AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 10.11 Graphics

Yay. Another driver to download and install. I wonder what this driver does for linux.

Thanks for another bad drivers ATI... My Mobility HD2600 usually sits at 38ºc in idle, when I put 10.7 > 10.11... My GPU at idle stays at 57ºc... So, thanks for trying to kill my notebook... :X

For when is it the rewritten drivers are scheduled?

So this will install through Steam?

Well there is a good reason why you should stay at the 10.7 then. Especially considering that the HD2K series has not gotten any real performance updates since well the 9 series of drivers.

Much like the newer drivers don't seem to have any real performance upgrades for the HD4K series anymore.

Waiting on the hotfixes

also have the mobility hd2600 and my idle temp is still 37°C after installing 10.11. but i noticed a HUGE improvment in flash apps. maybe because of the openCL driver? i thought only 5000 and above are capable...

or it's time to upgrade
why use ancient hardware like that

I wonder if it fixes the problem the other versions cause (for me) in Windows Media Player?

Yes.

if you have a toshiba, sony or panasonic notebook, the release notes clearly state that this is not compatible with those products. so it's your fault if you install them and have problems...

did they fix dual screen flicking issues with 95% of ati 5850/70/5770/6850/70 users? AND the VERY annoying cursor bug in sc2, I still like the perfs I'm getting though, all games silky smooth... BUT FIX THOSE DAMN PROBLEMS

Very small updates - recent ATI updates have been ever more incremental. That's a good thing, as it seems drivers are getting mature.

Now if they'd only come up with half decent Linux drivers... I really want to make Ubuntu 10.10 my main desktop OS, but gaming is still impossible. It's not AMD's fault devs don't natively support Linux, but half decent drivers would at least make Wine a bit more viable. I guess just fixing Wine would be even better though...

ATI, more drivers more hot fixes....Good Hardware, but crippled by software.

I wish they would fix the idle core/mem clocks. I have to say with ccc 10.3 or else my 5850 idles at 50*C, its bs. I dont know why they cant just fix it.

I really wish they made an auto-updater for their drivers.

Thank you. It was an honest question, I don't know why people downranked me. I JUST assembled my first AMD/ATI card 2 days ago and I didn't know for sure.

Funny how every single release seems to have Call of Pripyat performance improvements.

TBH I really ever wonder if there's any point to upgrade your video drivers beyond any specifically noted fixes/performance enhancements mentioned. Really, I'm sure the drivers from this time last year don't really make any difference for my 4870.

I have a Toshiba, and the drivers always worked fine... And Toshiba, Sony or Panasonic, don't have any special breed of GPU's... It's just a precautionary measure from those vendors (aka stay with 8.5 drivers forever). A GPU is a GPU.

Still haven't fixed crossfire performance in Battlefield BC2 yet...Running dual Radeon 4870s, and crossfire is horrid after 10.5...I will never understand how they have driver updates that hurt performance in this game.

"Like other driver releases, are there small performance improvements."

Is that a question? I don't know if there are or not, I was hoping you'd tell me since you where the one telling me about it?

maybe he has no need to upgrade? why fix whats not broken? why pollute the earth? maybe he doesnt need 2 5970's to compensate in other areas....?

it seems like every other driver update it makes my system less stable.. 10.09 was horrible.. but 10.11 hasnt crashed on me yet. how hard is it ati?

we can all agree that ati is alot worse than nvidia in the driver department.

Tom's Hardware, please do as I: buy a new Radeon HD 6000 series card.

Go to the AMD site, select this series to download drivers. What do you get ? Tarammm! 10.10!

Yes! 10.11 does not officially support the HD6000 series!

10.11 is probably the first driver release in history that treats customers of the new series as second class users. Unless you want to run the risk of installing an unsupported Hotfix, which, by the way, does not solve many of the problems HD6000 series users are complaining about.

The 10.11 release focuses on HD5000 series. And the Hotfix 10.10e too; the rest of the features listed in 10.10e is a copy-paste of the 10.10d release.

Of course, there is a 25 million HD 5000 series market to cater too, but... treating HD6000 users like this is bad PR. At least treat users equally!

Going out and rush MLAA support for HD5000 series when users weren't even expecting it, is doing things the wrong way around.

i have not seen any performance or things that fix shit for a while from ati. i love ati. have 3x4890's got them when they were below 200 bucks. still plays everything that i want at 1920 x 1200 and 1920 x 1080. on my 27 inch monitors. and the 24inch. core i7 920 at 4.4 ghz 12gb ram and p6x58d premium. with a mushkin force series ssd 120gb.

maybe they arent done with any improvements on the 6000 series... why should they make the 5000 series customers wait?

I think its too much to ask for ati or nvidia to make consistent driver updates that increase performance each time. There is a limit to what drivers can accomplish in way of performance. I agree that some titles can be improved but its more important to have a stable driver with less bugs. That seems to be what ATI has problems with, although not having a recent ATI card I can only go by what others say. Some people dont have any issues with their drivers.

Finally fixing the overdrive issue (always running at max speed even outside of applications) is the best part about these new drivers.

Well, because that means they are focusing their attention and resources on a series that has more than enough driver version to choose from, while the HD6000 series only has one, which has bugs that need correcting.

What is the message they are trying to convey here ? "We released these new series, but are still focusing on the previous one that has more than 12 driver versions available ?" Or "We released the new series, BUT don't buy them just yet."

I have a 5770. Been using 10.8 up until yesteray when I decided to upgrade. Installed 10.11 expecting to get MLAA but sadly, no luck. So I did some digging, found out that 10.10e is the one to get for MLAA, got it, and I got MLAA but sadly it's not up to all the hype. Quality isn't any better than say Adaptive AA, and it chops framerate pretty well. AdaptiveAA works better and looks better without MLAA and it runs better too. Maybe only the 6000 series works as well as advertised.

its not as though every single problem in the world can be solved if you spend more time on it. the relatively new 6000 series has few customers sending in error reports while the 5000 series probably has lots.

thank you for being one of those stupid consumers that buys something the week it comes out and works out the kinks for the rest of us

sorry i know I sound like a jerk, but i couldnt resist