C 3 where smoke effects look like squares.

 

The 10.8s are OK, which is more than I can say for any ATI driver since the Radeon 9500 I modded to a 9700 Pro (this is having owned a 9800 Pro and several others in the intervening years).

Of course, I had to be reminded that I was running an ATI card when I attempted to fire up some of my older OpenGL games, including Quake 2, which greeted me with a crash upon startup. Fortunately you can copy the ATI OpenGL driver from Catalyst 10.4 directly into the game directory, and it will work. Not the most elegant solution, but it's better than being left completely in the cold.

I do have to say that running Shogo: Mobile Armor Division was a piece of cake. I didn't have to do any fiddling to get it working smoothly, unlike my previous NVIDIA-based desktop and notebook systems. At this point, I'm not regretting switching to the red side, considering how much money I saved going with the Radeon Mobility 5870 versus the GTX 480M.

 

It's possible. I've seen performance increases in both 10.7 and 10.8.

 

to answer myself: yes.

I just installed the new drivers over the old ones, and all is OK, nothing exploded and I'm on 10.8!

 

With the newer Catalyst drivers it's not necessary, although still recommended. But from your latest response it sounds like it worked out well, so that's good!

 

yes, all seems to be good, thanks.

I'll try them out tonight, to see if this fixes my crashing issues

 

is this on the ati site yet or still leaked?

 

On ATI's site. For example: ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

 

I updated and my CCC still will not open. At the end of the install it said that it installed with some errors opened the log but it didn't say anything i reboot and CCC still won't open.....

 

Use the akamai direct links, the amd installer doesn't work with some cards. It just updates the control center, but not the display driver itself. Some Sager's have the same problem. To be certain, go into the device manager and check your driver version there.

 

Could you clarify a little. What driver version am i looking for and why would the driver stop CCC from opening ( Crashing on launch , appears in task manager process for 2 secs then disappears )

 

Download what you need from here.

The installer doesn't detect some card correctly and doesn't install the display driver, but it will always update the control center. So when the 10.8 control center loads up, it looks for the 10.8 display driver but can't find it, so it doesn't load.

If you try to use the web installer from the AMD website, you need to look close at what it's installing. If the display driver portion is listed, but grayed out, that means it's NOT upgrading the display driver.

 

Unlikely...

 

Installed them and no change CCC still crashes on launch

 

Did you uninstall and delete c:\ati first?

 

Download and install driver sweeper.
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/


Uninstall all ati stuff from "programs and features" (assuming you're on win7).
Delete the ATI folder in C:\ati.
Reboot into safe mode (press F8 before windows logo).
Run driver sweeper, only check ATI - display, click analyse and then click clean.
Reboot into windows again and run the driver installer.

Works every time