AMD Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver

I don't know what they'll do for the rFactor2 beta (if anything) but AMD is supposedly releasing new Catalyst 12.11 drivers later today with a significant performance boost (with certain games of course).

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/1.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6393/amds-holiday-plans-cat1211-new-bundle

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_catalyst_12_11_driver_performance,1.htm


I'll be testing them with a 7970 on a fresh Windows 7 64 install to see how they do with rFactor2 and a few other racing titles.

 

keep us posted djt, will want to know if I need to update

 

Sounds great but are the release naming scheme going backwards now?? 12.8>12.11

 

Whats backward there? It was always year.month and it still is, it's just not released every month.

 

lol, ok then it makes sense, i thought only mathematically...

 

I see where you were thinking on the version numbers, heheh, I am sure many have made the same mistake

 

Yeah, thx Gearjammer i felt stupid there for a while hehe, but i never seen any other software-release use that format, or never thought about it atleast

 

12.11 beta released here http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

 

So has anyone given the beta driver a run to see how it performs?

 

I gave the Catalyst 12.11 beta 4 a try last night with a fresh install of rFactor2 118 on a clean Windows 7 64 OS and AMD 7970.

Just like I’ve seen in the past with rFactor2 the performance is very good but the image quality is crap. As usual if you force super-sampling AA to clean up the image quality (transparency texture shimmer) the performance tanks bad enough that it’s unusable.

The only racing titles that I run that the 7970 is any good with are from CodeMasters (Dirt3, F12011,2012).

Oh well back to my GTX 680 and the new 310.33 drivers.

 

12.10 is ready.

 

The Catalyst 12.10’s are pretty much identical to the beta 12.9’s which also didn’t do anything to improve performance or image quality with games that use older DirectX 9 rendering engines like rFactor2.