AMD BF3 driver / 11.10 catalyst preview driver released

[blackened23]

http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDCatalyst1110Previewdriver.aspx

 

[96Firebird]

People in the PC Gaming BF3 thread are saying they are getting corrupt file errors when trying to install this driver... Anyone else getting that? I can't test it obviously, but I am googling for a fix if this is the case.

Edit - The more I read, it seems like AMD is still uploading the driver to their website. So it may not be ready yet, but it should be shortly. I guess the file is supposed to be 96MB*...

*Not sure how true that is...

 

[Firestorm007]

People in the PC Gaming BF3 thread are saying they are getting corrupt file errors when trying to install this driver... Anyone else getting that? I can't test it obviously, but I am googling for a fix if this is the case.

Edit - The more I read, it seems like AMD is still uploading the driver to their website. So it may not be ready yet, but it should be shortly. I guess the file is supposed to be 96MB*...

*Not sure how true that is...

Why don't you troll a little harder next time. Why do you care about an AMD driver? Are you trying to educate us AMD users; because, per your sig, you have a 460. Nevertheless, it's OK, AMD will be beat Nvidia in this title. So, I guess you're a little angry, right?


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[zebrax2]

Edit - The more I read, it seems like AMD is still uploading the driver to their website. So it may not be ready yet, but it should be shortly. I guess the file is supposed to be 96MB*...

*Not sure how true that is...

^this i really doubt that the whole driver is only 23.6mb

 

[blackened23]

Oops, looks like the full release won't be until tomorrow.

 

[Dankk]

Oops, looks like the full release won't be until tomorrow.

Source? It seems like AMD is a little overdue on their next driver, it's been like a month and a half now since their last one... but thanks for the info

 

[blackened23]

http://twitter.com/#!/@catalystcreator

Link to Cat 11.10 preview driver (Please note it's not live yet but will be in the next few hours)

So it'll be released by midnight, much happiness to be had for amd users

 

[Dankk]

http://twitter.com/#!/@catalystcreator



So it'll be released by midnight, much happiness to be had for amd users

Sweet, thanks.

 

[(sic)Klown12]

Heres's a working link. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3WWCL7UO

Just installed, some new interface changes but haven't tested with games yet.

 

[Red Hawk]

Wait, what? Catalyst 11.10 preview? What happened to 11.9?

 

[(sic)Klown12]

This month's WHQL release will be Wednesday.

 

[blackened23]

beta is out:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Catalyst-11.10-Preview-Win-Vista-7-32-and-64-bit-download-2795.html

 

[deaner]

beta is out:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Catalyst-11.10-Preview-Win-Vista-7-32-and-64-bit-download-2795.html

Yea, I have the 11.9 installed already from the Guru, works great! BFBC2 runs great!

Off to 11.10, for my BF3 Beta gaming tonight

 

[Spjut]

Still no DX11 MTR support

Would be so nice for Civ5 and BF3 for DX10+ hardware

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Still no DX11 MTR support

Would be so nice for Civ5 and BF3 for DX10+ hardware

MTR?

 

[Spjut]

DX11 multithreaded rendering

 

[Dominato3r]

AMD overdrive bugged for anyone else? I was adjusting fan speeds, and when I tired to hit default, it would not allow?

 

[(sic)Klown12]

Still no DX11 MTR support

Would be so nice for Civ5 and BF3 for DX10+ hardware

Which is inexcusable. This is one of three main thing DX11 brought us, and AMD can't even bother to get it working. What's so bad is that they're not too far behind Nvidia cards(in BF3), and this could make them even. MY guess is they don't enable it till the 7xxx cards is released and make it a selling point.

 

[Spjut]

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case...I doubt that AMD will put any work on it for their DX10.1 cards either way

I guess it's possible though that they have it enabled for BF3 only, like Nvidia did for Civilization V before the full support got implemented

Btw, for almost one year ago, Firaxis said they were awaiting MTR drivers "soon"

 

[Olikan]

Which is inexcusable. This is one of three main thing DX11 brought us, and AMD can't even bother to get it working. What's so bad is that they're not too far behind Nvidia cards(in BF3), and this could make them even. MY guess is they don't enable it till the 7xxx cards is released and make it a selling point.

actually, i wouldn't be surprised if amd simply can't do this
the thing is, the vliw arquitecture don't have a hardware scheduler (like fermi and GCN) so it must be done by the cpu through drivers.

i stand to be corrected, but i can't see amd unlocking MTR
without screwing up the drivers or redoing them from zero

 

[(sic)Klown12]

Multi-threaded rendering is part of the DX11 spec(so AMD has to be able to handle it to be compliant), and is handled through the drivers for Nvidia too(which is why it was enabled with a specific driver release for Civ 5).

The fact that Dice has been pushing AMD to include means to me that it can be done, but they haven't taken the time. Dice has more than enough access to AMD's hardware and software to know if it's possible, and they wouldn't be publicly pushing for AMD to enable it if they knew it couldn't happen.

Here's a link to a PDF from Dice talking about DX11 rendering in Frostbite 2, and they have a separate section talking about multi-threaded rendering. Interesting read.
http://publications.dice.se/attachments/GDC11_DX11inBF3_Public.pdf

 

[Silverforce11]

Dont use these drivers btw, too many problems with it. Crashes and texture glitches in games. Wait for proper 11.10.

 

[ViRGE]

Multi-threaded rendering is part of the DX11 spec(so AMD has to be able to handle it to be compliant)

MTR is an optional part of the spec. You don't have to implement it to be D3D11 compliant.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=31520674&postcount=28

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Dont use these drivers btw, too many problems with it. Crashes and texture glitches in games. Wait for proper 11.10.

Exactly what he said. Except there are no glitches or crashes, and BF3 runs beautifully.

 

[ViviTheMage]

my 11.7 played no problemo.