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Hello all, AMD have just unleashed their latest Graphic Card drivers, the Catalyst 7.12's catch them at the link below:

AMD GAME! Drivers and Utilities

[COLOR=#003c28]New Features [/COLOR]

• [COLOR=#003c28]Avivo™ Update[/COLOR]
• [COLOR=#003c28]Enhanced ATI Overdrive support for the ATI Radeon™HD 2900 Series[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#003c28]Avivo™ Update [/COLOR]

Catalyst™ 7.12 introduces an Avivo™ update. The update allows the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center to reflect what is supported by the driver taking into account the graphics card installed in the system, and will not expose any video features that is not supported by the driver. The DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) driver will perform a profiling mechanism to query the graphics capability and the Catalyst™ Control Center queries the caps via the interface defined between the Catalyst™ Control Center and the DXVA components. This feature will be supported on ATI Radeon™ 9500 series products and above.

[COLOR=#003c28]Enhanced ATI OverDrive™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Series [/COLOR]

This release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhanced version of ATI OverDrive™ for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 Series. Users can now Overclock both GPU engine and graphics memory clock speeds in CrossFire™ mode (and over-clock single ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerators as well). This version of ATI Overdrive also

[COLOR=#003c28]Performance Improvements[/COLOR]

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.12:

• 3DMark2005 performance improves 5% or more with largest gains noticed when Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are disabled on systems containing either an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 or ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of products
• Company of Heroes DX10 performance improves up to 5% on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD38x0 series of product

Enjoy,

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Dyre Straits

Don't you mean, Catalyst 7.12?

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Dark Lord

time to see if this screws my 1950xt agp.

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Stop It

Well, i got it half right, heh, I tried, Funnily enough I didn't notice the guys post below me, rather I noticed the 7.12s out on a "rival" forum, sowwy all

Anyway, as I reported my own post, needs a bit of tweaking to get right, the title for instance, which I can't change

Same here, here's hoping some UT3 boosts are seen

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Dark Lord

ah damn it, the cat suit they have up is wrong. its still bundled with the 7.11s. i just downloaded the 7.12 driver and CCC seperately.

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Dark Lord

works fine on my 1950xt agp

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Fr4nk3nst41n

its a no go here...again.

ralphie084

7.12 hasnt solved my driver issues either

ShaKer

It's great for me Crysis finally works!!! And Juiced 2 also Ya Hooo!!!

Socio

Like the 7.8 through 7.11 drivers the 7.12 drivers do not recognize my HD 2600XT AGP!

I don't get it how can ATi keep releasing driver sets that do not recognize some Radeon's?

Shaga

Installing once I've had some sleep, hope they'll rock in gears of war and crysis.

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OldBuzzard

It's good to see that they have fixed the OpenGL/multiple monitor issue that I've been having since the 7.5s. I can now run IL2 using the 7.12s

Gave them a 9 since I don't think any set should/would be considered a 10.

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Robert McClelland

Help Help I can't run 18 Wheels of Steel Haulin I get prism3d error after game loads then it crash to the desktop these are bad drivers if I can't play my favor game Does anyone else get this issue? Please Fix ASP.
Terry Please help me asp thanks
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"XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Stop It

Well, after the notes mentioned 3dMark 2005, I thought I might as well fire it up, only to find my FPS has been raped down to ~15 for each test, wtf?

I'll re0install when I get home from work, but so far these drivers are very, very bad, because not only that, fraps/ATT overlays for FPS counters seem not to work either, bad bad bad.

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Ecology

does agp and direct3d work now?

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bman

No... And by the looks of it seems that they just don't know how to fix it so they simply ignore the problem....

5 months and not even a word from ATI about this problem...

I just ordered a new system based on Intel and Nvidia and if anyone from ATI/AMD reads this just know one thing... You not only lost a customer but you also lost an "advisor" .. I build systems for my customers and I also write for a popular gaming magazine in my country...

I will make sure that this kind of disrespect will be know to as many people as possible and I'm sure that i'll be able to influence a lot, and I really mean a lot of people to go the the Intel and Nvidia side... I'll try to influence my readers choices as much as i can because I CARE about my customers... Something that you don't do anymore.

