Official cat 8.12 released

[Titan7171]

found it on the Sapphire site http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/

got me 900 point increase in 06 on XP from 16767 to 17624

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9174285

Ill be download and trying them also for Vista

But just to let you know this is the first official driver for my 4850X2 so thats prolly why the big increase. hope you gus get big increases also though

[DJSUB]

i dont think it's the final 8.12.
someone posted it in the other thread & said it was identical to 8.12 RC3 beta.

[Titan7171]

i dont think it's the final 8.12.
someone posted it in the other thread & said it was identical to 8.12 RC3 beta.

the beta wasnt working for my card though and crossfire didnt enable either now these are working.....oh well a mod can delete this if indeed its just the betas

[Source]

This is posted on ATI's official forum:

Just in case anyone has forgotten or not seen the page that says it (conected with ati stream)

The 8.12 will be officially released tomorrow

Source: 'So did Sapphire got ahead of ATI..?

they include the ATI stream function which is GPGPU as in general purpose computing on a gpu basically acting as a CPU but many times faster, this is restricted to some things at the moment but will gain momentum

not sure but all those crossfire woes maybe fixed

AND!!! GTA4 has been significantly boosted with this release : http://www.gta4.net/news/4163/...in-the-next-few-days/
just read the top bit

R* is also releasing there on game patch today, tommorow or thursday

Should be a gooden enjoy!

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 Windows driver release include:

New Features:

ATI Stream support:

*With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide

*ATI Stream harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.

*ATI Stream enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.

*The CAL (Compute Abstraction Layer) is now include in the Catalyst driver package. CAL is the enabling component for ATI Stream

ATI Stream application: ATI Avivo Video Converter

* Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in Catalyst Control Center Basic View) to achieve incredible performance levels in video transcoding.

ATI Catalyst Control Center – Noise reduction for progressive video content:

* This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center.

Performance improvements:

Catalyst 8.12 Preliminary Performance Notes

Crysis + 2-7%
Crysis Warhead + 2-3%
Devil May Cry 4 + 1-6%
Far Cry 2
+ noAA scores are fixed for Crossfire configs; this is worth +20% on slower cards, and as much as 70% on faster ones
+ 5-10% gains when AA is enabled

FEAR + 2-6%
Left 4 Dead + 2-4%
Lost Planet Colonies + 3-10%, mostly in Area 2
Prey + 2-5%
STALKER Clear Sky + 5-10%, primarily on Crossfire configurations

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...&enterthread=y

[Titan7171]

depending on where oyu live it is already tomorrow that thread was started on the 9th.......i got these 12/10/08 in the AM.

Excellent info though

read through that thread heres a quote

Fake? Strange because I had RC3 and setup has told, that installed driver is older than in package. Also - it has got WHQL. So I think it's real.

[saki_bomber]

'tis true, the new 8.12 drivers are there. will try when i get home.

[Easybeat]

They cause a reset on my setup after installation, the cursor appears on the screen upon boot then bye, bye Windows.

My 2900 pro really does not like catalyst drivers.

[Ket]

So, which driver set seems to give the best results for people? The ones linked to here or the ones on the ATi website? All this stuff with the 8.12s has got kinda confusing.

[Titan7171]

So, which driver set seems to give the best results for people? The ones linked to here or the ones on the ATi website? All this stuff with the 8.12s has got kinda confusing.

I cant even install the ones from ATI it gives me an error saying " Setup does not detect any hardwar compatible with these drivers"

[Source]

This forum-quote that i posted above is from the official ATI website.
Not that i think that there is a difference between the Sapphire and ATI drivers.
Just grab the ATI drivers from the ATI site.

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[Ket]

I'm just confused now because theres been like 3 betas and now the sapphire vs. ati drivers thing. The betas had weird mismatching drivers, I got a whiff of the official drivers use older builds of certain parts than the betas did, now its like wtf :\

Also, wtf is up with those long complete drivel filenames for the cat drivers? people know what os their about to grab the driver for because they have to bloody select it first, then you got those numbers which are probably useful internally at ATi but not outside of there... anyone would think it would kill them just to name the file Catalyst 8.12

[noinimod]

i'm just waiting for the official release.. cant be bothered going through all the headache. It should be anytime now wheeee

[Source]

It is already out like 12hours.
Installed mine fine and no problems.

Got it from the ATI site:
8-12_vista64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_72276.exe

It is.

[noinimod]

Nice.. gonna download it now hehehe