AMD Releases New Preview Driver for Battlefield 3, Rage

Hopefully this fixes the hud glitches in eyefinity!

I noticed that no AA didn't improve FPS for me. I hope to see a boost in FPS now.

I have a feeling that someone or maybe more than just 1 person will complain about BD not being released yet. Oct. 12 is the official release date (Microcenter confirmed it and has the CPUs in stock, but not for sale; TigerDirect had a few combos up with the BD CPUs, but were taken down because BD is not to be listed on any site yet).

Nice but I just ordered a GTX 580 3Gb version to replace my aging 5870 from 2 years ago. Was getting 30fps with the 5870 at 2560 x 1600, the new 580 3gb should double that hopefully!

Nice but i just got a mac book pro to update my pc from 5 years ago. Its faster and doesnt get viruses.

Fail consumer/troll is fail

This was out a few days ago.

No stuttering fix?

Still their drivers suck. I got CrossfireX HD6970 and in most cases i am running single card, cause of negative Crossfire performance in lot of games. I wish Tomshardware next time they do video card review point out real issues. Fifa 2012 -> broken, Dungeon Siege III -> broken, Homefront -> acts weird crossfirex works and it doesn't. F1 2011 -> broken. The thing is you can't make these games run ok unless you manually disable CrossfireX. HD6xxx or any ATI card in past was my worst purchase ever. I always think based on review that they got their shit together but reality is they are still pile of crap. Good hardware but software makes not worth a low end GTX240. It blows! Maybe sounds like rant but i am frustrated and pissed of things people get mislead. AMD/ATI joke company is still fixing some old games. Speaking of any new game...good luck getting it working propertly in the next 6 months. Just like i did with HD5870, these are going to garbage, i mean literally cause i don't want anyone else suffer.

Hello GTX580!

and cost you three times more than it should.

*Me reading the title*:
"AMD Releases New Preview...." YES,YES, YES "Driver for Battlefield 3, Rage" Fuuuuuuuuu

Just out of curiosity when would you use a 5x1 configuration in portrait mode?

I haven't had an issue with CrossFire at all. I bought a second HD 6750 for a mid-end gaming PC and it works fine for me. No issues at all, though I feel as though there are issues will installation (keep getting an error message since one program doesn't install; might already have it installed though). Be glad your paying for a new arch from the HD 5000 series to the HD 6000 series (though the drivers need bit of work). At least they didn't do what Nvidia did: rebrand their GTX 400 Thermi series to the GTX 500 series.

I'm curious to hear from any rage owners if this helped with the performance at all- seems like it would be a worthwhile game if it would run well

Didn't we already agree that AMD can't announce anything other than Bulldozer.

Still runs like poo. Well okay, it runs well as long as it is running. Game frequently crashes for me though. I can't tell you if it is just a bug in the game, or if it is a driver issue, as it just quits with no error message.

Battlefield 3, on the other hand.... significantly better performance (5-10fps) over the previous preview driver.

Radeon HD 6870, by the way.

I was actually thinking the same thing.

No.

Awesome! Good to see performance enhancements for those of us still sporting 4000 series GPU's.

And you obviously cant play crysis...
or wait, make that battlefield 3 now...
i somehow doubt you even get 30 fps on portal 2...

btw no viruses but it can get hacked "like a boss"...

AMD driver fix doesn't work for Radeon 4870.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zYV0NRyXPs

Direct X is used for these games, right? Why do they not follow the console model and have the Direct X API for PC video cards be standard across the board then the game would have to conform to the driver instead of this never ending custom driver crap.

if you want uniform hardware and software go fire up your xbox or ps3 -- the strength of a PC environment is that you can run exactly what YOU want. If you don't like how slow it is... upgrade... if you aren't happy with the driver tweak and experiment with your own.

Why would a unified driver for competing companies exist in the first place? That's like saying all Ford and all chevy cars have to run on the same exact camshaft and same have the same ECU installed.

Why is there a strong movement in this country to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator? All of our games are being made for the most dumb, the laziest, our political system caters to the uneducated greedy people, nobody ever wants to try and figure anything out on their own these days it seems.

I've been getting the same error message for three versions now. When I looked at the log, I saw that the included C++ version failed the installation, turns out that I've installed a more recent version of the C++ and the program just says it failed. But everything is working flawlessly

Any news on any patches about the broken a** pc version of Rage?
It is making me rage!

I'm right there with you. This is getting painful....

Installed them and still a lot stuttering is there. Maybe lowering the settings could help, but this can't be done at least for now. ID should have given us more video settings' options.

My Rig: i7 950, 4 cores, 8GB Ram, HD4870 crossifirex
First I run RAGE with RAGE Update1 in crossfire with AMD driver 11.9, after cinematics I got a white screen and the game did not load. I disabled crossifre and was able to play the game but textures loaded whenever I turned around (most common issue reported in all other forums) I had stuttering and low FPS even at 1024x768. I uninstalled 11.9 driver and AMD profile (profiles do not work with this Preview driver, this is also clearly stated at AMD's official site). After a clean uninstallation I installed this preview driver. I can now run the game in crossfire mode at 1600x1200, maxed out, all problems dissolved. This is a must download if you want to run RAGE like butter.

Yea, but on RAGE, not BF3. I'm sure I can still play BF3 with my 4870, but I'm going to have to finally.. -gulp- turn down the graphics..

I wish my stupid Sapphire 5870 card would run windows 7 with any driver from 2011. Even on a fresh SP1 install it goes black screen and reboots mid driver install. What gives!!!

The game has been crashing on me in Campaign and Multiplayer modes. The game will freeze, BSOD will pop up for a second, and then my PC restarts. Running Windows 7 Home 64-bit, 8 GB RAM, ATI 6850 with the 11.9 Catalyst driver package, so maybe this might help.

does this fit screen tearing with dvi+dp? if it doesn't, then it's just another fail