New Catalyst 10.12

[generics_user]

Update:

Final version @AMD: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...downloads.aspx

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New Catalyst 10.12 Beta driver is available now:

- link outdated -

Changes:

High Quality AF Mode is new default setting for 6xxx series
New Catalyst Control Center with Explorer Style menu and shortcuts
AMD Branded
Support for 6900 Series

it's a huge improvement form the old CCC and a must have for everyone with an AMD (ati) card (those drop-down menus were a real PITA)

[Sn0wm@n]

maybe this will improve the cayman scores ....

[STEvil]

does it still need .net?

[zerazax]

Modded from a chipset driver?

[G.Foyle]

Looks more like a 10.11 driver with new UI. Waiting for real 10.12...

[god_43]

does it still need .net?

whats wrong with .net? its a great platform.

[stasio]

4 days old news and it's still under Catalyst 10.11.
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...ndows_all.aspx
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...9&postcount=16

[zanzabar]

when are the official drivers out, it should be soon right

[bill_d]

when are the official drivers out, it should be soon right

with the 6900's most like

[Nikolasz]

whats wrong with .net? its a great platform.

Lol tell me abaut that, driver + ccc+ net =500 mb
It will be better to have ati driver without net

Nvidia got 90mb - max 130mb huge driver.
at pc begining graphic driver was 50kb-100kb-500kb-1mb

[generics_user]

Lol tell me abaut that, driver + ccc+ net =500 mb
It will be better to have ati driver without net

Nvidia got 90mb - max 130mb huge driver.
at pc begining graphic driver was 50kb-100kb-500kb-1mb

at this time hard drives had 80mb....

[flopper]

at this time hard drives had 80mb....

and people used floppy, lp and other things.
which we dont use today.

[SubZero.it]

whats wrong with .net? its a great platform.

Great platform?

[RejZoR]

Lol, why do ppl always associate bad programming with a plaform. Original CCC was rubbish and then the idea spread like wildfire that .NET is the cause for it. Well, Paint.NET is written in .NET as well. Is it bad? No, far from it.

[NaMcO]

.NET sucks as it has to load a zillion libraries prior to loading the app itself. Plus it's sluggish stuff.

[Dimitriman]

I like that new default setting is high quality for 6800 series. That should close a few mouthes already.

[zalbard]

maybe this will improve the cayman scores ....

Curious about that, also.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Where is 10.12?

It even says 10.11 in the picture that you linked. I'll be sticking with 10.10e which I'm pretty sure is a newer driver anyways.

[Biznatch]

I rolled back from 10.11 to 10.10 since the drivers caused some crazy half screen flickering that required a restart to get rid of on my 5850. Hopefully these aren't so bad.

[danielkza]

.NET sucks as it has to load a zillion libraries prior to loading the app itself. Plus it's sluggish stuff.

How is it different from loading the dozens of DLLs implicitly or explicitly involved in even the most basic compiled executable?

And being sluggish is a fault of the program itself. .NET has a JIT compiler that is quite reasonable, and caches quite a bit of itself in compiled form already (that's why installing it takes so long).

[445533]

Will this be a 200mb download?

[RaZz!]

will users on winxp benefit from the new ccc layout as well or is it vista/7 only?

[SKYMTL]

Curious about that, also.

Since these have been posted, you may as well know: the beta drivers with Cayman cards ARE 10.12, just without a WHQL certificate. In addition, the new control panel doesn't necessarily mean they are 10.12 drivers since for the next few months, the new CCC with be rolled out IN PARALLEL with the old control panel as the kinks are worked out.

[generics_user]

Since these have been posted, you may as well know: the beta drivers with Cayman cards ARE 10.12, just without a WHQL certificate. In addition, the new control panel doesn't necessarily mean they are 10.12 drivers since for the next few months, the new CCC with be rolled out IN PARALLEL with the old control panel as the kinks are worked out.

good to know, i thought that the new driver model number was a 10.12 beta version

[Peakr]

AMD's drivers need serious de-bloating. Game demo's, commercial adds, some kind of communication program to send you spam? Are you kidding me? It's almost as bad as the yahoo toolbar.