ATi Catalyst 11.2

ATi Catalyst 11.2

Windows 2000/XP/2003
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2...et_all_lang.exe
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_xp32_dd_ccc_enu.exe
Windows XP/2003 64bit
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2..._dd_ccc_enu.exe
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_xp64_dd_ccc_enu.exe
Windows Vista/7 32bit
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2..._dd_ccc_enu.exe
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_vista32_w..._dd_ccc_enu.exe
Windows Vista/7 64bit
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2..._dd_ccc_enu.exe
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_vista64_w..._dd_ccc_enu.exe

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...easeNotes.aspx

incl. OpenCL
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_vis...dd_ccc_ocl.exe
http://www2.ati.com/DRIVERS/11-2_vis...dd_ccc_ocl.exe

Downloading, thanks! No new CAPs yet? And what about the change log?

Edit: no CAP.
Get the full suite with OpenCL driver included here.
Change log:

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Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 Windows release includes:
New Features:
The new Catalyst Control Center features

• Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
  
  • The Quality setting has now been improved to match the High Quality setting in all respects but one; it enables an optimization that limits tri-linear anisotropic filtering to areas surrounding texture mipmap level transitions, while doing bilinear anisotropic filtering elsewhere. This optimization offers a way to improve filtering performance without visibly affecting image quality
  • The Performance setting has been updated to address the sharpness of the default Quality setting causing shimmering in certain cases. It now provides a smoother filtering option that eliminates most shimmering while preserving the improved detail provided by anisotropic filtering.
• Tessellation Controls
  
  • Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
  • New settings give users full control over the Tessellation levels used in applications.
    
    • The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting is intended to set the best level of Tessellation on a per application basis. The “AMD Optimized” setting is designed to help users get the maximum visual benefit of Tessellation, while minimizing the performance impact associated with enabling Tessellation. Currently no applications have been profiled.
    • The “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
• Morphological Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
  
  • AMD Catalyst now includes official support for Morphological Anti-Aliasing for the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series

Support Video Quality settings during Blu-ray 3D playback

• Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
• Requires Blu-ray 3D player software, 3D supported display and 3D Stereoscopic glasses
• Users can now enable the Video Quality settings within the Catalyst Control Center when playing Blu-ray 3D content

Performance Improvements:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops:
  
  • Performance increases up to 11% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing enabled
• Batman Arkham Asylum:
  
  • Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 software suite for Windows 7. These include:

• Corruption is no longer randomly observed running the Unigine Heaven benchmark.
• Texture corruption is no longer observed when running the Unigine Heaven benchmark with Super AA enabled in the Catalyst Control Center.
• HAWX no longer intermittently displays corruption when running in DirectX 9 mode.
• Visual corruption is no longer seen when running Lost Planet in DirectX 10 mode.
• Playing a 720p WMV format file no longer randomly causes laggy system performance.
• Video corruption no longer intermittently affects the display when playing a SD format DVD using Windows Media Player.
• Choppy video playback is no longer observed when playing a DVD with interlaced content using WinDVD 10.
• 8x Anti Aliasing is now correctly listed as available with certain 3D applications.
• The AMD Ladybug demo no longer freezes when viewed in camera mode.
• DirectX 9.0 games no longer show intermittent corruption at the bottom of one of the cloned displays.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

• Flickering is no longer randomly observed when applying Video Gamma settings.
• The system no longer hangs intermittently when playing Medal of Honor.
• Civilization V no longer generates a VPU Recovery faulty when Crossfire mode is enabled.
• Warhammer – Dawn of War 2 no longer randomly displays a wireframe when running at High game settings.

Known issues under the Windows 7 operating system
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• Texture corruption may be randomly observed when task switching from OpenGL applications with Super AA enabled.
• Texture corruption may be randomly observed when swapping displays with Open GL applications running and Super AA enabled.
• 3D Mark Vantage benchmark may randomly hang at the end of the benchmark.
• Playing Bioshock may display random corruption with Vsync and MLAA enabled.
• Water textures may display flickering in World of Warcraft with the AA filter set to “Edge Detect” and Crossfire enabled.
• Visual corruption may be randomly displayed playing Dirt2 in DirectX 11 mode and driving through water.

Known Issues under the Windows Vista Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• World of Warcraft may fail when alt-tabbing out and into the game.

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• Civilization V may stop responding during launch.
• Texture corruption may be observed running Quake 4.
• AVIVO settings my stop working intermittently.

Known Issues under all Windows Operating Systems
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under all supported Windows operating systems in the latest version of AMD Catalyst™. These include:

• LCD Overdrive settings may be lost when enabling/disabling Crossfire.
• OpenCL™ 1.1 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the AMD Catalyst™ Driver Suite and the ATI Stream SDK v2.3. If you require an OpenCL™ 1.1 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the AMD Catalyst™ 10.12 Driver Suite.

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Installing these made my CCC disappear. :|

Everything works fine for me. Using the OCL version.
Oh, and top right desktop corner laggy cursor bug is still there...

woot, no need to hack my drivers to get MAA options.

