AMD Catalyst 12.11 (9.010.0 November 6) Enduro Performance Driver

This was already posted on another thread, but I think it deserves a thread of its own. Dx9 fix is now included.

"The AMD Catalyst™ Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro™ Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 9, DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications."

AMD Catalyst 12.11 (9.010.0 November 6) Enduro Performance Driver - Guru3D.com Forums

 

Only question: should we install over stock or is this finally reliable enough to install the whole package?

 

definetly not alone , just tried after uninstaled and driver uninstaled with driver sweeper , after this it even didint booted to windows and got bsod , older driver beta at least botted to windowos but after 5 sec frezed always.Will try to instal over my stabel stock driver 12.9

 

This isn't beta/test version??

 

I think a lot of you guys that are getting BSODs with the latest drivers must be running Windows 7. I also had issues with 7, and had to use shady workarounds to get the drivers to work properly. However, with Windows8, these drivers, and all of the past beta drivers have run like butter, which leads me to believe that AMD is developing/testing them mostly with Windows 8 in mind.

 

are this drivers modded by asder?
cause i see some different things compare to beta6 and this one.
if you follow the link,you will see it.

 

Nope. Original AMD driver look at link http://www2.ati.com/drivers/other/AMD_Catalyst_Enduro_9.01.exe , no mods.

 

I am getting better overclocking behavior in this driver.

You still need to open a 3d app to set the clocks, but once I had when I closed the application the dedicated card in my machine shut off an when I started another application it came back up and resumed at the overclocked speeds.

 

guys how you instal so easy these drivers?

i am begining to hate my laptop , but i know its enduro problem...

 

So this is the final 12.11 release? I'm just confused, as I can't find it on amd's website

 

I think it's a beta driver tuned for enduro users.

 

okay thanks, so basically it just adds a fix fpr dx9 and dx10?

 

Where does it come from? it aint AMD as far as i can tell, also it seems older (6 NOV) than the newest 12.11 beta 7, i am confused.
Any intallation guide would help, i currently have 12.11 beta7, not BSODing using the unplugged restart/start method... seems stupid but it works!

 

well, this is interesting....

"AMD6818.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8800 Series (OEM)"
AMD679A.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 8900 Series (OEM)""

found in "supported cards" list

 

Uh, what? Look at the download link... Are you really saying it isn't coming from AMD? Lol.

 

I did a clean install using this method Guide: How To Completely Uninstall AMD Graphics Drivers - Bright Side Of News*, no BSODS so far but whenever I try to run a game I just get a black screen and have to ctrl+alt+del to get out of it. Any ideas? How did you guys install?

 

I just uninstalled "AMD Catalyst Install Manager" in Control Panel, restarted, installed the new version, restarted again. Works perfectly fine for me but haven't really seen any increases in dx9 games... Upgraded from 12.11 beta 3.

 

I'll probably give that a try later on tonight to see if that works. Thanks man.

 

*********sry double posted

 

Yeah well, when clicking download it says www2.ati.com wich seems to be amd, but in amd drivers site its not present, weird? Maybe i am too noob for this beta drivers and leaked drivers universe.
I did say as far as i can tell, i stand corrected.
Anyway, i just installed the dirver, no BSODs, maybe because i ran the whole thing unplugged... that really works, maybe i will try plugged later.

Now lets run some tests.
3dmark06 showed no increases over 12.11 beta 4,6 or 7, actually a bit lower. 22563 3dmarks (22587 was my oldest high score).

 

I tried to install over stock with Beta4 installed over. meaning this driver over beta4 over stock. Won't work, it's probably an earlier version of the graphics driver but more Enduro-oriented, i don't know... I may try to install over stock only tomorrow.

 

Giving this driver a try right now. Will report back later. BTW, is it still 12.10 CAP1 that's the latest?

 

Maybe stop messing with your registry with registry cleaners?

1. No. The profile with this driver will be newer

2. You don't need it. These CAP are for SLI. If they do have something for single card, almost always the newest driver will have that anyway. No need to install CAP.

