New AMD driver 9.00 12.8

Hey guys,

lets see if this brings us some candy:


It is a whole new driver family (9.xx as opposed to 8.xx) so you can really expect something to have changend.
Compared to the official 12.8 WHQL following entries are newer:
CCC
D3D
OpenGL
and OpenCL

Keep in mind that it is a beta driver.

Download here
Be sure to download the v3 version, since the CCC is bugged: Direct link

 

we already had a 9.00 release back in jun, but as this is never maybe there will be some diffrences.. Just tryed to install it just over the stock driver from cd, but I can't open ccc. still bf3 played from the 7970m but I didnt spotted any gain in performance.. I just installed it ower the old one wil try a diffrent way and report back..

 

You need to install the updated one: [email protected]
In v3 asder00 combined the 9.00 driver with the CCC of the official WHQL, which is not buggy.

 

Anything positive OP?

 

Well the only major difference compared to 12.8 WHQL is that Bad Company 2's texture don't flicker anymore (CrossFire problem). But this problem was easily fixed by Alt-Tabbing out and in anyway.
Can't tell about a performance increase in my games, Max Payne 3's cutscenes run still choppy.
This is why I am so particularly surprised that The Witcher 2 runs so incredibly well on my CrossFire setup. No driver issues, everything is being displayed as it should, no texture flickering etc... and after coming from the severe Skyrim Crossfire issue one must really appreciate it when a game runs flawlessly
Even with fps dips in the mid 30's it is still possible to call it somewhat smooth (what you can't say about BF3 which is already choppy below 60 fps). But Witcher 2 ran already that good with 12.8 WHQL, so no increase in performance here.

I think RAGE is fixed with this driver though, which is unplayable with the 12.8 WHQL (messed up OpenGL file, RAGE ran with 4-5 FPS).
Also GW2 should perform better with this one, but I don't have the game to test it.

 

So... still not that big of an improvement?

thank god i got addicted to league so i don't have to deal with enduro problems

 

So I can confirm after testing a few games that this driver doesant fix anything.
Only benefit i had is, that I broke the 7000 gpu mark on 3d mark 11.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P6795 3DMarks

Benchmarking is probably te only think this gpu is doing right
If only it would performe as excelent in games as in synthetic benchmarks...

BTW this was on 1060/1560

 

Just updated, played Guild wars 2 for some hours and saw that the gpu util, stayed at 90+% the whole time - first thought, Improvement!
Secondly I lowered the graphic settings and the Util stayed the same, FPS ran up with Vsync turned of (GREAT!), and best of all It seemed rock solid, difficult to explain the difference, but the picture seemed more calm.

After gaming I went to power on the CCC, but hey it wouldn't open, and replyed like it have done before -with an error. I uninstalled CCC just to install the 12.8 WHQL CCC instead - problem solved. Afterwoods load up Guild wars 2, and the util went down to 65 - 70 %, with the lowered graphic settings as mentioned before :-/, now what? Can it really be true that this game works better without CCC being able to run :S, might test more games tomorrow and see if it's the same issue!

Thought we had climbed up the stairs to succeed, but it seems not to be the case afterall.

Maybe other can confirm the same story?

 

Worse performance in GTA IV. I took a benchmark of a run through on a specific path, with the Sager driver 56FPS average (but often in the 40s though), with the 12.8 v3 driver the average was 50FPS.

I just discovered that the trick to performance in GTA IV is view distance and detail distance. The bottleneck that causes large frame rate drops in the game is apparently the combination of the hard drive, system RAM and VRAM. The very process of texture swapping causes massive performance drops. With both detail and distance at 0%, frame rates rarely go below 50. With both sliders at 50%, I see frame rates down to the low 30s or even 20s in some areas. Colossal difference. Right now I have both at 10, and that maintains a good frame rate in all areas. Never goes below 40FPS, usually in the high 50s. I am guessing that no amount of GPU usage can speed this process up because swapping textures involves using the slow hard drive.

I would like to know if those with SSDs see better performance in GTA IV. If so, man do I want an SSD.

 

I'm using these drivers, before the update I had firefox crash a couple of times with a stange graphical glitch. That stopped happening with these drivers. Though I don't know if that's a coincidence. Anyway so far so good.

@TrantaLocked, do you really use your dvd drive that much?
If not, you should put your HDD there, get an SSD and find an external inclosure for the DVD drive.

Oh and if you do need the DVD drive at lot, then I think you also have the option of msata in your NP9150.

Treat yourself to an ssd

 

No it's not a coincidence, these drivers have fixed the flash hardware acceleration issues that most 7900 series gpu's were having

 

Good to know, thanks!