Catalyst 11.2 is out

[onethreehill]

Download
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...downloads.aspx

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

[shoota]

Woohoo! Just in time for my new 5830 that gets here tomorrow

[Monkeywoman]

Download
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...downloads.aspx

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

so i guess the hotfix is a couple days away?


d/l right now, presently have 10.11 installed :^/

[autobot]

I have a new Sapphire HD6870 and I can't install any driver past 10.11 otherwise I get constant black flashing on my screen. I've tried 11.2 with no avail. Right now I'm running 10.10e.

[screwtech02]

Seems to have issues from over @ the AMD/ATI forums.....

[Mad Pistol]

Running these now.

So far, these have been fantastic for my 5870. Morphological AA, Tessellation control, rock solid in games, no stability problems.

I really hope I don't run into any problems with these. I'm really impressed so far.

[Final8ty]

Seems to have issues from over @ the AMD/ATI forums.....

There will never be NV or ATI driver that no one will have an issue with.

[CedricFP]

There will never be NV or ATI driver that no one will have an issue with.

Simply too many configurations of OS installs and peripheral software for that to ever happen.

[slaveondope]

There will never be NV or ATI driver that no one will have an issue with.

SIG worthy

[DeadlyFire]

Highlights

Highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.2 Windows release includes:

Performance Improvements:

* Call of Duty: Black Ops:
o Performance increases up to 11% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single card configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing enabled

* Batman Arkham Asylum:
o Performance increases up to 4% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series single configurations with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing disabled.

New Features:

The new Catalyst Control Center features

* Catalyst AI Texture Filtering updates
o 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
o 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
o Supported on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series and the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series
o 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
o 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

[zalbard]

I really hope I don't run into any problems with these. I'm really impressed so far.

Try moving your mouse to the top right corner of the screen and back...

[Final8ty]

Simply too many configurations of OS installs and peripheral software for that to ever happen.

And many enthusiasts love to mess around with the OS way to much & end up breaking compatibility for whatever reasons.

But there are still many genuine issues to resolve but its not helped by the usage of driver cleaners.

[Final8ty]

Try moving your mouse to the top right corner of the screen and back...

Took me till today to to find out where to put the mouse to see that issue.

[zalbard]

Took me till today to to find out where to put the mouse see that issue.

Yeah, I could only spot it because I read about it on forums. Seems to be around for a while, though...

[iddqd]

doesn't seem to do anything on the desktop, but it puts a lot of games into lagmode. disabling the mouse cursor shadow helps that a little.

also, before 10.11 (i think) it just sometimes corrupted the texture of the mouse pointer rather than cause horrible lag. i think i prefer the fragmented cursor to lagmode.

[Mad Pistol]

Try moving your mouse to the top right corner of the screen and back...

I never even knew about that until you mentioned it.

Funny little bug.


EDIT: The reason I never noticed it is because I'm running dual screens. The bug happens on my secondary screen, not my primary.

In other words, it's a non-issue for me. Still, AMD needs to fix that.

[Final8ty]

I never even knew about that until you mentioned it.

Funny little bug.


EDIT: The reason I never noticed it is because I'm running dual screens. The bug happens on my secondary screen, not my primary.

In other words, it's a non-issue for me. Still, AMD needs to fix that.

I'm running 3 screens & it does it on all 3.

[Johnny87au]

Still getting better performance running 10.12 whql in bfbc..

[Mad Pistol]

I'm running 3 screens & it does it on all 3.

Maybe it affects eyefinity setups. It's not affecting my setup. Also, we have different video cards. They're both based on the Cypress core (Hemlock for you), but they are physically different.

[god_43]

Try moving your mouse to the top right corner of the screen and back...

nothing happens for me?

[Final8ty]

Maybe it affects eyefinity setups. It's not affecting my setup. Also, we have different video cards. They're both based on the Cypress core (Hemlock for you), but they are physically different.

I'm not in Eyefinty.

[blindbox]

I hope they fixed what they broke. Edge detect AA was missing from 4xxx series on Cat 11.1, so I've been on Catalyst 10.12 for ages. Can't wait to get back home and give these a try.

[Karam]

Yeah, I could only spot it because I read about it on forums. Seems to be around for a while, though...

yeah, a friend found it 1 year ago, I was suprised when he told me about it recently.

It can be fixed by disabling mouse pointer shadow ( edit : in performance options)

[Pantsu]

So nothing new compared to 11.1a? I hope they'd fix changing presets between multiple displays. Now they just get messed up and eventually crash...

[sniper_sung]

So this is like period thread. Standard template:

OP: Catalyst version x.y is out.
#1: unstable fps in XXX. rolled back to x.(y-1).
#2: holy cr@p they still haven't fixed blah blah.
#3: wtf I get bsod...
#4: hotfix inc soon

That's why I still stay with 10.3 for my 5870 CrossfireX lol