 

Yeah, to add to this, registry cleaners in general are bad. Those "unused" strings in your registry don't take up much room and if they're "old" it doesn't matter as long as they don't interfere with the new drivers/software, which they most likely won't. Most uninstall scripts clean those up pretty well. The ones left behind aren't harmful anyway. It's best to just leave them alone than to take them out with a registry cleaner that sweeps your registry blindly. Sometimes the values are sleepers and registry cleaners flag them as garbage.

Thank you! I thought some CAP had SLI-specific contents but good for non-SLI and SLI. I didn't know that. Thanks.

 

Yeah not many people have SLI, so it's better to just release these CAP, rather than entire new drivers. But if it's for single card and it would affect pretty much anyone that has it, AMD are likely to just release a hotfix driver for it. I only recall one time they had a significant update in a CAP for single card and that was over a year ago now.

 

Enduro WORKS! Playing BF3 right now. When I scale down, I go as high as 190 fps on the loading screen and well above 65 in the game.

Update: Okay. I just played some more and noticed that low in a medium map is around 70-80, medium is high 60s and high is mid 60s. Ultra is 59 minimum. The bump from beta 7 is almost unnoticable but Enduro seems to be somewhat fixed. All I know is that it works now when it comes to lowering settings to gain fps. Unfortunately, I can't see GPU utilization since Afterburner no longer lets me see that.

Update 2: Playing on Kharg now with 40+ players and the fps goes as low as 44 and as high as 77 on Ultra with AA settings low or off. That's in the middle of the action. From a distance, the fps goes as low as 34.

 

Good to hear the 7970M is performing as what you paid for now. I'm driving recklessly and taking down other cars by smashing into them with nitro and chassis made for impact in NFS: Most Wanted. These drivers are working well enough with them, no hitching or slow downs causing me to rage cause response too laggy for turns etc.

 

I don't use a sweeper, but I've been following this guide Guide: How To Completely Uninstall AMD Graphics Drivers - Bright Side Of News* for clean driver installations. It says to delete some amd/ati files in your registry, would you recommend against messing with the registry at all?

 

I haven't had a single blue screen changing drivers. I haven't uninstalled stock Intel, ever, and I haven't uninstalled the AMD drivers, ever. I just install them over the current drivers and aside from one issue (which deleting a .bib file solved), I haven't crashed, blue screened, or any of these other issues people are having.

 

Yes I would. There really isn't any reason to mess with the registry like that. If you want to make specific changes like maybe disabling ULPS, or with Windows (disable UAC), registry cleaning, not necessary with either Windows 7 and 8. If you absolutely know what you are doing, whatever. If you don't, then I wouldn't risk it. Over time on Guru3D and on NBR, the people I see who post most about BSOD and driver issues are the ones who are using driver sweeper, driver fusion, registry cleaners, ATiMan Uninstaller etc. They seem to do more harm than good. This also includes the CCleaner registry cleaner.

 

In fact this method doesn't clear all the amd/ati file and registry. You can check by using DriverFusion after having followed that guide, you will see that there are a lot of amd/ati files left.

I followed that guide before but it wasn't really effective for me, so I tried DriverFusion and I haven't got any BSOD since then.

 

Thanks for these drivers. I used the beta drivers from the AMD site and got BSOD. I had to remove the drivers using device manager and then un-installed them from the wizard after a reboot. After running these drivers (in win7) i am seeing much higher performance from 3dmark tests. Vantage got p23237 and 11 got p6553. The last time i ran 11 i was getting around 5700.

Thanks again!

 

Can anyone confirm the fix with DX9/DX10 games? I'm getting like 60% utilization still in guild wars 2... around 40 fps with medium/high settings >.<. Both Borderlands 2 and GW2 stopped having hiccups / frame spikes though so I'd say this one driver's pretty good.

I know the DX11 fix is in though, Batman AC was giving me 99% util...damn I was happy about that xD.

This is from using AMD System Monitor.

 

thanks man, I'll stop messing with it from now on. I'm going to do a clean install of windows on my ssd once the final 12.11 is out; hopefully all this driver stuff is behind me lol. I've switched drivers at around times since beta3.

