ATi 11.5a hotfix driver...

[newls1]

anyone install them yet? what are your opinions???

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=344093

[Swiftdeathz]

I installed them right over the 11.4 WHQL's, haven't gamed on them yet but will report if any problems.

[zalbard]

Mouse lag issue is still not fixed.
AMD SteadyVideo is greyed out for me for whatever reason (2x 6970).

[sam3]

Changelog

• Includes performance optimizations and resolves various quality issues for the upcoming release of BrinkTM
• Resolves various transcoding video lagging issues seem when converting multiple H.264 clips to MPEG2 Blu-ray video
• Resolves the intermittent mouse cursor lag issue seen by some users
• Resolves intermittent flickering issues seen in the following applications in a system using an AMD RadeonTM HD 6600 series graphics card with DDR3 memory and running in DirectX® 9 mode:

Civilization 5
Dead Rising 2
Fallout 3
Mafia 2
NBA 2010
ShenGuiChuanQi
Starcraft 2
Warcraft III
World of Warcraft

[newls1]

any1 run any performance tests yet????

[sam3]

People have said enabling/disabling mouse cursor shadow has fixed the lag for them. Havent tested the drivers myself yet.

[Warwian]

The cursor lag disappeared in games for me with the 11.5a hotfix. But it is still apparent when I'm not gaming, for example when I'm browsing the web or doing other such tasks in Windows. Which seems strange!

[Spyrus]

^^ This is the common problem - in 2d cursor lag - games is less usual

[wez]

any1 run any performance tests yet????

11.4 -> 11.5 hotfix, gained 20p in 3dm11 ^^

[Warwian]

^^ This is the common problem - in 2d cursor lag - games is less usual

Yeah, you are absolutely right! But I experienced the cursor lag in World of Warcraft and Shogun 2 aswell. After the 11.5a hotfix the lag is gone in these games. I guess it's better than nothing! Still waiting for a true fix though.

[gjeewaytee]

Crap...Both the official 11.5 and the 11.5a hotfix version overrides my settings in Trixx. I make an adjustment in Trixx and after a 2-3 secounds CCC takes it all back....Annoying

[HelixPC]

Crap...Both the official 11.5 and the 11.5a hotfix version overrides my settings in Trixx. I make an adjustment in Trixx and after a 2-3 secounds CCC takes it all back....Annoying

Use a tool called, racerx, made by bagglazash or something, i dont have the link, but you can find it at techpowerup.com, it fixed my issue with this.

[Ket]

Why do people insist on using software to OC their hardware? So n00bish it makes me cry

[BeepBeep2]

Why do people insist on using software to OC their hardware? So n00bish it makes me cry

All I read from you these days is trolling. You seemed to leave and then came back again a bitter man. You used to try to make helpful statements, and you helped the community. I want that Ket back.

[InCredible]

Why do people insist on using software to OC their hardware? So n00bish it makes me cry

just curious pro, what do you use to clock that sick 460?

[Warwian]

just curious pro, what do you use to clock that sick 460?

I'd guess he does that through custom BIOSes. Personally I just can't justify all the work flashing cards when software made everything so easy. Especially when you own a card which already has unlocked voltage.

[zalbard]

Why do people insist on using software to OC their hardware? So n00bish it makes me cry

Yeah, so all the top WW overclockers using SmartDoctor and AB are noobs... Yeah, right...

On a more positive and useful note, here's AMD 11.5 CAP1 (thanks to asder00). No release notes that I know of.

[InCredible]

I'd guess he does that through custom BIOSes. Personally I just can't justify all the work flashing cards when software made everything so easy. Especially when you own a card which already has unlocked voltage.

Well as of right now can't flash clocks on a 6950 with 6970 shaders unlocked so you have no other option..just saying

[Ket]

Yeah, so all the top WW overclockers using SmartDoctor and AB are noobs... Yeah, right...

On a more positive and useful note, here's AMD 11.5 CAP1 (thanks to asder00). No release notes that I know of.

Yes, software OCing is n00bish. Doesn't get any more simplistic than Software OCing. It doesn't matter how somebody cools something to OC, at the end of the day give something enough cold and volts anybody can be considered a "great" OCer, its not difficult Things just seem more impressive because WR holders are usually sponsored and usually have cherry picked hardware. A touch of class, or as some may call it the gentlemans approach such as with vBIOS mods goes a long way.

[zalbard]

So complicated = cool?
Why reboot and flash 20 times when you can just get absolutely the same result in Windows A LOT faster?
It's just a time sink... And keying in things in RBE or Nibitor takes no skill. Oh, and BIOS = software (well, firmware, technically)... Just saying.
Not to mention that

Well as of right now can't flash clocks on a 6950 with 6970 shaders unlocked so you have no other option..just saying

[InCredible]

imma jackass my apologies

[InCredible]

Yes, software OCing is n00bish. Doesn't get any more simplistic than Software OCing. It doesn't matter how somebody cools something to OC, at the end of the day give something enough cold and volts anybody can be considered a "great" OCer, its not difficult Things just seem more impressive because WR holders are usually sponsored and usually have cherry picked hardware. A touch of class, or as some may call it the gentlemans approach such as with vBIOS mods goes a long way.

so again..what do you do thats so pro ? jump some circuitry ? solder on some capacitors? resistors? ...do you actually mod the card itself? any pics of your 460 with these hard ware mods ?...cause if its not something like that then its not hardware..your still going about it with software...

[BeepBeep2]

wow, so misinterpreting = cool? cause ur coming at me when you obviously dont see my side?...
ok first i was being sarcastic asking the "pro" what he does to overclock thats not software...someone replied with flashing the bios...so i responded since i have a 6950 flashed to 6970 that you cant change(overclock) the clocks in RBE for this particular card cause itll blue screen..so...wtf are you talking about???..

He was talking to ket and quoted you at the end.

[Hell Hound]

Hard mods require some knowledge about how the product works and its limits(goes for anything),bios is low level software.

[InCredible]

He was talking to ket and quoted you at the end.

haha and i end up the jackass for misinterpreting ..woot go me..edited.. ty