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YEah I just tried the 12.7 driver out of curiosity yesterday and man is it broken,skyrim crashes like crazy and get the display driver has stopped and recovered error and my games went 10fps down so I went back to 12.6 which performs well and gets higher fps. Put 12.6 back and got rid of the skyrim issue,amd still needs to work a lot more on this driver because right now 12.7 imo sucks and needs lots of issues fixed.
Indeed, 12.7 is Crashamatic - instant black screen lockups on the A-series I play with.
I too retreated to 12.4 - apparently 12.6 is uninstallable on AMD's own E-series .... if anyone can prove different I am ALL EARS
I'm currently running with this BETA, it could form the upcoming 12.8:
AMD Catalyst 12.x (8.982.0.0 RC1 July 19) Unofficial BETA - Guru3D.com Forums
- everything is OK, including crossfire..
- Skyrim runs OK, as does BF3, and Diablo3
- no problemo, etc, etc..
NB. - there's a list of supported cards - it includes "E" series..
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So there skipping 12.7 all together? nothing but Beta versions im not sure how solid these are because the 7 series cards still have issues
I get random driver crashes and sometimes lockup during Game play these 7970's aren't all that special when the drivers just plain out suck micro stutter and all
It's gotten better though
the AMD numbering system was kinda semi-abandoned a while back..
- there's quite a few 12.7 BETA's floating about, it's a question of finding the right one
- some are better than others at specific 7*** series cards, for example..
- seems it's a matter of picking the one that works best for your hardware..
- anything pre-5*** will use the 12.6 LEGACY driver, until it's updated..
- AMD say it'll be 6-monthly reviews for that one..
Last edited by BugMeister; 12 Aug 2012 at 07:42. Reason: missing words
AMD .com is Unavailable right now can't even get on the site
upstream error??????
I know that is not where the 12.x is but i wanted to see what was going on and nada
12.8 out today,
64 bit - AMD Catalyst
32 bit - AMD Catalyst
Release notes - AMD Catalyst
HD 5xxx series and up only.
Hello Richard,
It's still showing 12.6 at those links for me. Maybe they'll be updated later.