I noticed that by looking through different registry files, but I didn't want to mess with them since they weren't mentioned in the guide and I have no idea what I'm doing lol. Anyway, no more regedit for me unless I know exactly what the outcome will be.

 

That sounds so awesome! Finally, the moment of truth: will GTA IV performance improve with the DX9 fix:0? Answers soon to come.

 

With this drver I cant see temp of GPU in HwInfo 64 (( What other program can be used to monitor the temperature? thanks.

 

If it doesn't show up on HWINFO, I'm not sure it will show up on anything else either. Sometimes the gpu data doesn't work after I first install a driver, but starts working again after I reboot. If that doesn't work for you, you can try gpu-z (I haven't had much luck with it on my 7970, worked great on my 650m.) There are probably others, but I'm not aware of them. Finally, you can install a version of 12.11 that is confirmed to work with HWINFO, like the beta7.

 

Skyrim performance might have improved a tiny bit but definitely not in GTA IV. Still the same performance, hitting 30s in many areas on medium/high settings. I honestly don't think GTA IV will run at 60FPS on a rig for another 5 years. There is something inherently wrong with the coding that prevents it from scaling properly on better rigs.

 

Just tested with Kombustor 2.4.2, unfortunately with the following results:

Burn-In OpenGL-2 -> hovering around 84%, peaks at 90% GPU Load

Burn-In OpenGL-3 -> stuck at 79-80%...

Burn-In Direct3D 9 -> below max. 77%

Burn-In Direct3D 10 -> 99%
Burn-In Direct3D 11 -> 99%

Furthermore the card almost crashed reaching almost 103°C.
I did a repaste almost a month ago and the card never went above 93°C...

Not a very good update for me

 

are you guys got this version after updated?

 

HWINFO work (shows temp) with 12.11 beta 4,6,7 but with AMD Catalyst 12.11 (9.010.0 November 6) Enduro Performance Driver NOT works

 

Installation that worked for me going from beta3 to Enduro Performance Driver

1. Uninstalled all AMD drivers/programs from the Windows 7 uninstall panel
2. Rebooted
3. Installed new drivers
4. Rebooted

Drivers seem more stable in terms of lack of blue-screens. I haven't had to do my usual trick of booting up on battery power to avoid the blue-screens. Also, Kombuster now shows temps/gpu usage which is nice.

I've only messed around with Borderlands 2, and I can report that there hasn't been any improvement in that game. This is probably due to the awful PC optimization in BL2, but either way, this driver didn't help it at all. I still can't use phyx without massive framerate drops over time and there are still framerate drops when view distance is set above 'Medium'.

 

Mine says November 6th.

 

The physx problem is likely a problem with the physx software.

 

Mine is just 9.10, but I had that when I was on beta 7.

EDIT: Also Nov. 6 driver date along with the 9.10.0.0 driver version.

 

November 6 as well.

I had Beta6 installed here. Opted to unninstall only video driver through Catallyst Install Manager, reboot and finally installing only the video driver from this one.

I have finally achieved a good 3D11 score: AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P5897 3DMarks (No OC the lowest CPU)

3D06 is still too low, though: AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: 15215 3DMarks

 

Have you checked your driver version in Device Manager every time after you do a dirty installation? I'm asking because I'm wondering if you get the latest drivers and if it's performing how the latest drivers are intended to perform.

 

I wish I could test other games but I don't have them. The only game that exhibited Enduro problems for me was BF3 and it's now performing better than ever with these drivers. But now I'm really curious how the performance is for other games. :/

EDIT: Afterburner 2.2.5 beta and 2.2.5 seems to be working like it used to be again. Not sure if this is Afterburner that fixed things or if it's the drivers, but everything is showing up again --temp, fps, gpu utilization, etc.

 

Wow, something isn't right there... most people are scoring 6500 in 3DMark11 and well over 20k in 06 with 12.11. Your graphics score is great, but what's with the cpu?

 

maybe its not boosting like it should? try throttlestop

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