8.11 Drivers Released

New drivers released!

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Good find. I can't believe how fast they are releasing these things. Between beta's and normal drivers I'm downloading drivers every two weeks. The 8.11 beta's crashed my system so I'm anxious how these will work out.

Reply to jaysins

dammit I just installed 8.10 about a week ago.

EDIT: Just read the release notes, mostly just updates for FarCry 2 and STALKER. Nothing for me here this time.

Message edited by kingtz on 11-13-2008 at 07:11:48 AM

Reply to kingtz

wow :na: that is awsome how fast they do updates at this rate no matter where they go. they will eventually end up with some kick ass drivers

Reply to kelfen

Nice find thanks
Good i was waiting for FC2 and STALKER CLEAR SKY performance increase

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Reply to Maziar

Finally.... the hot fix gave me BSOD... this should work.. i hope

Reply to Zecow

Nice work ATI. ^yeah, I'm crossing my fingers that this ends my 30min crashing problem but that might be a FC2 patch that is needed.

Reply to SpinachEater

They released a patch to fix these issues :lol: . The patch didn't do much for me either.. I have a question guys.. How do I get to where my amd overclock utility will work with the new 8.11 drivers as I am doing a comparison to see if performance improved with my 4870 1GB but, if I can't overclock the card then, well the test will be pointless. Thanks for the help guys.

Reply to truehighroller

guys, you realize its once a month right? way to go ati

but i refuse to update my drivers until rivatuner adds support for them

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Reply to eklipz330

Yeah Rivatuner isn't working either. Some one any one know how to hack around this?

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Reply to truehighroller

eklipz330 wrote :

guys, you realize its once a month right? way to go ati

but i refuse to update my drivers until rivatuner adds support for them

Version 8.10 CCC included a long-awaited manual fan control feature so I am not sure why you need to wait for rivatuner. Unless you feel the 4850 or 4870 has room for an overclock that CCC cannot handle? I am still letting CCC auto control the fan on my 4850 as I do not see temps much above 80c.

Message edited by jthorn on 11-13-2008 at 05:16:08 PM

Reply to jthorn

Mine goes wayyyy..... past what ccc does "stock voltages exc..". I need to compare drivers but, can't until fix is in place for overclocking either on amd tool or riva tuner, whichever. Thanks again.

Reply to truehighroller

I tested FC2 BENCHMARK TOOL and my FPS was the same but when i played i got 10 FPS increase

And in STALKER well i got few more FPS but still the game isnt very playable for me.

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Reply to Maziar

Well I will play it later. I was doing what you did with the benchmark tool. It must be different then in game play if that is the case. Odd..

Message edited by truehighroller on 11-13-2008 at 07:45:56 PM

Reply to truehighroller

I play stalker just fine....with everything turned up too

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Reply to jackieboy

Dang, still get the 30 minute crash. Runs pretty smooth though on one 4870.

Reply to SpinachEater

jackieboy wrote :

I play stalker just fine....with everything turned up too

What is the resolution u are testing ?
I am testing with 1680x1050 resolution DX10 and everything is maxed out and i got a very bad FPS (20)

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Reply to Maziar

Yeah EPIC FAIL on their part. I still see stuttering in far cry 2 and everything in my machine is high end. I am running the game at 19xx x 1200 and I haven't seen the stuttering stop since I have begun playing the game.... I have the 1GB 4870 and it can run it's core at 870 all day stock voltages exc exc.

Message edited by truehighroller on 11-14-2008 at 01:28:45 PM

Reply to truehighroller

I checked their forums and am seeing complaints about it. So before I consider installing it I'm going to wait a little while and see.

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Reply to Scotteq

Still getting stuttering and 30 minute crashes on far cry 2 huh?

I was hoping these 8.11's would fix that, I'll install them this weekend and see how they do on my system, not getting my hopes up.

Reply to BlakHart

So I did some 3DMark Vantage test and found that in some areas of the graphics tests, there was a 10% gain so I got all excited and poped open FC2 for testing.

On the old 8.10 drivers with FC2 hotfix I get pretty much 50 fps through out on 1680 x 1050, Ultra high, AA x2 and a low of 43 I think..

On new 8.11 drivers I get 45-48 fps most of the time and occasionally 50 fps. The max that I've got reached 60 but WTH? I got a 10% performance decrease on avg?

The old lag which I get from driving on the cars did not improve. In fact, I started feeling lag when I'm walking normally now.

I don't really like this driver =/

Message edited by murdoc on 11-14-2008 at 02:48:09 PM

Reply to murdoc

I wiped out my OS and reinstalled everything and all my choppy **** is gone now FYI. I think I had reminents of my nvidia card left and it was pissing it off. Bad thing is that there is no way around ccc over clocking limit in sight , for me any way unless some one tells me why my overclock acts funny with these drivers even after flashing the BIOS...

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Message edited by truehighroller on 11-15-2008 at 06:58:02 AM

Reply to truehighroller

truehighroller wrote :

I wiped out my OS and reinstalled everything and all my choppy **** is gone now FYI. I think I had reminents of my nvidia card left and it was pissing it off. Bad thing is that there is no way around ccc over clocking limit in sight , for me any way unless some one tells me why my overclock acts funny with these drivers even after flashing the BIOS...

well there's a program out there called "Driver Cleaner 3" which helps you clean off all those nvidia files. I wouldn't go though all the trouble of reinstalling my entire OS and program files just to get FC2 to play smooth. I'd rather play something else. There are so many great titles out right now.

I've got Fallout 3 I wanted to try and Left 4 dead that I definitely will get sometime. It's just not worth it.

But for my case, I wouldn't even consider this issue because when I installed Vista x64 Ultimate, I already had my 4870 installed so the first drivers were ATI only. Nvidia drivers couldn't have been the issue.

