#4504053 Posted on: 01/18/2013 03:45 PM

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These drivers are god send!! I had crashes with BF3 even if I did a normal OC... Now... from 900mhz to 1100mhz on my cards and I am extreamlly happy!

#4504063 Posted on: 01/18/2013 03:54 PM

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No no no, AMD send, not god send...

#4504072 Posted on: 01/18/2013 03:59 PM

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Because they will come with frame latency fix

#4504078 Posted on: 01/18/2013 04:04 PM

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and its kinda weird if the bug existed, because 13.1 is only 12.11b11 stamped with WHQL.


I don't think they are, I had bugs in 12.11 b11 that are fixed in 13.1

#4504085 Posted on: 01/18/2013 04:12 PM

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maybe 13.1 is 12.11 b12, so it have some bugs fixed, i hope the issue that i have on the current 12.11 b11 is fixed in 13.2, not gonna install 13.1 cause it only have minor changes.

#4504090 Posted on: 01/18/2013 04:16 PM

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On the road right now, but once I get back in (hour or two) I'll place this DL on the Guru3D Gigabit mirrors.

#4504091 Posted on: 01/18/2013 04:17 PM

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yup, cause if its god send, then that meant god is working for AMD, and i don't think god is looking for work nor working as a driver coder for AMD .

#4504093 Posted on: 01/18/2013 04:21 PM

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thx a lot , it really meant a lot for us, that is forced to be stucked with lame connection (all the isp on my country suddenly dropped their connection speed, and put all customers on a quota, without any notice at all, around 6 months ago).

and please also put the version without the .Net 4 installer, cos most of us doesn't need .net installer that comes with it.

#4504126 Posted on: 01/18/2013 05:04 PM

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Thanks for the Leak ZealotKi11er over at overclock.net And thanks asder00 for mirroring.

I think I'll be waiting for Official Beta's however for the latency fixes.

your efforts are appreciated.

#4504174 Posted on: 01/18/2013 06:11 PM

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I'm trying out the Beta driver on my main rig, no benchmark or anything like that, just games. So far, I've played a couple of levels of Dead Space 2 and my fave level in BF3, 'Going Hunting'. Glad to report that both seem to be playing nice with this beta driver. On the Going Hunting level, @5760x1200, max setting (4xMSAA + Ultra), I see FR between 70+fps to well clear of 100fps. I did try Crysis 2 btw, I think there may be an issue, it doesn't feel as smooth as when I had the 12.11 B11 driver.,,,,at the same setting.

#4504186 Posted on: 01/18/2013 06:20 PM

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Alright guys, now hosted at the Guru3D.com Gigabit mirrors:

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_2_beta_download.html

#4504192 Posted on: 01/18/2013 06:28 PM

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i'm using 12.11b11, and i doesn't have that bug, is the bug fixed on 12.11b11 ?

and its kinda weird if the bug existed, because 13.1 is only 12.11b11 stamped with WHQL.

actually, I meant 12.11b11 - oops

the CPU usage in CCC only starts after you launch a game. If you alt-tab out and then go into task manager, it shows 13.1% cpu usage.

#4504205 Posted on: 01/18/2013 06:38 PM

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Alright guys, now hosted at the Guru3D.com Gigabit mirrors:

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_2_beta_download.html
Thanks Hilbert!

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Do not use any cap with this driver, the one already inside is more newer than 12.11 cap2.

Heres the differencies between the cap in this driver and the 12.11 cap2, so you can test these games and check for improvement:

3dMark Vantage (cfx)
Battle Forge (cfx)
Aliens Vs Predator (cfx)
Lost Planet 2 (cfx)
F1 2012 (cfx)
3DMark 11 (cfx)
Crysis 2 (cfx)
Battlefield 3 (cfx)
Dirt Showdown (cfx)
Crysis 3 (unreleased)
Medal of Honor: Warfighter (cfx)
Tomb Raider (unreleased)
Nexuiz (cfx)
Blacklight: Retribution (cfx)
FarCry 3 (single card)
Skyrim (cfx & single card)
GuildWars 2 (cfx & single card)
Borderlands 2 (cfx & single card)
Rise of the Triad (unreleased)

#4504230 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:12 PM

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Hi everyone and thanks asder00.
Just tested GW2 with 12.11 cap2 and this driver and i can say that it runs so @!@!@ smooth
Without the 12.11 cap2 it doesnt run so good.Just saying.

#4504234 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:22 PM

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Hi everyone and thanks asder00.
Just tested GW2 with 12.11 cap2 and this driver and i can say that it runs so @!@!@ smooth
Without the 12.11 cap2 it doesnt run so good.Just saying.
Hey, thats probably because in this particular driver changes were made to gw2 for fixing the latency problems with 79xx cards, so maybe this made thing worse for other cards.
http://techreport.com/review/24218/a-driver-update-to-reduce-radeon-frame-times/4

#4504237 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:23 PM

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Hmm, so I installed the 12.11 cap with 13.2, but I uninstalled the CAP a little while ago. This should be fine right? The cap that 13.2 has will be used instead now? Or would I have to reinstall the driver entirely?