Ecology

no good

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Xolair

Yeah, I still get problems with Direct3D games (artifacting, stretching, texture errors etc.), but OpenGL games work just fine. I also get 2D artifacts on background images and such, but nowhere else. A bit weird, but most likely a driver issue if you ask me. So, ATI..?

EDIT: Those 2D spots only happen with drivers installed, so I bet it's a driver related issue.

RoyBatty

There seems to be something wrong with OpenGL in this release. I didn't try any games, but it affects Blender where selecting objects causes about 10 seconds freezes. Reinstalling didn't help. I'm back to 7.10...

Edit: Tried to copy the 7.11 OGL driver to the 7.12 installation and it works fine.

supyo

what the hell is wrong with ATI? how can they release these buggy a** drivers? Doesn't ATI still sell AGP cards? I see them all over the place. Fix the f'n d3d issue.. holy crap ATI get with it already!

Bobby303

1. Drivers 7.12 didn't recognize my HD 2600XT (AGP)
2. Problems are still there!

Looks like they did nothing new! Just changed the number so it looks like someone is working on the problem!

It's final... I'm buying GeForce!

Fr4nk3nst41n

only if i knew of this BEFORE i bought my HD 2400 AGP...

Thorfkin

Out of curiosity, those of you who are having problems getting the drivers working on your AGP cards. Have you tried wiping the hard drive and doing a clean reinstall of windows followed by the motherboard and then video card drivers?

The 7.11s work great on my brother's x1950 Pro AGP. I remember a few years back I was having a strange unexplained problem with a sound card. Their tech support couldn't solve it but when I wiped the system clean and started over all the problems went away. Thought it might be worth a try


Wouldn't hurt to reset the motherboard bios to their optimized defaults before doing this.

Bobby303

Trust me, there is NO thing that I haven't done!!! Reinstalled Windows, tried God knows how many drivers, patches and other stuff, and NOTHING! Problem is still there.

Ecology

same here.
open eyez ati

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clozak

Bye Bye AMD/ATI. Glad you released these allowing me plenty of time to build my new rig. I think 5 chances is plenty.

Hell, I don't even give my 4 year old half as many warnings. 7.12 drivers = increase in Intel and Nvidia stock prices. I know, I won't let the door hit me in the ass on the way out.

Robert McClelland

Yes problem still there with Open GL issue I went back cats 11 everthing fine. Ya I'm thinking get geforce for my next new computer if this keeps up. For next fall. When USB 3.0 comes out thats why I'm waiting.

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"XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

kayfam

I ran into a rather odd issue with this latest set. Certain shades of blue render looking brown to a reddish brown depending on the background also ran into the driver getting caught in an infinite loop leading to a BSOD while trying to play some H264 content with my HD3870. Downloaded the drivers again just on the chance I might have gotten a corrupted file, uninstalled, used Driver Cleaner and even did a manual search of the registry to catch anything that might have been missed. Reinstalled everything and same results. Rolled back to the 7.11's and everything was fine again. Just for the hell of it I loaded up the Vista version of the 7.12's on my Vista install and everything worked perfectly so whatever it is, is an XP specific problem. I'm a long time ATI user and have seen my share of quirks over the years but I've got to question how this last set got past WHQL testing considering the rendering issue is apparent right at the Welcome splash screen on boot up.

Robert McClelland

I think ATI rush these out to soon? How can MS aloud this to happen.

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"XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Stop It

I have to agree Robert, I have now re-installed these drivers after a full Driver Cleaner session, and the same issue remains, turns out the drivers think my "primary" display driver is AGP, while my "secondary" is PCI, funnily enough FPS overlays work if I switch my DVI port, weird, but my FPS issues remain, back to 7.11, and my first major issue with ATI drivers, shame as I was hoping they would be a nice Christmas treat, oh well.

Oh, one final note, due to unknown reaons, my desktop acts as if I have no drivers installed at all (Lag between tabs in Firefox and programs), that more than anything is reason to get rid of them

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