Catalyst 9.11 released!

[briguy812]

Has anyone had a problem with Win 7 transluscent aero windows becoming solid?

 

[dguy6789]

Everything's perfect for me on Win 7.

 

[PurdueRy]

Has anyone had a problem with Win 7 transluscent aero windows becoming solid?

This only happens if UAC comes up during high CPU usage for me. In that case just type "Aero" into the search in the start menu and there is an option to trouble problems with the Aero interface. This should reset it to normal.

 

[JimmiG]

What?

When I updated the driver my 3DMarks score went from approximately 9000 to approximately 15000.

3DMark 9720
http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=12481093&resultType=14




3DMark 15906
http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=12490389&resultType=14

Something must have been amiss before, and installing Cat 9.11 fixed it. It's likely that simply re-installing Cat 9.10 would also have solved the problem. Your SM2.0 and SM3.0 scores with the previous drivers were significantly lower than my 4850 512MB scores.

Besides, 3DMark is useless. Ever wonder why serious review sites don't use it, or at best, tuck into into a "synthetic benchmarks" section?

 

[PepePeru]

thanks, i will download tonight

 

[Avalon]

To solve the texture problem with Borderlands all you have to do is disable catalyst A.I. before you run the game.

I have Catalyst A.I. running standard on my system with no texture problems in Borderlands. She is also running Catalyst A.I. standard. I'll have her disable it to see if it fixes her problem.

Running the steam version btw.

 

[coreyb]

Everyone who is running the new drivers is having this texture problem. Though I'm not sure if just setting A.I. to standard instead of advanced will fix it also. I'll have to try it tonight when I get home.

I'm running steam version also.

 

[nemesismk2]

Has anyone had a problem with Win 7 transluscent aero windows becoming solid?

I've not had any problems with Windows 7 and I have Aero activated.

 

[rh71]

I'm on Vista64 and for the longest time I still cannot get CCC to load. Its mom.exe in task manager comes up and disappears right away. I've tried many old versions of the catalyst control center all to no avail... anyone? Radeon 4850.

 

[Hardlin]

Under Vista64 Ultimate and Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, I have never had a problem with CCC. I run a Radeon 4850.

 

[MrK6]

Everyone who is running the new drivers is having this texture problem. Though I'm not sure if just setting A.I. to standard instead of advanced will fix it also. I'll have to try it tonight when I get home.

I'm running steam version also.

The fix isn't to set it to "standard," it's to disable it.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Besides, 3DMark is useless. Ever wonder why serious review sites don't use it, or at best, tuck into into a "synthetic benchmarks" section?

I don't even waste my time looking at synthetic benchmarks when purchasing new hardware.

 

[KeithP]

To solve the texture problem with Borderlands all you have to do is disable catalyst A.I. before you run the game.

Thanks for the tip...it worked great.

-KeithP

 

[luv2increase]

Just remember that when you disable A.I., you also disable crossfire. If you have more than one card on your system, I would never disable Catalyst A.I.

 

[coreyb]

The fix isn't to set it to "standard," it's to disable it.

did you miss the part where I specified that you have to disable A.I. ? The other guy mentioned that he doesn't have that problem when it's set to "standard", I then said I would try that too to see if it works.

 

[MrK6]

did you miss the part where I specified that you have to disable A.I. ? The other guy mentioned that he doesn't have that problem when it's set to "standard", I then said I would try that too to see if it works.

Considering "standard" is the default setting (what most people run) and the problem is being reported en masse, I'd doubt that would be the fix. Either way, I breezed through the thread and tried to help, I missed that.

 

[SunnyD]

Other than an installer issue (I'm running newer versions of the MFC DLLs because I have the Visual Studio 2010 beta on my machine), finally got everything installed and am happy to report that I have nothing to report.

 

[Hyperlite]

I don't even waste my time looking at synthetic benchmarks when purchasing new hardware.

3dmark can be useful for comparing relative performance of cards from the same generation and for troubleshooting performance issues, as well as VGA overclock stability testing.

 

[T2k]

Damned silent quit is back - *&*&^%%$ PoS Visual Studio!!!!

This PoS VS2010 completely *&^%$ up my machine, installers randomly work or not - Catalysts are usually dead after I click next and it suppose to start installing the drivers...

...f*&^%$ PoS Microsoft.

 

[T2k]

Other than an installer issue (I'm running newer versions of the MFC DLLs because I have the Visual Studio 2010 beta on my machine), finally got everything installed and am happy to report that I have nothing to report.

I'm searching my bookmarks for that freakin' fix - have you got a link, by any chance? TIA

 

[nOOky]

I'm having trouble in Farmville when I esc out of full screen, but that's with the 10.1 beta drivers from Adobe. Other than that no issues to report so far.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Not sure if it's these drivers, but that's the only thing I've changed...

Using an HD5870, AF seems to be broken in Dragon Age - it flickers (seems to turn on/off?) at times.

 

[lopri]

Interesting. I put my 4890 back in and installed 9.11, and AF has definitely improved.. well, sort of.

I rely on cobblestones in Oblivion to see AF quality, and AMD has almost eliminated 'shimmering'. It was a pleasant surprise. However, at the same time it lost some details as well. I wouldn't say it's blurry, but it's less clear from a distance. In my opinion it isn't a bad trade - reduced/eliminated shimmering for slightly less details. It still can't match the gold standard of G80 AF, though. (I haven't gotten my hands on a new 5800 series card yet)