AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 2 Preview Driver: BF3 Beta and Rage Improvements

[bro20000]

Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 2 Preview Driver: BF3 Beta and Rage Improvements

Good news for hardcore gamers: AMD has just released their 11.10 v2 preview driver and it's heavy on performance and stability improvements for Battlefield 3 beta and Rage. Click the link for the full list.

- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
- Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
- Resolves flickering of NPCs in Rage
- Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
- Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
- AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX, GPU AMD Overdrive and Information Center pages.

Download here http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...eDriverV2.aspx

[nullface]

Nice to see a little love for the 4000 series, although I would like to see it for BF3.

[ex2cib]

two 11.10 previews
two sets of drivers that insta-BSOD my system.

Guess i'll have to deal with the texture issues in bf3 till it's fixed

[nullface]

Does this even differ from the first 11.10 in terms of BF3? Or did the just slap the BF3 preview and Rage optimized driver together?

[kazuyakun]

Just installed the Version 1 drivers and only noticed a 5-7% fps improvement but not any bug fixes from 11.7 for BF3.

Can someone confirm the flickering color to see if they fixed it? I doubt there'll be any performance improvement from version 1 to 2 for BF3.

[Lanek]

i install it right now and will see what happens ..

@Excib, you should watch what happend with your system, instant bsod is really not normal but it's not due to the driver.



Edit: Perfect drivers, it fix all the problem in BF3+CFX... no more vegetation textures problem on the extern, and the game is perfectly smooth on my system. the game is now a real dream to play.

Good Job Catalyst team


For Rage ... well i wait John C release his fingers from his a... and start to optimise it for play it...

[blindbox]

Huge performance improvement on RAGE. It's nice.

[bro20000]

Stops levels for crashing on rage! Was doing my head in before!

[Lanek]

Joh C is an as................. this game is pefect on console, and a shame on the pc version......... he should act less as Steve Jobs and start really work..

Stream texture ? the game set for you the graphism quality ? ( really low if you are usin an AMD gpu ) .......... after all this speaking......this guy is a shame ......... If i want to play console game, i buy a console

John C. what a deception

[PatRaceTin]

woot! that often release

[ex2cib]

i install it right now and will see what happens ..

@Excib, you should watch what happend with your system, instant bsod is really not normal but it's not due to the driver.

no, it's the driver, or something that installs with the driver. every other catalyst version, no problem, any game, works fine, no matter the time I play them. soon as I install the preview, login to windows, and I can almost count to 10, and about the time you get to 10, BSOD. Go back to 11.8, and no issues once again.

[Lanek]

I don't know m8, but my system work fine with it....

[ex2cib]

just figured it out, it's a mix of the driver as well as afterburner. AMD changed the drivers a bit, and after restarting a few times today in 11.8, the screen would flicker slightly right before afterburner kicked in. Same thing happening right before the bsod in 11.10.

seems AMD changed the overdrive menu a bit in CCC, maybe they changed something under the hood also and afterburner doesn't play nice with it? oh well, solved for now, we'll see if BF3 works later.

[Lanek]

I can ask Afterburner team if you want....

But you are using the last beta version ?

[zalbard]

It doesn't support OpenGL 4.2, does it? Feels like a downgrade if you're not playing RAGE or BF3 just yet...

[tbone8ty]

Cinebench and furmark don't work with this driver