Fixed my problem. Just had to reinstall. No biggy.

wrong approach!!!!:(:rofl::down::slapass:
New settings give users full control over the Tessellation levels used in applications.

* The default selection “AMD Optimized” setting is intended to set the best level of Tessellation on a per application basis.

Tessellation levels should be set default by “Use Application Settings”. You can always change the settings on the AMD Optimized and reduce the quality of graphics.
Great idiocy to set like this.
Anyone who tests the graphics cards should know how to set Tessellation option -“Use Application Settings” to be fair.
What will be next?? DX9 default selection in DX11 games??

You get the best quality/performance ratio by default. Sounds like a sound approach to me, especially when some applications can go way overboard with tessellation with no noticeable image quality gains.
You don't like it? Pick a different setting. Big deal.

or pick a different vendor..... maybe nvidia..... or even better S3, surely they don't have that tessellation crap ;)

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Originally Posted by zalbard

You get the best quality/performance ratio by default. Sounds like a sound approach to me, especially when some applications can go way overboard with tessellation with no noticeable image quality gains.
You don't like it? Pick a different setting. Big deal.

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You allow them to reduce the detail by default. Do you have PC or Xbox?
This option you can always change by yourself to lower the quality of graphics if your graphics card can`t cope with Tessellation.
So tell me why you think this is good approach to set like this. To cheat me, you and XXX gamers.

the same thing you had with Anisotropic filtering for a few months.Now they improved finally.
let's be serious you pay for 100% not for 75% of your card.
default
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details you can lower by yourself if you like and not by someone

Check AVP DX11
HD6850
AMD Optimized
Avg: 47.8 Min: 23
Application Settings
Avg: 39.3 Min 25

Now you see what I mean.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6338/75642304.jpg
decisions I make it myself

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Originally Posted by Maxforces

You allow them to reduce the detail by default. Do you have PC or Xbox?
This option you can always change by yourself to lower the quality of graphics if your graphics card can`t cope with Tessellation.
So tell me why you think this is good approach to set like this. To cheat me, you and XXX gamers.

the same thing you had with Anisotropic filtering for a few months.Now they improved finally.
let's be serious you pay for 100% not for 75% of your card.
default
.
details you can lower by yourself if you like and not by someone

Check AVP DX11
HD6850
AMD Optimized
Avg: 47.8 Min: 23
Application Settings
Avg: 39.3 Min 25

Now you see what I mean.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6338/75642304.jpg
decisions I make it myself

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the default settings are maxed out, as they should be. I have no clue what you are ranting about. nVidia still has their default texture filtering set to "quality" vs "HQ", other than that, everything else is maxxed out.

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Originally Posted by kuroikenshi

or pick a different vendor..... maybe nvidia..... or even better S3, surely they don't have that tessellation crap ;)

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I don`t have to.Just don`t like someone is doing me::bananal:

These drivers are amazing... I used to get stuttering in Unigine benchmark pretty bad, but now it is silky smooth.

11.2
http://i.imgur.com/LwISB.jpg

10.12a? Don't remember.
http://i.imgur.com/TQfBt.jpg

EDIT: Re-running it with stuff closed and same settings as before.

EDIT2: updated scores with nothing running in the background and default CCC options.

11.2 CAP:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bw26zr6m8iessp2

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Originally Posted by Roadhog

These drivers are amazing... I used to get stuttering in Unigine benchmark pretty bad, but now it is silky smooth.

11.2
http://i.imgur.com/LwISB.jpg

10.12a? Don't remember.
http://i.imgur.com/TQfBt.jpg

EDIT: Re-running it with stuff closed and same settings as before.

EDIT2: updated scores with nothing running in the background and default CCC options.

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Nice scores man! What clocks on cards for that run?

Do i need to wait hotfix version for my 6970?

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Originally Posted by Kimofil

Nice scores man! What clocks on cards for that run?

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Stock clocks.

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February 16 2011 – Catalyst 11.2 CAP1

* ComputeMark v1.2: Improves CrossFire performance
* Breach – Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center has been disabled

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http://www.rage3d.com/cap/profiles/A..._11.2_CAP1.exe

I just installed these drivers, from a clean install because I did a sanitary erase on my ssds. I found that I can't enable crossfire with my 2x5770s. The option is greyed out.. any ideas?

Very nice drivers! Fix my issues with BC2 and MOH. Much smoother too... :up:

I havent seen any screen flashing sense using 11.2, on 11.1 it would happen every once and awhile, especially while playing BC2.

My 2D clocks are now lower >.<
Sometimes webpages will flicker, especially pages with flash now. Laggy cursor bug in top right of screen, kinda flickers around.

I hadn't updated since 10.10, maybe I shouldn't have.

Using 11.2 on W7-64/6970 and XP-32/5870.
Works well on both. Clockspeeds depend on how many monitors plugged in ATM.

I have a 4870X2 and a 4870 in tri-fire and with these drivers it's crash to desktop within a few minutes of playing BFBC2. I'm sure it's the trifire setup. Anything after 10.5 has not worked for me. Went back to 10.5 and got in a good hour of BFBC2 last night no problem. Guess it's time to upgrade these old cards...

