AMD just posted the beta driver of Catalyst 12.9, which comes with the usual array of improvements and one especially noteworthy item.
The driver now includes support for the company's Enduro switchable graphics technology and includes a redesigned control center interface, support for profile applications, as well as customization options for a performance or battery centric modes.
AMD also promises a performance gain of 10 percent for single GPU configurations in Lost Planet 2 and several fixed issues, including resolved Firefox corruptions in Crossfire mode.
The 12.9 Beta release is available for Windows XP 32-bit, as well as 32-bit and 64-bit versions for later Windows versions (Vista/7/8), as well as Ubuntu 12.10 and RHEL 6.3.
I don't understand how and why people keep saying AMD has horrible driver support. It has already been proven there is no substance to back up this claim. Saying it again and again proves nothing and doesn't make it true.
You must be one of those Nvidia fanboys. Don't forget to install the WHQL 196.75 drivers next time you want a blazing-fast GPU.
More recently, let's not forget how Nvidia had a lot of people who had stuttering problems caused by their 300 series drivers, severe underclocking caused by their 300 series drivers, and V-Sync not working because of them. Even more recently since those were fixed about two or three months after they showed up (so much for Nvidia always fixing things quickly) is how the 306.23 drivers seem to have slightly inferior overclocking stability to older driver versions as shown here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/371144-33-driver-problem
Unfortunately, driver issues are a problem for pretty much all companies that make drivers.
Thumbs down storm incoming since angry amd owners but lets face it, amd has horrible driver support
I don't understand how and why people keep saying AMD has horrible driver support. It has already been proven there is no substance to back up this claim. Saying it again and again proves nothing and doesn't make it true.
You must be one of those Nvidia fanboys. Don't forget to install the WHQL 196.75 drivers next time you want a blazing-fast GPU.
More recently, let's not forget how Nvidia had a lot of people who had stuttering problems caused by their 300 series drivers, severe underclocking caused by their 300 series drivers, and V-Sync not working because of them. Even more recently since those were fixed about two or three months after they showed up (so much for Nvidia always fixing things quickly) is how the 306.23 drivers seem to have slightly inferior overclocking stability to older driver versions as shown here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/371144-33-driver-problem
Unfortunately, driver issues are a problem for pretty much all companies that make drivers.
Eh, been an AMD/ATI guy for years. No one around here likes to hear that the driver issues that plagued them back in the early and mid 2000s just isnt there anymore. Even mods here are very sensitive about what you say about it. Its quite humorous
Well last night i asked my friend as joke how is he handling his drivers. (he has 7950) and aparently the nwest drivers wont allow him to play skyrim on anything but low setting
but outside of gameing, it can take them months to fix problems.
acdsee is a great program for this. as some drivers panning with the arrow keys isnt broke, some its unuseably broke... its why i never update drivers when they work
Hope this includes cards such as the 4870x2.
AMD's single card support is excellent but their multi-GPU support is competent at best - It just isn't as good as Nvidia's.
I think you're doing something wrong... Witcher 2 has worked in CrossfireX since April/May of 2011 (Catalyst 11.5a hotfix). It works with the Radeon HD 7xxx series: http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/artikel/hardware/grafikkarten/22284-test-amd-radeon-hd-7970-crossfire-vs-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-sli.html?start=5
You do realize that The Witcher 2 flat out doesn't work with 7970 crossfire, Skyrim is less stable with 7970 CF than a single 7970, Max Payne 3 has occasional cutscene flickering, and several other games have poor scaling (for example Batman: AC), right?
Being able to make your own profiles doesn't matter - the issue isn't that games aren't supported, the issue is that some games don't work well or don't work at all with CF.
Not 7970 Crossfire. I've tried all drivers, and many review sites have shown this as well:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/53901-nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review-19.html
That's on 12.4. The few sites I'm aware of that have gotten 7970 CF to work at all in TW2 show 0 scaling (I did have it working on one driver with no scaling - can't remember which driver revision that was).
comfirmed fix with my 5770 x2...
I second..
To be fair, doesn't Nvidia also have crap scaling in Skyrim and isn't Batman:AC a horribly coded game that is quite literally built to be biased towards Nvidia, yet still doesn't work too well with their cards either?
There's nothing wrong with mentioning Crossfire issues, but it'd cause less issues if you went into a little more detail and also said what SLI had problems with. Some of the supposed Crossfire issues seem to actually be game issues (such as Skyrim and Batmac:AC) and it doesn't seem fair to blame that on AMD.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/53901-nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review-19.html
That's on 12.4. The few sites I'm aware of that have gotten 7970 CF to work at all in TW2 show 0 scaling (I did have it working on one driver with no scaling - can't remember which driver revision that was).
Also, I fail to see the relevance of any article with such an outdated driver unless you're trying to prove things about old drives rather than current drivers. Can you explain it if I'm missing something?