Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[brianzion]

August 17, 2011

11.8 is released.

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thanks Airbot for posting

 

[Corpsecrank]

If you have a 4800 series card I do not recommend using catalyst 11.8. We installed 11.8 on a system with an XFX 4850 and it caused the screen to go blank every time. 11.8 did however run fine in that same system with a much older card so I believe this problem is specific to the 4800 series.

 

[stormy13]

No problems here at all with the 11.8 on my 4830. Then again it's as they say, ever system is different even with identical hardware and maybe there was something in yours that disagreed with the 11.8.

 

[panais]

If you have a 4800 series card I do not recommend using catalyst 11.8. We installed 11.8 on a system with an XFX 4850 and it caused the screen to go blank every time. 11.8 did however run fine in that same system with a much older card so I believe this problem is specific to the 4800 series.

For me is working just fine!

ATI Sapphire HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 Overclock Edition.

 

[Corpsecrank]

Yeah I'm not sure what is up with this then but it does not work at all. I tried getting the driver from more than one place also just to make sure it was not a bad copy.

I would still like someone with a 4850 to confirm that it works just because but there should be little difference between a 4830 4850 or 4870 etc.

The board is one of the new gigabyte UD3 that supports the amd f1 apu I am thinking that may even have something to do with this but it is really hard to narrow it down.

either way I would be careful if you have the 4800 series cards if it happened once it could happen again.

 

[Corpsecrank]

I just got done installing 11.8 on a completely different platform with a completely different 4850 xfx card and again the system is hanging.

This confirms for sure that there is a problem with this version of catalyst and the xfx 4850 card. There is no way this could be caused by anything else at this point.

This time around I used my old lady's card and installed it on an Am2+ setup and again the system froze up as soon as I tried to do anything at all on it.

I am going to have to try to remove 11.8 and go back to a previous version now.

I may try installing it on this system since I have the xfx 6970 and see what happens.

 

[Blackshadow]

I have terrible problem with 11.8 version ,
Previous version 11.6 running good , But when i updating to 11.8 all installation went well but ATI VISION Catalyst Control center Not Installing , at the time of install it Hangs and never stops , i waited 1 hour but no response . Other work on my PC is fine , Only installation remains continue


Anyone can solve it ?

I have XFX ATI READOEN 5670 HD 1GB DDR5 Card

 

[brianzion]

I have terrible problem with 11.8 version ,
Previous version 11.6 running good , But when i updating to 11.8 all installation went well but ATI VISION Catalyst Control center Not Installing , at the time of install it Hangs and never stops , i waited 1 hour but no response . Other work on my PC is fine , Only installation remains continue


Anyone can solve it ?

I have XFX ATI READOEN 5670 HD 1GB DDR5 Card

hi
here on filehippo you should be able to download older versions hope this is of some help to you >>> Download AMD Catalyst Drivers 11.8 Vista 64 - Technical Details - FileHippo.com

 

[kpo6969]

AMD Catalyst 11.9 RCx (8.89 August 10) Win7/Vista/XP/Mobility (Mod)

AMD Catalyst 11.9 RCx (8.89 August 10) Win7/Vista/XP/Mobility (Mod) - Guru3D.com Forums

 

[jumanji]

^ that is a mod version that doesn't say what it fixes. Should people who are having problems with 11.8 beta test it?

 

[kpo6969]

It's modded for mobility only.

 

[Corpsecrank]

Yeah I would wait for an official fix that specifically states what has changed and that it will solve the problem we have.

I was unable to get a help request through the AMD site since it was flooded and it kicked back as undelivered.

I did send in a ticket to XFX though so we will see where that goes.

UPDATE:

I managed to get through to AMD and I also got a reply back from XFX.

From AMD:
Response and Service Request History:
if you have had no problems with the previous driver version and the problems started just with the newest one, please roll back to the Catalyst 11.7 version. Namely, we expect the newest driver version to come out in the next 7-10 days.
Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation. If you encounter similar problems with the newest driver version again, please let us know and this ticket will be processed with the highest priority.


I also am working with XFX at the moment. They tested all the cards I mentioned and said it was not a wide spread issue but was still an issue and asked me for a few additional bits of info.



I hope the update from AMD corrects this issue though.


Anyhow that is what I got so far.

 

[Miranova23]

I believe I'm also having this problem with my XFX Radeon HD 6850. Ever since I installed the update, the screen freezes up within seconds. That is-- unless I quickly jumpstart my AMD Core Line program. If that is running, it's fine. If it isn't, it freezes. Normally, it would start itself at startup.

Is this just the same issue you're discussing here? If so I'll have to just wait for a fix, I suppose. If not, I'll go start another thread to help solve this mystery. :huh:

 

[Corpsecrank]

I did hear back from XFX.

Here is what they sent me:

We have seen a similar behavior reported for the 4850 units beyond 11.5 driver, and are checking into it. So you should be able to load the 11.5 driver without a problem on these units. The 6970 has no known issues with the latest 11.8 driver package. - Erik

I am running the 6970 so I specifically asked about that card. The biggest issue seems to be 4850 cards and is pretty specific to that exact model however that does not rule out that there are problems with other models. It does mean that a variety of 4850 cards will see issues in this case tested and proven on the xfx 4850 cards.

The last reply I got back from AMD about this issue they simply told me that there would be a new driver release soon and that I should wait and see if that resolved the issue and if it did not I should reply back to the ticket and they would look into it as a high priority issue.

 

[Miranova23]

I rolled back my driver to 8.861 (for the 6850). I'll see if that helps when I start up again- ... tomorrow.

 

[Corpsecrank]

I installed 11.8 on my xfx 6970 and it works fine. I think it actually fixed some things for this card.

 

[p5200]

Is this the correct update for a HIS 4850 Card also? Thanks!

 

[Brink]

Hello p5200,

Yes, that card is included as well for the 11.8 AMD driver version.

 

[p5200]

Thanks very much Brink! sorry about quoting the entire post

 

[p5200]

I've upgraded and so far every thing seems fine.