Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

GTA IV (and EFLC) performance is still crap with these beta drivers. Still hoping AMD will fix this issue. Back to 10.10e for now (will try out 11 series when official released again).

tw33k said:

AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hot-Fix Drivers Coming Today!

Source

Yep, good stuff.



AMD's upcoming Catalyst 11.1

[H]ard|OCP - AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hot-Fix Driver Information

Beta:
(good and stable)
(this is beta for Windows 7)

AMD Catalyst 11.1a Hotfix (BETA 8.82.2) download from Guru3D.com


Officially Catalyst 11 will be available soon at Graphics Drivers & Software


New features for both ATI 5 and 6000 series:

(enabled for 5000 cards without registry hacks)

- Tesselation control slider
- Morphological AA




New Tessellation Controls:

The Catalyst Control Center includes an early prototype of some new tessellation controls. Our goal is to give users full control over the tessellation levels used in applications. The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting allows AMD, on a per application basis, to set the best level of tessellation. The intention is to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the impact on performance. Currently no applications have been profiled, so the “AMD Optimized” setting will be non-operational until further notice.
“Use Application Settings” option gives applications full control over the Tessellation level. Users can also manually set the maximum tessellation level used by applications with the slider control

The long term goal for the “AMD Optimized” setting is to use the Catalyst Application Profile mechanism to control the AMD recommended level of tessellation on a per application basis. AMD’s intention is to set the tessellation level such that we will not be reducing image quality in any way that would negatively impact the gaming experience.


Tesselation 64X:







Tesselation 2X:






AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
3DMark06 improves ~3%
Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels


AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:

Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%
Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series:
Battleforge DirectX 11 performance improves as much as 6%

Catalyst 11.1 is now available,

Downloads

Release notes,

AMD Catalyst

If you're using the 11.1 hotfix driver from last week you may want to give this a miss as it is older than the hotfix driver.

Anyone notice with the newest drivers if their cards are are downclocking properly? I could have sworn with 10.10e at idle my 6870 was dropping to 100mhz core clock and now its only dropping to 300mhz.

Anyone one else notice there a slight delay when right clicking on the desktop with the last two driver updates with the new control panel?

I was having problems with my system and thought the delay was just another issue so I wound up reinstalling the OS. Anyways to make a long story short there was no delay prior to installing the Catalyst drivers. Now that the drivers are installed there is this short delay again, I'm thinking it has something to do with the new control panel.

The other reason I think it's the control panel is because Windows installed some of my drivers including the video card drivers during install and there was definitely no delay when right clicking the desktop, but again, now that the full catalyst package is installed, the delay is there. Never had this with the old panel.

Anyone else have or notice this?

Thanks.