#4504240 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:25 PM

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Yes only a reboot is needed.

#4504245 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:31 PM

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well my experience wasnt so saucy...installed..rebooted....fired up bf3...my browser was uncharacteristically slow..and considering its on an SSD...anything short of instant, is slow. But the webpage hung for prolly 30 secs....then in game....very smooth....smoothest Ive ever seen it....but then after about5 mins of playing...CTD. and the browser hung as well afterwards, so I uninstalled it. I hope after the beta stage the performance is still there, thats one sweet driver with potential....it just sucks that this beta didnt like my system... definately looking forward to an official one of these ones, and its been a while since I've looked forward to a driver release, esp from AMD...I think they have a winner this time at least for BF3 in my opinion *pretty much all I ever play*

#4504255 Posted on: 01/18/2013 07:43 PM

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GW2 :

1) acting laggy (i see 45+ fps but i feel like i have 18-22 fps) for me as all the drivers starting with 12.9 but those are the worst of them
2) got a white rectangle in the map loading screen (never got such thing so far with other drivers)
3) white flicker in the area where i usualy check
4) slow loaded some textures (posible not an driver issue but i can't be sure)

1) & 2) made me think that those driver are not really ready
3) & 4) can be a driver issue, can also be an issue with gw2 engine (that's not a great one)

most gw2 issues are due to the current state of the gw2 engine, Anet made some very poor choices when developing gw2.

1. dx9 rather then 11(because they wanted to sell the game to people whos systems are running xp still, even tho they cant really run it properly...)

2. they went with umbra for occlusion culling and rely on it WAY to much, if you ever see what the map looks like in areas they dont expect you to get to, you see alot of visable surfaces that are multi layers of rocks/terrain over rocks/terrain, they know this is an issue and are still working on it....

3. the games dependant on 1 thread for video performance, it has like 46 threads but theres 1 heavy thread that holds everything else back, this is why people with high end intel chips still have perf issues just like AMD users do.

4. the games 32bit without PAE, so its very limited on ram it can use....

word is they are "working on" a dx11 update but thats months out if not more...they are working on perf issues.....still thats months out im sure.....

Still, I was in the WoW beta and.....it was worse on launch then gw2 was, and anet are doing a better job getting stuff fixed then blizzard did with WoW on launch.......Give them time, they will get things worked out eventually.....

#4504266 Posted on: 01/18/2013 08:01 PM

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Yes thanks ZealotKi11er and Guru3D for hosting..

#4504271 Posted on: 01/18/2013 08:08 PM

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GW2's executable is LAA, just checked mine.

#4504323 Posted on: 01/18/2013 08:56 PM

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Tried on Far Cry 3 and Hitman Absolution and I can say there is visible improvement towards 12.11 Beta11.
Thanks asder00 and thanks AMD ; good job guys

#4504342 Posted on: 01/18/2013 09:13 PM

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Made some tests on Stuttering in Crossfire!

http://www.****.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=143655#p143655

Doesn't seem to work at all.

If i had enough space i'd make a fresh windows install and try there....

Edit: there in the link instead of **** should be w and s and g and f !

#4504345 Posted on: 01/18/2013 09:16 PM

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they must have added that since the last time i checked, they have been being pushed pretty hard by alot of us to get with the times, i mean, its 2013 and they are still using dx9c.....an API released August 6, 2004, rather then a modern api that could not only improve perf but also gfx quality.

From what some of us can figure out from things the anet people have said, this could be because they have been considering a console version of gw2, and since current gen consoles are dx9 level hardware......

also they wanted to capatialize on the market of people who either cant or wont upgrade to windows 7....

also note: properly done dx11 can still benefit people running dx9 and 10 hardware, things like driver level multithreading still works, and dx11 can simply disable or run in software those features that the hardware dosnt support(im in a couple beta's that do this now)

oh well, anet will do what anet will do.....just seems silly to me that they didnt go dx11, sure they would have lost some sales to xp users(who for the most part really cant run the game properly anyway) but they would have gained sales and been able to push the fact they where using modern hardware to its fullest......:/

well its lunch time, im gonna eat

#4504347 Posted on: 01/18/2013 09:19 PM

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Made some tests on Stuttering in Crossfire!

http://www.****.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=143655#p143655

Doesn't seem to work at all.

If i had enough space i'd make a fresh windows install and try there....

Edit: there in the link instead of **** should be w and s and g and f !

what a stupid site to filter......ws gf is a very helpful place in my exp.....cant count how many times they have had the info i needed to fix a game problem on widescreen monitors......