AMD 12.11P (7970m Performance) Driver Install Guide

Enable PowerPlay.

 

i have followed these steps

{1. Download the AMD 7970M 12.11P driver here: AMD CATALYST
2. Disable every feature included in your antivirus/firewall software. This step is crucial, and I will tell you that the first time I tried installing 12.11P with my antivirus fully enabled, I got errors in installation, and I eventually had to do a system restore because my drivers were so messy and wouldn't work properly with games. On my second time around, with all Norton features disabled, the installation went smoothly.
3. Go to control panel, then uninstall a program, then select "AMD Catalyst Install Manager, select "change," and custom uninstall all of your current AMD driver components.
4. Restart
5. With your antivirus and firewall still disabled, start up the 12.11P installation package as an administrator. Install every component. Installation should result with a green check mark.
6. Restart, make sure that games work fine, then go ahead and re-enable antivirus and firewall features. Make sure that you start games with Windows power and the Sager utility in performance mode! Additionally, don't use driver fusion for most installation cases. Only use it if you are in a dire situation, because I feel it may have messed my configuration up a little bit.
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and i ended up with bsod while booting and i was had to run recovery
i have Bios revision 1.00.04 and KBC/EC firmware Revision 1.00.04 could it have anything to do with that?
some help over here i am in dead end

 

Hello everyone. I bought an m18x about half a year ago with dual 7970's and have had all the same issues. No driver seems stable for me and the ones that are stable, give me crappy performance. I can say that i troubleshoot and install 4 different drivers every month. Even the one from the dell website gives me CTD, the others BSOD me. I have re installed windows, turned off antivirus, firewalls, safemode. I also tried saving the ATIkmpag files from a more stable driver and copying them over and STILL BSOD'D haha. Nothing works for me. Got off the phone with alienware/dell about 5 hours ago. They are swapping my cards for GTX 680M's in a few days for free. They are sending someone. Warranty covers hardware issues. They also said that ATI is developing a driver to fix all the issues with installations and BSOD's that people are having. I am tired of ATI and the bull driver support. Save your dollars and pay the extra and get better support IMO. I have learned, never buying ATI ever again. Can't wait for my 680's to be in and i can finally use this BEAST for what it was meant. To dominate, instead of it dominating my brain with all these stupid BSOD's in game or while watching videos. Good luck to everyone out there with 7970's. I saw Mr.Fox go this route and it took me a month to decide what i wanted to do. Time to stop looking at these threads for good no more of this non-existent support from ati. I will post back when my cards come in and let you guys know how they are running.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE OUT THERE WITH 7970's.

 

welcome to NBR, that is awesome that dell are replacing your cards for free, please post your experience once you have it up and running.

 

Wow, AMD is developing a new driver to fix installation issues and BSODs, huh? I will believe it when I see it. It sounds promising if it is true.

 

i sure hope their next release will finally fix the BSODs. I'm still using the 12.7 drivers since every release after it kept giving me those atikmpag.sys BSODs at startup.

 

I wonder what file it is that causes the BSOD. Like, would we be able to stop it if we set it to power-saving?

 

Well it seems that when people BSOD, it's the atikmdag files that cause it. Some people stopped the BSOD by copying the stable files from a 12.7 over to a driver with better utilization on your card/s. That's what i said Trantalocked so decided not to wait any longer and get a definite solution.

 

I'd like to know the specific file that causes the BSOD from trying to run on the 7970 though. atikmpag is part of the driver, but it's a program of some sorts that initiates the crash, no? Why else would it start up normally under power-saving mode or unplugged?

 

Sager owners have not been able to get free swaps from their 7970Ms to 680Ms. I would do it if I could, and I definitely am not paying $300+ to make the swap. It is crazy to hear that Alienware is doing it but not Clevo/Sager.

 

Guess it helps being owned by Dell.

 

There are two simple ways to completely avoid restart/start BSODs:

1) Unplugging when restarting
OR
2) setting powerplay "plugged in" mode to max battery. AND afterwards setting it back to max performance (or games wont work as intended).

With any of those simple tricks i completely forgot about BSODs.

I agree its something ATI must fix, but its a problem entirely and easily avoidable right now.

 

What I asked seems to have gone completely over your head. :|

I know those things as I even stated that in the second post that you quoted. I just want to know the specific file that does this so it can be manually set to power-saving to prevent having to unplug or change the settings before and after restarting.

 

So any word at all of when we can expect AMDs new try at a stable driver?

 

I believe AMD is hard at work fixing the rendering and microstuttering issues that affect the whole 7000 series of cards. I doubt we will see other drivers before that issue is fixed.

 

They are doing something, that is for sure. I have read from Thracks's posts on overclock.net that most of AMD was on holiday break. I wouldn't expect something too soon since the driver teams only recently got back to work, but nevertheless I am excited for what AMD has in the works.