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ATI Catalyst 8.12 drivers released

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I have yet to install them yet or read the release notes but they are officially released.

Direct link to the Catalyst 8.12 release notes in PDF forma: < Removed because it expired. Go to the website for the PDF download link. >

There are major changes/additions to this driver release.
 
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Support DXT Texture Formats option gone

Can anyone let me know if, under Vista 64, they have the "more settings" option under "3D"?

If I update 8.12 directly over 8.11 that option disappears.

Consequently, "Support DXT Texture Formats" doesn't appear to be listed anywhere.
 
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Webslinger said:
Can anyone let me know if, under Vista 64, they have the "more settings" option under "3D"?

If I update 8.12 directly over 8.11 that option disappears.

Consequently, "Support DXT Texture Formats" doesn't appear to be listed anywhere.
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It makes me wonder if they have just made it always set to on now and you aren't given an option.
 
DrinkLyeAndDie said:
It makes me wonder if they have just made it always set to on now and you aren't given an option.
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It certainly wasn't enabled with the leaked 8.12 RC3 release. That's why Fallout 3 didn't work properly for me (no textures loading in Grayditch roads, which leads to crashing). And since the option to turn "Support DXT Texture Formats" on wasn't to be found anywhere, I had to revert back to 8.11.

Nice release notes, ATI. :rolleyes:
Thanks for explaining that you removed the "More settings" options.
I really appreciate that! :rolleyes:

I wonder if I should have uninstalled 8.11, rebooted, installed 8.12, and rebooted.
 
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Webslinger said:
It certainly wasn't enabled with the leaked 8.12 RC3 release. That's why Fallout 3 didn't work properly for me (no textures loading in Grayditch roads, which leads to crashing). And since the option to turn "Support DXT Texture Formats" on wasn't to be found anywhere, I had to revert back to 8.11.

Nice release notes, ATI. :rolleyes:
Thanks for explaining that you removed the "More settings" options.
I really appreciate that! :rolleyes:

I wonder if I should have uninstalled 8.11, rebooted, installed 8.12, and rebooted.
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Well, I did a full uninstall, reboot, install, reboot. The More Settings is gone.
 
DrinkLyeAndDie said:
Well, I did a full uninstall, reboot, install, reboot. The More Settings is gone.
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Yeah, that's gone under XP 32 bit Pro SP3 as well.

I uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, reboot . . .

Fallout 3 works with Cats 8.12, so perhaps ATI did enable "Support DXT Texture Formats" by default, and the option to turn that off no longer exists.
 
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Regarding video playback, I have good things to report:

VISTA32:
Additional refresh rates. Especially 23Hz (23.976) is interesting, if you don't want to use ReClock or if you are obsessed with bitstreaming. ;)

XP:
HDCP works again with the most recent PowerDVD 7/8 builds.
 
New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• ATI Stream Computing Support
• ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter
• ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content
• Performance Improvements

ATI Stream Computing Support

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide

• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.

ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter

• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can help accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices

ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content

• This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center

Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™

• 3DMark Vantage DX10 – performance gains of up to 5% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and HD4350.
• Call of Duty: World at War DX9 – performance gains of up to 21% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.
• Crysis DX10 – performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• Crysis Warhead DX10 – performance gains of up to 13% for Single card mode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• Devil May Cry 4 DX10– performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.
• Far Cry 2 DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• FEAR DX9 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870X2 and HD4870.
• Hellgate: London DX10 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single card mode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.
• Left 4 Dead DX9– performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4870 series.
• Lost Planet Colonies DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Prey OGL – performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx, HD45xx.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
• Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 – performance gains of up to 18% for Single card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.
 
Webslinger said:
Fallout 3 works with Cats 8.12, so perhaps ATI did enable "Support DXT Texture Formats" by default, and the option to turn that off no longer exists.
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Performance Improvements (from DLaD's post)
• Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.
 
profcolli said:
Performance Improvements (from DLaD's post)
• Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.
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Performance gains have nothing to do with missing textures in games (which specifically led to crashing in Fallout 3).

The problem is that with RC3 Catalyst 8.12, there was no option to enable "Support DXT Texture Formats". In fact, there still isn't with the official release.

Hopefully, no one has this issue anymore: http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=900847

because if they do, with 8.12, there's no longer a fix.
 
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Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
• Setting shadow quality to high or medium may cause flickering in World of Warcraft
• Age of Conan DirectX 10, may intermittently become unresponsive during game play
• Catalyst Install Manager, the 'Deselect All' button will improperly mark installed packages
• The display driver may fail after being installed on an ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series or ATI Radeon HD 4870 adapter
• Returning from system standby may cause some video corruption to occur on some OpenGL games
• Catalyst Control Center, AVIVO video settings are disabled under MS Vista
• Catalyst Control Center, "Unsupported file formats" error message displayed when selecting H.264 files for transcoding
• HD video file playback may cause the operating system to stop responding
• On some Crossfire configurations the OS may become unstable while running auto-tune when Crossfire is enabled
• "Crossfire" hot key shortcut settings are not retained on reboot
• Catalyst Control Center Setup Assistant may intermittently cause Catalyst Control Center to fail
• Catalyst Control Center, Digital Support Panel, predefined and custom HDTV formats description has been updated
• Catalyst Control Center, resetting the application back to factory defaults does not rest the application skin
• Help documentation for "Enable Geometry Instancing" and "Triple Buffering" is unavailable in help page

