Catalyst 8.1 final released!

[afireinside]

Yeah wtf is that square I have it as well.

[[XC] Lead Head]

It's spying on you.

[Dimitriman]

*I can't see the square normally but if i minimize and maximize a window quickly it can definitely see it in that corner.

*Color bug still remains for me, running Single card 3870 WinXP 32.

[zanzabar]

i have the square also, but if i take a SS its a grey square

[Dimitriman]

who programs these drivers...

really...

what good are 2FPS extra in games if u get what looks like a perfect gathering of 50 dead pixels on your screen and wrong color on web browsing that just wont go away.

[003]

I have just installed the 8.1 catalyst (not the hotfix version) on XP x64 and I do not get the wrong colors in FF nor am I getting that square.

But I still would like clarification: Which drivers are newer? The official 8.1 or the 8.1 hotfix? There have been reports going either way. Please someone verify this by checking the version numbers listed in CCC, not what windows might tell you.

[EvilBellyLint]

so far what I see is peeps with P35 boards not seeing any improvement
in Crossfire with this patch. But could someone with an actual 790FX
chipset please report back as to any performance increase?

(in-game performance please, not benchmarks...)


TY


EBL

[Brother Esau]

Yes Drivers Rock Crysis is now Playable!

[EvilBellyLint]

Yes Drivers Rock Crysis is now Playable!

cool brutha. If you get some time, pls post some results!
(doesn't have to be screenies -- text will do fine )

EBL

[Brother Esau]

Here is My first Official Result......My $50.00 CRYSIS game is Now Playable

[EvilBellyLint]

Here is My first Official Result......My $50.00 CRYSIS game is Now Playable

EBL

[G.Foyle]

Hotfix its not for HD3000 series

I went to AMD knowledge base, clicked on HD3850, and there was a link to this hotfix. I guess it is for HD3xx0 series, but they forgot to write it.

And I am not saying it's newer - but it has higher version number.

EDIT: Rofl, VIsta 32 here amd I have a white square

[malik22]

I went to AMD knowledge base, clicked on HD3850, and there was a link to this hotfix. I guess it is for HD3xx0 series, but they forgot to write it.

And I am not saying it's newer - but it has higher version number.

EDIT: Rofl, VIsta 32 here amd I have a white square

Could you give a link for the 3870hotfix and for the whitedot go open CCC-preferences-enable system try menu that will get rid of it.

[ownage]

Here is My first Official Result......My $50.00 CRYSIS game is Now Playable

You mean you have a big FPS increase or are the lightning bugs gone?

[zanzabar]

Could you give a link for the 3870hotfix and for the whitedot go open CCC-preferences-enable system try menu that will get rid of it.

that dosnt get rid of it on vista 64

[G.Foyle]

Could you give a link for the 3870hotfix and for the whitedot go open CCC-preferences-enable system try menu that will get rid of it.

Link:
AMD Customer Care Site Map > Radeon Support - PC > Radeon HD 3870 > Knowledge base > Gaming > Gaming
Link #16 is: Catalyst 8.1 hotfix

And disabling tray menu helped.

[Brother Esau]

You mean you have a big FPS increase or are the lightning bugs gone?

No I actually mean its playable! After the First Alien Encounter with the Frozen ship it all started going down hill and getting laggy and unplayable which ultimately led to Hard Locking when saving game or reaching check points right before and after excavation site and then it would go no further that was the cut off with my game play with patch 1.1 & CAT 7.12 but now its all good

[fragmasterMax]

man this is disappointing.
looks like no go on 2900pro cf

[roadie]

Well hopefully they fixed the stupid Firefox color bug.

So that is what was causing the funny colours! I actually found it a little useful, as it would highlight searched terms but prefer the default settings. I will install these drivers tonight, I wonder if they fixed the Overdrive settings, as 7.12 would take my card's core up to 945Mhz before restarting. It would then crash every time the drivers tried to load when rebooting, necessitating booting in safe mode and reinstalling the drivers.

[nate39]

Bro. Esau,

I see you are using Powercolor 3870s. I only have one but it has that core 860 limit. Do yours and if so, did you flash them? And if so, did that take care of the problem? My friends Sapphire didn't have the problem, yet the Powercolor tech tells me that all the companies get the same bios from ATI.

thanks

[Unbornchild]

Try the 'Sapphire' bios then, see http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=173510 for link.

[HKPolice]

So what's the final verdict on the firefox colour bug? Also WTF with that tiny square? Spyware??

[Dimitriman]

So what's the final verdict on the firefox colour bug? Also WTF with that tiny square? Spyware??

Color poop is absolutely still there for me.

anyway to report this back to AMD? if enough people do it I'm sure it will get fixed by next version.

[MGreg]

No luck with these drivers and 2900xt's for me, not sure if its cause I have overclocked or what, but 7.12 made my max oc w/o instability 850 core, now I have no idea.

I am going back to 7.11 so I can get my 950 game stable again.

These ones 3dmark06 is like half the screen is not in sync with the other half. Same with games.

[newls1]

SLY FOX

Just a few questions: When you go into GPU-Z, what does it say for crossfire? Does it say "enabled" using 1 GPU, "enabled" using 2 GPUs. I ask cause you and I had the EXACT SAME ISSUES Prior to my Asus Maximus X38 motherboard that im using now, I was using my trusty P5K-DLX P35 motherboard with the 16x 4x limitation. When using x-fire on the P35 chipset, GPU-z would report CROSSFIRE as "ENABLED" using "1" GPU . Which if you ask me doesnt sound right , how can x-fire be enabled, but use only 1 gpu? My 3dmark scores were only 15xxx and that also couldnt be right. Games plays laggy, and over all, my single 8800GTS 640mb card provided a better and smoother gaming experience. I got so fed up with the crap, that I took a chance and "rolled the dice" with a X38 based chipset motherboard in the hopes that this could fix my issues. I ordered my current motherboard which is a Asus Maximus Formula X38.

After doing a fresh format of XP home 32bit, installing the newest intel INF drivers, latest DX update, and (at that time) the 7.11 driver (7.12 sucked) reboot, enabled x-fire in CCC, reboot again, installed GPUz and BAM!! it now reads "CROSSFIRE ENABLED using "2" GPUs . I said to myself, now this makes sense . I overclocked all my cards to 860c/2600mem, then rebooted again.........INstalled 3dmark06 and achieved my score of 20,600k Now isnt that better? games played great (UT3, HL2 EP2) and I am really happy with the purchase of the X38. Try it if you can.