New AMD ATI 12.8 Drivers Released Today?

So anyone tried this out?
Is this news? They have today´s release date.

AMD Catalyst

EDIT: They where released last month, sorry i misread it.

 

Woot am trying them out, the switchable graphics menu is working... wow finally something new!
C´mon guys test your games

 

Release Date: 15. 8.2012

 

Lol
10char

 

I don't think so...

 

holly crap, that´s right, wrong month! haha
Well i don´t know how this is possible but somehow after installing this drivers i got this:



And i can confirm that everything is running pretty well... how can this be?
Im trying them on a clean install to check the difference!

 

Which driver did you come from?

 

Not sure, but i think it was this package: 8.982.7_August8_WinAll-@asder00

 

hows the performance though?

 

Not sure, i was never a gaming guy, what´s the easy way to test the usage issue?

 

batttlefield 3, if this works then i will prob regret my 675m

 

And did the CCC from those drivers from asder00 look exactly like it does now?

 

Nope, they were just like stock clevo drivers...
And i just did a fresh install in a P170EM and i can confirm that those AMD drivers i posted are crap, they won´t even work...
Damn what the hell happened with my laptop? This is weird and i´m trying to reproduce the same in a fresh install and i can´t!

Let me just add that i´m running a P151EM with 7970 and with latest P150EM bios/ec... ill ask around to try to know if anyone here has been messing around with my laptop.

 

Tried Diablo 3 and Heaven, both play at max GPU usage (looking at MSI Afterburner).
I´m installing BF3 to check if i have any change.

 

Hum BF3 runs always at 99%:



The spikes you see is when i do Alt-tab or when im in game menus, but while playing fullscreen it´s always 99%.
What else can i do to test it?

 

oh snap if that's true then AMD came out with working drivers faster than i expected :O

also I think people ahve been complaining about GW2 I think, as well as Max Payne 3

 

try multiplayer maps

 

What settings are you playing on and what FPS do you get? What happens to your GPU utilization and FPS when changing the settings?

 

Humm i don´t think i can run multiplayer, i downloaded the game from torrents just to test it, im going to delete it now since it´s not my type of game.
Will try Max Payne 3 now, what´s GW2? LOL

 

gw2 is guild war 2

 

hmmmm I tried the one by asder :\ no luck...

Do you have to uninstall all of the AMD stuff first?

 

Is that Online? I´m not going to pay for something i don´t play
I´m downloading Max Payne to try it out!

I tested BF3 with all Maxed, it was very fluid, but i didn´t check the fps.
Isn´t there a option that Afterburner will display usage and fps even inside the game? Something like HUI option?

 

I honestly don´t know, i remember having Stock Clevo drivers, then upgrading to asder, then i followed a guide to allow for Afterburner to work with 7970M, i had to do registery editing for that, and today i installed 12.8... this is all i remember.

Why my CC Panel is different i don´t know, but i always installed everything without uninstalling the previous driver.

At the moment im just trying to check if my performance is above "normal" and without enduro issues.

Then in the case my laptop magically fixed the enduro issue i´ll try to reproduce my install in another machine... but it´s not going to be easy. I already tried that today and it didn´t work.

 

Sorry to tell you this, but bf3 singleplayer has never had any problems. It's multiplayer were people have had problems with gpu usage.

 

You can enable a FPS counter inside the game by typing in the console "render.fpsenable true" without quotes, the console opens with the ~ key. For the gpu utilization I dont know, try running the game in windowed mode.

 

That's the new UI for Enduro 5.5 which is supported by the updated BIOS, at least for me. This has been talked about in depth for the last few weeks. As for Enduro being fixed? Nope, not fixed. And you can't install the 12.8 just clean install... 12.8 doesn't support switchable graphics, it's stated by AMD, does not support switchable graphics. Asder does not enable switchable graphics either. Leshcat does. You must have just installed over previous drivers. This is not new or eye opening. Enduro is still broken, that's just the new UI.

I posted about new BIOS here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/416916-clevo-bios-thread-265.html#post8839506

Enduro 5.5 update had a whole article.
AnandTech - AMD

 

Hum that probably explains it... another thing also happen, in Afterburner i can overclock way more then it used to, the limits are way higher did this happen to you?
Either way i´m trying Max Payne just to be sure.