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Originally Posted by BeepBeep2

My 2D clocks are now lower >.<
Sometimes webpages will flicker, especially pages with flash now. Laggy cursor bug in top right of screen, kinda flickers around.

I hadn't updated since 10.10, maybe I shouldn't have.

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I'm getting the same problem, also occasional hard freezes on the desktop. GG AMD :down:

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Originally Posted by QuantumPion

I'm getting the same problem, also occasional hard freezes on the desktop. GG AMD :down:

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I mean, I can run 8xAA and 8xAF with good results...

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Originally Posted by armeniandave

I have a 4870X2 and a 4870 in tri-fire and with these drivers it's crash to desktop within a few minutes of playing BFBC2. I'm sure it's the trifire setup. Anything after 10.5 has not worked for me. Went back to 10.5 and got in a good hour of BFBC2 last night no problem. Guess it's time to upgrade these old cards...

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It's not your fault that you haven't changed them, rather than AMD's who don't properly support them and don't care about the users... :down:

Indeed back in my 4870X2 days. Only 10.5 worked with BC2. After that everything got screwed...

I appreciate the support!
It's just a little frustrating that the drivers have gotten worse for my setup. I could see not getting significantly better but actually getting worse is amazing.
I understand AMD has no incentive to support my cards. It would be better to force me to eventually upgrade if I want to play my games with all the new shinyness. I'm 100% convinced I'll get a single strong GPU next time and stop messing with crossfire.

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Originally Posted by armeniandave

I appreciate the support!
It's just a little frustrating that the drivers have gotten worse for my setup. I could see not getting significantly better but actually getting worse is amazing.
I understand AMD has no incentive to support my cards. It would be better to force me to eventually upgrade if I want to play my games with all the new shinyness. I'm 100% convinced I'll get a single strong GPU next time and stop messing with crossfire.

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At least they fixed the 2D second core bug...my 4870X2 was performing worse than just one of my 5770's depending on the driver.

I'm tempted to test drivers out though

AMD Catalyst Application Profile - 11.2 CAP2 - 2/25/2011

Updated to 11.2 and now bc2 is back to doing the white screen freeze.

This week I've really been considering a 6850 but after this thread even a GTX 460 768mb version is sounding good. Seriously why can't AMD ever get their crap together and just put out good drivers.

Maybe it is not the drivers. I play BFBC2 with 11.2 and have no problems, even in 3D too.

they work perfectly here.

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Originally Posted by PaganII

Maybe it is not the drivers. I play BFBC2 with 11.2 and have no problems, even in 3D too.

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Originally Posted by Roadhog

they work perfectly here.

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I assume it is the drivers since after updating, it stopped working :shrug:

Going to uninstall and go fresh with the 11.1's

update:
uninstalled from windows, deleted the ati and amd folders under c:
uninstalled msi afterburner
booted into safe mode, used drive sweeper
boot into windows, installed 11.2's
installed trixx

played bc2 for about 45 mins with no issues! :)

Had Catalyst 10.11 before, no issues...

updated to 11.2 following the above procedure and cursor lags randomly all over my desktop , not only upper right screen...

Anybody who thinks ATI need to go back to the drawing board and re-write their Catalyst drivers from scratch raise your hand...

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Originally Posted by Ket

Anybody who thinks ATI need to go back to the drawing board and re-write their Catalyst drivers from scratch raise your hand...

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+1

Amen brother....

I can't believe how great of hardware they can put out in such a short amount of time. But creating drivers to run it seems like it's done with a very dysfunctional bunch.

Not just dysfunctional, slackers too it seems. I can't remember the guys name but hes always putting up pointless tweets on twitter about what concert hes been to, indeed, it always seems like hes at concerts and never doing his job :down:

Well, heres my first error ever with ati.
Anybody playing bulletstorm on HD69xx ?
Some shadows are all :banana::banana::banana::banana:ed up and setting high gfx details gives you only half of the screen with the postprocessing done :-/.
Anybody have found workaround to this ?

I am, bulletstorm is pretty buggy man, not sure if thats a pure ATI problem. Do some looking around on that game, NV is plagued probably worse than ATI

Nah, ive read bout it, this particular "bug" is present only on HD69xx hardware, VLIW5 ati cards and nvida ones do just fine.
And that sucks ,cause this game is awesome.
Really, Kill with skill.

Meh its fun game but not worth 60 bux, turn down PP and it goes away and it really makes no difference visually

It feels like the driver team is not in sync with the CAPs team...

broken driver -> hot fixed driver -> broken caps - > fixed caps - > broken driver -> fixed (hotfix) driver -> broken caps, etc....

I'm still on 11.1a hotfix leaked driver and no caps. Just run Radeon Pro to setup my own profiles and deal with bug work arounds until the next hotfix driver. :D

Removing the cursor shadow will cure the mouse lagg in the upper right corner.

Im wondering if anyone have been able to force maximum performance clocks, this is really essential to me since i have massive screen tears when the memory clock speed changes wich it often does when im surfin the web or just using random programs. Would really appritiate some help with this problem.

Cheers.