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
• Using an HDMI cable to connect an ATI All-in-Wonder to a Yamaha receiver may result in the display resolution being limited to 1280x1024 and audio failing to function
• Catalyst Control Center, some of the 3D settings are not displayed on ATI Radeon HD 4870 adapters
• The operating system may fail to start after installing the display driver with some configurations of "Crosfire" with Radeon X1900 Series devices
• The operating system may intermittently fail when exiting Test Drive Unlimited after extensive game play
• Dual display, playing multiple video files on each monitor may cause the system to stop responding
• City of Villains: Attempting to launch the game on a system running Windows XP and containing either two ATI Radeon HD 38x0 or 46x0 products may result in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond
• Some OpenGL applications may cause the OS to stop responding on some ATI Radeon HD 45xx adapters
• On some configurations, the display driver may stop responding when resolution is set to 2048x1536 with 8X Anti-Alias and Edge Detect filter enabled
• Exiting some games may intermittently cause the following error message when 8X anti-alias edge detection is enabled: "Display Driver stopped working"
• Hot unplugging a HDMI connection during video playback may cause system instability
• Catalyst Control Center: Enabling pulldown setting may not work on all video formats
• Systems configured with Overlay Theater Mode enabled may intermittently become unresponsive after playing video
• Catalyst Control Center, setting the de-noise slider does not affect the quality of progressive video content
• Intermittent flickering may be noticed on the TV out display when playing a DVD using Cyberlink PowerDVD

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system with the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• Catalyst Control Center , some screen corruption may be noticed after enabling 1080p HDMI support and adjusting the scaling options
• Tomb Raider Underworld, some video artifacts may be noticed during game play
• When using PowerDVD to play certain Blue-ray DVD titles, the lower portion of the player window may intermittently appear shaky when playing Special Features
• Video combing effects may be noticed during movie playback while fast forwarding or rewinding
• Video corruption may occur when playing back 1080i MPEG2 content
• Catalyst Control Center, error message 'CCC Host Application' may be displayed when cancelling a transcoding process

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under the Windows XP operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:
• Catalyst Control Center, the deinterlacing option under AVIVO video is not available after returning from VPU recovery
• Video corruption may be noticed during certain MPEG-2 file playback
• Playing some Blu-ray HD titles on multi head displays may cause the system to stop responding
• Previous transcoders may cause the ATI AVIVO Video Converter to not use the GPU for trancodiing
• Transcoding multiple times may cause the ATI AVIVO Converter to not use the GPU
 
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I'm building a new PC tonight with an I7 processor and HD4870x2 graphics card with Vista x64. I was quite pleased that there was a new driver out, so I visited the download page.

However right at the top it mentions 8.11 I7 / X58 hotfix driver. Now I'm confused. Is it better to take this one or 8.12 ?

Anyone got any experience here ?

Thanks.
 
mrr19121970 said:
I'm building a new PC tonight with an I7 processor and HD4870x2 graphics card with Vista x64. I was quite pleased that there was a new driver out, so I visited the download page.

However right at the top it mentions 8.11 I7 / X58 hotfix driver. Now I'm confused. Is it better to take this one or 8.12 ?

Anyone got any experience here ?

Thanks.
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If you follow the hotfix link and scan down a little you'll find this:

This hotfix

• Improves performance in various Direct3D and OpenGL applications on the X58 platform. AMD's next official ATI Catalyst release (ATI Catalyst 8.12) will include these optimizations.
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ATI Catalyst 8.12 is now available. It should contain the hotfix fixes. Go with the v8.12 drivers. It would make no sense for v8.11 drivers to have i7/X58 fixes and not the later v8.12 drivers.

Also, if you read the knowledge base info you'll see the hotfix information dated November 20th, 2008.
 
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ATI releases a new Catalyst 8.12 hotfix

From Fudzilla: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11033&Itemid=1

ATI releases a new Catalyst 8.12 hotfix
Written by Slobodan Simic
Friday, 19 December 2008 14:22

Fixes HD 4850 Vista Crossfire X

ATI has released a new hotfix that should fix the HD 4850 Crossfire X mode issue in Windows Vista. This should fix both the black screen and boot OS failure with two or more ATI Radeon HD 4850 cards in Crossfire X mode under Windows Vista OS.

Until now users with HD 4850 Crossfire running Windows Vista OS, had to stick to 8.11 Catalyst and according to some reports those that have two HD 4870 are still stuck with the previous driver.

Catalyst 8.12 was something that we eagerly awaited, but it looks like major fixes and performance gains will come with version 9.1.

You can find the new hotfix here.
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Has anyone had any issues installing this driver? I have attempted a few times now, and every single time I attempt to install 8.12 my system BSoD's (STOP 0x116 with module atimkdag.sys saying that the video driver did not respond in time and was not recoverable.) I always remove the previous driver first with the latest installer, reboot and then install the newer driver package. I even removed the Realtek HD Audio and HDMI Audio drivers and it still crashed. But, when it reboots, I can launch CCC and it shows that 8.12 is indeed installed. This is the first Catalyst driver since 8.7 that I have had an issue like this.
 
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