Reply to murdoc

Yeah I had an image of my OS and it had nvidia on it. It wasn't that big of a deal because now I will have a fresh image that doesn't have nvidia on it and the difference in FC2 now is asstonishing . Also I used driver cleaner pro to try to get rid of traces of everyhting and that obviously didn't work apparently the game was confiused as it still seen nvidia some where because now everyhting is smooth as butter now I just need to figure out how to get around this driver overclocking,,,,,,, retricted crap,,,,,, I am dealing with.

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Reply to truehighroller

well I'll give it ago with DC Pro v1.5 anyways.. I'll report back what happens.

Reply to murdoc

talk about good games anyone played dead space, best game on the market

Reply to rangers

ok I've just tried driver cleaner.net and it didn't work. The program froze as I tried to remove any nvidia drivers. I rebooted the comp and tried FC2 again and still it stutters.

Message edited by murdoc on 11-16-2008 at 05:21:14 AM

Reply to murdoc

driver cleaner pro does that to me with my ati driver removals.. I have to end the process to get it to come back up.

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Reply to truehighroller

Maziar wrote :

What is the resolution u are testing ?
I am testing with 1680x1050 resolution DX10 and everything is maxed out and i got a very bad FPS (20)

I am using the same resolution as you are.....I don't know what my actual frames per second are but it plays the game just fine with max settings

Reply to jackieboy

Well i somehow managed to get things better
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] 870x2-help

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Reply to Maziar

Well I just updated my drivers, and now my vga keeps restarting when i play any games. The ATI software keeps recovering it though. Anybody know if this is a driver issue, should I uninstall and use the ones on the disc when I got it?

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Reply to mark $

mark $ wrote :

Well I just updated my drivers, and now my vga keeps restarting when i play any games. The ATI software keeps recovering it though. Anybody know if this is a driver issue, should I uninstall and use the ones on the disc when I got it?

The drivers on your CD are really out of date though. Try uninstalling all drivers in safe mode and then reinstalling the drivers. You can also try to turn off VPU Recover to see if you can gain some stability since VPU recovery feature is known to crash games.

Reply to murdoc

Uninstall the driver from Control Panel then Download Driver Sweeper and install it
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Go to safe mode and use driver sweeper and clean what its left for a clean uninstall
and then install the new driver

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Reply to Maziar

ok the 8.11's did not fix the choppyness for me either. Disabling AA gets rid of it but even with 4x enabled the fps never drops below 40 so what is going on?

I always use driver sweeper to clean. so that solution does not work for me...driver cleaner does not work on my system, is it compatible with vista 64?

Reply to BlakHart

Yes it is i have used it and its great

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Reply to Maziar

yes it is except Driver Cleaner.net froze when I was trying to clean it on vista 64bit

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Reply to murdoc

I posted another thread about this but does anyone know whether they will address the issue with HDMI sound being disabled if the TV is turned off or the input changed? I know it hsa something to do with my TV not sending the EEID when the input is not being used but that's about it. I'm a noob, what can I say...

Reply to bt2513

murdoc wrote :

yes it is except Driver Cleaner.net froze when I was trying to clean it on vista 64bit

That's what it does to me... I've reinstalled it so many times and it just freezes while cleaning. So I switched to driver sweeper and it seems to work nicely.

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Reply to BlakHart

BlakHart wrote :

That's what it does to me... I've reinstalled it so many times and it just freezes while cleaning. So I switched to driver sweeper and it seems to work nicely.

Hmm.. ok I guess I'll give that program a go and see what happens... but given that I didn't install any nvidia video cards when I've installed vista 64bit I don't see why I would have this problem.

Reply to murdoc

Driver cleaner Ive heard, removes too much, and hasnt been updated in quite awhile

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Reply to jaydeejohn

Yeah i wanted to DL it from GURU3D and look here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745
Update: This software was removed at the request of the publisher. A newer version of their software is still available yet shareware, to be found at the author's website.

As an alternative we'd like to recommend you Driver Sweeper (completely free), please click here.

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Reply to Maziar

Ok, I've just tried Driver Sweeper and it's worked pretty well. I'm glad to find that it's free and there were no problems on Vista 64bit. I'm going to give FC2 a try now to see what happens.

**Edit: I've tried and well.. gameplay improved but overall FPS dropped (Average now at 40 instead of 50). Driving got a bit more smoother after removal of Nvidia stuff but there's still a slight bit of jittering. **

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Message edited by murdoc on 11-22-2008 at 09:59:30 PM

Reply to murdoc

It still does it on my PC too...just not as bad it seems like, must be a driver issue, or something that needs a patch from ubisoft. If I play without AA enabled it goes away. But I hate doing that when the frames are so solid lol. I'll just wait...

Reply to BlakHart

ooo maybe that's the problem. I didn't try turning off AA. I think this needs to be fixed by ubisoft and I hope it does.

Reply to murdoc

murdoc wrote :

Ok, I've just tried Driver Sweeper and it's worked pretty well. I'm glad to find that it's free and there were no problems on Vista 64bit. I'm going to give FC2 a try now to see what happens.

**Edit: I've tried and well.. gameplay improved but overall FPS dropped (Average now at 40 instead of 50). Driving got a bit more smoother after removal of Nvidia stuff but there's still a slight bit of jittering. **

I was caught up messing around with all of the hotfixes from ATI...intalling and uninstalling like crazy. Thought it was a good idea to use DriverSweeper to make sure everything was cleaned out. It crashed in the middle of the process and it screwed up my registry. I couldn't access anything from one of my HDDs after that. Be warned...it can be evil.

Reply to SpinachEater

And about 8.11, it still didn't fix the 0x116 atikmdag.sys BSOD, bah.

Reply to M-Ajesty

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